Tag: Storage
Icy Dock ToughArmor MB834M2K-B Review
by Josh Walrath | Apr 26, 2021 | General Tech, Storage | 3
Icy Dock is a company that has been around for about 24 years and has focused exclusively on removable storage devices. Their aim is to provide storage devices…
Read MoreASRock Rack Delivers PCI Express 4.0 Card with Quad x4 M.2 Support
by Sebastian Peak | Dec 30, 2020 | Storage | 6
It should come as no surprise that the ASRock Rack has provided another unusual and delightful addition to the world of PC hardware, and though intended for enterprise one wonders just what…
Read MoreCrucial X6 and X8 Portable SSD Review: A Pair of 2TB Pocket Options
by Sebastian Peak | Oct 7, 2020 | Storage | 0
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…
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 MoreIntel Introduces Faster Optane M15 Series with 4 PCIe Lanes
by Sebastian Peak | May 29, 2019 | Storage | 1
Intel’s new Optane M15 series has been announced for 7th Gen and above Intel Core processor systems, and it becomes the first iteration to attach via your motherboard's PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe…
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 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 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 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 MoreSamsung’s new 970 EVO is almost double Plus good
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 22, 2019 | Storage | 0
Jim was not the only one who completed benchmarking Samsung's new 970 EVO Plus, The Tech Report also chewed on the new gum stick for a while. Whereas we had...
Read MoreSamsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe SSD Review: The New Write-Speed Leader
by Jim Tanous | Jan 22, 2019 | Storage | 15
Samsung today is launching a new member of its consumer-targeted family of NVMe SSDs, the Samsung 970 EVO Plus. Thanks to the…
Read MoreSTH Goes Under the Heat Spreader with Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
by Sebastian Peak | Dec 20, 2018 | Storage | 1
ServeTheHome got up close and personal with Optane DC Persistent Memory in an article posted yesterday, removing the heat spreaders and taking a look at (and several photos of) the components...
Read MorePC Perspective Spring 2017 Buyer’s Guide
by Sebastian Peak | Apr 9, 2017 | General Tech | 14
Spring is in the air! And while many traditionally use this season for cleaning out their homes, what could be the point of reclaiming all of that space besides filling…
Read MoreNow that’s dense storage; single atom storage
by Jeremy Hellstrom | Mar 14, 2017 | General Tech | 5
As we are not going to see scanning tunnelling microscopes included in our home computers anytime soon this experiment is simply proof of the concept that data can be stored on a…
Read MoreFMS 2016: Facebook Talks WORM QLC NAND Flash, Benchmarks XPoint
by Allyn Malventano | Aug 9, 2016 | Storage | 4
At their FMS 2016 Keynote, Facebook gave us some details on the various storage technologies that fuel their massive operation: In the four corners above, they covered the full spectrum of storing bits.…
Read MoreMicrosemi Flashtec Controllers Offer PCIe 3.0 x8 NVMe SSDs up to 20TB
by Sebastian Peak | Aug 8, 2016 | Storage | 5
Microsemi's Flashtec NVMe SSD controllers are now in production, and as Computer Base reports (Google-translated version of the page available here) these controllers use twice as many PCIe lanes than...
Read MoreThecus Announces N4810 4-Bay NAS with 4K Video Output
by Sebastian Peak | Aug 3, 2016 | Storage | 9
Thecus has announced their newest NAS with the N4810, an 4-bay design based on the existing N2810PRO 2-bay model. The N4810 offers up to 40 TB of hard drive storage support, and…
Read MoreSony’s Optical Disc Archive Storage Reaches 3.3 TB
by Sebastian Peak | Apr 18, 2016 | Storage | 12
Sony has developed a higher-capacity version of their Optical Disc Archive (ODA), which now allows up to 3.3 TB of archival storage with the promise of 100-year retention. Sony ODS-D280U (Image credit:...
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