TweakTown's Storage Content - Page 1

Western Digital is back with another superb DRAMless mainstream value offering; this time, it's the highly revered WD Blue Series in PCIe Gen4. | Jun 28, 2023 7:00 AM CDT

Seagate enters the fray with a PCIe Gen5 SSD, the FireCuda 540, which just so happens to be the second-best performing consumer SSD we've ever tested. | Jun 27, 2023 7:00 AM CDT

MSI has refreshed its Phison E18-powered Spatium M480 Series with a new Pro model SSD featuring Phison's DirectStorage optimized firmware. | Jun 22, 2023 3:00 AM CDT

Today, the world's best-performing retail SSD is finally available. Crucial's T700 is armed and ready to take your PCIe Gen5-enabled PC to the next level. | May 30, 2023 8:00 AM CDT

SSTC, the upstart Vietnamese hardware retailer, is the first to get a 1TB Gen5 SSD into the TT lab. And yeah, it's the fastest 1TB SSD we've ever tested. | May 26, 2023 9:45 AM CDT

Corsair jumps on the speedy 10,000 MBs bullet train and brings the best value to date for a PCIe Gen5 SSD with its MP700 2TB model. | May 11, 2023 9:20 AM CDT

We've seen many proprietary SSD toolboxes and even some proprietary NVMe drivers over the years. Now we have Solidigm pushing them both even further. | May 3, 2023 9:00 AM CDT

Corsair brings incredible value and surprisingly good performance with its newest Gen4 SSD, the QLC-arrayed MP600 Core XT 2TB model. | Apr 25, 2023 8:00 AM CDT

Micron brings forth its 2000MT 232L flash through its retail arm Crucial, whose 12,400 MBs capable T700 PCIe Gen5 SSD offers up 20 percent more throughput. | Apr 17, 2023 2:00 AM CDT

GIGABYTE, through its AORUS brand, brings 10,000 MB/s throughput to the masses and with the first effective passively cooled E26-controlled offering. | Mar 30, 2023 9:25 AM CDT

Micro Center is bringing value to Gen5 NVMe SSDs with its 10,000 MB/s speedster, the inland TD510 2TB, powered by Phison's E26 controller. | Mar 27, 2023 9:05 AM CDT

SSTC, the Vietnamese retailer best known for its extreme value offerings, is the first to get a retail PCIe Gen5 SSD into the TweakTown lab for testing. | Mar 3, 2023 4:25 PM CST

SSTC's HammerHead E18 series offers serious value. Today we have another best value in its class offering from the Vietnamese hardware retailer. | Mar 3, 2023 9:40 AM CST

At $149.99 for 2TB of TLC flash capable of delivering up to 7,400/7,000 throughput, SSTC's HammerHead E18 is offering up some serious value. | Feb 28, 2023 9:05 AM CST

Sabrent's newest product is a small form-factor powerhouse that can deliver all the performance of similarly configured SSDs three times its size. | Feb 20, 2023 9:05 AM CST

Synology's DS923+ SMB NAS ushers in a better four-bay storage appliance, but still relies on 1Gbe when 10Gbe would have been much more preferred. | Feb 1, 2023 9:15 AM CST

Samsung is upping its portable game with its new 4TB T7 Shield, designed to deliver high sustained write speeds, broad compatibility, and massive capacity. | Jan 31, 2023 9:00 AM CST

7,450 MB/s throughput from a 4-channel DRAMless SSD? Yep, that's what we've got in the lab for today's testing with the Acer Predator GM7 1TB. | Jan 23, 2023 9:05 AM CST

Just as they were with PCIe Gen4, Phison is once again the first to bring PCIe Gen5 SSDs for mass consumption. 10,000 MB/s, oh yeah! | Jan 3, 2023 12:25 PM CST

We love speedy native USB portable SSDs, and Sabrent's newest ultra-portable, the Rocket Nano V2, is bringing the capacity we crave at a whopping 4TB. | Dec 30, 2022 9:45 AM CST

T-Create Classic is a long time series with many models, now TeamGroup is updating its T-Create Classic lineup with a DRAMless (DL) PCIe Gen4 version. | Dec 26, 2022 9:05 AM CST

It's still a rare occasion when we get a 4TB SSD in for review, so we are delighted to put Acer's updated 4TB powerhouse through its paces. | Dec 23, 2022 9:05 AM CST

Micron's new 2550 SSD series represents our first look at Micron's newly minted 232-Layer B58R flash, and all we can say is a big huge WOW! | Dec 19, 2022 3:02 PM CST

Corsair is upping its portable storage game with its new native USB speedster, the EX100U 2TB, capable of a whopping 1,600 MB/s throughput. | Dec 15, 2022 4:50 PM CST

We've crowned Samsung's 2TB 990 PRO the best-performing flash-based consumer SSD ever made. Now let's see what the 1TB model can do. | Dec 14, 2022 4:45 PM CST

