Tag Archives: PCIe 4.0

Wehave been in the game a longtime.  Things seem to cycle.  I remember years ago when we were at FMS and SMI entered the scene with their newest SSD controller and we pushed for release.  It was much the same with Phison and I can remember speaking to them at one point and saying they were great at showing upcoming …

Whats probably the most amusing, and most unusual characteristic in our review of our second PCIe 4.0 SSD today is the fact that the only way you are going to be running these kind of SSD speeds anytime soon is with an AMD system.  It’s not often that we ever catch Intel with its pants down but, at least in …

Last week in Zhongshan, China, Lexar invited a very small group of international press for a special preview of just a few of their upcoming releases.  This event was held at the Longsys/Lexar/Foressee Headquarters which also houses the Lexar Memory Museum.  To say that this facility is breathtaking is just a bit of an understatement as it is situated in …

It has been a few years now, but thinking back I am sure there are those that remember the hard drive and all that went along with it.  Slow start times, heat, noise and an all around much slower PC experience, especially for those that work in media.  The largest jump we have seen in storage is without a doubt …

One of my favorite pastimes is building computers.  It can be frustrating at times.  And yes, I don’t remember a single build taking less than a weekend to find tune things. My wife will tell you that the world stops when I start the build.  If something goes wrong, good luck pulling me away…and 2am?  I get my second wind …

At Micron Insights, in addition to the announcement of their 5300 and 7300 series SSD, the company unveiled the world’s fastest SSD with their own 3D XPoint, the X100. Little has been said about Micron’s stake in 3D XPoint besides the idea to call their parts QuantX, but it seems like that plan has been changed as we didn’t hear …

Toshiba Memory utilized Flash Memory Summit 2019 for several key announcements regarding PCIe 4.0 SSDs, including their Next-Gen enterprise and data center NVMe drives and additional form factors.  Toshiba Memory  is also the first to announce and publicly demonstrate (along with Broadcom), their PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs. The Toshiba Memory CM6 and CD6 are enterprise / data center SSDs that …

It is always great to see where we are going in tech as CES and other tech shows.  Phison held true to this showing off their latest PS5016-E16 controller performing at over 4GB/s read and write. This controller is PCIe 4.0 and is a 4 lane controller, something that tech has yet to accommodate in the consumer world. To get …