A few months back we posted a review on the latest and greatest Phison PS5012-E12 NVMe controller and our first look at this device was no less than impressive. With throughput reaching 3.4GB/s and IOPS breaking the half million mark, the consensus was that it could be capable of top marks when the finished product hit consumer, oem and even …
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JMicron Type-C NVMe SSD to USB 3.1 Gen 2 Adapter – Not Quite Ready for Prime Time
We have had this sitting on out Test Bench for some time and I thought I might do a little playing with it and throw a few tests out there. It is a JMicron USB 3.1 Gen 2 to PCIe/NVMe adapter and it uses a Type-C connector. This adapter accepts a M.2 SSD up to a 2280 form factor and …
Read More »Toshiba XG6 NVMe SSD Review (1TB) – BiCS Flash Shows Off
M.2 SSDs have been out for some time and, well quite frankly, they still amazing the heck out of me whenever a new one is released. I mean think about it. An M.2 SSD is the size of a stick of gum, weighs less than a AAA battery, yet can store 2 million pictures if each was around 500k. Fifteen …
Read More »Samsung X5 Thunderbolt 3 Portable SSD Review (1TB)
So we have been on a bit of a kick lately, testing as much TB3 external storage as we could find. And things have come along. Where we were once restricted to external storage of 500MB/s, today’s portable storage is capable of almost 6 times that with Thunderbolt 3. Don’t jump so fast though as TB3 is still rather niche …
Read More »G-Technology G DRIVE mobile PRO SSD (1TB) Review
We have been reviewing TB3 external devices for some time now and it is great to be so far away from those 500MB/s and lower portable storage device speeds. TB3 has been a gift to media professionals, to say the least. Up until today, however, there has only been a single device that we have reviewed that has the portability …
Read More »Netstor NA611TB3 Dual NVMe SSD TB3 Enclosure Review
Its not that often that we are late to the game with many of our reviews, and I must apologize profusely for this one, but better to get it up late than never. We have moved into a new office after a rather lengthy location transition and things are just starting to get back on track. In any case, today …
Read More »SMI Demonstrates Newest SM2270 NVMe SSD Controller – FMS 2018 Update
SMI has seen a great deal of popularity in their SSD controller solutions in the last few years … but this latest controller is just out there. Introducing the SM2270 NVMe PCIe Gern 3 x8 16 channel SSD controller. Yes, that’s right. It features 16 NAND flash channels. The heart and sole of the SM2270 is its three dual core …
Read More »NGD Introduces Newport for Computational Storage – FMS 2018 Update
While we might typically recognize a M.2 2280 form factor SSD to be the latest and greatest in portable storage, NGD brought something new to the game at FMS this week; the NGD Newport. The NGD Newport platform encompasses three different form factors; the M.2 which we see here capable of an unbelievable 8TB storage, the U.2 at 32TB and …
Read More »Realtek Shows off Newest NVME Controllers at 3.5GB/s – FMS 2018 Update
Although it hasn’t hit reviewer hands just yet, Realtek was once again showing off both their newest NVMe RTS5762 and RTS5763DL Dramless controllers this week at FMS. Their flagship RTS5762 is a PCIe 3.0 x4 8-channel controller that is NVMe 1.3 compliant and compatible with the most current variants of NAND flash including QLC. It was demonstrating at 3.5GB/s read …
Read More »ADATA Displays Newest M.3 SSD With 16TB Capacity On The Horizon – Computex 2018 Taipei Update
A bit amusing this Computex was our completing a briefing with ADATA only to return once again to receive further confirmation on a bit of information that truly shows the capacity value of next gen 96 layer memory. On display was ADATA’ newest NGSFF M.3 form factor SSD, the IM3P33EC Enterprise SSD which is a PCIe Gen 3 x 4 …
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