Plextor and LiteOn had a lot to show at this year’s Computex and we’ll start with the more traditional drives on display. The 2.5-inch form factor and the SATA3 ...
June 3, 2016 at 8:40 am by Bohs Hansen
Colorful might be mostly known for their graphics cards, but they do make other products too such as Tablet PCs and portable HiFi players. Another one of their products is a ...
June 3, 2016 at 7:33 am by Bohs Hansen
With SSDs seemingly advancing by leap and bounds everyday, it’s crucial for companies to be able to get their products out to market quickly. By being on the bleeding ...
April 15, 2016 at 3:30 pm by Samuel Wan
NVMe has been hailed as the next big storage protocol supplanting the aging ACHI that many SSDs still use. While NVMe is still slowly making its way into the consumer market, ...
April 13, 2016 at 11:00 am by Samuel Wan
Introduction Today’s review is a special one for me as it is the first time I get to review a PNY SSD. I got the XLR8 CS2211 2.5-inch gaming branded SSD on the test ...
April 7, 2016 at 9:13 am by Bohs Hansen
The first SSDs we had all used SLC or single level cell, holding 1 bit per cell. As SSDs grew more and more common and advanced, different tech like MLC (multi-level cell) ...
February 29, 2016 at 12:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Introduction After I recently had a look at Mushkin’s Striker SSD, it is now time to take a closer look at the Mushkin Reactor SSD and that’s just what I am doing ...
February 20, 2016 at 9:17 am by Bohs Hansen
Here I sat thinking that I knew all the terms for the different NAND technologies and then Transcend comes along with a new one that they have called SuperMLC. SuperMLC was ...
December 30, 2015 at 12:00 pm by Bohs Hansen
With the first Surface Books shipping, we’re getting a better picture of what Microsoft’s new convertible looks like. According to the latest reports, Microsoft ...
November 2, 2015 at 1:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Addonics announced a new family of SSDs that support the CFast, mSATA and M2 form factors in both Industrial or Enterprise class grades. The difference between the two types ...
October 30, 2015 at 9:00 pm by Bohs Hansen
Introduction It has been quite a while since we had any of Patriot’s drives on our test bench and it is as such a pleasure to be able to put the 480GB capacity Patriot ...
October 17, 2015 at 11:00 am by Bohs Hansen
Micron Technologies is finally moving into the TLC (Triple-Level Cell) NAND market, with shipments of consumer SDDs starting in Q4 this year. TLC is generally cheaper than ...
October 3, 2015 at 2:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Samsung announced that they would be releasing 2TB versions of their popular 850 Evo and 850 Pro families a couple of months ago, but thus far no one has spotted the drives ...
September 10, 2015 at 9:30 am by Bohs Hansen
Toshiba announced three new families of solid state drives that are fitted with high.speed PCIe interfaces that provide high.bandwidth point-to-point links with the processor ...
August 17, 2015 at 4:30 pm by Bohs Hansen
Super sized SSDs are not new as both SanDisk, Intel, as others have launched 2TB SATA SSDs already. However, those drives have all been enterprise or server oriented. ...
July 7, 2015 at 7:00 am by Samuel Wan
