Every year or so, we try to upgrade our hardware to stay current with tech trends and bumping our newest test bench up to the new Kaby Lake design was no different. With Intel’ newest Optane Technology knocking at the door, the Z270 was a must. If you are wondering whether the boot to Z270 is worth the jump from Z170, …
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Kingston Reveals World’s Largest Flash Drive and More – CES 2017 Update
CES 2017 and all the chaos that comes with it has just begun. One of our first booth tours is with Kingston, where they just revealed the world’s largest flash drive, the DataTraveler Ultimate GT. Just how big is this flash drive? It comes in 1TB and 2TB in capacities! Made out of a zinc alloy metal casing and high-density …
Read More »Kingston Announces DC400 Entry-Level Data Center SSD
Kingston is announcing a new addition to its family of enterprise storage solutions, which they have designated as the Data Center 400 (DC400) solid-state drive (SSD). The DC400 SSD is meant to be an entry-level enterprise SSD geared toward data center server usage, particularly those users that utilize a rip-and-replace deployment strategy. The DC400 is an excellent choice for read-intensive …
Read More »Kingston Displays World’s Fastest 2.5” U.2 SSD – Flash Memory Summit 2016 Update
So many products at FMS revolve around delivering the most performance you could image. While we were impressed with the many server storage solution providers, we are always more focused on the SSD manufacturers and devices themselves, which is why we went over to speak with Kington to see what they had at their booth this year. As you previously seen, …
Read More »Liqid SSDs and Software Enable 50GB/s and 10 Million IOPS Performance – Flash Memory Summit 2016 Update
Liqid is a newer SSD solutions company that revolves around making innovative and disruptive technology for the bare-metal cloud to enable hyperscale agility to the masses. What does this mean? Well, through their reference SSD designs and software architecture they are able to deliver what is some of the best performance we have seen at FMS 2016 so far. First seen at …
Read More »Kingston SSDNow UV400 SSD Review (480GB)
Today we are going to look into the performance of yet another entry level SSD. This trend, to offer entry level products, is very strong now and since TLC NAND is readily available, almost every manufacturer out has one of these cost effect drives in their portfolio. While these SSDs aren’t the top performing devices enthusiasts love, they offer significantly better …
Read More »Kingston 512GB SDXC Card Review (Class 10 UHS-1) – Size Matters
For those that shoot in RAW… The timing of this card could not be more perfect. Although I had been a camera enthusiast for years, admittedly I was lazy. I liked to stick to presets and typical JPG output in an environment where the quicker I can get the file from my camera to ‘published’ the better. All that changed …
Read More »Kingston Announces Acquisition of IronKey USB Technology and Assets From Imation
Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory division of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., is announcing that it has acquired the USB technology and assets of IronKey™ from Imation Corp. Kingston has been a leader in encrypted portable storage solutions for businesses for over 10 years, when they launched their first DataTraveler encrypted USB Flash drive. IronKey is one of the top …
Read More »Kingston Demos E1000 PCIe NVMe SSD Capable of 1.25 Million IOPS and More! – CES 2016 Update
CES has been quite interesting so far, with many new consumer storage devices on the horizon. This year, however, Kingston hasn’t announced anything new on the SSD front, that is, for consumer storage. They did, however, show off some of their newest enterprise products including the E1000 PCIe NVMe AIC and announced a new client SATA SSD, the KC400. The …
Read More »HyperX Savage SSD Migration Kit Makes the Ultimate Holiday Gift
If we could give you at least a day of your life back a year as a Christmas gift, would that be good? Would you pay it forward? We can and, more importantly, you can. There seems to be no doubt that we spend far too much time on the PC these days, however, many of us fail to realize …
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