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...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Dec 7, 2018 | Storage | 5
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...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 10, 2018 | General Tech | 6
Not to be out done by Samsung, Intel have also announced new QLC based SSDs, the 600p series and the D5-P4320. The two series of drives rely on SLC caches to provide…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 2, 2018 | Storage | 2
External storage does not have to be slow, as the OWC Mercury Helios 3 PCIe Thunderbolt 3 external drive demonstrates. The TB3 connection is capable of up to 40Gbps, assuming you have…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 12, 2017 | Storage | 1
The Kingston DCP1000 NVMe PCIe SSD comes in 800GB, 1.6TB, and 3.2TB though as it is an Enterprise class drive even the smallest size will cost you over $1000. Even with a…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 24, 2017 | Storage | 8
Patriot brings you what should be Arthur Miller's favourite SSD, the Hellfire 480GB M.2 PCIe NVMe drive. The Tech Report recently published a review of this drive, comparing it...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jul 11, 2016 | Storage | 4
Yes, you read that correctly the 480GB Sonix NVMe PCIe SSD is indeed a Zotac product, the internals will be a bit less surprising to you however. Inside is a Phison PS5007-11…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 20, 2016 | Storage | 5
It has been a while since we heard from OWC, over a year since Al saw their offerings at Storage Vision, so it is interesting to see a new PCIe...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 5, 2016 | General Tech | 1
The Register have put together a nice graphic and table displaying current storage technologies and how they relate to each other. They constructed the graph to demonstrate the major boundaries...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 8, 2016 | General Tech | 0
Seagate is rightfully bragging about their new PCIe SSD line up, the fastest currently available. The drives come in two types, a 16 lane and an 8 lane model, using a standard…
Read Moreby Sebastian Peak | Dec 28, 2015 | Storage | 4
Plextor is set to announce their first NVMe SSD at CES 2016, and the new M8Pe uses 4 lanes of PCIe 3.0 to provide up to 270,000 IOPS read and 150,000 IOPS write…
Read Moreby Sebastian Peak | Nov 22, 2015 | Mobile, Systems | 13
ASUS has added two new laptops to their N series line up premium, entertainment-focused laptops. The new models offer Intel’s 6th-gen (Skylake) Core i7 processors and high resolution IPS displays, as well…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 25, 2015 | Storage | 16
Samsung's M.2 SM951 PCIe SSD was never originally intended to be sold on its own but thankfully the 128, 256 and 512GB models are showing up on Newegg...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 7, 2015 | Storage | 5
The Tech Report have updated their storage testbed to properly benchmark PCIe SSDs, the M.2 versions as well as ones such as Intel's DC P3700 which takes up a full...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 26, 2014 | General Tech | 8
Samsung's new SM1715 NVMe PCIe SSD will use their new 3D V-NAND and come in a 3.2TB card, double the previous model and perhaps the smallest of the new line of SSDs…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jun 17, 2014 | Storage | 0
The Plextor M6e M.2 SSD Series comes in 128, 256 and 512GB models and for those lacking a M.2 slot you can opt for the model below which ships with a PCIe…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 24, 2014 | Storage | 1
OCZ has announced the release of the RevoDrive 350, a PCIe SSD using the SandForce 2282 controller and available in 240, 480 and 960GB models which should be priced at $530, $830…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 23, 2014 | General Tech | 1
Memory Channel Storage is exactly what it sounds like, non-volatile flash storage that is placed into DIMM slots to take advantage of the low latency connection between the CPU and more traditional…
Read MoreUpdate: Plextor has provided MSRP pricing for all three drives (see table below). Further, the company expects Newegg prices to be at or possibly slightly below MSRP. The new pricing information certainly…
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