Tag: ssd
SK hynix to Acquire Intel NAND Memory Business
This...is big. Intel is getting out of the SSD business, selling its NAND SSD and NAND component and wafer businesses, as well as the company's Dalian NAND memory manufacturing facility in China…
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Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850 NVMe PCIe Gen4 SSD On the Way
We looked at Western Digital's previous WD_BLACK SSD (the SN750) way back in January of 2019, and it was one of the fastest drives we'd ever tested. What's next? PCI...
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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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Samsung 980 PRO PCI Express 4.0 NVMe SSD Review
Samsung is releasing their first PCI Express 4.0 SSD with the 980 PRO, the latest iteration of the venerable high-end storage line last updated with 2018's 970 PRO NVMe SSD,...
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TEAMGROUP Launches QX Extra Large 15.3TB 2.5” SATA SSD
If you need 15.3 TB in the standard 2.5-inch SATA SSD form-factor, and you have $3990 to make it happen, TEAMGROUP has the solution for you: the QX SSD. "TEAMGROUP today launches QX,…
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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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Lexar SL200 Portable SSD Review: Mainstream USB-C Option
Lexar's SL200 Portable SSD is a small USB-C device that targets mainstream performance levels, offering transfer speeds typical of desktop SATA drives at up to 550 MB/s. It is available in…
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Lexar Announces the Professional NM700 PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe SSD
This week Lexar announced a new, faster NVMe SSD in their lineup with the Professional NM700, a PCIe Gen3 x4 drive with read speeds of up to 3500 MB/s, and writes…
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Samsung T7 Portable SSD – Speed Without the Fingerprint Reader
Earlier this year, Samsung launched the latest version of its high performance T-series portable SSDs, the Samsung T7 Touch. The new drive offered significantly improved transfer speeds of up...
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Looks Like Those DRAM Prices Are Headed Up Again
Memory prices have been on quite a roller coaster ride over the past few years, more so than is usual even for this volatile product and it sounds like now is the…
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CES 2020: Samsung Announces Fingerprint-Secured T7 Touch SSD
Samsung this week announced the latest update to its well-reviewed T-series of portable external SSDs. The Samsung T7 Touch is a USB 3.2-based portable SSD offering capacities up to 2TB...
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Team Group Cardea II, A Chip Off The Old Block
Flash does like to be hot but the controller does not, a situation that might be familiar to those who do not sleep alone. Team Group decided that a fair sized chunk…
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SSD Battle, PCIe 4.0 Versus 3.0
TechSpot grabbed a few of the newer PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs to see how well they take advantage of the extra bandwidth PCIe 4.0 offers, with the Corsair MP600, Sabrent Rocket…
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Toshiba Raids LITE-ON’s SSD Business
LITE-ON might not have been your go to company when grabbing a new SSD for your system, but they have been a player in the market for a decade now. They specialized…
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Phison’s next-gen PCIe 4.0 SSD Controller Coming in 2020 with Speeds up to 7GB/s
Phison has revealed “the next generation of E16” at this year's Flash Memory Summit, and the improvements are not subtle. Not only does the upcoming PS5018-E18 controller offer significantly higher speeds than…
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Lexar’s 2019 SSD Lineup Explored: NVMe, SATA, and USB-C Drives
Lexar is a name known to anyone who has shopped for removable storage over the years, being a fixture in the memory card space in particular until then-parent company Micron...
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ORICO USB Type-C M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure Review: Stylish and Capable
ORICO's external NVMe SSD enclosure is a small aluminum solution with 10 Gbps speeds via a USB 3.1 Gen2 Type-C connection, and its JMicron JMS583 bridge controller supports UASP and…
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Grab a Fast Samsung SM961 256GB NVMe SSD for Just $34.99 at Newegg
With all of the news about PCI Express 4.0 since Computex the existing Gen3 x4 SSDs on the market might have lost a little of their luster...until prices start to plummet, that…
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