When shopping for an SSD it’s important to know which form-factor fits your system. SSDs come in a bunch of shapes and sizes.
At a glance Expert's Rating Pros ・Provides up to four full-speed PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 slots ・Fantastically affordable ・Auxiliary power connector and fan control header ・Very good performance Cons ...
Do you need a cooler for your M.2 NVMe SSD? The short answer is yes, unless your SSD is operating within its defined ...
The humble storage device. It has been around in one form or another since the start of computing. I still remember using 8″ floppy disks back in junior high school. Storage devices have evolved ...
M.2/PCIe NVMe SSDs are now affordable thanks to Samsung’s 950 Pro. Why is that important? Because 2GBps sustained sequential reading and 1.5GBps writing makes a SATA SSD seem like it’s standing still.
“Samsung has led the NVMe SSD industry since its inception, and the company continues to define the latest standards of consumer storage with unprecedented performance of the 970 PRO and EVO SSDs,” ...
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Kingston brought out the Silicon Motion flagship controller and paired it with an unconventional memory combination for the KC2000. The drive delivers strong performance but lacks the full punch when ...
The Samsung SM961 NVMe SSD was all the rage circa 2017 but the system builder drives have reached end of life, and unsold OEM stock is available at 2019 prices. The SM961 is one of the last 2-bit per ...
In this video from the 2018 OpenFabrics Workshop, Xiaoyi Lu from OSU presents: High-Performance Big Data Analytics with RDMA over NVM and NVMe-SSD. “The convergence of Big Data and HPC has been ...
The drop in SSD NVMe prices means the miniature storage sticks are becoming increasingly accessible. Even the super-fast Samsung 960 EVO 500GB model, with speeds of 3,200 MB/s, recently dipped below ...
Today we're looking at high speed storage performance by comparing AMD and Intel mainstream desktop chipsets with ADATA's latest and greatest XPG SX8200 960GB SSD. The SX8200 is an NVMe SSD packing ...