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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 […]

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 […]

PC Perspective Podcast #599 – RTX Capacitor Gate? Ryzen 7 Leaks, Sabrent QLC Gen4, Spaaace games, and more!

October 3, 2020TWGHardware

Join us this week for a virtual gathering around the high refresh rate monitor and warming our hands with graphics card exhaust. Ahhhh….. On this show, we go over Nvidia’s 3080 / 3090 “capacitor-gate” and what seems like a software fix, an alleged Ryzen 7 5800X leak & upcoming AGESA patches, QLC nand invades the […]

Fore! QLC on PCIe 4.0 from The New Sabrent Rocket Q4

September 28, 2020September 28, 2020TWGHardware0

1, 2 Or 4TB? Sabrent have released a Phison E16 controlled PCIe 4.0 Rocket SSD, which uses Micron QLC flash and a bit of DRAM onboard to bring the read speed up to almost 5000MBs. It is QLC so your longevity drops, as does the price, ranging from 200TBW on the 1TB model to 800 […]