If you have read our latest review of the Kingston DCP1000 SSD, you will see that multi-M.2 SSD designs can result in some of the highest speeds we have seen in SSD performance. In the case of the Kingston DCP1000, we pulled off performance of 7GB/s throughput and 1.2 million IOPS from a single AIC (add-in card) HHHL design. This …
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Samsung XS1715 SSD Review (1.6TB) – An NVMe SFF-8639 Monster at 3GB/s
When we reviewed the Intel SSD DC P3700 earlier this year, it was our first chance to get a really good look at what NVMe could do for storage. As a quick refresher, Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) is a protocol that is set to replace AHCI for storage. It leverages PCIe as the physical interconnect, specifically PCIe x4 Gen3, which …
Read More »Angelbird SSD wrk SSD Review (512GB) – Workmanship, Speed and Value
Being niche in a dog eat dog tech market can be very risky. Being niche in the SSD industry is straight up crazy as NAND manufacturers price their SSDs so low that 3rd party SSD manufacturers find it very hard to compete; or they shut down. More than a few companies have slowed, or shut down their SSD production and, …
Read More »SSD Throughput, Latency and IOPS Explained – Learning To Run With Flash
As fast as SSDs have found mainstream consumer use, they are unfortunately grouped in the same picture as a hard drive, if only for the fact that they are seen as storage and little more. Both the size and demography of our readership paints this picture clearly, however, there exists an amazing opportunity to take our readers a step further; …
Read More »Intel SSD DC P3700 Enthusiast Report (800GB)
A few days ago, we released our review of the Intel SSD DC P3700 NVMe SSD. This new entry to the enterprise market brought in just under 500K IOPS in a single PCB and single controller design package, a design not needing the traditional RAID solution to achieve performance above 2.5GB/s. As much attention as it gained from the enterprise …
Read More »Super Talent RAIDDrive II Plus PCIe SSD Review
The current PCIe add-in-card storage market is separated into two general architectures. The first is ground-up, native PCIe designs, such as the Micron P320h. These devices eschew a typical SATA/SAS controller in favor of specialized flash controllers that have native PCIe interfaces. This is where the market is heading. In fact, later this year, you should start to see many …
Read More »ASRock Z97 Extreme6 Tests Samsung XP941 M.2 x4, Plextor M6e M.2 x2 and Samsung 840 Pro SATA 3 SSDs
To anyone not familiar with SSDs, our title might not seem that striking, but it represents a huge step forward in storage technology within a very short time. It also speaks highly of ASRock for again leading the way in advancing storage, as they are the only to incorporate a new SSD innovation into their Extreme 6 motherboard; this of …
Read More »OCZ RevoDrive 350 PCIe SSD Review (480GB) – LSI SandForce Driven Once Again
OCZ was the first to introduce a PCIe SSD solution to the consumer with their original RevoDrive PCIe SSD way back in 2010, this updated by the RevoDrive X2 PCIe SSD the following June and the RevoDrive 3×2 a few months later. There was no question that OCZ had struck gold with the RevoDrive 3×2 PCIe SSD as it was …
Read More »Micron M500DC Enterprise SSD Review (480GB) – Great Write Performance At A Great Price
Today, Micron has announced a new member of its enterprise SSD family, the M500DC. Typically, Micron likes to focus on performance and reliability with their enterprise drives, with cost being a secondary factor. With the M500DC, they have made price a priority. INTRODUCTION About this time last year, we were reviewing the Crucial M500 960GB. This was the first drive …
Read More »KingSpec SATA M.2 NGFF Ultrabook SSD Review (128GB)
Only a few hours before we hit the hustle and bustle of the 2014 Consumer Electronic Show and our friends at KingSpec threw in a loop with the ok to go ahead and post our review on their newest M.2 ultrabook SSD. Add to that the fact that I am writing this at 6:30 am and a Northern Canadian snow …
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