The trend toward SSD caching solutions continues with Corsair’s announcement of availability of its Accelerator series of solid-state cache drives. Corsair is advertising the Accelerator series as an easy and affordable way to boost your PC system performance by up to 5 times! The Accelerator series of cache SSDs  support Windows 7 operating systems with support for Windows 8 already …

Everyone is getting in on the SSD caching action these days. Through software, or a combination of software and hardware, using fast SSDs to speed up slower mechanical storage seems like a catchy idea. Enter the HighPoint 3420X8 RocketCache which enables you to mix up to 4 devices for your caching pleasure.  Would you like to mix three SSDs and …

One of the largest voids consumers have spoken of in storage technology has been the inability to combine our new found speed of SSDs with the capacity of the hard drive. Our latest review of the Toshiba Portege Z830 Ultrabook reached new heights with SSD speeds of 550MB/s now possible in laptops as light as 2.4lbs and just over 1/2″ …

Teton Glacier.  We can probably all agree that this is one of the coolest product code names to date.  This code name applies to the subject of our report today which is the 512GB version of the Intel Optane Memory H10 with Solid State Storage.  To look at, this SSD is unique in that, although its mechanism of operation is …

Intel Optane Memory is Intel’ first phase in release of their Optane flash technology line that Intel hopes might revolutionize the flash industry.  At its most basic level, it is SSD storage that caches your hard drive with performance speeds up to 1.4GB/s, a speed that has yet to be seen for this type of storage in the industry.  The term ‘Optane’ is …

Introducing Samsung’s new ‘RAPID Mode’ technology at the 2013 Samsung SSD Global Summit this past week was David Lin, former VP Product Management of NVELO, NVELO (and David) now a part of the Samsung family after NVELO was purchased just a few months back. We have been curious as to what plans Samsung had with the former NVELO as their …

At this point in the game, SSD optimization is nothing new to technology and has become a very popular topic as a result of SSD popularity, coupled with Microsoft’s shutting down sales of Windows 7.  Microsoft wants the world to be a Windows 8 world, at least until Windows Blue arrives as originally discovered in our own Forum Community. Even …

Mushkin has announced release the Atlas Deluxe 30GB SSD, their smallest capacity and possibly the most powerful mSATA SSD on the market for it’s size. The Atlas Deluxe specifications list the Atlas at 555MB/s read and 365MB/s write with 92,000 IOPS with a three year standard warranty.  The Atlas Deluxe will be yet another shining example of the ‘LSI SandForce’ …

Following in the footsteps of OCZ, Corsair, Crucial and probably one or two others, Mushkin is introducing its Catalyst Caching line of SSDs which are available in 50GB and 100GB capacities and are both SATA 3 speeds. The Catalyst family uses the very successful NVELO Dataplex Caching software that we have reviewed several times prior and the best thing about …

Our SSD close up today is going to examine the different SSD types and form factors common to the consumer. This is the third paper in a series of recent articles that explained the benefits and components of a solid state drive and will go so far as to make up our SSD Beginners Guide.  Each article is designed to …