WD Swings For The Fences With New Controller Design Western Digital is hoping to make a statement today to the SSD market by releasing the WD Black NVMe and SanDisk Extreme PRO SSD. These two M.2 NVMe drives are identical, but the SanDisk brand is aimed at the creative market and the WD brand is aimed …more

Kingston Brings First Value PCIe NVMe Drive To Market The A1000 Solid-State Drive (SSD) is Kingston’s first entry-level PCIe NVMe solution and it is available today in capacities of 240GB, 480GB and 960GB. As Kington’s starting point for PCIe NVMe drives, the A1000 series will sit underneath the KC1000 series that was introduced last year. …more

64-Layer 3D TLC NAND Goes To the Data Center The successor to the Intel SSD DC P4500 series, the Intel SSD DC P4510 series, was first released to Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) in August 2017 and is now widely available. Intel updated this enterprise drive series by using the latest 64-layer 3D TLC NAND Flash memory …more

Samsung 860 EVO Aims For SATA III Performance Perfection Very few would have thought when the Samsung 850 EVO Solid-State Drive series came out in 2014 that it would be come the number #1 best-selling SSD in the world at the end of 2017. Every storage editor and enthusiast would have laughed at you back in 2014 if …more

Intel SSD 7 Series Gets New Controller & TLC NAND When Intel launched the SSD 600p Series back in 2016 they rocked the storage market with a solid performing PCIe NVMe SSD series that was available at affordable prices. Intel was able to do this by pairing the Silicon Motion SM2260 controller with Intel 32-layer …more

ADATA XPG GAMMIX S10 – A Dressed Up ADATA XPG SX7000 Last year, ADATA launched the XPG GAMMIX S10 series of M.2 PCIe x4 NVMe 1.2 certified SSDs that consists of drives with capacities of 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB. The XPG GAMMIX S10 series is not the fastest drives offered by ADATA, but the …more

Kingston KC1000 PCIe SSD – First NVMe Drive By Kingston Today we are going to take a quick look at the Kingston KC1000 NVMe PCIe SSD that came out in June 2017. This drive series is coming up on being a year old, but has some monster performance numbers that can’t be ignored. The Kingston …more

3D XPoint Finally Arrives For Mainstream Users Intel has finally launched an Optane SSD for the mainstream market, the Intel Optane SSD 800P. The Intel Optane SSD 800P series is available as M.2 2280 single-sided ‘gumsticks’ that use the PCIe 3.0 x2 interface. Only two capacities are available, so you get your choice of a …more

DREVO Brings Unicorn Power To SSDs DREVO is a new company for us to work with here on Legit Reviews, but it was formed by a group of gamers in Beijing, China back in 2015 and has released some pretty good hardware and solid prices. DREVO has been targeting the PC gaming market with their …more

Crucial MX500 Arrives With 64-Layer 3D TLC NAND When the Crucial MX300 series came out back in June 2016 it was a big deal as it was their first drive with Micron 3D TLC NAND Flash memory. We reviewed the 750GB and 1TB capacities last year and found them to be pretty solid drives. Crucial …more

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