Something has occurred in the laptop industry that should make the consumer angry. We are being sold PCIe 4.0 laptops and ultrabooks that aren’t truly PCIe 4.0. Don’t get me wrong. You may be considering a purchase, or have purchased a brand new Ryzen 5 or Intel Tiger Lake that is just that but you have to ask… Have I …
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SMI Samples First SD Express Memory Card with SMI SM2708 Controller – Benched at 900MB/s
It hasn’t been that long now since the introduction of CF Express Type B cards have pushed storage performance to 1750MB/s in the media industry. Media professionals understand that storage speeds are everything; the key thought being that continuous video or photography can only be accomplished with high speed storage concurrent to their activity. Any DSLR owner knows EXACTLY what …
Read More »Seagate FireCuda 530 Gen 4 SSD Review – Setting a New Standard in Performance
It was only a matter of time until SSDs really got hooked into the gaming scene and today, there isn’t a gamer around without flash media overseeing the storage of their gaming system. Seagate released their FireCuda 520 back in December of 2019 with the ‘FireCuda Gaming’ label and today we are reporting on their latest release, the FireCuda 530 …
Read More »Intel NUC Pro Kit NUC11TNKV7 Review – Intel Moves to the Best in Sabrent Storage
Much has changed in PC sales through the years, yet much is the same. Things can be unpredictable. Looking back, there have been instances of manufacturers selling their own brand laptops and ultra books equipped with competitors SSDs as storage, simply to maximize sales of their own higher cost…and higher performing SSDs. In fact, if you think you are getting …
Read More »Rocket XTRM-Q 16TB External Thunderbolt 3 SSD Review – Can an SSD Ever be Too Big?
Well, Sabrent seems to have pulled off something that we don’t expect to see any other manufacturer do anytime soon. Not Samsung. Not Crucial. Not Intel, Toshiba, Lexar, Team Group, Transcend, Mushkin, XPG, Corsair, WD, Seagate, ADATA, Corsair and not Silicon Power. Sabrent has thrown down the gauntlet and we want all to know that we are willing to accept …
Read More »Intel Optane DC P5800X PCIe 4 NVME SSD Review – SSD Perfection Via Throughput, IOPS and Latency
On our Test Bench today is the newest Intel SSD Optane P5800X PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD and we must say that we are pretty impressed. In fact, I am left with a lingering question as to whether this level of performance will even be attainable by others? This SSD is just that good. Intel’s secret weapon. We are saying this …
Read More »Phison E18 B47R Fortis NVMe Gen 4 SSD Evaluation Sample Preview – The Great Intel/AMD Test Bench Comparison
Over the past few months, there has been much discussion as to when we will start seeing Micron’s newest B47R Fortis 3D TLC memory inside an SSD, and exactly who would do it first. Kudos to Phison. For those not familiar with this memory, B47R is Micron’s latest 176-Layer 3D TLC premium NAND flash memory which is able to achieve …
Read More »Intel D7-P5510 8TB PCIe 4 NVMe Data Center SSD First Look – Intel Offers Promising Gen 4 Business Storage Solutions
A few days back, an unexpected package arrived at our doorstep via courier; an 8 TB Intel PCIe 4.0 D7-P5510 Data Center SSD. We wanted to throw something out there as a bit of an opener. A bit excited might be an understatement because of its size, speed, and the fact that we haven’t seen an Intel Gen 4 SSD …
Read More »Mushkin Gamma Gen 4 2TB SSD Review – Phison E18 SSD Controller at the Helm
Mushkin has introduced a new SSD and it is a PCIe 4.0 SSD, aptly named the Mushkin Gamma. The Mushkin Gamma is based on the ever popular Phison E18 NVMe Gen 4 controller and reaches speeds above 7GB/s. Since the introduction of PCIe 4.0 some time ago, we have really seen three levels of Gen 4, these being low power …
Read More »Transcend CFexpress 820 Type B Memory Card Review
CF Express Type B cards have had the fortune of enhanced visibility as of late, their performance becoming the sweet spot for many new digital and video cameras that can take advantage of their data transfer speeds. Before the newest Type B version, most enthusiasts had never even imagined transfer cards faster than that of a SD card that could …
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