Lexar has done it again… and this time, Sony Alpha and FX series owners finally have reason to celebrate. For years, they’ve been like kids watching from the sidelines while Canon EOS R5 users like myself enjoyed the benefits of faster CFExpress Type-B storage. But that all changes now. Thanks to Lexar, Type-A users are catching up in a big …
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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 …
Read More » 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, …
Read More » We’de like to say it’s been a long week evaluating and reporting on ProGrade Digitals newest 4.0 gear but, truth be told, it is just nice to have this entire package in-hand to present it as it should be. Our first report spoke to the PG 20 Pro Thunderbolt 4 Hub where we also looked at both accompanying CFExpress A …
Read More » If I could ask a company to put the complete package of storage products together, it would be exactly what ProGrade Digital has done. It starts with a ProHub by which an assortment of different readers could connect by USB-C for high speed. ProGrade Digital did just that with their PG20 Pro Hub and infused this with the latest in …
Read More » 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 » 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 » A few days back we reviewed Corsairs latest and greatest MP700 Elite Gen 5 SSD and that review was rather impressive but for one thing. When we looked back for the original MP700 Pro review, we learned that we had somehow overlooked the MP700 Pro when released. Not to worry; our report today is on the Corsair MP 700 Pro …
Read More » Hot off our Test Bench today is the Silicon Motion SM2508 PCIe 5.0 SSD Controller Engineering Sample…or reference design if you will. This is not available to the public just yet and it is still being fine tuned but let me say this; this SSD is easily the highest performing SSD we have ever had in our hands. I know …
Read More » 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 …
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