While current gen consoles such as the PS5 and Xbox Series have been a similar feature. Microsoft have finally released DirectStorage API for both Windows 10 and Windows 11. The main purpose and benefit of having DirectStorage capabilities is allowing a GPU to directly access game data on your NVME SSD – almost completely avoiding […]
Review: Western Digital Black² 120GB SSD and 1TB HDD Dual Drive
The battle between SSD’s and HDD is still ongoing and it pretty much comes down to two things, speed over capacity and then just overall cost, with SSD’s coming down in price practically each week, the battle pretty much then becomes just about speed vs capacity. Now for desktop users, this really is not an […]
Western Digital announce worlds first SSD/HDD dual drive
The battle between SSD’s and HDD’s are ongoing with some users wanting performance and others wanting capacity, there is of course some products that offer a built-in nand flash to use a cache system, but mostly these products are just a small hybrid of the two technologies, whereas they just cache the important/most used files […]
Western Digital and SanDisk join forces for Hybrid storage, launching 2.5-inch SSHD to OEMS
Western Digital and SanDisk have teamed up to release an SSHD together. Using a 500GB WD Black hard drive combined with SanDisk ISSD stoage as cache. Both companies are pushing to bring the best of both worlds when it comes to typical platter hard drives for cheap storage and SSD for amazing speed. “I am delighted for […]
Review: Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD
It’s time for another review. This time it’s the Kingston HyperX SSD 120GB. This SSD brings with it some of the best speeds on an SSD and all for a relatively decent price. This SSD comes in three different sizes which are 120GB, 240GB, 480GB. So let’s not wait any longer and dive right into the specs […]
SuperTalent releasing 1GBps PCIe SSD
SuperTalent have announced plans to release a new PCIe SSD which will be capable of speeds up to 1GBps. Now while they already have PCIe SSDs capable of 2.4GBPS, that type of device cost around $5000 and basically setting it fair beyond basic consumers and most enthusiast purchase lists. The newest device called the RAIDDrive upStream and will […]
Corsair Force Series 3 SSD’s announced, Release later this month
More news in the ever expanding relm of what is the SSDverse! Corsair have just released there new Force Series 3 SSD’d, All of which pack some extremely nice specs. It uses the new SandForce SF-2281 controller with of course Sata III 6Gbps connection, Has a rated write speed of 550MBps and a read speed of […]
OCZ Vertex 3 Pro benched giving results of 550MBps
Today is a day to be heard for all geeks everywhere. ‘Well kinda’ The new Vertex 3 pro was benchmarked today and the results are extremely impressive. While it has been tested by multiple sources, The results are top notch with 550MBps read speed and 500MBps write speed. These results basically put the new OCZ on top […]