Storage | PC Perspective

MSI’s Spatium M580 Frozr SSD; Passive Cooling, Intense Data Transfer

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:53:06 +0000

MSI's Spatium M580 is a Phison based PCIe 5.0 SSD with Micron 232-layer 3D TLC NAND, 30% of it an SLC cache, and an 8GB DDR4-4266 cache, all of which is passively…

ICY DOCK ToughArmor MB842MP-B, M.2 Storage On The Go

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:53:33 +0000

ICY Dock's new ToughArmor MB842MP-B is a PCIe 3/4.0 card that will fit a pair of NVMe drives. It takes advantage of PCIe bifurcation to provide each of the drives with four…

Crucial T705 PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD Review

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:29:38 +0000

When we looked at Crucial's initial PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD product, the T700, last July, it was truly in a class by itself. Since then other manufacturers have brought their own…

The 2TB Sabrent Rocket 5, Adding Even More Speed To One Of The Fastest SSD Makers

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:26:58 +0000

TweakTown have tested the 4TB Sabrent Rocket 5, but it is the 2TB model that truly impressed them. Having tested other Phison E26 based SSDs, they expected that this model would surpass…

Corsair MP600 Elite, DRAM-less PCIe 4.0

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:12:42 +0000

The Corsair MP600 Elite series offers you PCIe 4.0 performance for less than $0.10/GB, the 1TB should cost $95 and the 2TB would be $170; you can drop that price by an…

ASUS Sticks A Gen 5 SSD On The RTX 4060 Ti Dual

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:02:43 +0000

ASUS have come out with an interesting hybrid design, the RTX 4060 Ti Dual. The RTX 4060 Ti is designed to use eight lanes of PCIe 5.0, which leaves and additional eight…

The PCIe 5.0 MSI SPATIUM M570 PRO FROZR

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:08:03 +0000

MSI have updated their SSD lineup with PCIe 5.0 with the launch of the Spatium M570 Pro FROZR in 1TB, 2TB and 4TB models. The FPS Review had a chance to test…

PNY Elite-X Type-C USB 3.2 128GB Flash Drive

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 13:01:37 +0000

Spoiler alert! The 128GB PNY Elite-X Type-C flash drive is $15, the 256GB is an even more respectable $26. The days of charging a USB-C tax are drawing to an…

Samsung Portable SSD T5 EVO USB 3.2 8TB Quick Look Review

Sebastian Peak — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:19:19 +0000

The Portable SSD T5 EVO from Samsung is available in capacities up to a mammoth 8TB, and we have that largest SKU on hand for this review. However, we must caution you…

CORSAIR MP700 PRO For Fans Of PCIe 5.0

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 19:51:53 +0000

The CORSAIR MP700 PRO is a PCIe 5.0 SSD using the Phison E26 controller and a DRAM cache on board, with 4GB on the 2TB model and 2GB for the 1TB version. …

Lexar NM790, Try Out The Maxiotech MAP1602 Controller And YMTC NAND

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 19:19:47 +0000

The Lexar NM790 uses the same controller and flash combo as is found in the Acer Predator GM7, Colorful CN700 and Netac NV7000-T. The MSRPs are attractive, ranging from $45 for…

Upgrade Your Steam Deck With The Team Group MP44S 1TB SSD

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 20:20:14 +0000

The Team Group MP44S isn't your average SSD, as it is specifically designed for handheld gaming devices like the Steam Deck or the ASUS ROG Ally. The NVMe 1.4 M.2 2230 drive…

Samsung Portable SSD T9 Review – The Power of USB 3.2 Gen2x2

Sebastian Peak — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 16:47:16 +0000

Samsung's latest portable SSD, the T9 under review today, represents the current state-of-the-art in external storage. Offered in capacities ranging from 1TB up to 4TB (we have a 2TB sample), the T9…

A Quick Look At The Crucial X9 Pro And X10 Pro Portable SSDs

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 21:27:19 +0000

Crucial updated their line of portable SSDs with the X9 Pro and X10 Pro, offering over 1000MB/s over USB 3.2 Gen-2. The cables it ships with are USB-C, but even with a…

Transcend ESD310C 1TB Thumb Drive – Two Heads Are Better Than One

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:01:26 +0000

The Transcend ESD310C offers the best compatibility possible on a thumb drive, with USB-A on one end of the 1TB stick and USB-C on the other. The drive uses Silicon Motion's 2320…

ADATA LEGEND 970, A New Phison E26 Gen5 SSD

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 18:10:47 +0000

The Samsung 970 EVO is definitely not PCIe 5.0 but ADATA's Legend 970 certainly is. As with many other PCIe 5.0 drives, it is actively cooled with a fan powered by a…

TEAMGROUP MP44 2TB, 7000MB/s Without A DRAM To Give

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 22:37:31 +0000

The extremely high bandwidth of PCIe 4.0 has created a whole ecosystem of DRAM-less NVMe SSDs that offer great performance and price. PCIe 3.0 did offer some models, but they couldn't even…

The Lexar NM710 1TB PCIe Looks To Rule PCIe Gen4 SSDs

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:38:20 +0000

The Lexar NM710 M.2 2280 drive is a Gen4x4 NVMe SSD based on the NVMe 1.4 protocol which skips a DRAM cache to keep the price nicely under $0.10/GB. The 500GB model…

Crucial Launches X9 Pro and X10 Pro Portable SSDs with Speeds up to 2100 MB/s

Sebastian Peak — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:16:54 +0000

Crucial has added two high-performance products to their portable SSD lineup, with the X9 Pro and X10 Pro Portable SSDs moving into some interesting new territory. In particular, the X10 Pro Portable…

The Seagate Lightsaber Collection Special Edition SSDs Have The Best Heatsinks

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:33:28 +0000

The Seagate Lightsaber Collection Special Edition SSDs have a lot going for them. They feature some of the most iconic lightsabers displayed on a heatsink, which happens to have been designed by…