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PC Perspective Podcast #601 – Ryzen 5K is Coming! WD PCIe G4 SSD, a tad of iPhone 12, FAAAST reviews plus way more!!

October 17, 2020TWGHardware

How can we top last weeks show #600?! We did the only thing we could think of and decided to make a Podcast #601. This, is that. Tonight we discuss the upcoming Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 series and how they achieve their IPC uplift, do some educated guesses on how the Radeon 6000 GPU series […]

Samsung PRO Plus and EVO Plus SD Card Review

October 13, 2020October 13, 2020TWGHardware

We recently looked at Samsung’s first PCI Express 4.0 SSD with our 980 PRO review, and today we have more high performance solid-state storage from Samsung – in a very different form factor. Arriving in the form of standard-size SD cards (their lineup before today included only microSD cards), these are the PRO Plus marketed […]

PC Perspective Podcast #598 – RTX 3090 Launch! Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4, Microsoft buys Bethesda, and so much more!

September 26, 2020TWGHardware0

Join us this week for another technology discussion on the topics that some people really really want to know more about! Nvidia launch roughness continues with limited 3090 availability. Samsung is making a really fast PCIe 4 SSD – but the NAND man! AMD continues with their launching of rumors. ARM making servers – good […]

Samsung 980 PRO PCI Express 4.0 NVMe SSD Review

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020TWGHardware0

The most interesting aspect of the 980 PRO – in this author’s opinion – is the adoption of the design methodology previously reserved for Samsung’s consumer EVO SSD lineup. Gone is the 2-bit MLC, with 3-bit NAND (usually called TLC, but referred to as 3-bit MLC in Samsung’s documentation for the 980 PRO) finding its […]