When it comes to storage management, RAID configurations of some kind have proven to be top dog when it comes to performance. This was initially shown in our report of the Intel 910 PCIe SSD way back in 2012 and, more recently, with the Kingston DCP1000 NVMe SSD that reached 7GB/s throughput and over 1 million IOPS. The Kingston DCP1000 …
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Corsair Neutron NX500 NVMe SSD Review (400GB)
Back in February, Corsair released one of the fastest NVMe SSDs into the market, their Force MP500. This SSD delivers more than enough performance to cover the needs of the majority of PC enthusiasts, however, with a rather typical 3-year warranty and fairly high price tag, it was just shy of earning our Gold Seal. Since then, Corsair has been …
Read More »Micron Announces Enterprise 9200 SSD Series – New NVMe Flagship Solid-State Storage Family
Micron is announcing their new 9200 SSD series of NVMe SSDs, their latest flagship performance solid-state storage family. The Micron 9200 SSDs bring innovative architecture and industry-leading performance that will enable users to access their data ever faster, and stay on top of ever-increasing data demands and workloads. The 9200 series of SSDs combine cost-effective 3D NAND with the superior …
Read More »Kingston DCP1000 NVMe SSD Enthusiast Testing in RAID 0 – 2 Mil IOPS and 14GB/s
Not so long ago, we introduced you to what just might be the fastest NVMe storage device on the market right now. Our tests of the Kingston DCP 1000 1.6TB NVME PCIe 3.0 displayed absolutely incredible performance of 7GB/s and 1 million IOPS for a single drive, and our initial enthusiast report uncovered an amazing design package beneath the surface …
Read More »Intel DC P3520 Enterprise NVMe SSD Review (1.2TB) – With 3D NAND Comes Value
Just a few years ago the enterprise SSD market was born and over these few years, we have seen SSDs evolve quite a bit to the point at which they are today. Prices seemed to be sky high for even the cheapest of drives, let alone anything of the PCIe flavor, and if we were lucky enough to have access …
Read More »Apacer Announces PT920 COMMANDO PCIe NVMe SSD With Assault Rifle-Style Housing
Apacer is announcing their latest gaming-oriented PCIe NVMe SSD, designated as the PT920 COMMANDO. The most immediately compelling aspect of the PT920 is that the shroud is shaped like the trigger guard, sight aperture and ejection port of an assault rife. The housing also enables a convection cooling system to improve heat dissipation. Apacer is offering the PT920 COMMANDO in …
Read More »Toshiba XG5 NVMe SSD Review – 3D BiCS 64-Layer Flash Shines
Flash memory, at the consumer level, came to the forefront in late 2007 and has changed everything we do, without most understanding , or caring to understand the reason why. Its advance has changed our world and we do things every day that somehow touches flash memory in some way, shape or form. The easiest example might be a quick …
Read More »Team Group T-Force Cardea M.2 NVMe SSD Review (240GB)
If you’re a fan of SSDs, you won’t be surprised with the latest thought process that SSDs need to be cooled. As of late, there seems to be a common theme that some type of SSD cooling is better than no cooling at all and, with respect to that thought, I would agree entirely. Whether I might agree that SSDs, …
Read More »Plextor Announces M9Pe and Release of M8Se NVMe SSDs – Computex 2017 Update
Plextor announced their production of their newest M9PE PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe this week at Computex 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan. The M9Pe is based on the Marvell 88SS1093 controller, code named Eldora, and Toshiba’ newest 512gb BiCS 3D TLC 64 layer memory. Available in either M.2 or PCIe add-in card, the M9Pe will be equipped with a heatsink as it …
Read More »Show Full of Same NVMe SSDs with Different Stickers – Computex 2017 Update
Probably one of the most amusing things that we are seeing at Computex 2017 is the fact that several manufacturers are sporting very similarly constructed SSDs, with different stickers. It is reminiscent of how the industry started with many 3rd party sellers simply rebranding Intel’ first X-25M SATA 2 SSD almost 10 years ago. All have a very common theme. …
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