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A funny thing happened on the way to work today…  No really…  We have a pile of high end and super fast portable SSDs waiting to be reviewed and we were not happy learning that motherboards with USB 4 typically do not provide full USB4/Thunderbolt 4 data transfer rates.  Yes, we can surpass that of the Thunderbolt 3 speeds of …

Just over two months ago we posted a report on a brand new SSD that we believed might take the industry by storm… if it ever made its way to  retail, client or enterprise sales that is.  We say this as there have been so many SSDs that reviewers have had in their hands over the years that never made …

External storage is still neglected by far too many.  Considering it is the key ingredient of data loss at all levels, it’s cost sits comfortably in the billions.  Millions of people lose personal and business data daily and perhaps one of the key reasons is the belief that this is typically a business or enterprise problem.  At the human level, …

There is always something special about getting the biggest and baddest in hand.  We review tons of 2TB SSDs and have had our share of speedy Gen 4 and Gen 5 SSDs as well, but getting a 4TB Gen 5 SSD capable of 14GB/s and 1.7 million IOPS is rather special.  On our bench today is the Corsair MP700 Pro …

A few days back we reviewed Corsairs latest and greatest MP700 Elite Gen 5 SSD and that review was rather impressive but for one thing.  When we looked back for the original MP700 Pro review, we learned that we had somehow overlooked the MP700 Pro when released.  Not to worry; our report today is on the Corsair MP 700 Pro …

Hot off our Test Bench today is the Silicon Motion SM2508 PCIe 5.0 SSD Controller Engineering Sample…or reference design if you will.  This is not available to the public just yet and it is still being fine tuned but let me say this; this SSD is easily the highest performing SSD we have ever had in our hands.  I know …

Corsair recently sent us their latest release of the MP700 Elite Gen 5 SSD and, as I pretty much always do, I threw it in for some tests knowing nothing about it.  Within minutes I was regarding this as potentially one of my favorite SSDs and I still hadn’t looked at any specs.  Take a look at this Crystal Diskmark …

Up rather early to check out and post some of the best of the best Black Friday Deals at Amazon.  Be lucky you don’t live where I live as the great white North got dumped on last night with one of the the heaviest snowfalls ever and it hasn’t stopped, so for me, a quick post here and then out …

There has always been a rather distinct division in the SSD world.  As much as there had to be a value driven SSD to move the typical SSD users over, there also became that demand for the top performing SSDs, and so there should be.  Flash media performance has changed our world exponentially.  Whether we realize it or not, every …

It seems we are always looking for the best in SSDs, whether it be performance or capacity. Reviewers are always more than happy to sing in praise of high end SSDs and so it should be; they represent just how far we have come in flash storage.  Often overlooked, however, are those users don’t have high end needs for their …

Once upon a time, I sat with a company questioning them as to why they were so hesitant to market a 1TB SSD; they wouldn’t push that 512GB barrier.  Their honest and frank response was simply, “Why sell very few of a product that costs more to build when we can sell much more of what is in demand at …

The SSD Review unfortunately cannot attend but this event is definitely worth the mention!  KIOXIA will be showing off their next generation Enterprise and Data Center SSDs at the 2024 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, California this week.  We just released a post on their newest XD* Data Center SSD and it might be an amazing visit to see …

KIOXIA this morning announced their newest XD8 Series Data Center PCIe 5.0 (32GT/s x4) SSDs which will provide up to 73% higher performance than the previous generation, greater scalability and enhanced efficiency.  The  XD8 is available in 1.92, 3.84 and 7.62TB and the EDSFF E1.S form factor provides for 9.5, 15 and 25mm heat sink sizes. The XD8 provides performances …

Simply had to post this Amazon price drop as it is a deal on an amazing SSD that is too good to pass up.  Right now at Amazon, the SK Hynix P41 Platinum is going for $134.99 but don’t wait to long; it is a limited time deal. Get the deal here! This is a PCIe 4.0 (Gen 4) NVme …

Price, performance and capacity.  Time and time again the teller of all SSD success lies on these three factors…typically  Well actually… rarely would you ever count a DRAM-less SSD in that grouping.  There was a time in the industry where the word DRAM-less was a dirty word and the mere thought of recommending such would create response large enough to …