Tag: Crucial
Time For Some Crucial Ballistix DDR4-3600 CL16
Companies seem to be slacking a bit on their DDR4 timings, with even those kits offering CAS 16 having RAS values above 20. Crucial did not do this with this Ballistix DDR4-3600…
Read MorePC Perspective Podcast #600 – Tune in for the reviews and banter, stay for the aftershow!
It's the episode you've been waiting for without actually knowing you were waiting for it. Our #600th show. That's a lot for those keeping score. Within this show, please find where…
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Crucial X6 and X8 Portable SSD Review: A Pair of 2TB Pocket Options
What we have for you today is a pair of portable 2TB SSDs in compact form-factors. These are the X6 and X8 from Crucial, portable SSDs that offer a slick, dare I…
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Crucial Launches New X6 Portable SSD
Micron’s Crucial brand might be better known for memory than storage, but the company offers a number of internal SSD options. Today's announcement is actually an external solution, as the new Crucial…
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Crucial X8, A Different Take On Portable NVMe
Earlier this month we had a chance to see the ASUS U32 20G SuperSpeed USB Portable NVMe case, which makes impressive use of the new USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 standard. As…
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DDR4 Overclocking World Record Set Using Micron E-Die Memory
A new world record for DDR4 memory overclocking has been reached, with a top speed of 5726 MT/s achieved (using liquid nitrogen, naturally). The record was set by Overclocked Gaming Systems (OGS)…
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Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4-3200 Desktop Memory Review
Shoppers of desktop memory are probably very familiar with Crucial, a brand that has been in business since 1996 and became synonymous with their online Memory Advisor…
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PC Perspective Podcast #526 – Enterprise SSDs, Scythe Ninja 5, and New Radeon Software
PC Perspective Podcast #526 - 12/19/2018 Our podcast this week looks at some new enterprise SSDs from Samsung, a quiet and capable CPU air cooler from Sycthe, rumors of new mobile GPUs from NVIDIA…
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Crucial P1 500GB and 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review – More QLC
Once we saw Intel launch QLC flash installed in their recent 660p M.2 part, I had a feeling that Micron would not be far behind, and that feeling has been confirmed with…
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It’s Crucial not to try two new things at once
The Crucial P1 SSD marks two firsts for the company, their first NVMe drive as well as their first SSD using QLC flash. The drive differs from Samsung's QVO in...
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SSD’s firmware encryption is pretty floppy
The hardware world is full of badly thought out implementations, from the inconvenient to the utterly incompetent, and today we have one of the latter. Bitlocker and other popular encryption tools can…
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Will you still need me when I’m 64 layers? Crucial’s MX 500 SSDs
Crucial's MX500 series of SSDs have been out for a little while now, Al reviewed them back in December and since then the price has only become more attractive. The...
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CES 2018: Crucial Expands MX500 Lineup – 2.5″ SATA up to 2TB, M.2 2280 SATA up to 1TB
Crucial showed off the upcoming M.2 variant of its MX500 product, available in capacities up to 1TB. They also announced (press release after the break) that the MX500 will...
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Crucial’s inexpensive terabyte, meet the MX500
Just before the holidays Al wrapped up his review of Crucial's 1TB MX500 SATA drive, which is worth revisiting. The most attractive feature of this SSD is its price,...
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Podcast #480 – NVIDIA TITAN V Compute, Crucial MX500, and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #480 - 12/21/17 Join us for discussion on NVIDIA TITAN V Compute, Crucial MX500, and more! You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can still access it directly through...
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Crucial MX500 2.5″ SATA SSD Review – Make SSDs Affordable Again
Introduction: Crucial and their parent company Micron have certainly launched their share of SSDs over the years. Product launches have effectively toggled back and forth between both names, with...
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Flash cache compatibility is Crucial to the Momentum of adoption
The SSD Review noticed something very interesting in the latest update to Crucial's Storage Executive software, the Momentum Cache feature now works with a variety of non-Crucial NVMe SSDs. The software allows…
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Need memory for that dream X299 build? Perhaps Crucial Ballistix Elite DDR4-3466 would do you
In amongst all the new kit announced at Computex that we can't test yet, it is nice to see a review or three. With the move to DDR4 support, we need to…
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