Tag: ssd
Team Group Cardea II, A Chip Off The Old Block
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 8, 2019 | Storage | 0
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…
Read MoreSSD Battle, PCIe 4.0 Versus 3.0
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 23, 2019 | Storage | 8
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…
Read MoreToshiba Raids LITE-ON’s SSD Business
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Sep 3, 2019 | General Tech | 0
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…
Read MorePhison’s next-gen PCIe 4.0 SSD Controller Coming in 2020 with Speeds up to 7GB/s
by Sebastian Peak | Aug 8, 2019 | Storage | 1
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…
Read MoreLexar’s 2019 SSD Lineup Explored: NVMe, SATA, and USB-C Drives
by Sebastian Peak | Jul 22, 2019 | Storage | 0
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...
Read MoreORICO USB Type-C M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure Review: Stylish and Capable
by Sebastian Peak | Jun 4, 2019 | Storage | 7
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…
Read MoreGrab a Fast Samsung SM961 256GB NVMe SSD for Just $34.99 at Newegg
by Sebastian Peak | Jun 3, 2019 | Storage | 0
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…
Read MoreGIGABYTE Introduces the AORUS NVMe Gen4 SSD with Full Body Copper Heatsink
by Sebastian Peak | May 28, 2019 | Storage | 5
GIGABYTE teased their PCIe Gen4 SSD on Twitter a few days ago, and now we have all of the details of this very fast NVMe device. We had assumed it would…
Read MoreCORSAIR Announces the Force Series MP600 PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD
by Sebastian Peak | May 27, 2019 | Storage | 0
CORSAIR has embraced the PCI Express 4.0 standard (and AMD’s X570 platform) with their latest NVMe SSD, the Force Series MP600. This new PCIe Gen4 x4 interface drive will use...
Read MoreGIGABYTE Teases Upcoming PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD – Coming Soon
by Sebastian Peak | May 24, 2019 | Storage | 4
GIGABYTE’s Japanese AORUS Twitter account posted a teaser of a mysterious PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD which is “coming soon”, and with Computex nearly upon us we should know more about...
Read MoreKingston Announces KC2000 NVMe PCIe SSD
by Sebastian Peak | May 20, 2019 | Storage | 4
Kingston's KC2000 is the company's next-gen NVMe PCIe SSD, available in capacities of up to 2TB and offering a mix of high performance and security features. This PCIe Gen 3 x4 SSD is…
Read MoreQuick Look Review: Intel Optane Memory H10 with Solid State Storage
by Sebastian Peak | May 3, 2019 | Storage | 5
For the first time Intel is offering their Optane memory coupled with traditional NAND storage in a single package, which makes it an ideal candidate for space-constrained applications such as…
Read MoreWestern Digital Preparing 4TB Consumer SATA SSD
by Tim Verry | May 2, 2019 | Storage, General Tech | 2
Following leaked Austrian retail listings, it appears that Western Digital’s Blue 3D NAND 4TB SATA SSD has an official release date with TechPowerUp reporting that the drive will launch...
Read MoreIntel Optane Memory H10 with Solid State Storage Coming to a Laptop Near You
by Sebastian Peak | Apr 10, 2019 | Storage | 5
Intel has shared information about Optane memory H10, a new product that combines Optane memory with Intel QLC NAND on the same M.2 device. Not offered as a standalone product (at least…
Read MoreThe best of storage; which is just a flash in the pan and which is here for the long term
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 9, 2019 | Storage | 0
TechSpot have taken a look at the current state of the storage market and have chosen what they feel are the best products in six different categories; enthusiast SSDs, mainstream SSDs, HDDs,…
Read MoreIntel Extends Optane Support to Pentium and Celeron Processors
by Sebastian Peak | Mar 29, 2019 | Storage | 2
Intel has quietly expanded Optane support to include 8th-gen and above Pentium and Celeron processors. Aside from the 8th-gen requirement (the report at Tom's Hardware lists this as 7th-gen or...
Read MoreThird time’s the charm, a closer look at the son of the son of the WD Black NVMe SSD
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 28, 2019 | Storage | 3
In January Jim took a quick look at the third generation of WD's Black NVMe drive, as well as the SSD Dashboard software for Windows included with the drive. Today...
Read MoreOk Team, Group Delta’S TUF … RGB SSDs ASUS’d as ready
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 12, 2019 | Storage | 1
Team Group and ASUS have ... collaborated ... to bring you a new TUF branded SSD with all the RGBs you could want. Inside is 64 layer 3D TLC NAND from Micron,…
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