Without a doubt this is the year of portable storage. Through advances in NAND flash memory, we have seen the footprint of all storage devices shrink considerably, and if they haven’t, their capacity has increased significantly. Take a look at Samsung’s latest 960 Pro M.2 2TB SSD we recently reviewed for example. This little baby can store 34,000 hrs of …
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Toshiba OCZ VX500 SSD Review (256GB/512GB/1TB) – A New MLC Contender In The Recent Sea of TLC
The OCZ Vector has been the top performing SATA SSD from the company for the past few years. Utilizing their proprietary Indilinx controller and most recently, Toshiba’s A19 NAND, they provided for strong performance for mainstream consumers as well as enthusiasts, but it did have its drawbacks in recent times. Since the release of the latest PCIe NVMe SSDs this year, …
Read More »Seagate Displays Worlds Largest 60TB SAS SSD & Demo’s XP7200 AIC at 10GB/s – Flash Memory Summit 2016 Update
For those wondering what has been up with Seagate in the last few months, FMS 2016 was a real eye opener as one of the largest companies seemed to come out of Stealth mode. Our visit to the booth was met with some very impressive hardware, the first of which is this 60TB SAS SSD which just happens to be …
Read More »Samsung Announces 4th Gen V-NAND, 32TB SSD & 1TB Single BGA SSD – Flash Memory Summit 2016 Update
Today at FMS 2016 in Santa Clara, California, Samsung led a Keynote that was sure to leave competitors wondering what the heck. In fact, the most memorable quote we had heard in years at this event just has to be “When you come to see our 3D wafer, you don’t need 3D glasses”, taking a friendly swipe at the Micron …
Read More »Micron 9100 MAX Enterprise NVMe SSD Review (2.4TB)
It has been quite some time since Micron has released a new PCIe SSD into its product portfolio. With the many new NVMe products being released in the market, it was about time Micron caught up, and not only did they catch up, their latest drives look to be some of the best out. First announced back in April, Micron showed us …
Read More »Crucial MX300 SSD Review (750GB)
For what seemed like an eternity Samsung has been the leader in manufacturing 3D NAND. Starting with the release of the Samsung 850 Pro two years ago, they have paved the way for innovation. 3D NAND brings greater capacity, power efficiency, and lower cost to the consumers. After first announcing their 32-Layer 3D NAND last year in March, we have been …
Read More »OCZ RD400 NVMe SSD Review (256GB/512GB/1TB)
More MB/s, more IOPS, and lower latencies are what storage enthusiasts dream of. CPUs, RAM, and GPUs are all pushing faster speeds than ever, but storage has typically been a bottleneck for enthusiasts, even after the introduction of SSDs. To enable faster speeds bus bandwidth has been increased over the years and storage has started to migrate onto the PCIe bus so that …
Read More »Toshiba XG3 M.2 NVMe SSD Review (1TB) – Rocket Ship NVMe SSD
The Toshiba XG3 SSD is a M.2 NVMe drive which just may be the most powerful SSD on the market….well not really on the market. It isn’t available through consumer sales and can only be found pre-installed in ultrabooks, unless of course you are lucky enough to dig one up on eBay. The downfall of trying to get ones hands …
Read More »Intel 540s SSD Review (480GB) – SMI Controller With SK Hynix Memory
As the SSD industry continues to grow, manufacturers try to maintain their consumer presence with more value-oriented consumer products. Such is the case with Intel’s latest step into the TLC segment by introducing their newest 540s SATA 3 SSD a few weeks back. The Intel 540s Series is their first SSD to feature 16nm TLC NAND and first 5 series …
Read More »MyDigitalSSD Bullet Proof 5 Eco M.2 SSD Review (480GB) – Untouchable Value
We’ve been able to test our fair share of SSDs over the years and, to this date, there remains a constant. Prices drop. Where we once saw a 32GB SSD peak at $5000 in 2007, today’s world is vastly different and 1TB SSDs are now available at just over the $300 mark. Value is key in technology and has always …
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