Recently, I have been reading many forum posts, articles, and watching YouTube videos about the fake SSDs. They are packaged in the same product boxes and designed to imitate the real ones. I am not talking about those unnamed portable drives that can be detected easily at first glance. This is happening with popular brands […]
There is already a revolution in the computer storage standards. The ecosystem is now blazing fast, durable, and energy efficient. But every great revolution is backed by a cache. Storage; the more it’s improving every year, the more we hear about certain things going wrong. The most common negatives we hear are that they wear
The Samsung 990 EVO Plus is a relatively new addition to the Samsung SSD lineup. It is a DRAMless SSD focused on low-end or average users. Although it’s a Gen 5.0 drive, it utilizes half of the bandwidth because it just uses two Gen 5 lanes. There are many other competitors to the 990 EVO
Whenever we install a new operating system, we see many options to tweak, and partition schemes are one of the important but confusing ones. When you are creating a bootable media, you see this option and choose the GPT or MBR partition scheme, and it decides where the operating system installs, and whether the system
An NVMe port or slot uses the M.2 form factor and allows the NVMe drives to connect to the system’s PCIe lanes. It is a compact form factor derived from the mSATA form factor, which is almost obsolete these days. The NVMe slot adheres to the M.2 form factor that determines its physical structure and
Sabrent Rocket 5 and Crucial T705 were launched at almost the same time at the start of 2024. After that, they have continued gaining a good amount of reputation and sales in the Gen 5.0 category. However, because of the similar specifications like the controller, NAND flash, and the theoretical read/write performance, people are often
