Gadgetory

every now and then a new player enters the game in technology whether it be SSDs keyboards mice monitors all the before of other hardware options out there for enthusiasts today here on the desk we have an australian based company called CHC technologies which sent me over their 960 gigabyte SSDs and also 480 d bi SSD variants which feature Samsung based NAND flash now the controls and everything themselves they've put these together and they're giving a 5 year warranty on the product itself the pricing seems pretty competitive but there are however a few problems with the product that I will address before we get on to the majority of the review and that is first the temperature sensor on the 480 gigabyte SSD was staying at a static 49 degrees so I couldn't actually get a proper reading until I used my FLIR one thermal imaging sensor which showed that the temperatures of course were getting hotter when put under stress tests the temperatures were acceptable and it looks like it's using the metal tray to dissipate some of this heat however the metal tray itself could be a detriment because the 960 gigabyte version that we have here actually died after one transfer so I'm not entirely sure why that happened perhaps it absorbs shock too easily as opposed to a plastic SSD casing I'm not entirely sure what happened but the SSD just stopped working and this was the more expensive option so although there is a five-year warranty I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't want to buy a product and have to go through the hassles of returning it and getting it sent back and going back and forth so yes I did receive a faulty product but the numbers were pretty impressive out of the 480 web version we had here especially for the price tag and what you're getting was something that came close to a crucial MX 500 for example and also a Samsung 860 evoke both which are very popular value orientated options for people who just want an SSD want to load up their computer get the benefits of an SSD over a hard drive and also load up games quicker and just in general have an snappier experience due to those much faster 4k reading rights that are offered with SSDs but what we got here of course is something that doesn't throttle which I've been checking out on a lot of SSDs and this is even though they use TLC man based flash the reason it doesn't throttle as we saw in the Samsung Evo 970 review which is a nvme based drive I'll put the review up here if you want to check that out is that the maximum speeds even when they do throttle on the Samsung base TLC NAND flash is much higher than that of sada threes max 500 megabytes per second connection speeds so really when it comes down to the Samsung NAND flash to use the 3d NAND flash even though its TLC and even though it does bring costs down and it's cheaper than mlc doesn't throttle because the maximum speeds are being reached near the threshold so performance figures read and writes we're going just over 500 megabytes on the reads the writes are going near that as well and the 4k random reading writes nothing out of the ordinary input outputs are a little bit behind that of the crucial M X 500 and also the 860 Evo which saw this drive itself not able to get a higher final score the access times were in a similar ballpark so ultimately this drive does perform pretty well and just it's sad to see that in ways it's still a little bit underdeveloped but my hat's do go off to a local Ozzie company trying to have a crack at making an SSD especially when the case itself does look really nice I do like the styling of this SSD product and it will look very nice in a number of different cases especially if you have gunmetal gray as a main theme in your build so in conclusion CHC technologies and their SSDs I still feel like they're a little bit underdeveloped the temperature sensor not working properly on the 480 gigabyte model coupled with the fact that the 960 gigabyte died after a file transfer the first file transfer I was doing isn't that reassuring to me especially since I've never had an SSD die however hardware failure especially when you're dealing with as many PC parts as I'm dealing with does happen and I would like to see perhaps these SSDs stress tested a lot more than they otherwise would have been perhaps because this did the 960 gigabyte version which holding my hand right now did die on the first transfer so as I said before which does make me believe that perhaps if it was stress tested a little bit more it would have shown the early symptoms of a problematic drive and CHD technologies could have fixed it before sending it out anyway regardless I do like to see a newcomer coming into the field I do like more competition and the driver as well as I said before is aesthetically pleasing I hope you guys enjoyed this review if you did then be sure to hit that like button peace out for now bye