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Phison At CES 2025, The PS5028-E28 And More

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:20:18 +0000

Phison is ringing in the new year and CES 2025 with a brand new PCIe 5.0 controller. the PS5028-E28. It will be capable of sequential read and write speeds of up to…

The Multi-talented Samsung 990 EVO Plus

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 19:09:34 +0000

Samsung's EVO line has a long standing reputation for offering a beautiful mix of performance and price, and the 990 EVO Plus is no exception. The price is kept low thanks to…

The Addlink G55 SSD Makes PCIe 5.0 More Affordable

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:52:20 +0000

Meet the Addlink G55, the first PCIe 5.0 SSD using Phison's E31T DRAMless controller. You can currently get your hands on the 1TB version for $115, or $195 for the 2TB version…

MSI DATAMAG 20Gbps Magnetic Portable SSD Review

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:10:45 +0000

USB 3.2 Gen2x2 may have not been as widely adopted as it could have been in the past few years, but there are some very fast portable SSDs out there which take…

The TeamGroup T-Force Z540 4TB SSD And The Enormous Dark AirFlow I Drive Cooler

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:01:20 +0000

You don't necessarily need to strap the Dark AirFlow I cooler onto TeamGroup's 4TB T-Force Z540 NVMe SSD, but you can if you so desire. The T-Force Z540 is a 4TB drive…

TEAMGROUP T-FORCE CARDEA A440 Lite PCIe 4.0 SSD Has A Light Price

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:13:28 +0000

The naming of TEAMGROUP's T-FORCE CARDEA A440 Lite indicates no DRAM cache onboard but could well also refer to the low price of the SSD. The drive is rated for 7,400MB/s read…

TerraMaster F8-SSD Plus, A NAS That Goes Faster Than NASCAR

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 22:43:07 +0000

The TerraMaster F8-SSD Plus will cost you a bit but if you need serious bandwidth it is a great solution. The 10GbE Ethernet is fed by up to eight M.2 PCIe Gen3…

The ADATA Legend 970 Pro 2TB Doesn’t Need No Stinking Cables

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:13:19 +0000

ADATA found a way to make their new Legend 970 Pro SSDs stand out amongst the competition, by designing a fan which can be powered by the electricity delivered by the M.2…

A New PCIe Gen5 SSD Controller Arrives! The Silicon Motion SM2508

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 21:07:32 +0000

Rejoice, for there is soon to be more competition in the PCIe Gen 5 market! Silicon Motion have released a new controller, the SM2508 to compete with Phison's PS5026-E26 and a small…

ASUSTOR Flashstor 12 Pro FS6712X, A Very Flash-y NAS

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 20:50:07 +0000

ASUSTOR have a new NAS which is all flash memory, the Flashstor 12 Pro FS6712X. It can hold up to a dozen M.2 2280 drives though with a Celeron N5105 inside there…

NVMe 2.1 Revealed At The 2024 Flash Memory Summit

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:26:42 +0000

There is quite a bit of interesting news for storage enthusiasts today, from a prototype optical SSD to a 122TB SSD to bad news about the longevity of the drives we use. …

HighPoint Rocket 1608A PCIe Gen5 Eight Drive Switch

Jeremy Hellstrom — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:07:20 +0000

The HighPoint Rocket 1608A is a drive switch card, which means that it lacks a fancy RAID controller and software required to set up drives in anything other than RAID 0 or…

The New Crucial T705 2TB SSD For PCIe 5.0 Fans

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:32:44 +0000

Crucial have combined two popular ingredients, the Phison S5026-E26 8-channel controller and Micron's 232-Layer 3D TLC NAND into the Crucial T705 series of SSDs. To make this electronic peanut butter cup even…

The Samsung 990 PRO With It’s Own Samsung Pascal Controller

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 28 May 2024 19:05:08 +0000

The Samsung 990 Pro is rated for sequential reads of 7,450MB/s and writes of 6,900MB/s which is certainly fast enough you won't notice the slightly older connection. The FPS review saw transfer…

The Newest Member Of The PCIe 5.0 Club, The Corsair MP700 Pro SE 4 TB

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 14 May 2024 19:49:31 +0000

Corsair have added the MP700 Pro SE to the list of PCIe 5.0 drives you can consider picking up. The 4TB version that TechPowerUp tested has 8GB of Hynix DDR4-4266 cache and…

The Stylish Lexar NM790 PCIe 4.0 SSD

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:15:18 +0000

If you don't want to pay the extra cost for a PCIe 5.0 SSD you have a lot of choices when it comes to PCIe 4.0 drives. You won't notice much performance…

HighPoint Claims Industry 1st with 8-Channel PCIe Gen5 x16 NVMe Switch & RAID

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:04:14 +0000

What happens when you put Broadcom's 48-lane, 48-port, PCI Express Gen 5.0 ExpressFabric Platform (PEX89048) on a PCI Express card with multiple M.2 slots? You get the RocketRAID 7600 and Rocket…

MSI’s Spatium M580 Frozr SSD; Passive Cooling, Intense Data Transfer

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:53:06 +0000

MSI's Spatium M580 is a Phison based PCIe 5.0 SSD with Micron 232-layer 3D TLC NAND, 30% of it an SLC cache, and an 8GB DDR4-4266 cache, all of which is passively…

ICY DOCK ToughArmor MB842MP-B, M.2 Storage On The Go

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:53:33 +0000

ICY Dock's new ToughArmor MB842MP-B is a PCIe 3/4.0 card that will fit a pair of NVMe drives. It takes advantage of PCIe bifurcation to provide each of the drives with four…

Crucial T705 PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD Review

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:29:38 +0000

When we looked at Crucial's initial PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD product, the T700, last July, it was truly in a class by itself. Since then other manufacturers have brought their own…