Silicon Motion designs some of the best performing SSD controllers out. SSDs like the ADATA S11, Intel 760p, and HP EX920 deliver incredible performance and value with the SM2262 powering them. But, today we have in our hands something a bit better than that, a little gem if you will. Today, we have Silicon Motion’s latest PCIe 3.1 x4 NVMe …
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Phison E12 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 Controller Preview: Phison Turns Things Up a Notch
As many of you know, Phison is a well accomplished SSD controller manufacturer. Over the years they have designed some very competitive turnkey solutions for those who don’t have the means to do it themselves, or, helped those who can save some money by simply buying their end product rather than develop their own. Back when SATA was all the …
Read More »Maxiotek Displays 4TB M.2 SSD on Proprietary Controller – Computex 2018 Update
This morning at Computex 2018 Taipei, Maxiotek had a 4TB M.2 SSD on display, displaying their newest MAP0901 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 controller. Aside from learning that this SSD was a two sided SSD and capable of accommodating all of the most recent memory configurations, little information was available during our visit. We might bet that QLC would be a …
Read More »Patriot Displays Newest Viper Line of SSDs – Computex 2018 Taipei Update
It has always been said that what goes around comes around. Looking back historically at the SSD industry, everyone knew that, at some point, the NAND manufacturers would force smaller third party SSD manufacturers to cut prices drastically…or disappear. And so they did. Times change though and this year at Computex 2018, Taipei, we are seeing what many might consider …
Read More »ADATA XPG SX8200 M.2 NVMe SSD Review (480GB): A Killer Value
Today, we are going to take a look at ADATA’s newest top dog, the XPG SX8200. The XPG SX8200 was built for high demand applications including multimedia editing, gaming, rendering, and ADATA even states overclocking, although we’re not quite sure what benefits this has for overclocking vs other SSDs. This SSD is one of many NVMe M.2 SSDs they make …
Read More »WD Black & SanDisk Extreme Pro M.2 NVMe SSD Review (1TB) – True Enthusiast Class Performance from Western Digital
They’re here, they’re finally here! The drives that we have been waiting for, for what seems like so long. At least we at the SSD review have been waiting so long for. But, what drives are they you might ask? Today, we have in our hands two tiny M.2 SSDs that could have just what it takes to challenge the …
Read More »Intel SSD DC P4510 Enterprise NVMe SSD Review (2TB/8TB)
Intel has recently expanded their lineup to include some higher capacities and new form factor SSDs that are infused with their latest 64-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory. With this announcement, we were able to get our hands on some of their latest tech, 2TB and 8TB samples of their DC P4510. While these bad boys aren’t the exotic Enterprise …
Read More »Tekq Rapide TB3 Portable SSD Review (512GB) – Worlds Fastest Portable Storage
It’s not often that something comes across our Test Bench that we really want to brag about, but when it does, watch out. Every now and then reviewers get their hands on something that even they think is special, something that always draws some very obvious questions. and something that you can bet will be with them every time they …
Read More »ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 Card Review – 4 x M.2 SSD RAID at 10GB/s and 932K IOPS
It was only a few weeks ago that ASRock announced their newest Ultra Quad M.2 Card, yet today we have it in hand and tested. The ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 Card bears a striking resemblance to the HighPoint SSD7101 RAID Controller we tested a few months back… but there are some very distinct differences that we will point out in …
Read More »Intel SSD 760P M.2 NVMe SSD Review (512GB)
Intel has just expanded their 3D NAND infused product portfolio with the release of three new SSDs, the Intel SSD 760P, Intel SSD Pro 7600P, and the Intel SSD E 6100P. The Intel SSD Pro 7600P and Intel SSD E 6100P are built for business and IoT applications, but the focus of today, for us at least, is the Intel …
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