
Tag : SATA3
Seagate NAS 8TB (ST8000VN0002) Hard Disk Drive Review
Introduction Just as you wouldn’t use a low-end graphics card for high-end usage, you shouldn’t use the wrong hard disk drive in your storage system either. There is a reason for every product and you should…
SilverStone TS11-C USB 3.1 Docking Station Review
Introduction We have tested quite a few of SilverStone’s storage solutions in the past and while the new TS11-C external hard drive docking station might look like previous models, it is special as it comes with…
Transcend Introduces MST800 1TB M.2 Solid State Drive
Transcend introduced a new tiny drive with a large capacity as their newest drive available now sports an impressive 1TB capacity in a standard M.2 2280 form factor module. Sadly this isn’t an NVMe drive, but…
Mushkin Striker 480GB Solid State Drive Review
Introduction It has been a while since we had a closer look at Mushkin’s lineup of solid state drives which makes today’s review a little more interesting than just looking at a great perming drive. On…
SilverStone Releases SATA and USB 3.1 Add-In Cards
SilverStone has been on a frenzy lately, releasing a lot of new products. Among them are two new PCI-Express add-in cards that could come in very handy and add some modern features or extra functionality to your…
SilverStone Releases TS11-C USB 3.1 Docking Station
SilverStone has quite a few external docking solutions for both SSDs and HDDs, but they newest of them that’s just been released is the fastest of them all. This is at least the case when we exclude the…
Transcend Introduces Full SLC SSD Lineup
Transcend revealed their SSD570 almost three months ago and now they’re ready with the full lineup surrounding the SSD570 SLC SSD and with most current form factors. SLC NAND has quite a few advantages over MLC and…
SilverStone Releases PTS01 USB 3.0 Enclosure for NUCs
Small form factor PCs such as the Intel NUC systems are great and they provide an impressive amount of power in a very compact shape. They do however have one issue most of the times and…
ADATA Launches the ICFS332 CFast Card with SLC and 560MB/s Throughput
Industrial grade products gain their name because they are able to work in much harsher environments than ordinary parts and that is no different when it comes to storage. AData just released a new ICFS332 industrial…

Seagate SSHD 2TB Solid State Hybrid Drive Review
Introduction When we think storage, we usually think in one of two directions. Either we think of the traditional mechanical hard disk drives with large capacities for a low-cost or solid state drives with the higher…
Transcend Launches CFast 2.0 CFX700 Memory Cards
Transcend’s newest memory card may not be the largest with a capacity of just 16GB and 32GB, but it is definitely a fast one with transfer speeds of up to 530MB/s and the new Transcend CFX700…
Giada Introduces Compact and Fanless F103D Mini PC
Giada unveiled a new compact and completely silent Mini PC dubbed the F103D. The Giada F103D isn’t the average mini-PC, it is packed with the latest Intel Braswell N3150, N3050, or N3000 Processors with a max…
ASRock Rack EPC612D4U-2T8R (Intel C612) mATX Server Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications, and Packaging The motherboard that I am taking a look at today is a little bit special as it is considered to be the first mATX motherboard featuring Intel Xeon E5 V3 series with…
Supermicro X10SDV-F Xeon D-1540 SoC Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications, and Packaging The motherboard I’m taking a look at today is a little something special. It is a tiny board yet it packs a punch that is worthy of a large right hook. The…
Synology Releases Rackmounted NAS Scalable up to 1.4PB
If you can’t get enough storage space then Synology might have a good answer for you with their latest NAS and expansion units that together provide the biggest NAS that the company has produced so far.…
ASRock Rack EPC612D4U-2T8R Micro ATX Motherboard Launched
ASRock is mostly known for their consumer products, but they also have a range of server equipment in the ASRock Rack branding. Just that division has just announced the latest motherboard in their lineup and it…
OCZ Will Unveil New TLC-Based Trion 100 SATA Client SSD at Computex
We’ve seen a lot of amazing things from OCZ since they became part of Toshiba, the last being the impressive new Z-Drive 6300 NVMe add-in card. The Z-Drive is mostly aimed at businesses and data centers,…
SanDisk Announces Z400s SATA SSD
SanDisk latest SSD, the new Z400s, is aimed more at the replacement of mechanical hard drives in embedded systems than home systems, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use it. The new SanDisk Z400s is available…

OWC Announced Accelsior S PCIe Card for 2.5-Inch Drives
Other World Computing, or OWC for short, has specialized itself in SSD and memory upgrades of both Apple and PC devices over the last 25-years and as such their latest product doesn’t come as a big surprise.…
Kingston HyperX Savage 240GB Solid State Drive Review
Introduction There have been a lot of PCIe, M.2 and new generation NVMe drives in the news lately and we’ve also tested some of them already, but the go-to standard for most people will still be…
TDK Launches SDS1B Series SSDs
TDK is a company that I haven’t thought of in years, actually many years as I don’t think I’ve seen the name since the time of audio cassettes (MC), but they’re still around and still producing…
Patriot Announces Ignite Series M2 SATA Solid-State Drive
Patriot Memory has launched a new version of their Ignite solid state drive, the Patriot Ignite M2 SSD with up to 480GB capacity. The M.2 form factor makes this drive perfect for ultrabooks, notebooks and ultra-compact PC’s,…
Corsair Adds 480GB and 960GB Capacities to Force LS Series
Corsair expanded their Force LS solid state drive lineup with two new and larger capacities. The Force LS series is now also available as 960GB and 480GB sized models for those of you who need more…
Kingston SSDnow M2 SATA 120GB Solid State Drive Review
Introduction Kingston has a long line of storage options for about every usage you could have. Today I’m taking a look at the SSDnow M.2 SATA Solid State Drive with a capacity of 120GB. The M.2…
Marvell Reveal Their Next-Gen SSD Controllers
Marvell has created the World’s First DRAM-less NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) SSD controller for mobile computing solutions. The new controller only measures 8x8mm and by that allows for SSDs as small as M.2 2230 (22 x…
Apacer Announces Two New SSDs with Improved ECC
Apacer Technology has launched two new ultra slim industrial SATA3.0 SSDs. The SFD18SH-M that complying with the JEDEC MO-297 standard and the mSATA H1-M that is compliant with the MO-300 standard. Both models are made under…
Apacer Launches Dual-mode SATA and USB3 SSD
I am one of those people who gets exited every time something new that hasn’t been seen before is launched, especially if it’s storage technology. It’s not only my bread and butter, it’s also my biggest…