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There was a time when acquiring enterprise or data center SSDs meant going through a vendor rep, navigating complex configurations, and waiting for pricing. While that hands-on expertise still has its place, many businesses today simply want a fast, transparent, and frictionless way to get the hardware they need. With AI taking center stage across industries, this shift toward streamlined …

We have in our hot little hands the latest and greatest LaCie Rugged SSD4 and I am personally thinking this SSD may have been made just for me. My true love in life is wildlife photography and I have found myself in just about every weather condition and situations many would never. And yes I have been up a tree …

Patriot memory has been around since 1985 and were one of the early companies to have provided The SSD Review with an SSD sample for review.  It was the Patriot Torqx 2 SATA 2 128GB SSD and that was back on 14 May 2011…14 plus years ago. I reviewed that SSD and had to laugh when checking it out once …

As much as we may find the advance in technology to be somewhat miraculous over the years, perhaps the true wonder of such things is what we don’t see.  For instance, right now you have a smartphone that is more powerful than the PC you may have owned just a few years back. Perhaps you still own that PC. If …

In any environment, it is always nice to find a product that qualifies as one of those hidden gems you would never expect to find. With respect to travel, it may be a little known vacation spot.  Or it might be a local coffee shop that only a few know about in your town.  Or if you have recently bought …

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 …