Storage
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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Samsung T7 Touch Review
Samsung last month released the latest version of its T-series portable SSDs, the T7 Touch. Starting with the T1 in early 2016, the Samsung T-series line has offered relatively fast...
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ORICO 2-Bay USB Hard Drive Docking Station With Offline Clone Review
Today we're checking out a dual-bay external hard drive dock from ORICO (full product name 3.5/2.5inch 2 Bay Transparent USB3.0 Hard Drive Dock with Offline Clone Function), which combines the functionality of…
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JEDEC Announces UFS 3.1 Standard with Performance And Power Efficiency Improvements
The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association recently published an updated standard for Universal Flash Storage bring the technology up to UFS version 3.1 with JESD220E and an optional JESD220-3: UFS...
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Samsung’s T7 Touch, 1TB Of Portable NVMe
The T7 Touch measures a mere 85 x 57 x 8mm and weighs 58g but is able to transfer files over it's USB 3.2 Gen 2 connection at 949MB/s assuming your source…
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Kioxia Unveils 112-Layer 5th Generation BiCS Flash
KIOXIA Corporation (formerly Toshiba Memory Corporation) announced that it will begin sampling the fifth generation of its BiCS 3D NAND flash technology for select applications in Q1 2020. Developed...
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GALAX Introduces The HOF, A 1TB PCIe Gen 4.0 SSD
We don't see as many products from GALAX as we used to back in the day, in part because they don't seem to be releasing as many GPUs in North America as…
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BIOSTAR M700, PCIe SSD At Ten Cents Per Gig, If You Can Find One
Biostar recently launched their M700 line of cacheless NVMe SSDs with a price that falls within the demanding specifications of Ryan's law. Performance-wise it suffers the same Achilles Heel of similar drives…
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CES 2020: Samsung Announces Fingerprint-Secured T7 Touch SSD
Samsung this week announced the latest update to its well-reviewed T-series of portable external SSDs. The Samsung T7 Touch is a USB 3.2-based portable SSD offering capacities up to 2TB...
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CES 2020: Seagate Announces FireCuda and BarraCuda Portable SSDs
Seagate this week announced two new portable solid-state storage solutions aimed at gamers and those who need fast storage on the go. The company also unveiled an enterprise-focused storage system for managing…
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