Storage
Barracuda Is Back, The Seagate 120 1TB SATA SSD
The Seagate 120 1TB SATA SSD is a new-ish member of their Barracuda lineup of drives, containing a 256MB DDR3-1866 to store mapping tables and also contains a cache in addition to…
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Lexar SL200 Portable SSD Review: Mainstream USB-C Option
Lexar's SL200 Portable SSD is a small USB-C device that targets mainstream performance levels, offering transfer speeds typical of desktop SATA drives at up to 550 MB/s. It is available in…
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Affordable Thunderbolt 3 Powered D2 DAS From TerraMaster
Thunderbolt connected storage devices tend to be quite expensive, with network attached storage options often preferred as they can offer a better balance between speed and price. However TerraMaster's D2 sells, empty…
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TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan 500GB; Still Room For SATA?
Poor SATA, once hailed as an amazing replacement to PATA has since seen the hardware attached to it able to completely saturate it's bus and many have dropped it completely, in favour…
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ORICO M2PJM-C3 M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure Review: A $35 Realtek RTL9210 Option
A year ago we checked out a USB Type-C NVMe enclosure (model PCM2-C3) from a company called Orico, and found the quality to be excellent, though it did run hot…
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Meet Samsung’s New 870 QVO SSD
Samsung updated their QLC line to the 870 generation, using 9x layer 3D QLC V-NAND with 4GB LP-DDR4 for cache and capacities of 1, 2, 4 and 8TB. It also gives you…
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HP NVMe! The EX950 1TB M.2 SSD
HP's EX950 is similar in design to Kingston's KX2xxx series of SSDs, with Silicon Motion's SM2262EN controller, 64 layer 3D TLC Micron NAND, with Nanya contributing the DRAM cache. It is currently…
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PNY Elite 960GB; Small Speedy External SSD
PNY's Elite series of external drives offer you portable SSD class storage in a tiny form factor for a fairly reasonable price. The 960GB model is currently available on Amazon...
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The Sabrent Rocket Moves To PCIe 4.0
Sabrent have got hold of the one and only PCIe 4.0 controller, the Phison PS5016-E16 and have paired it with 3D TLC NAND in their new Rocket series of NVMe SSDs. As…
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Lexar Announces the Professional NM700 PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe SSD
This week Lexar announced a new, faster NVMe SSD in their lineup with the Professional NM700, a PCIe Gen3 x4 drive with read speeds of up to 3500 MB/s, and writes…
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ZFS versus RAID, Comparing Linux Performance Benefits
When you are setting up a storage repository on Linux you have a lot of choice in configurations, more so than on a Windows server. ZFS is a go to for many…
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Samsung T7 Portable SSD – Speed Without the Fingerprint Reader
Earlier this year, Samsung launched the latest version of its high performance T-series portable SSDs, the Samsung T7 Touch. The new drive offered significantly improved transfer speeds of up...
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Lexar NM610 500GB SSD, New 3D TLC For Your Data
For their new NM610 family Lexar expanded their choice of capacities to include a 1TB model in addition to 250GB and 500GB models. The 3d TLC in the 500GB has a life…
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Western Digital Addresses the WD Red SMR Controversy
In the wake of media coverage from the likes of Ars Technica on the subject, Western Digital has provided an update on the SMR (shingled magnetic recording) controversy...
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HP Joins The SSD Crowd With Their EX950 1TB NVMe Drive
HP have jumped into the consumer SSD market with a series of three drives, using Silicon Motion's SM2262EN with Micron 64-layer 3D TLC and there is a RAM cache to help with…
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Teamgroup T-Force Cardea Zero PCIe 4.0 SSD
Teamgroup’s T-Force Cardea Zero Z440 is a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD which means you know which controller it uses. The 1TB of storage is provided by Toshiba's BiSC4 96-Layer 3D TLC while…
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Sabrent Rocket Q, Another Choice For 1TB NVMe On The Cheap
Sabrent improved on the low cost QLC NVMe drive by setting one quarter of the Kioxia/Toshiba 96-layer 3D QLC to function as an SLC cache and including onboard memory to help the…
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ADATA’s Speedy SE800 External SSD
If you are running low on PCIe lanes or M.2 slots to add SSDs to, this ADATA drive claims to offer up to 1000 MB/s on both the sequential read and write…
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