It has been quite a while since Mushkin has released a new SSD product. Our last Mushkin product review was in 2013 where we ripped apart their Scorpion Deluxe PCIe SSD which utilizes multiple SandForce controller based SSDs on a single PCIe card. Mushkin has been utilizing SandForce controllers in the majority of their SSD product line for the past few …
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Samsung 850 EVO SSD Review (120/500GB) – Showing Off 3D TLC V-NAND
At the end of June, Samsung released the 850 Pro which was the successor to the 840 Pro. With it came their brand new 32-layer MLC 3D V-NAND flash, and this flash allows for greater durability, lower power consumption, improved performance and a 10 year warranty. This morning we are reporting on Samsung’s 850 EVO, the successor to the 840 …
Read More »Top Cyber Monday SSD Deals 2014
Don’t miss out on a chance to upgrade your PC on the cheap. If this Thanksgiving and Black Friday wasn’t enough, there is still time to get some great deals on new SSDs this Cyber Monday. SSDs speed up everything from system boot time, to application loading. We’ve seen dramatic differences in old systems with just a simple SSD upgrade. …
Read More »Top SSD Thanksgiving Sales 2014
It’s that time of the year again, when online retailers are dropping prices on products left and right. Over the past few days there have been some okay deals when it comes to SSDs in anticipation of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. However, today there are some very good deals on drives from all the big boys in the industry, …
Read More »Micron M600 SSD Review (256GB/1TB)
As a reader on our site, you should be very familiar with Crucial and their highly regarded consumer SSDs. Most recently recently, they announced their newest drive the MX100. In our review, we found it to be a great value SSD as it offers its owners many enterprise grade features at a very competitive price, due in part to Micron’s …
Read More »Kingston Announces SSDNow V310 — Just Shy Of 1TB Of Storage Capacity!
Kingston Digital, Inc., which is Kingston Technology Company, Inc.’s Flash memory division, has announced its newest iteration of the SSDNow V300 Family, designated as the V310. The Kingston SSDNow V310 delivers the boosted performance and system responsiveness typical of a solid-state drive upgrade, while also offering 960GB of capacity to store games, movies, music, files, programs and applications. Utilizing a …
Read More »Samsung 850 Pro SSD Review – Showing Off With 3D V-NAND
Some time ago, Samsung introduced their 3D V-NAND (vertical NAND) to the world and NAND flash memory took on a whole new look with what some might call, very high aspirations. Samsung was quick to point out that, as demands for reduced memory sizes increased, achieving a smaller footprint meant increased error rates and performance limitations. An example of this …
Read More »SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD Review – Great Speed & 10 Year Warranty
Last week at Computex, SanDisk announced its latest and greatest in consumer solid state drives, the SanDisk Extreme Pro 6Gbps SSD. Targeting gamers, PC enthusiasts and media professionals, the Extreme Pro boasts performance consistency, as well as all around speed increase from its last round of consumer SSDs. Fortunately for us, SanDisk provided 240, 480 and 960GB samples of the …
Read More »SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD’s Amazing 10 Year Warranty – Computex 2014 Update
The smallest things can sometimes be overlooked! Our meeting at SanDisk this morning saw the introduction of the new SanDisk Extreme Pro SATA 3 SSD, an SSD chalk full of upgrades from the last generation and, like many we are seeing at Computex, with that enterprise flavor and consumer value. The Extreme Pro touts performance of 550MB/s read and 520MB/s …
Read More »MyDigitalSSD Pocket Vault SSD Review – Speed & Capacity In a Value Driven Ultra Small Mobile SSD
Size is everything in the world of SSDs and first hand proof of this can be seen in any number of ultrabooks, including the Apple MBA. True ultrabook size can only be accomplished through mSATA or M.2 SSDs. Much is the same with external storage where we have seen size reduced significantly, while performance has jumped exponentially with the introduction …
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