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The Lexar brand has been around for some time, and in fact, our first mention of Lexar goes all the way back to one of our first Storage Visions meetings in Las Vegas some 14 years ago.  Lexar was originally a Micron brand but was acquired by Longsys Electronics in 2017 and Longsys has built on that brand name since, …

Without a doubt, our biggest takeaway from attending Computex 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan, this year was our introduction to Risteárd McSweeney of 360Technology.io.  We met Risteárd through his representation of KIOXIA at their exhibit and he has been able to accomplish something that we haven’t for several years, our review of  the consumer side of KIOXIA products.  In fact, our …

It had to happen sooner or later.  I think we are the first to post such.   A DRAMless Gen5 SSD that reaches 14GB/s, over 2 million IOPS and stands right beside Gen5 DRAM based SSDs.  This is possible thorough BIWIN and the newest release of the Maxiotek MAP1806a 8-channel DRAMless NVMe SSD controller which you will probably be hearing much …

Sure signs of a storage geek… I haven’t been on the ground no more than 36 hours after returning on a 15hr hr flight from Computex Taipei and I am testing storage.  Worse yet… my initial testing for today’s report was only completed at 4:30am this morning… Yup extreme jet lag…  But look at this.  These two SSDs in this …

When a great flash product is introduced, it catches on.  This appears to be the case with the newest Kingston Fury Renegade G5 Gen5 SSD,  which contains SMI’s latest SM2508 controller.  I know most don’t really care what’s inside an SSD but a healthy knowledge of SSDs is a good thing.  The reason, of course, is that this SM2508 controller …

A short time ago, we reviewed an SSD from a mostly unheard of company named Yottamaster.  They are  a China-based SSD manufacturer and they sent us the ‘Amazon available’ Yottamaster Y7000 Gen4 QLC which we reviewed here.  This SSD contained a Maxio MAP1602a ‘Falcon Lite’ 4-channel NVMe SSD controller based on TSMC’s 12nm process which was paired with YMTC 232-layer …

We’de like to say it’s been a long week evaluating and reporting on ProGrade Digitals newest 4.0 gear but, truth be told,  it is just nice to have this entire package in-hand to present it as it should be.  Our first report spoke to the PG 20 Pro Thunderbolt 4 Hub where we also looked at both accompanying CFExpress A …

If I could ask a company to put the complete package of storage products together, it would be exactly what ProGrade Digital has done.  It starts with a ProHub by which an assortment of different readers could connect by USB-C for high speed.  ProGrade Digital did just that with their PG20 Pro Hub and infused this with the latest in …

ProGrade Digital has upped the ante when it comes to CFExpress Cards and their latest offerings reach an incredible data transfer speed of over 3500MB/s with 1500MB/s sustained write speeds.  This all relies on the newest USB 4.0 standard and they have put together a complete package to include PG20 Pro Hub and CFExpress A/B card Readers which we reviewed …

Perhaps one of the most annoying things to me is when technology moves up a step but nobody is really ready for it.  Take the step from PCIe 4.0 to PCIe 5.0 for instance.  After all, who wouldn’t benefit from data transfer jumping from 7GB/s to 14GB/s right?  And it is not like there isn’t any warning well ahead of …