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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Team Group T-Force Cardea M.2 NVMe SSD Review (240GB)
If you’re a fan of SSDs, you won’t be surprised with the latest thought process that SSDs need to be cooled. As of late, there seems to be a common theme that some type of SSD cooling is better than no cooling at all and, with respect to that thought, I would agree entirely. Whether I might agree that SSDs, …
Read More »Maxiotek MK8115 Controller Preview – MLC & TLC NAND Put To The Test
In May of 2016, we published a report from Computex that described the latest ADATA line and their continued willingness to support a number of SSD controllers within their SSD designs. The report is here. Within their line was a new notebook SSD that was being aimed directly at the consumer with what was expected to be a very low price point. …
Read More »High Speed Multi-M.2 SSD Adapters Make an Appearance – Computex 2017 Update
If you have read our latest review of the Kingston DCP1000 SSD, you will see that multi-M.2 SSD designs can result in some of the highest speeds we have seen in SSD performance. In the case of the Kingston DCP1000, we pulled off performance of 7GB/s throughput and 1.2 million IOPS from a single AIC (add-in card) HHHL design. This …
Read More »Plextor Announces M9Pe and Release of M8Se NVMe SSDs – Computex 2017 Update
Plextor announced their production of their newest M9PE PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe this week at Computex 2017 in Taipei, Taiwan. The M9Pe is based on the Marvell 88SS1093 controller, code named Eldora, and Toshiba’ newest 512gb BiCS 3D TLC 64 layer memory. Available in either M.2 or PCIe add-in card, the M9Pe will be equipped with a heatsink as it …
Read More »Show Full of Same NVMe SSDs with Different Stickers – Computex 2017 Update
Probably one of the most amusing things that we are seeing at Computex 2017 is the fact that several manufacturers are sporting very similarly constructed SSDs, with different stickers. It is reminiscent of how the industry started with many 3rd party sellers simply rebranding Intel’ first X-25M SATA 2 SSD almost 10 years ago. All have a very common theme. …
Read More »ADATA Showcases NVMe SSD Performance, Variation & a Gamers SSD – Computex 2017 Update
ADATA has never been short of SSD variation at any tech events we have covered in recent years, consistently displaying drives with a variation of controllers, memory, as well as performance designed for any number of tasks. This year at CES was no different. Let’s jump in with their very own Gamers SSD right off: GAMMIX S10 GAMING SSD Based …
Read More »Kingston DCP1000 1.6TB NVMe SSD Enthusiast Report – 1 Million IOPS and Over 7GB/s Throughput
It wasn’t too long ago that Kingston announced their newest DCP1000 enterprise NVMe SSD, in teaming up with Liqid, with incredible claims of 6.8GB/s performance and 1.25 million IOPS from a single device. This HHHL AIC speaks of ultra low transactional latency, along with ultra-high throughput, making it the ideal choice for data centers looking for extreme performance. Thanks …
Read More »Intel Optane Memory Review – 1.4GB/s Speed & 300K IOPS for $44
Intel Optane Memory is Intel’ first phase in release of their Optane flash technology line that Intel hopes might revolutionize the flash industry. At its most basic level, it is SSD storage that caches your hard drive with performance speeds up to 1.4GB/s, a speed that has yet to be seen for this type of storage in the industry. The term ‘Optane’ is …
Read More »Kingston DCP1000 NVMe SSD Reaches 7GB/s – Is This the Worlds Fastest?
Quick post to let all know what we have in store in the next few weeks. We just got the Kingston DCP1000 Data Center NVMe SSD in today and this SSD is rather special. With advertised capacities up to 3.2TB and performance up to 6.8GB/s and 1.2mil IOPS, this SSD just could be the fastest single SSD solution worldwide right …
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