Chris Ramseyer

Chris Ramseyer

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Chris Ramseyer was a senior editor for Tom's Hardware who specialized in testing and reviewing consumer storage products like SSDs, HDDs, and NAS, as well as writing about NAND flash and controller technology.

Articles by: Chris Ramseyer

Plextor M8Pe Series SSD Review

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Plextor launched an aggressive attack on the NVMe market with the new M8Pe that comes with three various cooling options and a plethora of capacities.

Samsung 960 EVO NVMe SSD Review

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Samsung's EVO dominates the consumer SSD market by balancing performance and price, but NVMe is an industry-wide reset. Will Samsung's reign continue?

Tigo G5 NVMe SSD: Underclocking The SM2260

By Chris Ramseyer Published

The Tigo G5 might be from across the globe, but it's more like a product from another world. The drive features a unique feature to save power, but it also takes premium SSDs to a new level.

WD Black PCIe 512GB SSD Review

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Western Digital enters the PCIe SSD market with a design that meshes new and old technology. NVMe is the latest go-to technology to create high-performance SSDs, but will the choice of planar TLC NAND hold the flagship Black PCIe back?

MyDigitalSSD Boost, A High Performance External SSD

By Chris Ramseyer Published

MyDigitalSSD has one of the hottest consumer SSDs available today. Now the company says they have the fastest portable SSD in the world, but the specifications show a tight race with a SanDisk model. Today we let the Boost loose to find the fastest SSD.

Visiting Phison's Headquarters In Zhunan, Taiwan

By Chris Ramseyer Published

We visited Phison's Zhunan, Taiwan headquarters to learn more about the company. We spoke with two R&D department heads and explored many uses for flash that often go unseen.

11-Drive DRAMless SSD Round Up

By Chris Ramseyer Published

What would happen if your SSD had amnesia? We examine several DRAMless SSDs that are currently shipping and two reference designs with next-generation memory.

Adata SD700 Portable SSD Review

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Adata released an updated portable SSD lineup with 3D NAND. The new SD700 is the first of the new drives and comes with a rugged IP68 rated enclosure. The drive is small, portable, and can take a lot of abuse, so it isn't your typical purse SSD.

Corsair Force Series MP500 M.2 NVMe SSD Review

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Corsair arms the Force Series with some NVMe power. The new MP500 packs the punch of a boxer, but does the high price mean it belongs in the ring with the pros or is this another amateur trying to make a name for itself?

Thecus N4810 Review

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Thecus expands a popular product with a new quad-core processor, ample system memory and features that make the new N4810 the most diverse system from the company.

SanDisk Extreme 510 Portable SSD Review

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Before the shortage, NAND manufacturers had flash to burn. With TLC NAND piling up, several companies had to find new form factors to push the main product to market. The solution was external SSDs, and now there are several TLC versions on the market.

Plextor S2C SSD Review

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Plextor introduced a new series of SSDs to attack the entry-level consumer market. The first product in the S2 family is the S2C, which might be one of the better low-cost SSDs released in 2016.

NAND Shortage Delays Samsung 850 Pro 4TB

By Chris Ramseyer Published

We found numerous signs leading to a Samsung 850 Pro 4TB launch at CES. One item, from marketing, even associated the product with an official CES award. CES came and went, but the 4TB never did.

Breaking Intel's 600p NVMe SSD: Endurance Pushed To The Limit

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Upon release, Intel stated that all SSD 600p series products shared the same 72TBW endurance rating, which we discussed in our review. Later, the company quietly changed the endurance rating, which we put to the test for 42 days.

Seagate Flies High With DJI And Thunderbolt

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Seagate and DJI announce a partnership without a product, but one appears out of a jacket pocket at CES. Seagate also demo'd the Thunderbolt 3 powered 6big and 12big.

Meet Boost, MyDigitalSSD's Fastest Portable SSD From CES 2017

By Chris Ramseyer Published

MyDigitalSSD shows Boost and claims it as the world's fastest portable SSD. The drive ships with two Samsung mSATA SSDs in RAID 0 and delivers a fast, flash-based backup destination for any USB-enabled device.

Samsung Updates NVMe SSD Driver To Version 2.1

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Samsung released version 2.1 of its NVMe driver to combat power issues observed in the 960 Pro and 960 EVO reviews. The drive also works with the recently replaced 950 Pro. This driver should increase notebook battery life with these products.

Plextor M8Se NVMe TLC SSD Coming In June

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Plextor opens the NVMe door further with a new mainstream model that should arrive just in time for Computex in June. The M8Se series will utilize Toshiba 15nm TLC and the Marvell Eldora controller to boost performance at a low price.

Mushkin Expands SSD Lineup With 2TB, NVMe

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Mushkin pulled the cover off its 2017 SSD updates and unveiled new 2TB and NVMe products. 3D NAND will impact pricing, endurance, and performance, but we'll need to wait for availability. Planar SSDs are baked and ready to serve.

Phison Preps E8 Entry-Level NVMe Storage Solution

By Chris Ramseyer Published

NVMe for all of the storage things. The future is small, sleek, and fast. Phison just announced a low cost NVMe controller to follow up the PS5007-E7. The new E8 uses half the bandwidth to deliver a larger performance per dollar.

Western Digital Announces First Black Series SSD

By Chris Ramseyer Published

The new high-performance product utilizes PCIe 3.0 x4 with the NVMe protocol to deliver flagship-level performance in a small package.

Adata Portable SSD Roundup

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Adata launched several portable SSD products that deliver flash reliability on the go. Three product announcements hit our inbox, and the company even made a follow-up announcement for a fourth. We have the original three, but not all is as it appears.

Corsair Unwraps MP500, Its First NVMe SSD

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Like a child in the middle of the night, Corsair went under the Christmas tree to unwrap a package before CESmas. Inside was a new, high-performance entry to the Force Series dubbed MP500.

Adata Ultimate SU800 SSD Review

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Adata is the first independent fab customer to bring a 3D NAND consumer SSD to market. It's a big deal but is it enough to call this drive the Ultimate SU800?

MSI Plays Show And Tell With Motherboard M.2 Cooling Solution

By Chris Ramseyer Published

Motherboard manufacturers get proactive about cooling high-performance M.2 storage devices. MSI tweeted an image today of a heatsink for M.2 form factor SSDs that will ship with some Gaming series products.

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