The Crucial P5 is the company’s consumer SSD that leverages the NVMe interface, 3D NAND, and PCIe Gen3. We’ve previously reviewed the P5 in a smaller capacity, the 1TB model. For this review, we will be looking at the 2TB version. Both versions are geared toward enthusiasts and design professionals. The main difference between the

Today KIOXIA America, Inc. announced its latest PCIe Gen4 SSD with the KIOXIA XG7/XG7-P Series. This new PCIe Gen4 SSD is for OEMs that supply drives for notebooks, desktops, and workstations. With this announcement, KIOXIA now has PCIe Gen4 drives across the enterprise, data center, and client space.

Today, Western Digital released one new 2TB NVMe SSD for the WD Blue SN550. The company also announced three other NVMe drives that are currently in development. Western Digital was founded 50 years ago as General Digital. Since then, it has become a household name, providing digital storage devices for everything from home use to

Seagate has been releasing NAS drives of various types for years. While they mainly focus on Hard Drives, Seagate has slowly but steadily increased their SSD portfolio. For NAS drives, it all falls under the IronWolf umbrella now with several options. There is the high capacity IronWolf HDDs now up to 18TB, M.2 SSDs for

The XPG GAMMIX S50 Lite is the newest consumer-grade PCIe Gen4x4 drive to hit the market. Though XPG claims that their new drive is catered to the gamer and PC enthusiast demographic, this drive is certainly more of an entry-level, budget PCIe solution. This M.2 2280 form factor SSD features 3D NAND, SLC Caching and

This week Silicon Motion Technology Corporation announced its new portfolio of PCIe 4.0 NVMe 1.4 controller solutions. The controllers will be aimed at performance, mainstream and value SSD applications and consist of SM2264 for performance, SM2267 for mainstream and SM2267XT for value DRAM-less client SSDs. The higher performance controller comes with speed claims of 7.4GB/s

Today Western Digital expanded its WD_Black gaming portfolio with even more drives to speed up games and give gamers more capacity for storing content. Of the items released, one aimed particularly at PC gamers is the WD_Black AN1500. The AN1500 is an AIC SSD that fits in a PCIe slot and is compatible with over

Today Western Digital expanded its gaming portfolio, WD_BLACK, with even more drives and a gaming dock. These new products include a PCIe Gen4 SSD, the WD_BLACK SN850, an AIC NVMe SSD, the WD_BLACK AN1500, and the aforementioned dock, the WD_BLACK D50 Game Dock. All the new devices leverage the NVMe interface and bring new speeds

With the release of newer AMD Ryzen motherboards, PCIe Gen4 SSDs followed suit and gradually started to hit the market. It was only a matter of time before Samsung made its first appearance in this category, which they’ve done today. The Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, is a client SSD that features the