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Once again, we are tackling yet another SSD manufactured by BIWIN and, when we check out Amazon, we can actually find the ‘FA’ line of SSDs available for sale in Canada and the USA.  BIWIN is the official licensee and manufacturer of Acer and HP brand products and, as we had stated in our review of the BIWIN NV7400 and …

A few days ago, we posted a review of a new Gen 5 SSD from a China-based company named BIWIN. It was the Predator GM9000 and we liked what we saw.  The GM9000 is not yet available in North America, but BIWIN is expanding their portfolio and will have a full line of products within reach soon enough.  BIWIN sent …

It’s pretty rare that I might use the word perfection when it comes to SSDs.  There is always somewhere that an SSD can be improved upon just a bit.  Our report today is of an SSD that is not yet available in North America. It is the first available ‘international’ retail SSD with the newest Silicon Motion SM2508 controller and …

We read an article today entitled ‘What is Thunderbolt 4 and how is it different from USB-C?  As if the consumer wasn’t already confused enough. Thunderbolt is a protocol and USB-C is a connector.  To start, USB-C is a port type used by Thunderbolt and USB in order to achieve power to connected devices, higher data transfer speeds and to …

A funny thing happened on the way to work today…  No really…  We have a pile of high end and super fast portable SSDs waiting to be reviewed and we were not happy learning that motherboards with USB 4 typically do not provide full USB4/Thunderbolt 4 data transfer rates.  Yes, we can surpass that of the Thunderbolt 3 speeds of …

Just over two months ago we posted a report on a brand new SSD that we believed might take the industry by storm… if it ever made its way to  retail, client or enterprise sales that is.  We say this as there have been so many SSDs that reviewers have had in their hands over the years that never made …

External storage is still neglected by far too many.  Considering it is the key ingredient of data loss at all levels, it’s cost sits comfortably in the billions.  Millions of people lose personal and business data daily and perhaps one of the key reasons is the belief that this is typically a business or enterprise problem.  At the human level, …

There is always something special about getting the biggest and baddest in hand.  We review tons of 2TB SSDs and have had our share of speedy Gen 4 and Gen 5 SSDs as well, but getting a 4TB Gen 5 SSD capable of 14GB/s and 1.7 million IOPS is rather special.  On our bench today is the Corsair MP700 Pro …

A few days back we reviewed Corsairs latest and greatest MP700 Elite Gen 5 SSD and that review was rather impressive but for one thing.  When we looked back for the original MP700 Pro review, we learned that we had somehow overlooked the MP700 Pro when released.  Not to worry; our report today is on the Corsair MP 700 Pro …

Hot off our Test Bench today is the Silicon Motion SM2508 PCIe 5.0 SSD Controller Engineering Sample…or reference design if you will.  This is not available to the public just yet and it is still being fine tuned but let me say this; this SSD is easily the highest performing SSD we have ever had in our hands.  I know …