In taking a close look at the need for mSATA SSDs in today’s SSD arena, it just doesn’t really seem clear as to why manufacturers are jumping into the mSATA fold so quickly. We might be able to say that the push to market of mSATA SSDs has become a trend, in fact. Our analysis today will be the MyDigitalSSD …
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OCZ Vertex 4 SSD Benched Again – CeBIT 2012 Update
Our first visit to the OCZ Booth at CeBIT 2012 was a bit ‘rushed’ as we saw a flurry of first day guests invading the hangars as many companies were still fine tuning their displays. Such was the case with our visit to the OCZ booth which remains to be one of the busiest displays of the show. We have …
Read More »Solidata Shows Off Trigger Controlled Secure Erase ‘SandForce Driven’ SATA 3 SSD – CeBIT 2012 Update
Our visit to the Solidata booth at CeBIT today brought with it something we never expected to see, this being a Solidata X8 ‘SandForce Driven’ SSD with hardware secure erase. The picture below displays a long red cord with a button on the end that, when pressed, ensures complete destruction of the SSDs data. This hardware secure erase method physically …
Read More »Corsair Announces Accelerator Series SSD Cache Drives
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 …
Read More »Chinese SSD Manufacturer BIWIN Demos SSDs And Considering US Presence – CeBIT 2012 Update
To many, the name Biwin is definitely not synonymous with many SSD drives that they might consider in their future purchase, but that may change soon enough. Biwin has been in the flash storage business for 16 years and, as surprising as it may seem, has already established very strong strategic partnerships with many names you would know, to include …
Read More »Patriot Announces New WildFire Pro and Magma SATA 3 SSDs – CeBIT 2012 Update
An early morning stop at the Patriot Booth this morning brought news of two upcoming SSD releases, these being the Wildfire Pro and a totally new controller based SSD called the Magma. Not to shocking was the fact that they would be moving the Wildfire SE line to 2xnm NAND flash memory in the near future but these two entries …
Read More »The SSD Review is off to CEBit 2012 in Hannover, Germany!!!
Just a little note to all that there may be a ghost crew around the office for the next week as we are heading off to Germany for a our first look at CEBit! CEBit is being held in Hannover from 6 to 10 March 2012 and is reputed to be one of the largest technology events in the world, …
Read More »ASUS Zenbook SSD Review – Not Necessarily SandForce Driven Hits A Speed Bump
If we told you that we spent $2400 to right a wrong in proving something that you as a consumer should be aware of, would you believe us? This report closely examines the ASUS Zenbook. Within the ‘Zen’, ASUS may provide either of two SATA 3 SSDs, these being the AData ‘SandForce Driven’ XM11 or the Sandisk U100. There is …
Read More »Samsung PM830 SATA 3 256GB mSATA SSD Review – Ultrabooks To Gain Capacity and SATA 3 Speed
Today’s SSD exclusive is going to be a first look at Samsung’s new PM830 SATA 3 mSATA 256GB SSD. This SSD is rather unique as it is one of the first SATA 3 SSDs to be released at the 256GB capacity range and, although laptops and ultrabooks that can utilize it are still limited to just a few, the call …
Read More »Toshiba MKx001GRZB Enterprise SSD Boasts SLC Memory and 6Gb/s Performance
Toshiba has put a strong foot forward into the enterprise SSD storage arena with their 6 Gbb/s MKx001GRZB series of drives that also feature 32nm SLC NAND Flash Memory. These drives are available in capacities of 100 / 200 / 400 GB. The 6 GB/s interface lets these SSDs achieve sequential speeds of 500MB/s reads and 250MB/s writes. 4K random …
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