M.2
After Samsung's earlier product page snafu, the company is officially launching their next-generation mainstream client SSD today. The 990 EVO will be available in both 1TB and 2TB capacities, and offers an interesting mix of both PCIe Gen 5 and PCIe Gen 4 support by allowing up to 2 lanes of PCIe connectivity at Gen 5 speeds, or up to 4 lanes at Gen 4 and below. The release of the 990 EVO marks the return of the EVO SSD brand after it was quietly put aside during the 980 generation, when Samsung's sole non-PRO drive was the vanilla 980 SSD. Consequently, Samsung's own performance comparisons for the new drive are against the most recent EVO, the 970 EVO Plus, though similar to how the...
Alphacool Releases Two New SSD Coolers: Passive HDX-2 and Watercooled HDX-3
This week Alphacool announced the availability of their new M.2 SSD Coolers, the HDX-2 and HDX-3. Some may recall the original HDX M.2 cooler was a simple, passive, clip...
17 by Joe Shields on 7/20/2017
EKWB Launches Aftermarket EK-M.2 Aluminum Heatsink for M.2 SSDs
EKWB (EK Water Blocks) on Wednesday introduced a useful but slightly different to their normal routine type of product. The company has started to sell its EK-M.2 NVMe passive...
25 by Anton Shilov on 7/6/2017
Toshiba Introduces XG5 Client NVMe SSD
After teasing with a demo earlier this month at the Dell EMC World conference, Toshiba is now officially announcing their first SSD based on their 64-layer BiCS3 3D NAND...
5 by Billy Tallis on 5/30/2017
The Intel Optane Memory (SSD) Preview: 32GB of Kaby Lake Caching
Last week, we took a look at Intel's first product based on their 3D XPoint non-volatile memory technology: the Optane SSD DC P4800X, a record-breaking flagship enterprise SSD. Today...
110 by Billy Tallis on 4/24/2017
Intel Launches Optane Memory M.2 Cache SSDs For Consumer Market
Last week, Intel officially launched their first Optane product, the SSD DC P4800X enterprise drive. This week, 3D XPoint memory comes to the client and consumer market in the...
127 by Billy Tallis on 3/27/2017
The Western Digital Black PCIe SSD (512GB) Review
After acquiring SanDisk and introducing WD Green and WD Blue SSDs, it is no surprise to see Western Digital introduce a WD Black SSD that is a M.2 PCIe...
36 by Billy Tallis on 3/8/2017
SilverStone Launches SST-TP01-M.2 Thermal Pads for M.2 SSDs
In a bit of offbeat news this afternoon, SilverStone has announced a set of thermal pads for M.2 SSDs, the SST-TP01-M.2. These pads are designed to eliminate (or at...
33 by Anton Shilov on 2/23/2017
The Patriot Hellfire M.2 480GB Review: Phison NVMe Tested
The Patriot Hellfire M.2 PCIe SSD is Patriot's first NVMe SSD, and one of several similar products based on Phison's E7 NVMe controller paired with Toshiba 15nm MLC. The...
43 by Billy Tallis on 2/10/2017
Western Digital Announces WD Black PCIe SSD
Western Digital has announced the WD Black PCIe SSD, their first PCIe SSD for the consumer market. While the WD Green and WD Blue SSDs introduced last fall were...
19 by Billy Tallis on 1/4/2017
Corsair Releases Force MP500 SSDs: 3 GB/s, Phison PS5007-E7, MLC NAND
Corsair on Tuesday introduced its flagship Force MP500 lineup of SSDs targeting high-performance gaming PCs. The new drives come in an M.2-2280 form-factor with a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface...
18 by Anton Shilov on 12/16/2016
The Samsung 960 EVO (1TB) Review
Last month the Samsung 960 Pro broke most of the performance records for a consumer SSD and often by a surprisingly large margin. But as impressive as it was...
87 by Billy Tallis on 11/15/2016
The Samsung 960 Pro (2TB) SSD Review
A year ago, Samsung brought their PCIe SSD technology to the retail market in the form of the Samsung 950 Pro, an NVMe M.2 SSD with Samsung's 3D V-NAND...
72 by Billy Tallis on 10/18/2016
Samsung Announces 960 PRO And 960 EVO M.2 PCIe SSDs (Updated)
UPDATE: New features unveiled during the presentation and Q&A session are described below. Here at Samsung's SSD Global Summit in South Korea, the company has just officially unveiled their next...
138 by Billy Tallis on 9/21/2016
Samsung SM961 Price And Availability Outlook
The SM961 is Samsung's latest high-end client PCIe SSD for OEMs, but as with its SM951 and XP941 predecessors there will be distributors selling the SM961 online to consumers...
50 by Billy Tallis on 6/21/2016
The Toshiba OCZ RD400 (256GB, 512GB, 1TB) M.2 PCIe SSD Review
Having recently assimilated OCZ and turned it into an enthusiast-oriented consumer brand, Toshiba has released their first M.2 PCIe SSD into the consumer market. Initially previewed by OCZ as...
42 by Billy Tallis on 5/25/2016
Samsung Shows Off SM961 and PM961 SSDs: OEM Drives Get a Boost
At Samsung's annual SSD Forum Japan, the company has demonstrated two previously-unannounced high-performance client SSDs. The new SM961 and the PM961 drives are based on the company’s Polaris controller...
48 by Anton Shilov on 3/23/2016
Samsung Demos Its First BGA SSD: 1500 MB/s Read Speed and Tiny Package
In the recent years SSDs in M.2 form-factor have greatly reduced the amount of space required for storage sub-systems inside modern PCs. However, as computers get even smaller, there...
41 by Anton Shilov on 3/22/2016
ASUS Launches 970 Pro Gaming/Aura Motherboard: USB 3.1 and M.2 to AMD FX Platform
ASUS has introduced its latest motherboard for AMD FX microprocessors that brings up-to-date features to the platform. The ASUS 970 Pro Gaming/Aura belongs to a new class of AMD...
25 by Anton Shilov on 2/2/2016
AMD Announces A10-7890K APU and Upgrades Desktop Platforms
AMD plans to improve performance of its desktop computing platforms by launching a new accelerated processing unit as well as another generation of AM3+ and FM2+ motherboards with USB...
60 by Anton Shilov on 1/9/2016
The Angelbird Wings PX1 M.2 Adapter Review: Do M.2 SSDs Need Heatsinks?
The M.2 form factor has quickly established itself as the most popular choice for PCIe SSDs in the consumer space. The small size easily fits in to most laptop...
70 by Billy Tallis on 12/21/2015
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