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Mushkin Announces Helix 3D MLC NAND M.2 SSD
Over the past couple of years, the SSD market has started to move away from the SATA connector. One of the more popular connectors is the M.2 which uses PCIe lanes for transport. To bolster their ever-growing lineup of SSDs, Mushkin has announced their new Helix series of drives. The Helix…
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Silicon Power S56 240GB Solid State Drive Review
Introduction The Silicon Power S56 is a whole new drive series that comes with a fresh design on the outside and great hardware on the inside. The S56 is categorised as an entry grade solid state drive and is as such meant as HDD replacement. Replacing your old mechanical hard…
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Patriot Hellfire 480GB M.2 NVMe SSD Review
Introduction Today it is time to take a closer look at Patriot Memory’s flagship SSD and their take on a PCIe Gen 3 x4 NVMe SSD in my favourite form factor M.2 2280. The Patriot Hellfire M.2 solid state drive comes in two different capacity options, 240GB and 480GB, and…
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Intel Launching New 3D NAND SSDs in 2017
Intel’s 3D XPoint non-volatile memory technology is one of the most anticipated advances in solid state drives (SSDs), and a new report claims that the company is set to make a big push within the SSD market next year after suffering recent losses. According to DigiTimes, upstream supply chain sources…
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Mach Xtreme Unveiled the Impressive Mach EXPRESS PCIe SSD
Mach Xtreme is a company that I’m mostly familiar with due to their SATA DOMs that I’ve used in a lot of builds over the years, but they also make normal flash drives and SSDs. Now they’re ready with an impressive new drive that I almost missed the news on…
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Plextor S2C 512GB Entry-Level SATA3 SSD Review
Introduction Deciding whether you want to enter the SSD market can be a tricky one, especially if you want both capacity and performance, preferably for a small asking price. The good news is that Plextor made a drive series for just such an occasion and it is called the S2.…
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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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MyDigitalSSD BPX 480GB NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive Review
Introduction This is a joyful time to be a storage reviewer as more and more NVMe drives get released to the market and as such also find their way into my test benches. Today I’m taking a closer look at MyDigitalSSD’s take on the NVMe sector, as I got the…
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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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Apacer Z280 240GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive Review
Introduction The M.2 form factor was originally called the Next Generation Form factor (NGFF) for a good reason and it is without a doubt also my personal favourite form factor. Today I’m taking a closer look at Apacer’s Z280 solid state drive which is just such an M.2 2280 size…
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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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Western Digital Enters the SSD Market
Following its recent purchase of SanDisk, Western Digital has launched its first consumer solid state drives (SSDs). WD Blue and WD Green – a mid-range and budget line of SSDs, respectively – come in both 2.5-inch SATA and PCIe M.2 form factors; WD Blue are available in are available in…
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Crucial MX300 M.2 525GB SSD Review
Introduction By now I’ve got to know the Crucial MX300 series pretty well. I initially reviewed the limited edition 750GB model upon release and recently we had a look at the largest model which comes with 2TB capacity. Today it is time to check out the physically smaller and compact…
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Crucial MX300 2TB 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive Review
Introduction Today I got the largest solid state drive in my test lab that I yet had the pleasure to test, at least when it comes to capacity. The physical size of the Crucial MX300 is still just the 2.5-inch that we’re used to from SATA3 drives and that is the…
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Samsung Predicts 236% PCIe SSD Growth in Next Two Years
At Samsung’s recent SSD Global Summit, during which it debuted its new PCIe M.2 SSD drivers, the company predicted that PCIe SSD sales are set to increase by 236%, leaving SATA SSDs in the dust. This year, Samsung shipped 33 million PCIe SSDs, and it projects that figure to nearly…
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