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SK hynix Tube T31 Stick SSD Review: Bridging Solution Springs A Surprise
Ganesh T S on April 15, 2024 8:00 AM EST - Posted in - Storage - SSDs - flash - DAS - JMicron - SK Hynix - USB 3.2 Gen 2 - Portable SSDs SK hynix is one of the few vertically integrated manufacturers in the flash-based storage market (along with Samsung, Micron / Crucial, Western Digital, and Kioxia). The company is well-established in the OEM market.
The high-performance 'stick SSD' segment is relatively new, and has been dominated by native UFD controllers ( Silicon Motion's SM2320 in products such as the Kingston DataTraveler MaxA and Transcend ESD310C, and the Phison U17 in the OWC Envoy Pro Mini for example). This is in contrast to early high-performance UFDs such as the Corsair Voyager GTX and the Mushkin Ventura Ultra which employed a SATA SSD controller behind a USB 3.0 bridge. In fact, we also added a spare SanDisk Extreme PRO M.2 NVMe SSD to the CPU direct-attached M.2 22110 slot in the baseboard in order to avoid DMI bottlenecks when evaluating Thunderbolt 3 devices.
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