Review: Toshiba OCZ RC100 480GB Reviewed by: J.Reynolds Provided by: Toshiba Firmware: ADRA0101 |
Introduction
Welcome to Myce’s review of the Toshiba OCZ RC100 480GB NVMe
SSD (hereafter referred to as the Toshiba RC100).
The Toshiba RC100 is the second m.2 NVMe drive, I have
tested, that uses only 2 PCIe lanes (the first was the Corsair MP300).
Like Corsair, Toshiba aspires to create a new market segment
which lies between SATA SSDs and ‘premium’ NVMe SSDs. Please read on to find if
they are likely to succeed.
Packaging
To get started let’s have a look at the Toshiba RC100’s
packaging -
The first thing you will notice is that the RC100 is
shorter than is typical for m.2 drives.
Market Positioning and Specification
This is how Toshiba positions the RC100 -
Here is Toshiba’s specification for the RC100 –
Now let's head to the next page, to look at my approach
to testing Client SSDs.....