Lexar SL200 – Portable SSD based on SATA III The portable SSD market has gotten pretty crowded in recent years. Luckly, there are a ton of familiar names like Lexar, an affiliate of Longsys, to look at for those needing a storage drive for data on-the-go. The Lexar SL100 portable SSD series was the brands first …more

During Intel’s Architecture Day 2020 they talked about their 3D NAND technology and gave us an update on the roadmap.  In September 2019 at the Intel memory day in Seoul, Korea, Intel announced that they were skipping the 128-layer NAND Flash node that most of the industry was developing and was going to be jumping …more

Western Digital (WD) is likely one of the first brand names that came to mind when thinking about platter-based hard disk drives (HDDs), but don’t think for a second that they are not a major force to be reckoned with in solid-state drive (SSD) market. WD has really been making headway in the NAND Flash based internal …more

addlink Gaming Series – X70 RGB NVMe SSD If you are looking for an NVMe SSD with RGB lighting the addlink X70 RGB SSD series might be just what you are looking for. It features an impressive looking diamond-cut RGB top plate that ensures your build will stand out from the crowd. Performance also shouldn’t be …more

 How a 2TB NVMe SSD For $219 Performs Back in 2017 Toshiba (now KIOXIA) introduced the XG5-P series of single-sided M.2 2280 form factor NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 SSDs in 1TB and 2TB capacities. The drives featured performance of up to 3000 MB/s sequential read, 2200 MB/s sequential write, 320,000 random read IOPS and 265,000 random write …more

Alxum Uses ASMedia 2362 Chip For Type C Portable Drive Many of our readers love the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) approach when it comes to portable hard drives as it allows you to use drives that you already might own and will usually save you some money. Right now there are a ton of USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C …more

 Kingston KC2500 – The Fastest Drive Rex Has to Offer Kingston recently released the KC2500 M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD series for desktop, workstations and high-performance computing (HPC) systems. With speeds up to 3,500MB/s read and up to 2,900MB/s write, the KC2500 certainly has the high-end specifications that one would expect from a flagship …more

 ADATA Falcon SSDs Arrive – Watch Out Swordfish! Last week, Legit Reviews took an in-depth look at the ADATA Swordfish 1TB NVMe SSD and found it to be a pretty good entry-level drive for the PCIe Gen 3.0 x4 M.2 2280 NVMe SSD market! Today we are going to be taking a look at the …more

, ADATA Aims At Budget NVMe Buyers With Swordfish We’ve been reviewing some higher-end NVMe SSDs lately, but what about those that want to spend as little as possible and still get decent drive for their system? Today, we take a look at the brand new ADATA Swordfish PCIe Gen 3.0 x4 M.2 2280 NVMe …more

Samsung released its 870 QVO SATA SSD today, which is drive makers second-generation QLC V-NAND Flash drive, building on the success of the 860 QVO series that came out at the end of 2018. The 2.5-inch form factor might be old news for enthusiasts, but millions of users are upgrading older systems and buying up larger …more

Crucial P5 NVMe SSD – Meet The Extraordinary When Crucial introduced the P1 M.2 NVMe SSD series in 2018 they entered the consumer NVMe drive market with one of first highly-anticipated QLC NAND Flash drives. Crucial had the entry-level NVMe market covered with the P1 series, but did not have a high-end NVMe solution for …more

Crucial P2 M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs Tested The Crucial P2 M.2 NVMe SSD series recently came to market and is now the entry-level NVMe SSD for drive maker here in 2020. You’ll only find the Crucial P2 SSD available in 250GB and 500GB capacity drives. A 1TB capacity P2 drive is planned, but is not …more

Sabrent Brings the 1st 8TB M.2 2280 SSD To Market Earlier this year we did a review on the Sabrent Rocket Q 1TB NVMe SSD that used QLC (Quadruple-Level Cell) NAND Flash memory that stores four bits of data per cell. The drive did well in our performance tests for an entry-level NVMe drive, but at the end of the day …more

HP SSD EX950 2TB Tested on AMD X570 M.2 NVMe Solid-State Drives (SSDs) have been standard fare on the vast majority of enthusiast and gamer builds here in 2020. There are a ton of drives on the market right now and many 1TB drives can be found for under $150! This means that 1TB drives …more