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 ...
February 1, 2017 at 11:00 am by Samuel Wan
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 ...
January 27, 2017 at 8:30 am by Bohs Hansen
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 ...
December 7, 2016 at 10:01 am by Bohs Hansen
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 ...
December 6, 2016 at 9:00 pm by Ashley Allen
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 ...
December 5, 2016 at 10:41 am by Bohs Hansen
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. ...
December 5, 2016 at 9:00 am by Bohs Hansen
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. ...
November 29, 2016 at 8:55 am by Bohs Hansen
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 ...
November 24, 2016 at 8:00 am by Bohs Hansen
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 ...
November 16, 2016 at 9:13 am by Bohs Hansen
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 ...
November 14, 2016 at 9:17 am by Bohs Hansen
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 ...
October 28, 2016 at 9:15 am by Bohs Hansen
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 ...
October 11, 2016 at 10:00 pm by Ashley Allen
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 ...
October 10, 2016 at 9:49 am by Bohs Hansen
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 ...
September 29, 2016 at 9:58 am by Bohs Hansen
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 ...
September 28, 2016 at 1:05 am by Ashley Allen
