Our report today takes a close look at Corsair’s latest flagship SSD, the MP700 Pro XT, marking the first industry release of a drive featuring the Phison PS5028-E28 Gen5 NVMe 8-channel controller. We first offered a ‘performance preview‘ of this controller back in June, and more recently, we included our E28 sample in ‘The Ultimate Laptop SSD Battery Test.’ In …
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SanDisk microSDXC Express 256GB Memory Card and Pro-Reader Dual Card Review
Nintendo Switch 2 is all the rage and if you are a gamer, the upgrade and understanding of the newest SDXC Express Memory is is an asset. To so many, it reflects no more than a massive price jump in microSD cards. To those in the know, microSD Express speaks to a 3x jump in data game loads from that …
Read More »SK hynix Platinum P51 Gen5 2TB SSD Review – SK hynix Strikes Gold With Their Alistar Gen5 SSD Controller
It is always refreshing when we get something on our bench that is new…maybe even a bit out of the ordinary. On our Test Bench today is the SK hynix Platinum P51 Gen5 2TB SSD and this SSD is as proprietary as they come. The controller, DRAM buffer chip and NAND memory are all SK hynix manufactured and this SSD …
Read More »SanDisk WD_Black SN8100 Gen5 SSD Review – True Champion & Intel Optane Slayer
Sure signs of a storage geek… I haven’t been on the ground no more than 36 hours after returning on a 15hr hr flight from Computex Taipei and I am testing storage. Worse yet… my initial testing for today’s report was only completed at 4:30am this morning… Yup extreme jet lag… But look at this. These two SSDs in this …
Read More »Samsung 9100 Pro Gen5 4TB SSD Review – Fastest & Highest Capacity SSD Available Today
Isn’t competition a great thing? I have always considered the development of flash technology as somewhat a sport. It is simply one company trying to create a faster, larger and more reliable SSD than that of which was just released by another. I remember sitting in a business meeting at Samsung HQ in Seoul, South Korea, many years back and …
Read More »Acer FA200 Gen4 4TB SSD Review – Exploring The Maxio MAP1602 SSD Controller with YMTC QLC Memory
Once again, we are tackling yet another SSD manufactured by BIWIN and, when we check out Amazon, we can actually find the ‘FA’ line of SSDs available for sale in Canada and the USA. BIWIN is the official licensee and manufacturer of Acer and HP brand products and, as we had stated in our review of the BIWIN NV7400 and …
Read More »ADATA SE920 2TB External SSD Review – First USB4 Speedy Portable at 3800MB/s
I am a bit embarrassed and my sincerest apologies to ADATA. I have had this SE920 ADATA USB4 2TB External SSD sitting on my desk for over a year and only today does it get my attention. Well actually, it gained a great deal of attention way back when I realized that two Z790 PCs with USB4 did not work …
Read More »Samsung 990 EVO Plus SSD Review – Value and Performance Go Mainstream
There has always been a rather distinct division in the SSD world. As much as there had to be a value driven SSD to move the typical SSD users over, there also became that demand for the top performing SSDs, and so there should be. Flash media performance has changed our world exponentially. Whether we realize it or not, every …
Read More »Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD Review – High Speed & Incredible 8TB Capacity
It is no secret that one of Sabrent’s top weapons in the storage world is the Rocket 4 Plus which has been around for some time now. First introduced in 2020, the Rocket 4 Plus has been fine tuned to add a 4TB in addition to the original 1/2TB releases and then Sabrent even added a custom heatsink for PS5 …
Read More »WD_Black P40 Game Drive Portable SSD Review
The WD_Black gaming line has been around for some time now and we have been fortunate to report on several items in the past few years. Admittedly, my personal favorite was one of the first, the WD_Black AN1500 which was well before its time as an add-in card that could hit speeds of 6GB/s and was bootable…to boot. The one …
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