If there´s any review I´ve been anxiously awaiting to write, it´s this one. Having seen demos at vendor showcases, I knew NVMe SSD setups could go far faster than what´s possible with the single M.2 slot most PCs offer.To see HighPoint´s 7101A 4-slot, x16 PCIe NVMe RAID card reading at 11GBps reading and writing at nearly 10GBps on PCWorld´s own testbed was a major hoot. Alas, that´s using a synthetic benchmark, and in our real-world copy tests, performance was only slightly faster than with a single fast NVMe SSD.HighPoint said that with the right software, i.e., something that does its own I/O such as synthetic benchmarks, you will get the same dramatic performance boost. We´ll have to take the company at its word, as the 7101A also served to illustrate a number of shortcomings of current PCs and software when it comes to state-of-the-art storage. To read this article in full, please click here
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