Tag Archives: Gen4

When it comes to SSDs, I can’t help but wonder whether the latest price spike is simply a temporary shock driven by AI demand, or whether it was inevitable all along. For a while, we had it incredibly good. High-performance, DRAM-equipped SSDs with generous capacities and five-year warranties were selling at prices that would seem unbelievable today. Those days are …

I’d like to say change is coming to the SSD market, but the reality is that it’s already here. Looking back, it’s a bit amusing because long before the current NAND and DRAM shortages, I wondered whether SSD performance would eventually plateau with PCIe Gen4. What I didn’t anticipate, and neither did anyone else, was the memory shortage that would …

Many might not know the term ‘Olympico’ but it speaks to a corner kick which scores a goal without any other player touching the ball in football. It is incredibly rare.  It is considered the impossible goal. As coincidence may have it, it’s name comes from Argentine player Cesareo Onzari who scored the first one against the Olympic champions, Uruguay, …

If you are a fan of The SSD review, you may remember a post we made and subsequent review of a very innovative storage design by Longsys at CES this past January.  It was called the mSSD and was a concept back then, a concept by which we were fortunate to provide full report on right here!  That product was …

With the price of memory these days, it can only be expected that we will see more value-driven options in both client and consumer SSD solutions, such as pre-configured PCs and laptops. Right in line with this, KIOXIA has introduced its first Gen4 QLC NAND equipped SSD known as the EG7. The KIOXIA EG7 Series is a PCIe 4.0 (Gen4) …

There is a new SSD that is about to make its mark and it changes things.  It is the mSSD, short for microSSD, and Longsys holds the patented IP (intellectual property) with Lexar already pushing forward with their Play X Gen4 SSD and AI Storage Core releases.  It has been discussed at some length by other companies, however we have …

Up bright and early this first day of CES 2026 Las Vegas with a bit of great news!  KIOXIA has added a new entry into the client SSD market, their first since the Kioxia BG6.  Our last KIOXIA client SSD review was way back in 2022 with the KIOXIA XG8 found here.  Keep in mind this is a client SSD …

When we think about data centers or any other large-scale, network-integral computing systems, we often focus on enterprise SSDs… and perhaps rightly so. Personally, I believe there is no other historical technological advance that truly compares to flash storage. We tend to overlook just how much we take for granted in the rapid evolution from hard drives to solid-state storage, …

Without a doubt some of the best prices we have ever seen on Samsung SSDs are  going on right now at Amazon Prime day Deals! Buty you have to be a Prime Member so click on the Join Prime Decal in each link!  Let’s Get Started! As an Amazon Associate we may earn from qualifying purchases.  What better way to …

This all started through my curiosity as to whether I could gain a better battery life from my new laptop.  Things took on a new life from there.  After all,  we do have just about every main stream SSD available, to include client and even a few not released yet.  In this report, you will see the world’s top consumer …