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TSSDR has recently moved back into the realm of enterprise and data center SSD reviews after having been absent from this space for some time.  Looking back in fact, our last enterprise report…true enterprise report…was way back in February 2018 by Sean Webster.  It was on the Intel SSD DC P4510 Gen3 Enterprise SSD and at that point in time, …

Samsung introduced an SSD last week that just happens to be a ‘Samsung first’.  It is the Samsung 9100 Pro Gen 5 SSD and we have reviewed this previously in its 4TB capacity.  Samsung has a reputation of being one of the best in the industry and we might bet that their sales reflect such by a healthy margin.  Deservedly, …

Nintendo Switch 2 is all the rage and if you are a gamer, the upgrade and understanding of the newest SDXC Express Memory is is an asset.  To so many, it reflects no more than a massive price jump in microSD cards.  To those in the know,  microSD Express speaks to a 3x jump in data game loads from that …

Yesterday we posted our first ever report on the ADATA Premier Extreme 256GB microSDXC Express Card and it provided us with data transfer speeds over 800MB/s in a card smaller than a dime.  This report followed a report we did on the Silicon Motion SM2708 SDXC Express controller some time ago, the same controller found within that microSD Express card.  …

A few years back we did a preview article on a new controller card by Silicon Motion named the SM2708.  This controller was originally tested with an engineering sample  SDXC ‘Express’ card and returned speeds just below 900MB/s which was in line with the newest SD Association SD7.x standard.  To clarify, SD 7.0 pertains to SDXC cards while SD 7.1 …

This all started through my curiosity as to whether I could gain a better battery life from my new laptop.  Things took on a new life from there.  After all,  we do have just about every main stream SSD available, to include client and even a few not released yet.  In this report, you will see the world’s top consumer …

CFExpress Cards have become commonplace in the media industry for some time now and, as a media professional, I cannot speak highly enough as to their value.  Its blazing speed within cameras such as my Canon EOS R5 allows me to find shots that I might have never prior.  Not only does it allow one to find the perfect shot …

It is always refreshing when we get something on our bench that is new…maybe even a bit out of the ordinary.  On our Test Bench today is the SK hynix Platinum P51 Gen5 2TB SSD and this SSD is as proprietary as they come.  The controller, DRAM buffer chip and NAND memory are all SK hynix manufactured and this SSD …

Just under two weeks ago, we brought you news of a new SanDisk client SSD that promised great Gen4 speeds, while at the same time providing very low active power usage in the area of 4 watts.  A high performance low power SSD is a very promising proposition as it provides us with laptops that now reach full Gen 4 …

Sitting here doing some testing and this years highest pile of SSDs seem to belong to SMI, all containing the SMI SM2508 Gen5 8-channel SSD controller that has taken the industry by storm.  The newest sample is rather interesting and there aren’t any reviews for it just yet. It is the Transcend MTE260S Gen5 2TB SSD and don’t ask what …

I am somewhat of a laptop nut.  Part and parcel to extensive travel for The SSD Review, my laptop has to be two things; high performing and it must have an amazing battery life.  Add to that the fact that I want a big OLED screen that I can flip, USB4 ports in something around 3 lbs and there was …

Emerging technologies are always an interest when it comes to flash and Micron’s newest HBM4 is a perfect example of that.  HBM, standing for high bandwidth memory is just that and is used in applications such as AI accelerators where they are able to respond to the users query more quickly and reason more efficiently. HBM4 uses 3D-stacking and is …

PCIe 5.0 (Gen 5) has settled into the flash world very well and become the standard in the past year plus, as has SSD increasing capacity points, endurance and power efficiency.  We have spoken plenty of KIOXIA’s newest award winning Gen 5 LC9 with its 245TB capacity, still reaching great performance of 12GB/s throughput and over 1 million IOPS for …

Explaining enterprise, data center and the newest AI-centric focussed SSDs can sometimes be a bit confusing to many but this week at FMS 2025, KIOXIA displayed something that I have tried to explain for years with respect to what exactly we do and how flash media is structured.  Describing ‘flash’ is actually very simple, in that, it is like an …

SMI had the SM2504XT Gen 5 SSD controller on display at Flash Memory Summit 2025 this week and this controller is a 4-channel NVMe 2.0 SSD controller that can run at up to 3,600MT/s.  When utilizing MSDirect Storage, this controller can operate at an unbelievable 2.4W in active power mode and 1mW in PS4 state. Performance for the SM2504XT is …