Two Different Brands With Same Internals Featuring BiCS 3D NAND Are you wanting to purchase a brand new SATA SSD with the latest in 3D NAND technology, capacities up to 2TB and sequential speeds up to 560MB/s? Look no further than the WD Blue 3D NAND and Sandisk Ultra 3D SSD series. These two series …more
Crucial BX300 Features 3D MLC NAND With Budget Prices If you are looking for a budget 2.5-inch SATA SSD you’ll quickly find that many are using TLC NAND Flash memory. TLC NAND has come a long way in recent years, but after a number of poorly implemented solutions have come to market it has some …more
EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink – Visually Pleasing M.2 Cooling EKWB is a Slovenian manufacturer of high performance water cooling parts and accessories designed to meet the needs of the most discerning PC enthusiasts. EK gets their name from the initials of their founder, Edvard Konig, who began designing and manufacturing water blocks back in the late …more
Samsung SSD 860 PRO Arrives With New 64-Layer MLC NAND and MJX Controller Samsung released the 850 PRO way back in July 2014 (our review) and the series was quickly found to be an ideal drive for PC gamers, enthusiasts and storage snobs needing a SATA SSD. We’ve pretty much saturated the SATA III interface …more
TerraMaster D5-300C Diskless Direct Attached Storage Device The TerraMaster D5-300C 5-Bay Direct Attached Storage (DAS) device is a diskless model that is priced at $229.99 shipped and backed by a 2-year warranty. This device has five drive bays that are compatible with 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA hard drives or SATA SSDs that are up to 10TB …more
Just moments ago Intel released the Intel Optane SSD 900P Series aimed at desktop enthusiasts that are looking for the ultimate storage drive. This is the first consumer product from Intel that uses 3D Xpoint Technology what was first introduced by Intel and Micron in July 2015. 3D Xpoint Technology looked to be 1000x faster …more
Seagate Releases Massive BarraCuda Pro 12TB Hard Drives Seagate recently announced new 12TB 3.5-inch hard drives for desktop and NAS use aimed that those that need massive amounts of storage space. Those that have large data storage needs know that hard drives are still relevant due to their reliability and low price points. The new …more
Today, at its “Innovating to Fuel the Next Decade of Big Data” event, WD revealed a breakthrough in Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR) technology that will allow the company to significantly increase the storage density and performance of future products. Western Digital has been working with MAMR technology for several years and has spent several hundred million …more
TerraMaster F2-420 Diskless NAS Server The TerraMaster F2-420 2-Bay NAS Server is a diskless model that is priced at $299.99 shipped and backed by a 2-year warranty. This is your basic RAID 0/1/JBOD 2-bay NAS that is designed for home or small business use. It is powered by the Intel Celeron J1900 ‘Bay Trail’ Quad-Core CPU …more
Will One SSD Perform The Same on Six Different Motherboards? When Corsair sent us their new Neutron NX500 400GB NVMe PCIe AIC SSD to review we weren’t impressed by what we were seeing from Corsair’s new flagship storage drive. Corsair claims that the Neutron NX500 400GB and Neutron NX400 800GB drives can reach sequential speeds …more
Samsung Portable SSDs Get 64-Layer V-NAND Flash Samsung today announced their newest Portable Solid State Drive (PSSD), the Samsung Portable SSD T5. This portable SSD uses the latest 64-layer V-NAND technology and USB 3.1 Gen 2 interface to get up to 540 MB/s sequential read and up to 515 MB/s sequential write speeds. The T5 comes …more
A High Performance Portable SSD For The Working Class A portable SSD certainly sounds good, but the seriously fast speed the bring to the table comes with a relatively high retail price. Last week, we posted a review on the SanDisk Extreme 900 960GB Portable SSD and it cost $459.99 shipped. Today we are looking at the …more
SanDisk Extreme 900 Portable SSD with USB Type-C Are you looking for a portable SSD that can utilize the USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports on your system and increase your productivity with insane performance? Look no further than the SanDisk Extreme 900 Portable SSD series that is available in capacities of up to 2TB with …more
WD My Passport SSD Portable External Drive The WD product portfolio has been missing a portable Solid-State Drive (SSD) for some time now, but that all changed recently with the introduction of the WD My Passport SSD that is only available at Best Buy. The WD My Passport keeps the same familiar look of the …more