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XPG Joins The PCIe 4.0 Crowd With The 1TB Gammix s50 Lite

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020TWGHardware

Silicon Motion’s SM2267 Controller And A DDR4 Cache XPG have released their first PCIe 4.0 drive, called the Gammix S50 Lite, which uses Micron TLC flash and sports a DDR4 cache but still manages to to sell for $140, at least for the moment. At that price Neoseeker had their doubts about performance, as it […]

WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD Review

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020TWGHardware

Western Digital’s WD Blue SSDs are mainstream drives in the middle of the company’s consumer product stack, offered at lower price points than the company’s high-performance WD_BLACK products, and positioned above the the WD Green lineup. What we are looking at today is from the latest generation of WD Blue drives, with the SN550 (announced […]

TeamGroup MP33 PRO; Inexpensive TLC Storage

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020TWGHardware

PCIe 3.0,TLC, Ten Cents A Gig There is a lot to like about Teamgroup’s MP33 Pro drive, not least that the 1TB model is selling for $99 on Amazon. It is still PCIe 3.0, but as many tests have shown the difference in between PCIe 4.0 and 3.0 is barely noticeable for gamers and casual […]

An SSD Round Up For Your Convenience

November 23, 2020November 24, 2020TWGHardware

Check It Out Quick, New Releases Are A Comin’ Tweaktown have assembled what they recommend as the best M.2 NVMe drives available on the market at the moment, though with the current pace of releases there are bound to be new models arriving which were not captured for this particular SSD round up. You can […]

Running Win10 20H2? Beware Of Thunderbolt NVMe Storage

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020TWGHardware

You’ve Been Thunderstruck! If you are running the latest October 2020 Update for Windows 10, you might want to save all your work (or play) before plugging in an external Thunderbolt NVMe drive. It seems that those with the sheer audacity to plug in an TB device to their machines after installing the update, with […]

Fast External Storage With The New WD My Passport SSDs

November 2, 2020November 3, 2020TWGHardware

Your Passport To The Land Of Fast External Storage Western Digital’s new portable SSD takes advantage of USB 3.2 Gen 2 to make transfers as quick and painless as possible. Tweaktown’s testing shows that for sequential data you can expect 1043 MB/s read and 1013 MB/s write, not quite internal storage speeds but incredibly impressive […]