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 …
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Samsung 990 EVO Plus SSD Review – Value and Performance Go Mainstream
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 …
Read More »Kingston NV3 Gen 4 2TB SSD Review – An Ideal Choice for the Average PC User
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 …
Read More »WD_Black SN850X Gen4 8TB Game Drive SSD Review – The Biggest and Baddest in SSD Storage
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 …
Read More »Crucial P310 2280 1TB SSD Review – This SSD Will Knock Your Socks Off!
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 …
Read More »PNY XLR8 Gen5 1TB SSD Review
Gen 5 SSDs are becoming all the rage as of late and for good reason. Having advanced through the years, we have come from SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) generations 1-3 and then into PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) where we have advanced from generations 1-5. We retooled the way digital storage was machined from the SATA interface to that …
Read More »Western Digital Blue SN5000 4TB Gen 4 SSD Review – TLC or QLC Memory – You Pick
Western Digital has recently released it’s newest Blue SN5000 NVMe SSD in a PCIe 4.0 design and, although there isn’t much to scream and shout about, this SSD is a bit different from the rest. It relies on two separate types of memory, depending on the chosen size. If you are buying the SN5000 from 500GB to the 2TB capacity, …
Read More »SanDisk Professional G-Drive Project Review – Stunning Build and 22TB of Storage.
Kinda speechless. We first started The SSD Review some 15 years ago and swore I would never use another hard drive for storage. I’d betcha there are petabytes of flash storage lying around this office to include enterprise drives, client as well as consumer SSDs, many products that never even made it to mainstream sales and some that have never …
Read More »Crucial T705 Gen5 2TB SSD Review – 14GB/s Becomes Just a Walk in the Park
And so the steam train of SSD speeds keeps moving. It wasn’t so long ago that we thought things were doing so well when we saw SATA speeds of 540MB/s jump to over 1GB/s…and then 2GB/s to 3.5GB/s which doubled again and is now doubling once more. To those on the outside, it seems like such a simple jump but …
Read More »Samsung 990 EVO Gen 5 2TB SSD Review
Samsung’s newest SSD release is the 990EVO, a PCIe 5.0 SSD that runs at the lower end of PCIe 4.0 speeds. We have been running it through our test regimen for the last week or so and I have to say this SSD is a bit of an odd duck. It is forwards and backwards compatible as one might expect …
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