Looking back ten years or so to when SSDs were introduced, I would have never have believed that hard drives would still be the main system storage choice this far down the line. They are larger, slower, noisier, require more power which results in less portable battery life, lack security and endurance, and their performance is significantly less than an …
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HP EX900 NVMe M.2 SSD Review (500GB)
It was only a few days back that we reviewed the HP EX920 NVMe SSD at the 1TB capacity and determined that it held an absolutely great price point for the performance it presented. Today, we are taking a look at the little brother to that SSD, the HP EX900 NVMe which HP hopes will hit a home run when …
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 »Intel SSD DC P4510 Enterprise NVMe SSD Review (2TB/8TB)
Intel has recently expanded their lineup to include some higher capacities and new form factor SSDs that are infused with their latest 64-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory. With this announcement, we were able to get our hands on some of their latest tech, 2TB and 8TB samples of their DC P4510. While these bad boys aren’t the exotic Enterprise …
Read More »The SSD Reviewers Guide to SSD Optimization 2018
Catch lines are everything. If you are reading this, that title has done its job and it’s now in my hands to keep you here. My name is Les Tokar and I am an SSD Reviewer. I have worked in flash media since it rolled out to the public ten years ago and have written extensively on SSDs to the …
Read More »MyDigitalSSD SBX M.2 NVMe SSD Review (128GB/256GB/512GB)
Things have changed a lot since we have started reviewing SSDs. They have gone from the highest priced parts, only few could afford, to something that almost everyone can buy for a reasonable price…depending on how much space you really need that is. We went from SSDs that were barely faster than HDDs to some that are magnitudes faster than …
Read More »ADATA XPG Gammix S10 M.2 NVMe SSD Review (512GB)
Last year, ADATA’s gaming branch, XPG, released their newest product line, the Gammix series, and within that, they released the XPG Gammix S10 M.2 NVMe SSD. This SSD is quite sleek and high-end looking, with its flashy red with black heatsink and blacked out PCB, but its performance doesn’t quite match its looks. Although one would think that because it …
Read More »Tekq Rapide TB3 Portable SSD Review (512GB) – Worlds Fastest Portable Storage
It’s not often that something comes across our Test Bench that we really want to brag about, but when it does, watch out. Every now and then reviewers get their hands on something that even they think is special, something that always draws some very obvious questions. and something that you can bet will be with them every time they …
Read More »ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 Card Review – 4 x M.2 SSD RAID at 10GB/s and 932K IOPS
It was only a few weeks ago that ASRock announced their newest Ultra Quad M.2 Card, yet today we have it in hand and tested. The ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 Card bears a striking resemblance to the HighPoint SSD7101 RAID Controller we tested a few months back… but there are some very distinct differences that we will point out in …
Read More »OWC ThunderBlade V4 Review (4TB) – Worlds Fastest External Storage
I thought I had seen all at CES. It was a long week making meetings and events in rain rarely seen, followed by a flight cancellation as our local airport was closed because of extreme snow conditions. It was late night when we finally arrived home and, as soon as I walked in, I was met by this: It’s a …
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