Samsung’s new 950 PRO M.2 product line is powered by the company’s new UBX controller. The unit follows a smaller M.2 2280 form factor so it will fit on most ATX motherboards capable of M.2 just fine. IOPS numbers are...
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The m.2 form factor is becoming popular for SSDs due to its small size, and, in PCI-E guise, superior performance. As our recent test of the Samsung 950 Pro m.2 SSD has shown, PCI-E m.2 SSDs offer performance many times...
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Just like most current PCIex SSDs the HyperX Predator by Kingston is based on a “marriage” between a PCIex v.2 x4 lanes interface card and a M.2 2280 (m-key) form factor card. This pairing allows for much higher data transfer...
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Gigabyte has always done a great job in varying their retail box design in their products, and the GA-Z170X-UD5 is no exception. Gigabyte is the exclusive BlizzCon motherboard sponsor. With Heroes of the Storm artwork all over the front, if...
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Never being satisfied with the latest and greatest solid state drives, a wonder component a few years ago, Hardwareslave have been looking for something a little bit special. Step in PCIe SSD drives and for most the price isn't going to be achievable, but they are probably the ultimate in gaming storage. What else is there? Well, there is RAID, and we RAID every rig we build, and there is mSATA, but its always going to be bottle necked by the SATA ports. So, it only leaves M.2, a specification that uses PCIe bandwidth to bus your info around without the riser card expense.
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As computers become ever smaller, their storage devices shrink as well. The Next Generation Form Factor (NGFF), also known as m.2, provides not only a smaller envelope for storage devices to fit in, it defines new PCI-E based interfaces as...
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Samsung’s new 850 EVO product line is powered by the company’s new MGX controller. A controller with a low power 2-core design, this drive will be amongst the fastest we have ever tested. Bear in mind that the 1 TB...
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ADATA™ Technology Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of high-performance DRAM modules and NAND Flash application products, today launches three new SATA 6Gb/s SSDs – Premier Pro SP900 M.2 2242 and 2280 for Ultrabooks and desktop PCs, and Premier Pro SP910,...
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Despite its release with much fanfare earlier this month Intel’s 9-series motherboard platform, of which Z97 is the major chipset, has brought few genuinely new features relevant to the mainstream market. In fact perhaps the only significant exception is the...
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The Samsung XP941 has been on the market for quite a while now. Apple and Sony both embraced Samsung’s futuristic wonder in retail products. Apple brought an XP941 variant to the market in the 2013 Macbook Pro and later in...
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