Depending on your age, you might remember back to when storage drives connected to the motherboard by an IDE ribbon cable, ultimately capable of PATA transfers up to 133 MB/s. Later came the SATA interface capable of up to 6...
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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 you may have figured out by the model name the specifications of the 850 EVO 2TB SSD are very similar with the rest of the line (even more with the 1TB variant) so once again Samsung used their very...
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As you guys know, we’ve been testing NAND Flash based storage ever since the very beginning, and it is surprising to see where we have gotten. The SSD market is fierce and crowded though. While stability and safety of your...
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Kingston have always been manufacturers of RAM memory and flash devices, and in more recent years storage manufacturers. Why, well until the advent of SSD's, Kingston did not manufacture large storage discs, in fact we don't recall them ever creating an old school HDD. Let's jump ahead and enter the HyperX Savage range, their top SSD drive in their consumer range. Taking aim at the likes of Samsung and Crucial, the HyperX Savage range has some stiff competition
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As the name of the product clearly states the T1 (available in 250/500/1000GB capacities) is basically an SSD (850 EVO mSATA model to be exact) placed inside an USB 3.0 compatible external enclosure which thanks to the size of interior...
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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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Powered by their own 32-layer 3D V-NAND technology, the Samsung SSD 850 EVO replaces the 840 EVO solid state drive and delivers up to twice the density and write speed of traditional 20nm planar NAND flash components. In this article,...
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Samsung isn’t afraid to experiment with gimmicks. They love to include heart rate monitors on their smartphones and have web pages scroll with the movement of your eyes. They came out first with smartwatches that take SIM cards. And now,...
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Samsung today unveiled the Samsung Portable SSD T1, a portable solid state drive (SSD). Available in 250 gigabyte (GB), 500GB and 1 terabyte (TB) storage capacities, the Portable SSD T1 will launch globally in 15 countries across the United States,...
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Samsung may have introduced the 850 EVO line as a “cut-down” version of their 850 PRO line but these two are not really that different something which is a very good thing for consumers. For example both make use of...
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The Samsung SSD 850 EVO offers up to 90,000 IOPS random writes and a 540/520 MBps sequential read/write speed – both made possible by Samsung 3D V-NAND technology and 850 EVO’s MEX controllers. According to Samsung, with the 850 EVO...
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Today Samsung releases a product series that many of you have been waiting for, the 850 EVO series and I am happy to report that we will review the 500 GB model. Samsung’s new 850 EVO SSD product line is...
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It took a while but we finally got our hands on the Samsung 850 Pro SSD, not a small one either, it’s that nicely sized 1 TB version. It is Samsung’s first SSD with innovative 3D vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash...
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This is the fourth and final 850 Pro single drive review we have to publish. On launch day, we tested the massive 1TB drive, and the surprisingly speedy 128GB model. Last month, we looked at the 512GB drive, which offered...
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