Tag Archives: SSD

Well… I am kind of speechless at just how I should be starting this report because, quite frankly, it has been rather unexpected.  For years now, the SSD industry has had an unofficial divide between premium SSDs and those that are intended for the value point.  Typically we can separate the big boys from the rest by their controller, controllers …

Last week at CES we spent a bit of time with Kingston and learned of their newest lineup for the 2019 season.  First up,  Kingston showed off its A2000 which is a PCIe 3.0×4 M.2 SSD and will be available in capacities from 256GB to 1TB.  This SSD is equipped with the SMI SM2263 controller and Intel 3D TLC 64-layer NAND …

Without a doubt, one of my favorite things about tech shows is being contacted last-minute by a company nobody has ever heard of, and being asked to check out their first SSD.  This happened at CES 2019 and the company name is Asura.  They are a brand new company who is hoping to market a new SSD with all the …

PLEXTOR’s CES 2019 announcement features two new consumer SSD models.  The M9V (SATA) and M10Pe (PCIe) SSDs both feature the newest and upgraded PLEXTOR performance boosting utilities that increase performance and reliability by 20%. PLEXTOR’s new M10Pe, geared toward gamers and application-intensive users, is a PCIe SSD that pairs 96-layer 3D NAND with an industry-proven controller to achieve sequential read …

Welcome to our 2019 coverage of the ever-impressive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  The first news to hit the pipeline is Toshiba announcing their BG4 series of ball grid array (BGA) solid-state drive (SSD).  Toshiba’s ultra-compact NVMe™ SSDs pair both the flash and an all-new controller into a single package, creating design flexibility that is ideal for ultra-thin PC …

If you are up to spec in the tech storage field, 4-bit mlc (multi-level cell) is all the rage.  If you are a typical consumer, things get just a ‘bit’ confusing.  After all, what does your search for adequate storage have to do with anything but price, warranty, speed and capacity?  Actually quite a bit (intended pun), as electronic storage …

ADATA is announcing the launch of three new XPG high-performance gaming hardware items.  ADATA’s XPG (Xtreme Performance Gaming) is a world-renowned gaming brand, and these two new XPG SSDs and XPG DDR4 memory take the XPG brand to yet another high level. The XPG XS8200 Pro is an M.2 x 2280 SSD, and represents XPG’s fastest SSD to date.  It …

A few months back we posted a review on the latest and greatest Phison PS5012-E12 NVMe controller and our first look at this device was no less than impressive.  With throughput reaching 3.4GB/s and IOPS breaking the half million mark, the consensus was that it could be capable of top marks when the finished product hit consumer, oem and even …

M.2 SSDs have been out for some time and, well quite frankly, they still amazing the heck out of me whenever a new one is released.  I mean think about it.  An M.2 SSD is the size of a stick of gum, weighs less than a AAA battery, yet can store 2 million pictures if each was around 500k.  Fifteen …

So we have been on a bit of a kick lately, testing as much TB3 external storage as we could find.  And things have come along.  Where we were once restricted to external storage of 500MB/s, today’s portable storage is capable of almost 6 times that with Thunderbolt 3.  Don’t jump so fast though as TB3 is still rather niche …