Intel SSD 660p 1TB SSD Review – QLC Goes Mainstream
Introduction: Flash Memory Summit 2018 is on, and it's rapidly looking like the theme of the year is 'QLC'. QLC stands for Quad Level Cell, which is a bit...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Aug 7, 2018 | Storage | 37
Introduction: Flash Memory Summit 2018 is on, and it's rapidly looking like the theme of the year is 'QLC'. QLC stands for Quad Level Cell, which is a bit...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jan 25, 2018 | Storage | 12
Introduction: Intel has been doing great with their Optane / 3D XPoint products lately, but what about NAND? Samsung had been leading the pack with their VNAND for a...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jan 23, 2018 | Storage | 27
Introduction: Samsung launched their 850 line of SSDs in mid-2014 (over three years ago now). The line evolved significantly over time, with the additions of PRO and...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 16, 2017 | Storage | 3
Hopefully Samsung changes its naming schemes before we hit T1000 but for now, as many people know a T5 is stronger than a T3. If you missed Al's review, you...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Aug 15, 2017 | Storage | 20
Introduction: Back in January of 2016, Samsung launched the Portable SSD T1. This was a good way to get more of their VNAND flash out into the market...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jan 31, 2017 | Storage | 9
Introduction: Micron paper launched their 5100 Series Enterprise SATA SSD lineup early last month. The new line promised many sought after features for such a part, namely high...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jan 3, 2017 | Storage | 4
Kicking off the storage announcements at CES 2017, Kingston announced a 2TB thumb drive: Ok, well it's a bit big for a thumb drive, but it is definitely a high capacity portable SSD…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 18, 2016 | Storage | 6
Al has already exhaustively covered the new Samsung 960 Pro in his latest article, which also happens to be the premiere of PC Perspective's new storage testing suite. An in...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Oct 18, 2016 | Storage | 54
Introduction: Just under a year ago we published our review of the Samsung 950 PRO, their first foray into NVMe SSD territory. Today we have a 960 PRO, which strives…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jun 21, 2016 | Storage | 10
Introduction Western Digital launched their My Passport Wireless nearly two years ago. It was a nifty device that could back up or offload SD cards without the need...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Feb 22, 2016 | Storage | 34
Introduction Around this same time last year, Samsung launched their Portable SSD T1. This was a nifty little external SSD with some very good performance and capabilities. Despite...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 29, 2015 | Storage | 11
That's right, currently $713 will pick you up a 2TB Samsung 850 EVO SSD but how does it perform? The Tech Report is on the case with their latest...
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Sep 22, 2015 | Storage | 13
During yesterday's SSD Summit, obscured by their 950 PRO launch was new branding for their 32 (and now 48) layer Vertical NAND technology: This new branding is more in line with...
Read Moreby Ken Addison | Jul 9, 2015 | General Tech | 2
PC Perspective Podcast #357 - 07/09/2015 Join us this week as we discuss the Samsung 850 Series 2TB, AMD Fury, Catalyst 15.7 and…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 6, 2015 | Storage | 21
Samsung is extending their 850 EVO and Pro lineups to include 2TB versions of the popular SSDs thanks to the use of 3D-VNAND; three bit memory on the EVO and two bit…
Read Moreby Allyn Malventano | Jul 6, 2015 | Storage | 38
Introduction: Where are all the 2TB SSDs? It's a question we've been hearing since they started to go mainstream seven years ago. While we have seen a few come...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 4, 2013 | Storage | 8
Benchmarking cached HDDs can be a difficult task as they are specifically designed to cache commonly used data which results in two very different speeds for data access, the 8GB SSD and…
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