It has been a few years now, but thinking back I am sure there are those that remember the hard drive and all that went along with it. Slow start times, heat, noise and an all around much slower PC experience, especially for those that work in media. The largest jump we have seen in storage is without a doubt …
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Apricorn Aegis Fortress L3 2TB External SSD Review – Top Level Data Security Hands Down
If you have been following us for awhile, you might remember our review of the Apricorn Aegis Secure Key 3 flash drive that we did back in August of 2016. Back then, any flash drive at 480GB was something to get your hands on, much less one that would also qualify as one of the most secure flash drives worldwide. …
Read More »WD Black SN750 Review M.2 NVMe SSD Review (1TB) – Enthusiast Class Performance Revisited
It is not often that we dedicate the time to looking at an SSD that has been reworked simply through firmware, but our review today of the Western Digital Black SN750 NVMe SSD is just that. Physically, this SSD holds the same level of components as the WD Black/SanDisk Extreme pro Report we did just about a year ago. We …
Read More »MyDigitalSSD BPX Pro NVMe SSD Review (2TB) – Absolutely Incredible Value
Unless you really dig into SSD technology and the inner workings of a SSD, many are probably totally how similar many SSDs really are. In fact, when the SSD just started breaking out so many years ago, it wouldn’t be unusual for two SSDs to be nothing more than a different brand sticker. Absolutely true. One manufacturer would successfully market …
Read More »Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe SSD Review (250GB/1TB) – Knockout Performance at a Value Price
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 …
Read More »Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe SSD Review (500GB/1TB) – Evo Becomes a Top Tier SSD
For some time now, Samsung has used a marketing approach with respect to flash media that accommodates both business and the consumer. They produce the Pro M.2 NVMe SSD series for business and media needs and the EVO M.2 NVMe family for consumer use, and at a relatively modest price point. One has top performance and the other…is a bit …
Read More »Samsung 970 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD Review (1TB) – The Cost of Being The Worlds Best
I really never thought of it until this morning but, living in the era of seeing analog televisions switch to digital makes me old….real old. Most of today’ younger generation haven’t a clue what a CRT television is (that is cathode ray television), much less what it weighed when you had to reposition or move it. Let’s not even speak …
Read More »WD Black & SanDisk Extreme Pro M.2 NVMe SSD Review (1TB) – True Enthusiast Class Performance from Western Digital
They’re here, they’re finally here! The drives that we have been waiting for, for what seems like so long. At least we at the SSD review have been waiting so long for. But, what drives are they you might ask? Today, we have in our hands two tiny M.2 SSDs that could have just what it takes to challenge the …
Read More »Kingston DCP1000 1.6TB NVMe SSD Enthusiast Report – 1 Million IOPS and Over 7GB/s Throughput
It wasn’t too long ago that Kingston announced their newest DCP1000 enterprise NVMe SSD, in teaming up with Liqid, with incredible claims of 6.8GB/s performance and 1.25 million IOPS from a single device. This HHHL AIC speaks of ultra low transactional latency, along with ultra-high throughput, making it the ideal choice for data centers looking for extreme performance. Thanks …
Read More »Intel 750 U.2/AIC SSD RAID0 (X3) Report – 5GB/S & 750K IOPS
With the posting of two Intel 750 SSD Reviews, and our more recent article clarifying the U2 (SFF-8639) connector on the Intel 750, this NVMe SSD has received a bit of play as of late. Considering we have three 1.2TB 750s on hand, a few RAID tests were in order and we thought we might compile a bit of a …
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