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For a price tag that’s just a little higher than an SSD with a SATA 3.0 interface, Plextor’s M6e delivers a 20-percent jump in read performance. Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide No, ...

Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to review the Samsung SM951 512GB AHCI PCIe SSD. In the review, I noted that Samsung had originally told us that the SM951 would feature the NVMe protocol, but ...

Setting up an SSD isn't hard, or at least it shouldn't be. Depending on whether you have a SATA drive, your SSD's storage controller would be in AHCI mode; for M.2 drives, it would be NVMe. However, ...

We are trying something different here. Folks tend to not like to click through pages and pages of benchmarks, so I'm going to weed out those that show little to no delta across different units ...

In RAID mode, passes TRIM to SSD’s in RAID 0, 1, and 0+1 (RAID-5 is not supported). RAID-5 won’t properly support TRIM because if you were to TRIM a part of a stripe across the array, parity would ...

I'm about to do a fresh install on desktop and I have a question about IDE vs. AHCI. Which mode should I pick in the bios? IDE, AHCI or RAID? Does AHCI have any advantages over IDE? My HDD right now ...

If you have an M.2 slot that supports PCIe and a motherboard that will boot from an NVMe drive, the RD400 is one of the fastest storage options currently available. Congratulations, OCZ. You can come ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — ULINK Technology, Inc. announced today the release of a set of new test suites for SATA and PCIe AHCI SSD testing and validation. The release of test ...

What is Advanced Host Controller Interface? Advanced Host Controller Interface, or AHCI, is a technical standard for an interface that enables software to communicate with Serial ATA (SATA) devices.

Samsung's SM951 NVMe SSD is the fastest OS Disk we've ever used and it packs all that performance into the most appealing form factor. NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) technology is transforming SSD ...