The Lexar brand has been around for some time, and in fact, our first mention of Lexar goes all the way back to one of our first Storage Visions meetings in Las Vegas some 14 years ago. Lexar was originally a Micron brand but was acquired by Longsys Electronics in 2017 and Longsys has built on that brand name since, …
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KIOXIA Exceria Plus G4 Gen5 2TB SSD Review – Low Power Gen5 SSD with Decent Speeds
Without a doubt, our biggest takeaway from attending Computex 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan, this year was our introduction to Risteárd McSweeney of 360Technology.io. We met Risteárd through his representation of KIOXIA at their exhibit and he has been able to accomplish something that we haven’t for several years, our review of the consumer side of KIOXIA products. In fact, our …
Read More »BIWIN X570 Black Opal Gen5 2TB SSD Review Achieves A World First with DRAMless 14GB/s Speed & 2 Million IOPS
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 …
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 »ProGrade Digital PG10 USB4 4TB Portable SSD Review
So… We seem to have a bunch of new high-end gear in hand and that is thanks to ProGrade Digital who sent over just a bit more than we expected. If you are a camera or video professional, or enthusiast as I happen to be, finding this on the doorstep is simply Christmas. Everything is Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 in some …
Read More »ProGrade Digital PG10.5 USB4 Mini 2TB Portable SSD Review
If you check out our site regularly, you might notice that we are starting somewhat of a ProGrade review kick in the week before Computex 2025. It’s no coincidence as one day we awoke to find the below stack of goods on our doorstep… all Thunderbolt 4 or USB 4.0 related and all from ProGrade Digital. All fast storage stuff. …
Read More »Crucial P510 Gen5 2TB SSD Review – 10GB/s Speeds Without The Heat
Perhaps one of the most annoying things to me is when technology moves up a step but nobody is really ready for it. Take the step from PCIe 4.0 to PCIe 5.0 for instance. After all, who wouldn’t benefit from data transfer jumping from 7GB/s to 14GB/s right? And it is not like there isn’t any warning well ahead of …
Read More »SanDisk Extreme PRO USB 4 Portable SSD Review
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 …
Read More »Yottamaster Y7000 Gen4 4TB SSD Review – A 7GB/s 4TB SSD with a 5-year warranty for $209!
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 …
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 …
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