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ADATA Swordfish 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review - No Excuse not to NVMe
ADATA Swordfish 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD
At just $115 for the 1 TB version, it'll be hard to find a more affordable M.2 NVMe drive than the ADATA Swordfish. Despite the low price, performance is still very decent; there's now very little reason to buy a SATA drive instead of an NVMe SSD.
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Kingston KC2000 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review - Firmware Update Tested, now Fastest SSD
Kingston KC2000 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD
Last year, we found a bug in Kingston's SSD firmware, which inflicted a significant performance penalty. Now, a software fix is publicly available, and it makes a big difference. The Kingston KC2000 is now the fastest SSD we have ever tested; it even manages to beat the Samsung 970 Pro.
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ADATA Falcon 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review - Impressive Value
ADATA Falcon 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD
The ADATA Falcon SSD is priced at just $130 for the 1 TB version, or 13 cents per gigabyte, which makes it one of the most affordable SSDs on the market. In our review, we found decent performance that beats QLC, and ADATA is even including a small heatsink that helps with thermal throttling.
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Silicon Power P34A80 1 TB Review - TLC at 13 Cents per GB
Silicon Power P34A80 1 TB
Priced at just $132 for 1 TB, the Silicon Power P34A80 SSD is one of the most affordable high-performance TLC drives on the market. It uses the fast Silicon Motion SM2262 controller, paired with 3D TLC flash from Intel/Micron.
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Lexar NM610 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review
Lexar NM610 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD
Lexar's NM610 is built using a Silicon Motion SM2263XT controller, paired with Intel 3D TLC flash. The pseudo-SLC cache is rather large at 128 GB, which ensures big write bursts get handled at full speed. Pricing at $155 for a DRAM-less SSD seems a bit high, though.
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HP EX950 2 TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review - New Firmware Makes a Big Difference
HP EX950 2 TB M.2 NVMe SSD
We test a new firmware update for the HP EX950, which fixes a performance issue and makes the drive the fastest SSD we ever reviewed, beating even the Samsung 970 Pro in real-life tests. With a price of just $270 for the 2 TB version, the EX950 is very affordable, too.
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Team Group MP33 512 GB M.2 NVMe SSD Review - Zero Thermal Throttling
Team Group MP33 512 GB M.2 NVMe SSD
Team Group's MP33 SSD is based on 96-layer TLC NAND from Toshiba paired with a new Phison controller that achieves impressive sustained writes and has the best thermals we've ever seen. Even when fully loaded, without airflow, there is no thermal throttling.
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Sabrent Rocket Q 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review
Sabrent Rocket Q 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD
Priced at $130 for the 1 TB version, the Sabrent Rocket Q SSD is one of the most affordable SSDs on the market. It uses a new Phison E12S controller, which has better thermal performance and can operate with smaller DRAM cache. Write speeds are impressive due to 250 GB of pseudo-SLC cache.
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Addlink X70 RGB SSD 1 TB Review
Addlink X70 RGB SSD 1 TB
The Addlink X70 RGB SSD lets you control its lighting through motherboard software from all the big vendors, so you can sync it to the rest of your system. Performance is good, too, especially random and sequential writes. The preinstalled heatsink works well, keeping temperatures in check.
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Western Digital WD Red SA500 NAS SSD 1 TB Review
Western Digital WD Red SA500 NAS SSD 1 TB
Western Digital's WD Red SA500 is a solid-state-disk optimized for NAS usage, either as cache drive or for primary storage. With a price of $140 for 1 TB, the SSD is priced more aggressively than Seagate's IronWolf 110 NAS competitor, yet offers similar performance and still retains the five-year warranty.
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Team Group Delta Max RGB SSD 1 TB Review
Team Group Delta Max RGB SSD 1 TB
The Team Group Delta Max RGB SSD offers truly impressive RGB illumination that can be synced with your motherboard's lighting effects. Each of the LEDs can be controlled separately, both in color and brightness. Performance is also very decent due to the combination of the SMI controller with some Samsung TLC flash.
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BIOSTAR M700 512 GB PCIe NVMe SSD Review
BIOSTAR M700 512 GB PCIe NVMe SSD
With just $50 for the tested 512 GB model, the BIOSTAR M700 M.2 NVMe SSD is the most affordable SSD we ever reviewed, even cheaper than most 2.5" SATA drives. Thanks to its fast PCIe x4 3.0 interface paired with an SMI controller, performance is good, too. Is there any reason left to buy a 2.5" SATA SSD?
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Team Group T-Force Vulcan 500 GB SSD Review
Team Group T-Force Vulcan 500 GB SSD
The Team Group T-Force Vulcan SSD is priced extremely competitively with $50 for 500 GB, yet delivers outstanding performance. What's surprising is that the drive comes in both TLC and MLC variants, at the same price, but there's no way to know before buying. We tested both models in our review, with surprising results.
