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This morning in Seoul, South Korea, Samsung upped the bar once again in the storage world with the announcement of their latest 960 Pro and EVO SSD releases, both NVMe SSDs that have groundbreaking performance, capacities and value. King of the road will be the Samsung 960 Pro PCIe Gen 3×4 NVMe M.2 SSD which will be the first consumer …

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 …

Samsung is a force to be reckoned with in the SSD market. With such a large share, they are the biggest player there is. This allows them to push the boundaries of what products they can deliver and when. In today’s case, Samsung has just released another update to their 850 EVO line, this time it is huge. First launched in late 2014, …

Back in 2014 we took a good look at the Mushkin Reactor. At the time, it was the best value 1TB SSD you could buy. You could even argue that it was THE SSD which made high value, high capacity SSDs the norm. Now, Mushkin is trying to take value a step farther by introducing a cheaper alternative into the market. Instead of …

Listing any product as the worlds best is just asking for trouble.  I did just that a few years back when I made the switch from PC to the Apple MacBook Air. The MBA achieved those accolades thanks to Samsung who supplied Apple with their PCIe SSD, even before equipping their own ultrabooks.  The industry has since forgotten to educate …

Targeted towards read-intensive workloads, boot, and logging applications in both servers and mobile computing, the X400 is SanDisk’s top-tier client SATA SSD available in both M.2 and 2.5″ form factors. Based on the marketing material it seems that SanDisk has put a lot of value into this drive, not only with its feature set, but performance and efficiency. The X400 is the …

PNY unveiled some great flash products at Computex 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan this week, the first of which happens to be the first Phison based NVMe SSD that we had found.  This SSD is named the PhantomX PCIe SSD and it is a Gen 3×4 (four lane) 2280 form factor (80mm) M.2 SSD that will be available initially in sizes …

In the past few days at Comptex 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan, we have seen that both Plextor and ADATA have implemented the newest Marvell NVMe Controller and it seems to be the front runner when considering the alternative choices from both MSI and Phison. With a codename of ‘Eldora’ this controller has the product number of 88SS1093 and, at least …

This morning at Computex 2016 in Taipei, Plextor announced its newest M8 M.2 Series of NVMe SSDs, these relying on performance through Marvell’s newest 88SS1093 controller.  The M8 M.2 SSD will be available with or without heatsink, or in a HHHL PCIe form factor that ensures compatibility for those without M.2 slot equipped PC systems.  This first photo displays the …

We got a sneak peek of a future NVME release in the Micron family, but its introduction was a bit unexpected.  Enter the Ballistix (by Micron) brand of flash memory products where the Ballistix TX3 NVMe SSD will be leading the way, along with an assortment of DRAM memory products.  We are well aware that Crucial’s Ballistix memory is already …