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Crucial BX500 Dramless SSD review.

Following up the impressive MX500 Crucial sent in it’s smaller sibling the BX500 for review. Unlike other reviews we have

The SK hynix Gold S31 was sent to me for review about a month ago, but we’re just getting to

Continuing their focus on main market drives that we saw with the UV400 sata drive back in 2017 and the

From NVMe back to the world of of more pedestrian things with SATA is where the MX500 takes us. However

Our first look at NVME left us hungry for more even if we were hesitant of the pricepoint. Kingston saw

Crucial is a big name in SSD’s and one we’ve only touched on tangentially to date. Although this will be

It’s been almost a full year since we last looked at an external USB SSD. But they’re back this time

We’ve looked at a few Kingston products before for both PC and mobile storage. However both of those were value

Lexar Professional Workflow Reviews by editor: Daniel Smith Three UHS-II uSDXC UR2 UHS-II SD Card SR2 UDMA7 Compact Flash CFR1

Following up on the SU800 which we looked at recently we’ve been samples the new SU900. This is like the SU800

Deslok In the case of a higher power card(a gpu) a full system power measurement would be acceptable however a pcie device like this is low enough power that other factors(disk and cpu activity triggered by...
Trendnet TEG-10GECTX PCIe 10GbaseT Ethernet Adapter Review · November 23, 2020
MrCalvin I agree measure power-consumption on a PCI socket is whole other story, I would say the only practical way is to measure the whole computer, before and after activating the device, but that should...
Trendnet TEG-10GECTX PCIe 10GbaseT Ethernet Adapter Review · November 21, 2020
Deslok I unfortunately don't have a way to meter a pcie device directly at this time, that is part of why my answer was 6-10w based on other AQ107 devices i've observed(such as the OWC 10gbaseT adapter which...
Trendnet TEG-10GECTX PCIe 10GbaseT Ethernet Adapter Review · November 20, 2020
Deslok That's it's own special rabbit hole really, old 10gbaset switches were upwards of 12w per port, new ones are usually 1.5-4w with some variance on link length(there's a minimum power to simply have an...
Trendnet TEG-10GECTX PCIe 10GbaseT Ethernet Adapter Review · November 20, 2020
MrCalvin Don't trust the word of a spec sheet! Especially of a brand of cheap chipset. A bit off-topic I know, but my Kingston KC600 SSD use almost 3 x more power in idle and in read mode than the spec sheet...
Trendnet TEG-10GECTX PCIe 10GbaseT Ethernet Adapter Review · November 20, 2020