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On our bench today is a one of the few PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSDs we have looked at to date… and surprisingly its brand name is that of a relatively new company.  Sabrent.  PCIe 4.0 is the latest and greatest in the flash industry bringing data transfer speeds up to the 5GB/s mark and …

On the test bench today is the XPG Spectrix S40G M.2 NVMe RGB SSD.  RGB has become very popular in the last few years and the fact that this SSDs RGB package can be configured with XPG’s own software package is a bonus, as well as its configuration being part and parcel with some motherboards. …

It is no secret that I am a fan of portable storage.  Thunderbolt 3 Portable SSDs rank tops as we can hit speeds of 2.8GB/s, however, anything above SATA is a bonus when you work in the media world and take the amount of photos as I do.  Retail sales of flash storage has conformed …

Whats probably the most amusing, and most unusual characteristic in our review of our second PCIe 4.0 SSD today is the fact that the only way you are going to be running these kind of SSD speeds anytime soon is with an AMD system.  It’s not often that we ever catch Intel with its pants …

USB 3.2 Gen 2 with Type-C has become the norm as of late and more systems these day are being sold with USB-C or Thunderbolt included.  Simply put, this means faster transfer speeds between your system and external storage, this storage being bus powered and not requiring a separate adapter and cable to power the …

Crucial has introduced a new product to the SSD fold as of late, this being the Crucial X8 Portable SSD.  This SSD is available in 500 and 1TB capacities and is a USB 3.2 Gen 2 (Type-C) external SSD that contains Crucials most recent M.2 release, the P1 NVMe M.2 SSD.  Specifications list this SSD …

Thunderbolt 3 portable SSDs has become mainstream as of late, the typical version for which we might see using a JMicron controller that allows for data transfer speeds up to 1GB/s read and write.  This is good for the typical consumer but media professionals demand higher speeds… and higher capacity.  The sweet spot for Thunderbolt …