Storage
Hello USB 4! The Orico Montage MTQ-40G 2TB Portable SSD
Tweaktown are one of the first to benchmark an external USB 4 SSD, the Orico Montage MTQ-40G which contains what is likely to be a WD SN730. They took their...
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ADATA LEGEND 960
The ADATA LEGEND 960 PCIe Gen4 x4 M.2 2280 SSD contains Micron B47R 176-layer 3D TLC NAND with SLC caching, onboard DRAM cache and uses Silicon Motion's SM2264 controller. That should give…
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Samsung 990 PRO 2TB NVMe SSD Review
Samsung has unveiled their latest NVMe SSD with the 990 PRO Series, a lineup of PCIe 4.0 drives which promise "lightning-fast speeds and superior power efficiency". Samsung has the advantage...
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A Storage Focused Look At Alder Lake And Zen 4
There have been differences in the storage performance on AMD and Intel platforms in the past; looking at you USB implementations. That inspired TweakTown to take a look at the differences between…
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Solidigm P41 Plus, DRAMless QLC With Performance?
As the headline says, Solidigm is the name SK Hynix gave to products using Intel's flash after they bought that part of their business in December of last year. It...
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ADATA XPG Legend 960, Silicon Motion PCIe 4.0
So far we have only seen the press releases associated with the eight channel SM2264 controller, with in house benchmark results, but that changes with TweakTown's review of the ADATA...
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The Acer Predator GM7000 Goes PCIe 4.0
We first saw the Acer Predator GM7000 a year ago, and a lot has changed since then. The number of systems which support PCIe 4.0 has grown, and firmware changes...
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The Netac NV7000 1TB SSD Offers A Lot Of Internal Variety
The Netac NV7000 is an interesting beast as Netac freely admits that the internal controller and flash will vary from drive to drive, but should always be capable of 7000MB/s sequential read…
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Patriot Viper VPR400, 1TB Of RGBs
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…
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Micron’s All New 232-layer NAND
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…
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The 2TB Goodram IRDM Pro M.2 NVMe SSD
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…
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NVMe SSD Heatsink Roundup
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…
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The SK Hynix Platinum P41, With Their Own ACNS075 PCIe 4.0 Controller?
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…
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Patriot Viper VP4300 PCIe 4.0 SSD Quick Look: Easy PS5 Upgrade
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…
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SK hynix Platinum P41 PCIe 4.0 SSDs Now Available
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...
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Mushkin Redline Vortex, New PCIe 4.0 To Consider
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…
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Don’t Say Toshiba, It’s A Kioxia Exceria Pro NVMe SSD
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…
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It’s A Two-Fer! The ADATA XPG ATOM 30 KIT
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…
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