https://pcper.com A Leader in PC Hardware Reviews and News Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:07:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://pcper.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-8a2f-podcast163-mp3-image.png https://pcper.com 32 32 https://pcper.com/2024/07/highpoint-rocket-1608a-pcie-gen5-eight-drive-switch/ https://pcper.com/2024/07/highpoint-rocket-1608a-pcie-gen5-eight-drive-switch/#respond Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:07:20 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=283971 The HighPoint Rocket 1608A is a drive switch card, which means that it lacks a fancy RAID controller and software required to set up drives in anything other than RAID 0 or…]]> https://pcper.com/2024/07/highpoint-rocket-1608a-pcie-gen5-eight-drive-switch/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2024/06/the-new-crucial-t705-2tb-ssd-for-pcie-5-0-fans/ https://pcper.com/2024/06/the-new-crucial-t705-2tb-ssd-for-pcie-5-0-fans/#respond Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:32:44 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=283734 Crucial have combined two popular ingredients, the Phison S5026-E26 8-channel controller and Micron's 232-Layer 3D TLC NAND into the Crucial T705 series of SSDs.  To make this electronic peanut butter cup even…]]> https://pcper.com/2024/06/the-new-crucial-t705-2tb-ssd-for-pcie-5-0-fans/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2024/05/the-samsung-990-pro-with-its-own-samsung-pascal-controller/ https://pcper.com/2024/05/the-samsung-990-pro-with-its-own-samsung-pascal-controller/#respond Tue, 28 May 2024 19:05:08 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=283608 The Samsung 990 Pro is rated for sequential reads of 7,450MB/s and writes of 6,900MB/s which is certainly fast enough you won't notice the slightly older connection.  The FPS review saw transfer…]]> https://pcper.com/2024/05/the-samsung-990-pro-with-its-own-samsung-pascal-controller/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2024/05/the-newest-member-of-the-pcie-5-0-club-the-corsair-mp700-pro-se-4-tb/ https://pcper.com/2024/05/the-newest-member-of-the-pcie-5-0-club-the-corsair-mp700-pro-se-4-tb/#respond Tue, 14 May 2024 19:49:31 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=283458 Corsair have added the MP700 Pro SE to the list of PCIe 5.0 drives you can consider picking up.  The 4TB version that TechPowerUp tested has 8GB of Hynix DDR4-4266 cache and…]]> https://pcper.com/2024/05/the-newest-member-of-the-pcie-5-0-club-the-corsair-mp700-pro-se-4-tb/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2024/04/the-stylish-lexar-nm790-pcie-4-0-ssd/ https://pcper.com/2024/04/the-stylish-lexar-nm790-pcie-4-0-ssd/#respond Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:15:18 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=283214 If you don't want to pay the extra cost for a PCIe 5.0 SSD you have a lot of choices when it comes to PCIe 4.0 drives.  You won't notice much performance…]]> https://pcper.com/2024/04/the-stylish-lexar-nm790-pcie-4-0-ssd/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2024/04/highpoint-claims-industry-first-with-8-channel-pcie-gen5-x16-nvme-switch-and-raid/ https://pcper.com/2024/04/highpoint-claims-industry-first-with-8-channel-pcie-gen5-x16-nvme-switch-and-raid/#respond Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:04:14 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=283089 What happens when you put Broadcom's 48-lane, 48-port, PCI Express Gen 5.0 ExpressFabric Platform (PEX89048) on a PCI Express card with multiple M.2 slots? You get the RocketRAID 7600 and Rocket…]]> https://pcper.com/2024/04/highpoint-claims-industry-first-with-8-channel-pcie-gen5-x16-nvme-switch-and-raid/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2024/04/msis-spatium-m580-frozr-ssd-passive-cooling-intense-data-transfer/ https://pcper.com/2024/04/msis-spatium-m580-frozr-ssd-passive-cooling-intense-data-transfer/#respond Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:53:06 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=282696 MSI's Spatium M580 is a Phison based PCIe 5.0 SSD with Micron 232-layer 3D TLC NAND, 30% of it an SLC cache, and an 8GB DDR4-4266 cache, all of which is passively…]]> https://pcper.com/2024/04/msis-spatium-m580-frozr-ssd-passive-cooling-intense-data-transfer/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2024/03/icy-dock-tougharmor-mb842mp-b-m-2-storage-on-the-go/ https://pcper.com/2024/03/icy-dock-tougharmor-mb842mp-b-m-2-storage-on-the-go/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:53:33 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=282572 ICY Dock's new ToughArmor MB842MP-B is a PCIe 3/4.0 card that will fit a pair of NVMe drives.  It takes advantage of PCIe bifurcation to provide each of the drives with four…]]> https://pcper.com/2024/03/icy-dock-tougharmor-mb842mp-b-m-2-storage-on-the-go/feed/ 1 https://pcper.com/2024/03/crucial-t705-pcie-gen5-nvme-ssd-review/ https://pcper.com/2024/03/crucial-t705-pcie-gen5-nvme-ssd-review/#respond Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:29:38 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=282263 When we looked at Crucial's initial PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD product, the T700, last July, it was truly in a class by itself. Since then other manufacturers have brought their own…]]> https://pcper.com/2024/03/crucial-t705-pcie-gen5-nvme-ssd-review/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2024/03/the-2tb-sabrent-rocket-5-adding-even-more-speed-to-one-of-the-fastest-ssd-makers/ https://pcper.com/2024/03/the-2tb-sabrent-rocket-5-adding-even-more-speed-to-one-of-the-fastest-ssd-makers/#respond Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:26:58 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=282303 TweakTown have tested the 4TB Sabrent Rocket 5, but it is the 2TB model that truly impressed them.  Having tested other Phison E26 based SSDs, they expected that this model would surpass…]]> https://pcper.com/2024/03/the-2tb-sabrent-rocket-5-adding-even-more-speed-to-one-of-the-fastest-ssd-makers/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2024/02/corsair-mp600-elite-dram-less-pcie-4-0/ https://pcper.com/2024/02/corsair-mp600-elite-dram-less-pcie-4-0/#respond Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:12:42 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=281819 The Corsair MP600 Elite series offers you PCIe 4.0 performance for less than $0.10/GB, the 1TB should cost $95 and the 2TB would be $170; you can drop that price by an…]]> https://pcper.com/2024/02/corsair-mp600-elite-dram-less-pcie-4-0/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2024/01/asus-sticks-a-gen-5-ssd-on-the-rtx-4060-ti-dual/ https://pcper.com/2024/01/asus-sticks-a-gen-5-ssd-on-the-rtx-4060-ti-dual/#respond Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:02:43 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=281259 ASUS have come out with an interesting hybrid design, the RTX 4060 Ti Dual.  The RTX 4060 Ti is designed to use eight lanes of PCIe 5.0, which leaves and additional eight…]]> https://pcper.com/2024/01/asus-sticks-a-gen-5-ssd-on-the-rtx-4060-ti-dual/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2024/01/the-pcie-5-0-msi-spatium-m570-pro-frozr/ https://pcper.com/2024/01/the-pcie-5-0-msi-spatium-m570-pro-frozr/#respond Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:08:03 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=281053 MSI have updated their SSD lineup with PCIe 5.0 with the launch of the Spatium M570 Pro FROZR in 1TB, 2TB and 4TB models.  