SSD

Best SSD 2018 (SATA, mSATA, M.2)

In the world of hardware, if you want to improve your computer performance, everything goes through choosing a good solid state drive, characterized by a high speed data transfer (up to 10x more than mechanical drives) and minimum information accessing times. [toc] What is an …

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What an SSD controller is for and the job it does

When we read the specifications of a solid state storage unit, just as important as knowing the type of NAND memory that it uses inside to store our data, is to know what SSD controller the manufacturer has decided to install in it. But do …

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Comparison: SATA 3 SSD vs PCI-Express (PCIe) SSD, is it worth the investment?

As you know, for some time now the performance of SATA3 SSDs reached its peak due to interface limitation, and for that reason nowadays the SSDs with PCI-Express interface –whichever format they may be- and especially those with NVMe, for their high performance, are booming. …

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How to add a 2nd hard drive (SSD) to a Laptop?

Changing your laptop’s hard drive or installing an additional one is a very simple task. Here we show you how to do it and what you should keep in mind. 1: Check your computer’s specs Before buying anything, the first thing we have to do …

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New “gaming” SSD ADATA XPG SX8000 M.2 PCIe 3.0 x2

The term “gaming” has invaded the PC market in a very profound way, there is basically no component or peripheral that does have the word “gaming” in its model. The latest one is the SSD XPG SX8000 from ADATA, a model with M.2 format and …

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Samsung PM1725a, a SSD that achieves 6,400MB/s

This impressive SSD from Samsung makes use of its 3D V-NAND MLC type memories with 3 bits per cell along with Samsung’s Epic controller and a PCIe 3.0 x8 port that lets it to achieve sequential read speeds of an astonishing 6,400 MB/s and a …

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Samsung announces its new V-NAND chip and their SSDs of up to 32TB

Samsung announced in the Flash Memory Summit 2016 its fourth generation of 3D V-NAND memory Flash. These new memory chips of vertical arrangement have up to 64 layers, which means that each chip has a capacity of up to 512 Gigabits. The manufacturer has also …

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Seagate already has a SSD that reaches 10GB/s the PCI-Express

The Flash Memory Summit just ended, so have to talk about storage devices. One of the biggest bombs of the fair was given by Seagate, as they introduced their new PCI-Express SSD Nytro XP7200, with a total capacity of up to 7.7TB and is capable …

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Crucial finally announces their first SSDs M.2 NVMe

It was already unusual for a manufacturer with the category and history of Crucial (which is actually a Micron Technology brand) not to have last generation solid state devices in its catalog, but fortunately that is over as it just announced its new generation of …

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AMD Announces The SSD Radeon R3

The Radeon R3 is the new AMD SSD unit series, updating a storage catalog Storage in which Sunnyvale’s company is also present, in order to “offer consumers a unique window” in computer products, which includes the main components of a computer under its own brand. …

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