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Mushkin, well known for their high performance memory products, has announced the existence of their very first PCIe SSD. Dubbed the “Mushkin Scorpion”, the new product will be offered in capacities of 240, 480 and 960 GB. The drive will provide sequential read/write rates of up to 1275MB/s and 1500MB/s respectively, and will also deliver 120,000 4K random write IOPS. …

Some great things were shown at the OCZ display in the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas this week and none more interesting than OCZ’ casual mentioning that their new Everest 2 Platform SSD just may be the new Vertex 4. As much as OCZ and LSI SandForce have had a very tight relationship and we are certain this will continue …

Plextor is today releasing their M3 Pro Series SSD. Compared to their current M3S series, the Pro will feature 24nm Toggle NAND, updated firmware and improved sequential read/write speeds, boosting respective performance from 525MBs/445MBs to 540MBs/450MBs. Random read/write performance has also improved, with the drive increasing bandwidth from 70,000/65,000 IOPS to 75,000/69,000 IOPS at 4k file size. The new drive will be …

OCZ has announced that Everest based SSDs will find their way into LG’s new Z330 Ultrabook. To refesh your memory, OCZ’s Everest controller, which is utilized in their Octane SSD, has read/write speeds of 535/270MB/s respectively for the 256GB variant, which is the same capacity being used in LG’s products. The Everest controller has been shown to hold it’s own …

Today we are at the Samsung 2012 Press Release Event at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas and this place is packed. Sitting five rows from the front in the Lando Ballroom, we were fortunate enough to get VIP passes and I should have brought an interpreter. Myself and Karen, our gorgeous Associate Editor, are the only ones in this …

We are at Storage Visions 2012 Las Vegas and, if our first meeting with the Micron/Crucial Team is any indication of things to come, 2012 is going to be a great year for SSD technology. From a great display to caching solutions, their new ultra thin M4 SSD and a mSATA SSD on display that they couldn’t speak about, this …

If it hasn’t yet clicked that ultrabooks are viewed as the next big thing by major industry players, here’s even more evidence to help the idea sink in. Crucial Technology, well known for their memory products and more recently, their SSDs, is releasing a 7mm thick variant of their m4 SSD. It will be available in 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and …

I just found this on Laptop Reviews and couldn’t resist doing up a quick release because it is simply too good to be true! Tomorrow, the Toshiba Z835 Ultrabook, with a 128GB SSD, will be $200 off at Best Buy and available for only $699.  That is amazing! The Z835 that they are advertising is a 13.3″ model with an …

Our report today is going to take a close look at the newly released Toshiba Portege 13.3″ Ultrabook, one of the smallest and lightest SSD contained laptop solutions to be released this year. We had previously reviewed the Samsung Series 9 Ultrabook in our search for the ultimate website laptop, however as stunning as the Series 9 was, it had …