Tag Archives: 256Gb

The Crucial M4 has recently been the poster child for high performance at low prices. We’ve been following the M4’s pricing for a while now, and recent sales have been dropping the Crucial well below the 1GB/$ range. Yesterday, the 128GB variant was selling for a mere $99, which works out to around $0.83 cents per usable GB. The 256GB …

It wasn’t so long ago that we had a sit down with Crucial/Micron at Storage Visions 2012 and they spoke of their SSD plans for the year, the Adrenaline Caching SSD and production of a mSATA SSD being high priorities on the list. Shortly after that venture, we reviewed the Adrenaline and here we are back once again with announcement, …

Back In February, we published an article with respect to LSI SandForce releasing code that would enable the production of ‘SandForce Driven’ SSDs with increased capacity, a whopping 7% additional capacity in fact. In other words, the consumer would see LSI SandForce performance in 64, 128, 256 and 512GB drives vice the standard SF capacities of 60, 120, 240 and …

Up until this morning, the most recognizable characteristic of a ‘SandForce Driven’ SSD was the fact that it’s capacities were always 60, 120, 240 or 480GB, unlike the standard of 64, 128, 256 and 512GB. This was a strong clue which supported our belief that LSI SandForce and Intel had teamed up for manufacture of their enthusiast level 520 Series …

Just when we think things might slow for the holidays, OCZ sneaks in yet another SSD release which has to be part of their new Octane family. The OCZ Petrol will be the second ‘Indilinx Infused’ SSD release by OCZ based on their Indilinx Everest platform. The Petrol will be available in capacities of 128, 256 and 512GB and is …

The rage this year in storage technology has been hard drive caching which is equaled only by the introduction and storm of Ultrabooks we are seeing brought to market.  Samsung has tackled both with their new PM830 mSATA release containing sizes from 32GB all the way to an incredible 256GB which thus far, is unheard of in a mSATA SSD. …

Corsairs newest Performance Pro SATA 3 SSD is on our bench today and get ready for some great benchmarks!  After Crucial’s M4 punch which came as a result of their updated Marvell firmware, it was only a matter of time before another manufacturer came back swinging with the same Marvell controller in tow. To be quite frank, SSD enthusiasts have …

OCZ Technology posted product info and specs of the OCZ Octane SATA 3 SSD today and we dug a bit further and were fortunate to get their manufacturers suggested retail pricing on all but the 1TB capacity as well. The Octane will be the first consumer release of an ‘Indilinx Infused’ SSD since the purchase of Indilinx by OCZ last …

Kingston today announced the release of their updated V200 series, an SSD family that traditionally relied on the JMicron controller.  We have been anticipating this upgrade from Kingston for some time now as we first spotted the SATA 3  JMicron at Computex, Taipei this past June. The V200 is available as a standalone SSD, or with a migration kit, in …

Corsair has announced the release of their new Performance Pro Series SSDs and are betting that the success of the updated Marvell controller will make this SSD an excellent consumer choice. The Performance Pro is initially being offered in capacities of 128 and 256GB, with performance as high as 515MB/s read and 440MB/s write with 65,000 IOPS at 4k random …