Tag Archives: Gen5

Our visit to Patriot at Computex in Taiwan this morning resulted in two interesting Patriot soon-to-be releases…and just a bit of familiarity.  First off, Patriot has jumped aboard the Silicon Motion train with their newest PV593 which is a Gen5 SSD based on the SMI SM2508 8-channel NVMe SSD controller.  This controller will provide speeds of 14GB/s read and 13GB/s …

I personally think we lose out on some of the best in North American retail and my visit to KIOXIA at Computex 2025 this morning proved correct.  I might compound this belief with mention that KIOXIA (formerly Toshiba) is technically the inventor of flash NAND way back in 1987. KIOXIA, while being a very strong enterprise and data center resource …

Perhaps the Achilles Heal of the SSD industry has always been heat.  We can get you that 14GB/s performance…but at a price.  Only recently have we seen Gen5 SSDs doing what it takes to bring down the heat.  Things such as smaller footprint controllers, newer memory which can establish higher capacities in a single-sided format, a DRAMless form factor…and now …

It is not uncommon for products to be introduced at CES, ceBit, Flash Memory Summit or Computex that never see the light of day.  This is especially so in the SSD world where products could, as well, not hit the consumer market for years.  What is a complete shock, as one who reports on flash media, is when the person …

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 …

Anyone who follows TSSDR knows that we rarely spend time on a review of something so common as a M.2 external enclosure.  Have I ever done one?  I have been trying to find just right rights words for my discovery.  Indispensable.  Crucial. (No…the adjective not the company) Critical. Key. Vital.  I am sure you get where I am going.  I …

Isn’t competition a great thing?  I have always considered the development of flash technology as somewhat a sport.  It is simply one company trying to create a faster, larger and more reliable SSD than that of which was just released by another. I remember sitting in a business meeting at Samsung HQ in Seoul, South Korea,  many years back and …

It’s pretty rare that I might use the word perfection when it comes to SSDs.  There is always somewhere that an SSD can be improved upon just a bit.  Our report today is of an SSD that is not yet available in North America. It is the first available ‘international’ retail SSD with the newest Silicon Motion SM2508 controller and …

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 …

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 …