Unless you really dig into SSD technology and the inner workings of a SSD, many are probably totally how similar many SSDs really are. In fact, when the SSD just started breaking out so many years ago, it wouldn’t be unusual for two SSDs to be nothing more than a different brand sticker. Absolutely true. One manufacturer would successfully market …
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Corsair Force Series MP510 NVMe SSD Review (1TB) – The Phison E12 Controller Comes Alive
A few months back we posted a review on the latest and greatest Phison PS5012-E12 NVMe controller and our first look at this device was no less than impressive. With throughput reaching 3.4GB/s and IOPS breaking the half million mark, the consensus was that it could be capable of top marks when the finished product hit consumer, oem and even …
Read More »JMicron Type-C NVMe SSD to USB 3.1 Gen 2 Adapter – Not Quite Ready for Prime Time
We have had this sitting on out Test Bench for some time and I thought I might do a little playing with it and throw a few tests out there. It is a JMicron USB 3.1 Gen 2 to PCIe/NVMe adapter and it uses a Type-C connector. This adapter accepts a M.2 SSD up to a 2280 form factor and …
Read More »Samsung X5 Thunderbolt 3 Portable SSD Review (1TB)
So we have been on a bit of a kick lately, testing as much TB3 external storage as we could find. And things have come along. Where we were once restricted to external storage of 500MB/s, today’s portable storage is capable of almost 6 times that with Thunderbolt 3. Don’t jump so fast though as TB3 is still rather niche …
Read More »Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe SSD Review (500GB/1TB) – Evo Becomes a Top Tier SSD
For some time now, Samsung has used a marketing approach with respect to flash media that accommodates both business and the consumer. They produce the Pro M.2 NVMe SSD series for business and media needs and the EVO M.2 NVMe family for consumer use, and at a relatively modest price point. One has top performance and the other…is a bit …
Read More »Samsung 970 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD Review (1TB) – The Cost of Being The Worlds Best
I really never thought of it until this morning but, living in the era of seeing analog televisions switch to digital makes me old….real old. Most of today’ younger generation haven’t a clue what a CRT television is (that is cathode ray television), much less what it weighed when you had to reposition or move it. Let’s not even speak …
Read More »HP EX920 M.2 NVMe SSD Review (1TB) – Great Speed for a Dynamite Price
High performance, low power, increased system responsiveness, high reliability, small form factor, minimum weight, enhanced ruggedness along with high data integrity and security; these are the selling points made by HP with respect to their newest HP EX920 M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD. As much as this description might fit any of the latest gen M.2 SSD family, HP …
Read More »Bootable VROC RAID0 and 4x Intel Optane 800P SSDs
It has been some time now since Intel introduced VROC (Virtual RAID on CPU) and VROC provides for a capability on our motherboards that all would have hoped to see some time ago; the ability to create a bootable RAID configuration. At the consumer and enthusiast level, VROC is only available in newer X299 chipset motherboards at present, and these …
Read More »Samsung 860 EVO M.2 SATA3 SSD Review (2TB)
There comes a time when we all just need to stop, sit back and think; take a look around and reassess our direction perhaps. The SSD industry is a beautiful example of this. SSDs were introduced some 11 years ago now, although flash technology had been in use prior. Today, there isn’t a person in the world that hasn’t been …
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 …
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