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Crucial MX500 1TB M.2 SATA SSD Review
Introduction Crucial MX500 1TB M.2 SATA SSD Review I had a look at Crucial‘s MX500 once before when the series was launched a couple of months ago. Back then, there was a single capacity with 1TB. While great, that wasn’t for everyone. Since then, Crucial has launched other capacity options as…
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SilverStone Announces ECM22 Dual M.2 to PCIe x4 Adapter
SilverStone technologies is announcing the ECM22, a new dual M.2 to PCIe x4 adapter card, which improves upon their previously released ECM20 adapter. Most notably, it has visible gold inlays on the PCB which help absorb heat from the M.2 drive. The package includes a thermal pad which goes in…
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Plextor S2G 512GB Entry-Level M.2 Solid State Drive Review
Introduction Today I’m taking a look at an SSD that has been designed with first-time adopters of the technology in mind, the Plextor S2 in the M.2 2280 form factor. Whether you need a drive for your M.2 enabled desktop system or an ultrabook, the S2G is sure to be…
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Apacer AS682 ARMOR+ 250GB Solid State Drive Review
Introduction Apacer isn’t one of the first companies that you would think of when it comes to storage drives, but they actually have quite a nice line-up of available drives in various form factors and protocols and with common capacity options. Today I’m taking a closer look at the Apacer…
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ADATA SP550 M.2 240GB Solid State Drive Review
Introduction It is time to take a look at another M.2 2280 sized SSD, my favourite storage form factor. It is tiny yet features plenty of PCB space for large capacities and reduces the cable clutter in your system by eliminating the normal SATA data and power cables. The M.2…
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A Brief Introduction to Storage Connectors and Protocols
When it comes to storage, then there are a lot of different connector types and protocols which might confuse some. Today I will take a little look at the most common used as well as some legacy ones and the newest ones too. The most common storage connector these days…
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Plextor Next Generation Form Factor Drives at Computex 2016
Here it’s all about the next generation form factor drives and Plextor’s takes on that area. When we say next generation form factors, we mostly mean the M.2 modules, but also U.2 and PCIe-based drives. Plextor has something in all these categories for both the new and old systems. There…
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Transcend Introduces MST800 1TB M.2 Solid State Drive
Transcend introduced a new tiny drive with a large capacity as their newest drive available now sports an impressive 1TB capacity in a standard M.2 2280 form factor module. Sadly this isn’t an NVMe drive, but the new MTS800 is still a drive that I’m sure will become very popular…
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Kingston Unveiled HyperX Predator PCIe SSD
Kingston has presented their new HyperX Predator M.2 PCIe 2.0 x4 Solid State Drive. The new SSD is based upon the Marvell 88SS9293 controller and comes as both a half-height half-length (HHHL) PCIe card and as bare M.2 2280 gum stick module. The new PCIe SSD has some great figures…
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