The FPS Review had a chance to test…]]> https://pcper.com/2024/01/the-pcie-5-0-msi-spatium-m570-pro-frozr/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2023/12/pny-elite-x-type-c-usb-3-2-128gb-flash-drive/ https://pcper.com/2023/12/pny-elite-x-type-c-usb-3-2-128gb-flash-drive/#respond Wed, 06 Dec 2023 13:01:37 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=280843 Spoiler alert!  The 128GB PNY Elite-X Type-C flash drive is $15, the 256GB is an even more respectable $26.  The days of charging a USB-C tax are drawing to an…]]> https://pcper.com/2023/12/pny-elite-x-type-c-usb-3-2-128gb-flash-drive/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2023/11/samsung-portable-ssd-t5-evo-usb-3-2-8tb-quick-look-review/ https://pcper.com/2023/11/samsung-portable-ssd-t5-evo-usb-3-2-8tb-quick-look-review/#respond Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:19:19 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=280664 The Portable SSD T5 EVO from Samsung is available in capacities up to a mammoth 8TB, and we have that largest SKU on hand for this review. However, we must caution you…]]> https://pcper.com/2023/11/samsung-portable-ssd-t5-evo-usb-3-2-8tb-quick-look-review/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2023/11/corsair-mp700-pro-for-fans-of-pcie-5-0/ https://pcper.com/2023/11/corsair-mp700-pro-for-fans-of-pcie-5-0/#respond Mon, 20 Nov 2023 19:51:53 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=280605 The CORSAIR MP700 PRO is a PCIe 5.0 SSD using the Phison E26 controller and a DRAM cache on board, with 4GB on the 2TB model and 2GB for the 1TB version. …]]> https://pcper.com/2023/11/corsair-mp700-pro-for-fans-of-pcie-5-0/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2023/11/lexar-nm790-try-out-the-maxiotech-map1602-controller-and-ymtc-nand/ https://pcper.com/2023/11/lexar-nm790-try-out-the-maxiotech-map1602-controller-and-ymtc-nand/#respond Fri, 03 Nov 2023 19:19:47 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=280459 The Lexar NM790 uses the same controller and flash combo as is found in the Acer Predator GM7, Colorful CN700 and Netac NV7000-T.  The MSRPs are attractive, ranging from $45 for…]]> https://pcper.com/2023/11/lexar-nm790-try-out-the-maxiotech-map1602-controller-and-ymtc-nand/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2023/10/upgrade-your-steam-deck-with-the-team-group-mp44s-1tb-ssd/ https://pcper.com/2023/10/upgrade-your-steam-deck-with-the-team-group-mp44s-1tb-ssd/#respond Wed, 18 Oct 2023 20:20:14 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=280247 The Team Group MP44S isn't your average SSD, as it is specifically designed for handheld gaming devices like the Steam Deck or the ASUS ROG Ally.  The NVMe 1.4 M.2 2230 drive…]]> https://pcper.com/2023/10/upgrade-your-steam-deck-with-the-team-group-mp44s-1tb-ssd/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2023/10/samsung-portable-ssd-t9-review-the-power-of-usb-3-2-gen2x2/ https://pcper.com/2023/10/samsung-portable-ssd-t9-review-the-power-of-usb-3-2-gen2x2/#respond Tue, 03 Oct 2023 16:47:16 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=279957 Samsung's latest portable SSD, the T9 under review today, represents the current state-of-the-art in external storage. Offered in capacities ranging from 1TB up to 4TB (we have a 2TB sample), the T9…]]> https://pcper.com/2023/10/samsung-portable-ssd-t9-review-the-power-of-usb-3-2-gen2x2/feed/ 0 https://pcper.com/2023/10/a-quick-look-at-the-crucial-x9-pro-and-x10-pro/ https://pcper.com/2023/10/a-quick-look-at-the-crucial-x9-pro-and-x10-pro/#respond Mon, 02 Oct 2023 21:27:19 +0000 https://pcper.com/?p=279912 Crucial updated their line of portable SSDs with the X9 Pro and X10 Pro, offering over 1000MB/s over USB 3.2 Gen-2.  The cables it ships with are USB-C, but even with a…]]> https://pcper.com/2023/10/a-quick-look-at-the-crucial-x9-pro-and-x10-pro/feed/ 0