As the world’s stockpile of data continues to grow, Intel continues to bring to market industry-leading storage and memory products, pushing both form factor innovation and ever-increasing capacity. Intel’s latest data center offerings, the SSD DC P4510 and P4511 series, are reimagining how data is store for data centers. With the creation of interesting new form factors, such as the …
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Samsung 860 EVO M.2 SATA3 SSD Review (2TB)
There comes a time when we all just need to stop, sit back and think; take a look around and reassess our direction perhaps. The SSD industry is a beautiful example of this. SSDs were introduced some 11 years ago now, although flash technology had been in use prior. Today, there isn’t a person in the world that hasn’t been …
Read More »Silicon Power Announces Their First PCIe SSDs for Consumers and Enterprise
Silicon Power is announcing its first foray into PCIe SSDs, with the launch of the P32A80 and the P32A85. These new PCIe SSDs are geared toward high-end systems and offer new levels of responsiveness and performance, making them ideal for large image rendering and intensive graphics editing, musicians needing high volume storage and music library loading, and enterprises that demand …
Read More »Western Digital My Passport Wireless SSD Review (2TB)
As a ‘somewhat’ professional photographer, I am pretty sure that my fear of loss of my work is front and center when it comes to those important camera shoots. For most, relying on trust of a single SD or flash card until you can get to a laptop is all too common. Anyone who takes pictures with any frequency can …
Read More »Samsung Announces 800GB Z-SSD™ for HPC, Supercomputing, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things
Samsung is announcing an 800GB SSD, designated as the SZ985 Z-SSD™, geared toward the most advanced enterprise applications. This includes the rapidly growing fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and supercomputing. The 800GB Z-SSD was developed in 2017, providing the most efficient storage solution for these type of applications, as well as those that utilize high-speed data …
Read More »Tekq Rapide TB3 Portable SSD Review (512GB) – Worlds Fastest Portable Storage
It’s not often that something comes across our Test Bench that we really want to brag about, but when it does, watch out. Every now and then reviewers get their hands on something that even they think is special, something that always draws some very obvious questions. and something that you can bet will be with them every time they …
Read More »ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 Card Review – 4 x M.2 SSD RAID at 10GB/s and 932K IOPS
It was only a few weeks ago that ASRock announced their newest Ultra Quad M.2 Card, yet today we have it in hand and tested. The ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 Card bears a striking resemblance to the HighPoint SSD7101 RAID Controller we tested a few months back… but there are some very distinct differences that we will point out in …
Read More »Samsung 860 Pro SSD Review (4TB) – So Much Storage
To give you an idea how far we have come in solid-state storage, the very first notebook sold with an SSD was the Dell XPS M1330. It shipped with the Sandisk u5000 (my first and very embarrassing review) SATA2 32GB SSD, an SSD that would gain infamy as the first ‘stuttering SSD’ and, back then, storage capacity wasn’t an option. …
Read More »Icy Dock Tough Armor U2 SSD Mobile Rack and Peripheral Review
If asked, there really is no way to put a total on the number of systems we have built throughout the years. It has to be above 100. In all instances, we gain a great deal of support through manufacturers and, as I look back, there is one manufacturer that seems to get overlooked more often than not; Icy Dock. …
Read More »OWC ThunderBlade V4 Review (4TB) – Worlds Fastest External Storage
I thought I had seen all at CES. It was a long week making meetings and events in rain rarely seen, followed by a flight cancellation as our local airport was closed because of extreme snow conditions. It was late night when we finally arrived home and, as soon as I walked in, I was met by this: It’s a …
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