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Dapustor is a little known SSD manufacturing company that is based in China, was founded in 2016 and has a present workforce of over 400 members throughout the country.  It’s forte is high-end enterprise solid-state drives, SOC, and edge computing-related products and it presently holds in excess of 156 patents, which is to say they aren’t just another SSD component …

Sitting here doing some testing and this years highest pile of SSDs seem to belong to SMI, all containing the SMI SM2508 Gen5 8-channel SSD controller that has taken the industry by storm.  The newest sample is rather interesting and there aren’t any reviews for it just yet. It is the Transcend MTE260S Gen5 2TB SSD and don’t ask what …

It had to happen sooner or later.  I think we are the first to post such.   A DRAMless Gen5 SSD that reaches 14GB/s, over 2 million IOPS and stands right beside Gen5 DRAM based SSDs.  This is possible thorough BIWIN and the newest release of the Maxiotek MAP1806a 8-channel DRAMless NVMe SSD controller which you will probably be hearing much …

Truth be told, this is not the fault of motherboard manufacturers, nor is it that of SSD makers.  It is an issue with Intel Ultra Series 200 CPU’s that some might believe would have been picked up through initial Z890 motherboard reviews. Our testing has identified two concerns with these motherboards. The first becomes evident when one tests a PCIe …

There is a simple rule with flash technology, more commonly known as SSD storage; everything must go faster. It has always been the same in the progression of PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), USB (Universal Serial Bus) or ThunderBolt.  Let’s keep it real simple.  PCIe speaks to your computers internal storage while USB and Thunderbolt speak to external storage.  Way …

On the Test Bench today is a Yottamaster Y7000 Pro Gen4 4TB SSD and we are certain that you are asking yourselves that same question that we were not three weeks ago?  Who the heck is Yottamaster? Yottamaster is a China-based flash storage business that ‘focuses on providing professional-grade storage solutions for a wide range of users, including individuals, gamers …

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 …

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 …

It’s pretty rare that I might use the word perfection when it comes to SSDs.  There is always somewhere that an SSD can be improved upon just a bit.  Our report today is of an SSD that is not yet available in North America. It is the first available ‘international’ retail SSD with the newest Silicon Motion SM2508 controller and …

There is always something special about getting the biggest and baddest in hand.  We review tons of 2TB SSDs and have had our share of speedy Gen 4 and Gen 5 SSDs as well, but getting a 4TB Gen 5 SSD capable of 14GB/s and 1.7 million IOPS is rather special.  On our bench today is the Corsair MP700 Pro …