It has been some time now since Intel introduced VROC (Virtual RAID on CPU) and VROC provides for a capability on our motherboards that all would have hoped to see some time ago; the ability to create a bootable RAID configuration. At the consumer and enthusiast level, VROC is only available in newer X299 chipset motherboards at present, and these …
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Plextor M8V SSD Review (256GB)
Today we are going to take a close look at the Plextor M8V. Just like the top of the line Plextor M9Pe we just reviewed last week, this new value-oriented SSD from Plextor promises to come into the market guns blazing. It is filled with Toshiba’s BiCS3 TLC NAND and powered by an SMI 2258 controller. Together this combo can easily …
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 »Intel Announces New 3D NAND Data Center SSDs
As the world’s stockpile of data continues to grow, Intel continues to bring to market industry-leading storage and memory products, pushing both form factor innovation and ever-increasing capacity. Intel’s latest data center offerings, the SSD DC P4510 and P4511 series, are reimagining how data is store for data centers. With the creation of interesting new form factors, such as the …
Read More »Samsung 860 EVO M.2 SATA3 SSD Review (2TB)
There comes a time when we all just need to stop, sit back and think; take a look around and reassess our direction perhaps. The SSD industry is a beautiful example of this. SSDs were introduced some 11 years ago now, although flash technology had been in use prior. Today, there isn’t a person in the world that hasn’t been …
Read More »Silicon Power Announces Their First PCIe SSDs for Consumers and Enterprise
Silicon Power is announcing its first foray into PCIe SSDs, with the launch of the P32A80 and the P32A85. These new PCIe SSDs are geared toward high-end systems and offer new levels of responsiveness and performance, making them ideal for large image rendering and intensive graphics editing, musicians needing high volume storage and music library loading, and enterprises that demand …
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 »Western Digital My Passport Wireless SSD Review (2TB)
As a ‘somewhat’ professional photographer, I am pretty sure that my fear of loss of my work is front and center when it comes to those important camera shoots. For most, relying on trust of a single SD or flash card until you can get to a laptop is all too common. Anyone who takes pictures with any frequency can …
Read More »OWC Mercury Helios 3 TB3 Expansion Chassis Review – Kingston DCP1000 NVMe SSD On Board
For a media professional, data transfer is everything. The faster one can move and manipulate media, the more efficient the machine becomes. We take it for granted really but the massive work to perfect everything you watch on TV is incredible… and the ability to move media quickly is central to efficiency. This is where Thunderbolt 3 comes in. TB3 …
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 …
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