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Every now and then, we are fortunate to have SSDs reach our bench that one might not normally find within every day PC systems or servers.  Our review today of the Super Talent DuraDrive AT7 SSD is just that; a SSD fully intended for the automobile industry, and more specifically In-vehicle Infotainment Systems.  Unlike other examples that we have reviewed …

It’s been an incredible start to what is shaping up to be a great year for TSSDR and we hope the same for you.  Here you will find some of the most recent reviews done by our Affiliates. We believe the best way to educate our readers is in providing them with not only our detailed reviews but with input …

Last week we were eager to meet with ADATA’s team at CES 2015. In their suite they had not only some new lighting and hard drive products, but some very interesting SSDs on display. One of these is an enterprise M.2 drive featuring a SandForce SF3700 controller. The SR1020 M.2 2280 SSD is rated for speeds of up to 1800MB/s read and …

I know it may be hard to conceive but the world isn’t just made of flash and tech.  Once again this year, we have been lucky enough to find some gorgeous models to break the SSD news, if only for a bit.  We would like to thank all models very much for their participation once again this year. Check out …

A quick stop and meeting with OWC CEO and Founder Larry O’Connor at the Other World Computing Booth during CES revealed two very interesting new entries to the SSD realm.  First up, OWC is introducing a brand new Envoy Pro Mini USB 3.0 flash drive in capacities of 120, 240 and 480GB and capable of speeds up to 433MB/s. Exterior …

CES has been great so far, there are a lot of new products that have been unveiled and we look forward to reviewing everything we can get our hands on. We stopped by Patriot’s suite in the Bellagio to see what they had up their sleeve. It turns out, they are releasing a brand new high end SSD featuring a Phison S10 controller, …

This morning at CES Las Vegas, we attended the Bellagio where we met with Ryan Smith, Sr. Product Manager of SSD Marketing, Samsung. We got to take a look not only at their current SSD line up, but what should be coming out over the next year or so. The first thing to catch our interest were an M.2 and …

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., has recently announced that it has begun mass producing a high-performance, low-powered PCIe M.2 SSD, the SM951. The OEM drive is targeted for ultra-slim notebook PCs and workstations. It is compatible with both PCIe 3.0 and PCIe 2.0 interfaces. On PCIe 2.0 sequential reads can get up to 1,600MB/s and up to 1,350MB/s for writes, around …

CES 2015 rolls on, and this afternoon finds us at Super Talent’s display. Like a number of other SSD producers, they are finding a new market for their products in the automotive arena.  As vehicles become more technology-heavy, the means to effectively manage that technology needs to keep pace. With the explosion of in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems, the ability to …

As much as we have seen some great products n CES this year, a definite rivalry in the area of SSDs is evident between SanDisk and Micron, one that will most definitely be changing the bar when it comes to value in SSD prices. Only a few days back, we posted of the SanDisk SSD Plus, a new SSD aimed …

Making our rounds at CES, we made a stop by Kingston to check out what they had going on. It turns out, they have something pretty impressive. They are releasing a brand new PCIe 2.0 x4 M.2 SSD capable of 1.4GB/s reads and 1GB/s write, the HyperX Predator! UPDATE: Exclusive Full Review Here. Featuring a Marvell 88SS9293 controller, the drive …

This week at CES 2015 in Las Vegas, our good friends at OCZ introduced us to a few new SSDs, as welll as a dynamite new SSD controller. On their display floor, OCZ has a brand new Vector series SSD, the Vector 180. This SSD will be the last of their Barefoot 3 powered product line. More specifically, it features …

Our second private meeting yesterday was at the Aria with Plextor, a leading producer of performance-oriented flash storage devices.  At this meeting they were unveiling two new solid state drives.  The first is the M7e, a Gen 2×4 M.2 SSD, which they are promoting as the fastest SSD in the market today.  There second announcement was of the M6e Black …

Great things are happening at CES and the storage world might be seeing some of the greatest advances that it has seen in a while.  Take the new Mushkin Hyperion M.2 SSD for example which, will not only reach just under 3GB/s and 350K IOPS but also, it can be had in capacities up to 1TB! Using the Phison PS5007 …

While at Pepcom’s Digital Experience! 2015 in Las Vegas, NV, we were quite interested in what was going on at the PNY booth. They have announced a new line-up of SSDs for enterprise, client, and consumer applications. The naming scheme has also changed from before, now opting for a two letter abbreviation per drive class followed by a number series. …