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NVMe SSD Heatsink Roundup

July 4, 2022TWGHardware

Hot Flash, Cool Controller It is well known that NVMe SSD heatsinks are important, whether provided with the drive or with your motherboard, to maintain full transfer speeds. We haven’t seen a roundup of the various heatsinks available however, or at least until now. Guru of 3D took two Kioxia Exceria drives, the PCIe 4.0 […]

SK hynix Platinum P41 PCIe 4.0 SSDs Now Available

May 20, 2022TWGHardware

“Designed to excel among PCIe 4.0 SSDs, the Platinum P41 offers sequential read speeds up to 7,000 MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 6,500 MB/s with an industry-leading endurance rating of up to 1,200 TBW. The Platinum P41 also provides further assurance of reliability with an SK hynix in-house ‘Aries’ controller, which in itself […]

Don’t Say Toshiba, It’s A Kioxia Exceria Pro NVMe SSD

May 3, 2022TWGHardware

Probably A PS5018-E18, Definitely 112-layer BiCS5 TLC NAND The Kioxia Exceria Pro PCIe 4.0 is an updated version of the non-Por we saw last year and claims to be able to hit 7000 MB/sec sequential reads. That would put it’s performance up around the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus and MSI’s Spatium M480 Play, two of […]

It’s A Two-Fer! The ADATA XPG ATOM 30 KIT

April 20, 2022TWGHardware

One SATA, One PCIe And One Box The ADATA XPG ATOM 30 KIT is a handy upgrade kit for those in your life that continue to inflict their spinning rust upon you. For $125 you get an XPG 1TB PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD and an ADATA 256GB 2.5″ SATA SSD which offers compatibility to older […]

Silicon Power XD80, NVMe For Ten Cents A Gig

March 22, 2022TWGHardware

The MSRP Is $100 For 1TB Finally the price of NVMe drives have hit a special price threshold, and it is nice to see a component you can actually purchase, and for a very decent price in this current market. It is PCIe 3.0 and thus not the fastest drive on the market but it […]

Silicon Power XS70, Affordable PCIe 4.0 NVMe Storage

March 10, 2022TWGHardware

Familiar Hardware, With An An Attractive Price PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive reviews offer s look at really good performance but are, for the moment, somewhat boring to create. All the drives you see use Phison’s PS5018-E18 and Micron 176-layer 3D TLC NAND flash which results in very similar results. The size of the pseudo-SLC cache, […]