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Seagate FireCuda 510 1 TB Review
Seagate FireCuda 510 1 TB
The Seagate FireCuda 510 SSD impresses with transfer rates reaching 4 GB/s; random reads go up to 475k IOPS. Under the hood, the drive uses Toshiba 3D TLC flash paired with Hynix DDR4 DRAM. Sustained transfer rates are excellent, even when the large SLC cache is exhausted, and thermals are good, too.
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ADATA XPG Spectrix S40G 1 TB M.2 NVMe Review
ADATA XPG Spectrix S40G 1 TB M.2 NVMe
The ADATA XPG Spectrix S40G is the first M.2 SSD with adjustable RGB lighting effects. It not only looks great, but performs well, too. Thanks to 3.3 GB/s read and 2.3 GB/s writes, delivered real-life performance is comparable to the fastest NVMe SSDs on the market.
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Team Group Cardea II 1 TB NVMe SSD Review
Team Group Cardea II 1 TB NVMe SSD
The Team Group Cardea II M.2 NVMe SSD comes with a large pre-installed heatsink that adds excellent cooling capability to prevent any sort of thermal throttling. Another highlight is the good sustained write performance, which ends up at over 1 GB/s even though TLC flash is used.
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Patriot P200 1 TB Review
Patriot P200 1 TB
Priced at just $89.99 for the 1 TB version, the Patriot P200 is the perfect solution for users wanting large affordable storage to keep all their games on SSD. Even though it's based on TLC, sustained write performance is amazing, and there is no visible speed drop.
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PCI-Express 4.0 NVMe SSD Performance on Ryzen 3000 & X570
PCI-Express 4.0 NVMe SSD Performance on Ryzen 3000 & X570
AMD's new Ryzens are the first desktop processors to support PCI-Express 4.0, which doubles transfer rates over PCIe 3.0. We test real-life performance gains using the 2 TB Gigabyte Aorus Gen4 M.2 NVMe SSD, which reaches over 5 GB/s in sequential speeds.
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Seagate IronWolf 110 NAS SSD 480 GB Review
Seagate IronWolf 110 NAS SSD 480 GB
The Seagate IronWolf 110 SSD is the first solid-state drive optimized for use in a NAS. It comes with the best and most consistent write speeds we've seen in a long time. On top of the five-year warranty, Seagate includes a data recovery service that will recover your files in case of failure.
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ADATA SX6000 Pro 1 TB NVMe Review
ADATA SX6000 Pro 1 TB NVMe
Priced at a stunning $110, the ADATA SX6000 Pro 1 TB is one of the most affordable NVMe drives on the market, and a heatsink is included, too, to help avoid thermal throttling. In our performance testing, we see decent performance that's within a few percentages of other, more expensive M.2 SSDs.
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WD Blue NVMe SN500 500 GB Review
WD Blue NVMe SN500 500 GB
The WD Blue NVMe is WD's new entry-level SSD using the M.2 PCIe x2 interface and 3D TLC flash. With a price of only $73 for the reviewed 500 GB version, it's one of the most affordable drives on the market that still delivers very decent performance. We saw no thermal-throttling, even when fully loaded and completely uncooled.
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Team Group MP34 M.2 NVMe SSD 512 GB Review
Team Group MP34 M.2 NVMe SSD 512 GB
Team Group's MP34 M.2 NVMe SSD comes at exceptional pricing of only $80 for the tested 512 GB version, which is less than 16 cents per GB. This puts it really close to SATA drives and QLC M.2 SSDs, with better performance at the same time.
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WD Black NVMe SSD (2018) 500 GB Review
WD Black NVMe SSD (2018) 500 GB
WD Black NVMe is Western Digital's premium M.2 SSD for demanding gamers and enthusiasts. It uses an 8-channel SSD controller paired with SanDisk 3D TLC flash. Priced at $105 for the reviewed 500 GB version, it comes at reasonable pricing, and offers outstanding performance.
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Apacer AS2280 P2 SSD 480 GB Review
Apacer AS2280 P2 SSD 480 GB
The Apacer AS2280P2 is an M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x2 SSD built using Toshiba 15 nm 3D TLC flash and a Phison PS5008-E8 controller. Priced at around $100 for the 480 GB version, this solid-state drive is one of the more affordable ways to join the NVMe crowd.
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Team Group MP32 PCIe SSD 512 GB Review
Team Group MP32 PCIe SSD 512 GB
Team Group's MP32 SSD comes in the compact M.2 2280 form factor and uses NVMe over a PCI-Express x2 interface. Another important change is that for cost-optimizations, a DRAM cache chip is not used, which definitely helps with pricing.
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