We’re entering an era where smaller, faster, and higher-capacity SSDs are no longer luxuries; they’re necessities. I experienced this firsthand last year while shopping for a new ultrabook. My shortlist of must-haves was clear: a compact form factor, support for at least a 4TB SSD, and PCIe 4.0 performance. Ideally, I wanted PCIe Gen5 speeds, but nothing on the market …
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Our report today takes a close look at Corsair’s latest flagship SSD, the MP700 Pro XT, marking the first industry release of a drive featuring the Phison PS5028-E28 Gen5 NVMe 8-channel controller. We first offered a ‘performance preview‘ of this controller back in June, and more recently, we included our E28 sample in ‘The Ultimate Laptop SSD Battery Test.’ In …
Read More » Lexar has done it again… and this time, Sony Alpha and FX series owners finally have reason to celebrate. For years, they’ve been like kids watching from the sidelines while Canon EOS R5 users like myself enjoyed the benefits of faster CFExpress Type-B storage. But that all changes now. Thanks to Lexar, Type-A users are catching up in a big …
Read More » 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 …
Read More » 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, …
Read More » 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 …
Read More » 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. …
Read More » 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 …
Read More » 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 …
Read More » Hot off its test run this morning and in our hot little hands (well not really) is the latest Crucial consumer offering, the Crucial T710 Gen5 2TB SSD. This SSD is Crucial/Micron’s first ‘consumer’ release with their latest 276-layer G9 3D TLC NAND flash memory. This move improves upon the previous G8 232-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory and, well, …
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