Storage
Samsung 980 1TB Gen3 NVMe SSD Review
Posted by Sebastian Peak | Mar 9, 2021 | Storage | 0
Crucial X6 and X8 Portable SSD Review: A Pair of 2TB Pocket Options
Posted by Sebastian Peak | Oct 7, 2020 | Storage | 0
Samsung 980 PRO PCI Express 4.0 NVMe SSD Review
Posted by Sebastian Peak | Sep 22, 2020 | Storage | 8
Patriot Viper VPR400, 1TB Of RGBs
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 12, 2022 | Storage | 0
The Patriot Viper VPR400 RGB 1TB is currently selling for $128 on Amazon, which is not bad for a PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1.4 SSD but not spectacular; not even as good…
Read MoreMicron’s All New 232-layer NAND
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 26, 2022 | Storage | 0
You might think that the first PCIe 5.0 drive would be the top story instead of the first link below the fold, but there is news that is at least as exciting…
Read MoreThe 2TB Goodram IRDM Pro M.2 NVMe SSD
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 13, 2022 | Storage | 0
GOODRAM is a Polish brand of Wolf Electronic and has been around for 30 years, though without much penetration of the North American computer component market. As most of the PCIe 4.0…
Read MoreNVMe SSD Heatsink Roundup
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 4, 2022 | Storage | 1
It is well known that NVMe SSD heatsinks are important, whether provided with the drive or with your motherboard, to maintain full transfer speeds. We haven't seen a roundup of the various…
Read MoreThe SK Hynix Platinum P41, With Their Own ACNS075 PCIe 4.0 Controller?
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 15, 2022 | Storage | 0
The new SK Hynix Platinum P41 2TB SSD is a bit more interesting than some other PCIe 4.0 NVMe drives as it is using a completely new controller, not to mention the…
Read MorePatriot Viper VP4300 PCIe 4.0 SSD Quick Look: Easy PS5 Upgrade
by Sebastian Peak | Jun 2, 2022 | Storage | 4
If you happen to be among the tens of people who bought one of Sony’s PlayStation 5 consoles at a regular retail store, for MSRP, and actually kept it rather than selling…
Read MoreSK hynix Platinum P41 PCIe 4.0 SSDs Now Available
by Sebastian Peak | May 20, 2022 | Storage | 0
Things have been taking a bit longer than usual to make it to market lately, including the new Platinum P41 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs from SK hynix, which were announced...
Read MoreMushkin Redline Vortex, New PCIe 4.0 To Consider
by Jeremy Hellstrom | May 16, 2022 | Storage | 0
Mushkin opted to go with the less popular Innogrit Rainier IG5236 eight-channel NVMe v1.4 controller but still stuck with 176-layer 3D TLC NAND flash by Micron for their Redline Vortex family of…
Read MoreDon’t Say Toshiba, It’s A Kioxia Exceria Pro NVMe SSD
by Jeremy Hellstrom | May 3, 2022 | Storage | 1
The Kioxia Exceria Pro PCIe 4.0 is an updated version of the non-Por we saw last year and claims to be able to hit 7000 MB/sec sequential reads. That would put it's…
Read MoreIt’s A Two-Fer! The ADATA XPG ATOM 30 KIT
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 20, 2022 | Storage | 0
The ADATA XPG ATOM 30 KIT is a handy upgrade kit for those in your life that continue to inflict their spinning rust upon you. For $125 you get an XPG 1TB…
Read MorePNY Announces XLR8 SSD Cover with Integrated Heatsink for PS5
by Sebastian Peak | Apr 19, 2022 | Storage | 0
PNY is announcing availability of a new XLR8 SSD product for the Sony PS5, but this isn't an SSD (as you may have noticed from the PR image above), it's an SSD…
Read MoreThe Surprising HP SSD FX900 Pro
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 29, 2022 | Storage | 2
HP SSD chose not to go with a Phison E8 PCIe 4.0 controller on their FX900 Pro series, instead using an InnoGrit PCIe 4.0 controller, and they also went with Micron's 176…
Read MoreSilicon Power XD80, NVMe For Ten Cents A Gig
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 22, 2022 | Storage | 0
Finally the price of NVMe drives have hit a special price threshold, and it is nice to see a component you can actually purchase, and for a very decent price in this…
Read MoreSilicon Power XS70, Affordable PCIe 4.0 NVMe Storage
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 10, 2022 | Storage | 0
PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive reviews offer s look at really good performance but are, for the moment, somewhat boring to create. All the drives you see use Phison's PS5018-E18 and Micron 176-layer…
Read MoreA Pair Of Neo Forza Drives, The NFP035 And NFS10
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 16, 2022 | Storage | 0
Neo Forza's current SSD offerings come in the two most common form factors, for there are indeed plenty of people who haven;t gotten off the SATA bus yet. The Neo Forza 512GB…
Read MoreThe WD Black SN770 – Look Ma, No DRAM!
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 7, 2022 | Storage | 10
Many companies have released versions of their NVMe drives that lack a DRAM cache to lower the cost to purchase one, at the cost of sustained performance, and now Western Digital has…
Read MoreMeet The Corsair MP600 Pro LPX
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 1, 2022 | Storage | 0
Internally the Corsair MP600 Pro LPX is essentially equivalent to the Pro XT model, with a Phison E18 PCIe 4.0 controller and Micron 176 Layer B47R Fortis grade flash. The difference is…
Read MoreThe Seagate FireCuda 530, 2 GB/s Sustained Writes? No Problem!
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 17, 2022 | Storage | 0
ServeTheHome are the perfect testers for the Seagate FireCuda 530 as it has been built to work, and work hard. The 1TB of 176-layer Micron TLC NAND on the drive...
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