One of the oldest players in the SSD world is Samsung. They have been around since the beginning and were the first to release SSDs on the retail side way back in April of 2008, right there beside SanDisk. Back then, we had the Samsung 64GB SLC SATA II SSD priced at a high of $1130… for 64GB! Flash memory …
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Lexar Professional NM800 Pro SSD Review
Up on the Test Bench today we have the latest and greatest from Lexar, the Lexar Professional NM800 Pro NVMe SSD. This SSD has a very compact heatsink which makes it the perfect addition to a Sony Playstation 5 gaming system. Let’s add to that the fact that the makeup of this SSD isn’t your run of the mill copycat …
Read More »KIOXIA XG8 Gen 4 2TB SSD Review – The Best in OEM Storage
A rather unfortunate and all too common thing we have seen throughout the years is substandard third party components within electronic equipment. A perfect example might be a storage device in a laptop where, most often, the SSD choice has been poorly thought out by the company. We have posted a lot of notebook and Ultrabook reviews throughout the years …
Read More »WD_Black SN770 Gen 4 SSD Review – Don’t Let Its Good Looks Fool You.
There is a long standing belief that buying a DRAM-less SSD is just wrong. As much as this might hold water prior to and for those users not using Windows 10, it doesn’t for those looking for value and performance in storage today. Without getting too complicated, NVMe and Windows 10 allow the SSD to create a Host Memory Buffer …
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