Storage
Samsung 990 PRO 2TB NVMe SSD Review
Posted by Sebastian Peak | Oct 18, 2022 | Storage | 5
Patriot Viper VP4300 PCIe 4.0 SSD Quick Look: Easy PS5 Upgrade
Posted by Sebastian Peak | Jun 2, 2022 | Storage | 4
Samsung 980 1TB Gen3 NVMe SSD Review
Posted by Sebastian Peak | Mar 9, 2021 | Storage | 0
Samsung Portable SSD T7 Shield 4TB Review: Pro-Grade USB-C Storage
by Sebastian Peak | Jan 31, 2023 | Storage | 2
I like big storage and I cannot lie. Especially when internal SSDs in laptops (and desktops from certain apple-themed computer makers) are often comically small for the type of work that many…
Read MoreThe Acer Predator GM7 Is DRAM Fast For A Cache-less SSD
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 30, 2023 | Storage | 0
If you are shopping around for an inexpensive NVMe SSD, you might want to hold out until the Acer Predator GM7 series comes on the market. The list price is less that…
Read MoreThe Micron 9400 Pro Series Of Enterprise SSDs
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 13, 2023 | Storage | 0
It took a while for vendors to stop charging exorbitant fees for and SSDs contained their mass storage products. While Enterprise drives require significantly higher standards compared to the ones in your…
Read MorePhison First, The PS5026-E26 PCIe 5.0 SSD
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 3, 2023 | Storage | 0
Your PCIe 5.0 slot will now have something worthy of being plugged into it now that Phison has provided a PCIe 5.0 SSD. The spiel states that the drive is capable of…
Read MoreSolidigm P44 Pro 1TB and 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD Review
by Sebastian Peak | Dec 29, 2022 | Storage | 3
One year ago, a new player in the client storage space called Solidigm appeared, though this new company is actually part of an industry giant that you have almost certainly heard of.…
Read MoreSabrent Rocket 4 Plus Gaming Edition Built For DirectStorage
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Dec 6, 2022 | Storage | 0
The Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus Gaming Edition contains 3D TLC NAND, a specialized Phison controller and some special O₂ GO firmware from Sabrent. The drive is specifically designed to make use of…
Read MoreHello USB 4! The Orico Montage MTQ-40G 2TB Portable SSD
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Nov 22, 2022 | Storage | 0
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...
Read MoreADATA LEGEND 960
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 28, 2022 | Storage | 0
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…
Read MoreSamsung 990 PRO 2TB NVMe SSD Review
by Sebastian Peak | Oct 18, 2022 | Storage | 5
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...
Read MoreA Storage Focused Look At Alder Lake And Zen 4
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 11, 2022 | Storage | 0
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…
Read MoreSolidigm P41 Plus, DRAMless QLC With Performance?
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 29, 2022 | Storage | 0
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...
Read MoreADATA XPG Legend 960, Silicon Motion PCIe 4.0
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 16, 2022 | Storage | 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...
Read MoreThe Acer Predator GM7000 Goes PCIe 4.0
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 6, 2022 | Storage | 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...
Read MoreThe Netac NV7000 1TB SSD Offers A Lot Of Internal Variety
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 31, 2022 | Storage | 0
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…
Read MorePatriot 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…
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