Gen 5 SSDs are becoming all the rage as of late and for good reason. Having advanced through the years, we have come from SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) generations 1-3 and then into PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) where we have advanced from generations 1-5. We retooled the way digital storage was machined from the SATA interface to that …
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Western Digital Blue SN5000 4TB Gen 4 SSD Review – TLC or QLC Memory – You Pick
Western Digital has recently released it’s newest Blue SN5000 NVMe SSD in a PCIe 4.0 design and, although there isn’t much to scream and shout about, this SSD is a bit different from the rest. It relies on two separate types of memory, depending on the chosen size. If you are buying the SN5000 from 500GB to the 2TB capacity, …
Read More »SanDisk Professional G-Drive Project Review – Stunning Build and 22TB of Storage.
Kinda speechless. We first started The SSD Review some 15 years ago and swore I would never use another hard drive for storage. I’d betcha there are petabytes of flash storage lying around this office to include enterprise drives, client as well as consumer SSDs, many products that never even made it to mainstream sales and some that have never …
Read More »Crucial T705 Gen5 2TB SSD Review – 14GB/s Becomes Just a Walk in the Park
And so the steam train of SSD speeds keeps moving. It wasn’t so long ago that we thought things were doing so well when we saw SATA speeds of 540MB/s jump to over 1GB/s…and then 2GB/s to 3.5GB/s which doubled again and is now doubling once more. To those on the outside, it seems like such a simple jump but …
Read More »Phison PS5026-E26 Max14um Gen5 SSD Reference Design Preview – 14GB/s Nails that Performance Sweet Spot
It is no secret with SSD advance that performance and stability have been the driving force behind the wheel. Speed rules and if we can achieve that while maintaining data integrity and longevity in our storage device, we will keep pushing forward. Flash technology accounts for so much in our daily activities that it goes totally unnoticed. We have become …
Read More »Micron 3500 Gen 4 SSD Review – There is Just No Client Comparable
Having been around storage and solid state drives for a few years, we can speak with some authority that client SSDs found in PC systems, laptops and ultra books paled in comparison to those retail SSDs being tested. I can remember our review of the Dell XPS 13 Gold Edition in fact, where the performance spoke to 1500MB/s read and …
Read More »Apricorn Aegis NVX 1TB Secure SSD Review – Rock Solid Data Security at 1000MB/s Transfer Speeds Finally!
Over the years, we have compiled several SSD reviews that might not be the norm to most; secure SSDs. We aren’t speaking of software contained portable SSDs that enable one to activate that devices hardware encryption, but rather, those that don’t rely on software, those that cannot be broken into and even if someone could, those that are filled solid …
Read More »Crucial T500 Pro Gen4 2TB SSD Review – Move Over Expensive 8-Channel High End SSDs!
Don’t really know where to start with this. Every now and then reviewers have product sent to them that breaks the norm. It does things it shouldn’t. Next thing you know there is alot of jabbering back and forth and everyone runs their tests again wondering what the heck?!?! The Crucial T500 Pro is on our Test Bench right now …
Read More »Samsung Portable SSD T9 4TB Review – High Capacity and 2000MB/S Speed Transfer
Samsung has been around for some time now. In fact they were one the first to spread their wings in the consumer flash industry. Just like any other manufacturer, there have been a few speed bumps along the way but Samsung has established themselves as a quality storage company for more years than one might consider. Their external storage collection …
Read More »Samsung 990 Pro 4TB SSD Review – Performance. Capacity. Warranty and Value. A Must Have.
I am going to date myself acknowledging that I used to watch Star Trek as a child but can safely say that I was never a Star Trek fanatic. Still, after testing this new Samsung 990 Pro 4TB NVMe M.2 SSD over the last week, Star Trek and far too many ‘warp speed’ quotes came to mind. The 990 Pro …
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