Last year Samsung released its first PCIe Gen4 SSD for clients with the Samsung 980 Pro. We did a thorough review at the time. The 980 Pro dominated in the VDBench tests we put it through to be the top dog Gen4 against other newly released drives. The only problem was there was a limitation

Rolled out at CES 2021, the XPG GAMMIX S70 is an M.2 SSD aimed at gamers. The drive leverages the PCIe Gen4x4 interface with promises of speeds up to 7.4GB/s read and 6.4GB/s write. Though it leverages the new interface it is backward compatible with Gen3 devices. Aside from gamers, XPG is also looking at

The Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus is the company’s newest addition to their NVMe PCIe Gen4 portfolio. Released back in December, the Rocket 4 Plus comes equipped with the new Phison PS5018-E18 controller, which was demonstrated at the CES 2021 in January, and features TLC NAND and DDR4 cache. It currently is available in capacities up

The Corsair MP600 Core is an M.2 SSD that leverages both PCIe Gen4 and QLC NAND. As with all things PCIe Gen4, the MP600 Core promises higher performance with top quoted speeds of 4.7GB/s and up to 480K IOPS. The QLC NAND allows for more data in the same space. This drive is aimed at

The Samsung 870 EVO is the latest entry into the company’s successful line of consumer SSDs. The EVO line has been a highly successful endeavor for the company, as the line finds the perfect balance between performance and price while offering Samsung’s pedigree in reliability. These mid-range consumer drives are designed for all kinds of

Today at CES 2021, an all-digital event, Kingston Technology laid out its new NVMe SSD lineup. The lineup includes a new Gen4 drive, new Gen3 drives, an external SSD, and a data center SSD. Kingston also announced and showcased its new Workflow station and readers.

The Crucial P2 was released, and reviewed by our team, earlier this year. The drive is a standard M.2 NVMe SSD that is aimed at being low-cost with decent performance for entry to mainstream use cases (think email and web browsing). The initial release came in 250GB and 500GB capacities, with more promised to come.

The Sabrent Rocket Q4 is an NVMe SSD that leverages the new PCIe 4.0 interface and is the latest model to be reviewed from the company’s Rocket line (the others being the Sabrent Rocket PCIe Gen4 and Sabrent Rocket PCIe Gen3). Sitting in the middle of the bunch as far as performance and price go,

The Corsair MP400 is a consumer-grade NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD that leverages the Gen3 interface. Because Corsair uses 3D QLC NAND with this new line of drives, they lean more towards the high capacity and cost-effective category versus drives that use other types that are solely focused on performance. This allows the MP400 to offer