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Corsair Makes A Splash With The MP600 Pro Hydro X 2TB M.2 Drive

March 9, 2021TWGHardware

Yes, They Watercooled A Gumstick Are you worried that your flash is getting too warm while you write dozens of gigabytes of data to it all day every day? Corsair have designed an SSD just for you then, the MP600 Pro Hydro X. It is a PCIe 4.0 M.2 drive which uses Phison’s E18 controller […]

addlink S95, Eyes On A New Phison SSD

January 28, 2021TWGHardware

More PCIe 4.0 NVMe Goodness As a long time partner with Phison, addlink hasn’t grabbed a large share of the market but they are still a player in the market. They have recently released 1TB and 2TB S95 M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs using Phison’s PS5018-E18 controller with a DDR4 cache and Micron 96 layer […]

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 […]

So Long Samsung, Hello WD Black SN850

November 9, 2020November 10, 2020TWGHardware

1,000,000 random read IOPS, Just As Advertised If you are looking for the best overall PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, your search is over with the arrival of Western Digital’s WE Black SN850 which outshines their previous SN750 by a fair margin. Of course part of this is because of the increased bandwidth of the new […]

Sweet Silicon Motion; Meet Your New PCIe 4.0 NVMe Controllers

October 21, 2020October 21, 2020TWGHardware

Sorry For The Wait; Here’s Three Courses At Once The wait for new PCIe 4.0 controllers has come to an end and we should start to see some interesting PCIe 4.0 SSDs arriving on the market. Western Digital recently announced their new WD Black line of SSDs will sport an in-house designed controller and today […]

Which Bus Gets To The Game Fastest? Game Loading Benchmarking

October 19, 2020TWGHardware

A Whole Lotta Load TechSpot were curious about the actual effect the new storage technology has on game load times, as that is the specific reasons many have purchased their drives. They tossed in HDDs for a baseline but the interesting part is the impact that various SSD interfaces and flash technologies have when loading […]