For Corsair's new MP600 GS 2TB, being overpriced and underperforming is not the best combination we can think of when it comes to SDDs. | Dec 13, 2022 4:42 PM CST

We love speedy native USB portable SSDs, and Sabrent's newest ultra-portable, the Rocket Nano V2 2TB, is something to behold. Let's take a look. | Dec 1, 2022 4:35 PM CST

Professional grade ultra-speedy portable perfection for Thunderbolt or USB interfaces is what you get with SanDisk's Professional PRO-G40 2TB SSD. | Dec 1, 2022 9:45 AM CST

Future-Proofers, take notice. DirectStorage gaming is coming and no other SSD is set to deliver as well as Sabrent's Rocket 4 Plus Gaming edition. | Nov 28, 2022 9:10 AM CST

As CF Express supplants XQD memory cards, Sabrent dives in headfirst with some massive capacity Type-B solutions, such as the 512GB and 1TB parts. | Nov 22, 2022 5:25 PM CST

Sabrent's SDXC lineup expands further as they introduce a UHS-II V60 line of memory cards. We check out the 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB parts right here. | Nov 21, 2022 5:30 PM CST

Following the launch of its first Gen4 QLC client SSD, Solidigm is back, and this time it's all about superior performance at unheard of pricing. | Nov 18, 2022 9:05 AM CST

Chosen by Lenovo to power its YOGA 9i 2-in-1 notebook, the Union Memory A630 SSD is powered by SMI's SM2267XT DRAMless controller. | Nov 17, 2022 9:25 AM CST

USB4 is here, and man, is it fast! Join us as we get acquainted with the first USB4 device we've ever tested. Here's our look at the Orico Montage MTQ-40G. | Nov 16, 2022 12:46 PM CST

Kingston's new heatsink variant of its flagship performance SSD, Fury Renegade, is designed to run cooler and sized perfectly for PS5 storage expansion. | Nov 14, 2022 8:08 AM CST

Let's take another look at our favorite B47R arrayed SSD, the ADATA Legend 960, this time at 2TB, running on our newly minted Intel 13th-gen platform. | Nov 10, 2022 4:45 PM CST

Currently we are in the midst of a new generation of powerful DRAMless SSDs, and now TeamGroup is joining the fray with its MP44L 1TB drive. | Nov 2, 2022 6:11 PM CDT

Kingston teams up with Silicon Motion to deliver the world's fastest Type-A USB pen drive, offering the ultimate backward USB compatibility. | Nov 1, 2022 9:05 AM CDT

It's been a long time coming, but today is the day that Samsung retakes the flash-based consumer SSD performance crown, doing so in spectacular fashion. | Oct 18, 2022 9:00 AM CDT

Direct Storage is on its way and is set to change how gaming assets are delivered to your GPU, only one company stands ready to fully deliver - Sabrent! | Oct 10, 2022 7:05 AM CDT

AMD's new 7000 series CPUs are all the rage at the moment, trading blows with Intel for supremacy, but how's the storage performance? Let's find out. | Oct 5, 2022 12:51 AM CDT

DRAMless and QLC is about as cost-effective as it gets, but man, the performance will be awful right? Right? Solidigm's P41 Plus 2TB SSD proves otherwise. | Sep 24, 2022 1:41 PM CDT

It's been more than two years that we've been waiting on Silicon Motion to bring forth its SM2264 Gen4 SSD controller, and now it's finally here! | Sep 14, 2022 11:15 AM CDT

Patriot's Viper VP4300 was already one of the fastest SSDs tested with 96L flash, and now it's on a whole other level with 176 Layer B47R. | Sep 6, 2022 9:10 AM CDT

KIOXIA's XG8 is powered by BiCS5 flash and is easily the world's best-performing client SSD. Join us for a full examination as we see what it can do. | Sep 4, 2022 5:15 PM CDT

Netac's NV7000 series is a variable BOM hyper-class PCIe Gen4 SSD that is guaranteed to deliver 7,000 MB/s throughput and unbeatable value. | Aug 31, 2022 1:55 PM CDT

We take a look at the ASUSTOR Lockerstor 4 AS6704T NAS which has been upgraded from Gen1 to Gen2. What's the difference? Follow as we find out here. | Aug 26, 2022 10:15 AM CDT

WD's supremely powerful WD_Black SN850 SSD gets a flash upgrade to BiCS 5 with the SN850X, bringing a huge performance boost. | Aug 12, 2022 10:45 AM CDT

Want B47R TLC NAND flash goodness in high capacity? For PC or PS5, GIGABYTE's 2TB AORUS 7000s SSD is about as good as it gets. | Aug 11, 2022 10:35 AM CDT

MS DirectStorage gaming is about to arrive and Phison is prepared to deliver direct to GPU texture streams at the highest level. | Aug 2, 2022 10:00 AM CDT