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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 …

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 …

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 …

Corsair recently sent us their latest release of the MP700 Elite Gen 5 SSD and, as I pretty much always do, I threw it in for some tests knowing nothing about it.  Within minutes I was regarding this as potentially one of my favorite SSDs and I still hadn’t looked at any specs.  Take a look at this Crystal Diskmark …

Once upon a time, I sat with a company questioning them as to why they were so hesitant to market a 1TB SSD; they wouldn’t push that 512GB barrier.  Their honest and frank response was simply, “Why sell very few of a product that costs more to build when we can sell much more of what is in demand at …

Price, performance and capacity.  Time and time again the teller of all SSD success lies on these three factors…typically  Well actually… rarely would you ever count a DRAM-less SSD in that grouping.  There was a time in the industry where the word DRAM-less was a dirty word and the mere thought of recommending such would create response large enough to …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …