While working outside ‘the world of tech’ today, a client began a conversation to tell me of his new system. He had purchased a Mac and was very happy with it so far, although a little confused with how to shut it off. When originally ordering it, he didn’t think the ‘cost’ of an SDD vs HDD was worth it, so he …
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Maingear Releases Six Core Laptop With 1.8TB Of SSD Storage
Maingear, well known for their high performance custom PCs, has announced the release of their Titan 17 gaming laptop. Fully decked out, this beast will include a Core i7-3960x, 32 GB of ram, 2 Geforce GTX 580Ms in SLI, each with a 2GB framebuffer and, the star of this show, 1.8 TB of SSD storage. In this configuration, the brimming behemoth …
Read More »The SSD Review News for February 7, 2012
Let’s see… Today is the seventh day, of the second week, of the second month, of 2012 and the second full moon of the year is shining brightly in the sky over Ontario. Relevance? None…just facts. We’d like to ensure you take advantage of any and all opportunities to win free products so tonight we are highlighting Kitguru’s most recent contest. …
Read More »Intel 520 SSD Review (Round Two) – RAID Testing at 1.5GB/s With Highpoint 2720SGL RAID Controller
Our release yesterday of our Intel 520 SSD Review (Round One) was probably one of the most anticipated events seen yet in the SSD arena and, if sales can be determined by the extreme numbers of readers who visited the site, Intel will do very well. In that review we made a promise, this being that we would follow up …
Read More »EMC Releases PCIe SSD Server Caching Solution As Consumer Space Beckons For Competition
EMC, well known for their various enterprise storage products, has announced the release of their VFCache SSD caching solution for servers. According to EMC, VFCache utilizes PCIe SSDs in order to accelerate I/O performance by at least 3 times while reducing latency by 60%. EMC is touting the new product as a perfect complement to their VMAX, VMAXe, VNX and …
Read More »Intel Series 520 SSD Round Up Special Edition
To say that Intel went all out with their allocation of Series 520 SSDs for review is quite the understatement. In fact, we have NEVER seen this many reviews hit the net simultaneously. The Series 520 is, without a doubt, the biggest and baddest SSD to hit the streets and it’s release has probably been the most anticipated event in …
Read More »Intel 520 240GB SSD Review (Round One) – Intel Releases Amazing SATA 3 SandForce Driven SSD
Well I guess the secrets out by now. Intel has this morning officially released it’s new enthusiast level Intel 520 Series SSD and it is none other than ‘SandForce Driven’. What’s that, you say!? Our report today is a complete analysis of the Intel 520 240GB 6Gbps SSD and I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that this is only …
Read More »The SSD Review Daily News For Sunday Feb 5, 2012 – I Love My SSD Edition!
You will have to trust me when I relate that I have had more than a few laptops throughout the years. I never really cared about the way they looked or ran, so long as I could check e-mail, play a few games and access Facebook. That was up until Les handed me this Lenovo U265 clementine orange Ultra with …
Read More »Kingston Set to Cut SSD prices — Could Force Competitors to Follow Suit!
Kingston Technology, a strong NAND-flash memory maker, is reportedly planning to cut prices for all of its NAND-flash products; possibly by as much as 15%. This would include USB drives, memory modules, and its SSD products according to a Digitimes story. Kingston indicates that the anticipated price adjustments are coordinated with chips suppliers’ moving to more advanced process technologies that …
Read More »Runcore Announces Pro-V Max SSD as Perks Overtake Presentation
Runcore, well known for their myriad SSD products, has announced the release of their new Pro-V Max series of drives. The products will be based on the SF-2281 and offer Read/Write speeds of 560MB/s and 520MB/s respectively. The drives will also deliver 87K burst IOPS, and over 60K sustained IOPS. They also mention that the drive has a score of …
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