Fractal Design Inc., a leading manufacturer of cases, power supplies, and cooling products for desktop computers, announces the highly anticipated availability of its products in the US. Newegg will be the first US reseller to offer Fractal Designs award winning Define R3 and Define XL Silent PC Cases. The Define Series family of cases delivers unparalleled value to the US …

Right on the heels of our amazing news regarding Intels upcoming release of the Intel ‘SandForce Driven’ SSD, capable of parallel 500MB/s transfer speeds,  The SSD Review is hosting the largest site giveaway we have seen yet on the Internet!! Its no trick!!!  On April 1/2011, we are going to draw from all eligible ballots and some lucky winner is …

Iometer 2008.08.18 (Read Transfer) For the enthusiast crowd and enterprise, I have included IOMeter which allows for configurable cache sizes.  We have set the test file to 8gb, so you are seeing the results basically without cache leverage. The first is sequential bandwidth (1898 mb/s) tested with a 64mb file and 128 queue depth. The second is the 4k random …

Intel took the SSD realm by storm this week with the long awaited release of their first 510 series SATA 3 SSD. Although consumers were anxious for the news, reviewers had to remain tight lipped having received their pre-release sample a day or so prior and being sworn to silence until Intels release date of 29 Feb 11. . We can …

INTERNAL COMPOSITION We almost feel like there should be some type of warning with respect to the pictures below of the PCB, a warning that might assure the reader of photograph authenticity.  The simple truth is that we were left speachless on first observation of the internal SSD components. The Intel 510 Series 250GB SSD is controlled by the Marvell …

CRYSTAL DISKINFO ATTO DISK BENCHMARK V. 2,46 ATTO Disk Benchmark is the quickest and simplest method to determine transfer speeds and utilizes the same test methodology as manufacturers in arriving at performance results.  It simply measures raw seguential transfer speeds for both read and write access at various transfer sizes and produces a very easily understood result.  These results are …

HDTACH V. 3.0.4.0 WIN7 EXPERIENCE INDEX The Win7 Experience Index represents Microsofts method of rating computer systems and, more specific to our usage provides a storage evaluation which provides a rating up to 8 on the PC components and system as a whole.  Our system produce a HDD score of 7.9 out of 8 and, for the first time, we …

PCMARK VANTAGE HDD SUITE The SSD Review uses benchmark software called PCMark Vantage x64 HDD Suite to create testing scenarios that might be used in the typical user experience. There are eight tests in all and the tests performed record the speed of data movement in MB/s to which they are then given a numerical score after all of the tests …

Lets begin this article by conceding that it is abound with speculation and based upon much more balance of probability than concrete fact. In fact, the closest we have come to confirmation is that all to familiar echo of silence when we posed the question to in the know SSD industry associates, many of whom could have simply provided a …

Enter the long awaited Intel 510 Series SSD that enthusiasts have been waiting on for some time.  This new drive is available in capacities of 120GB and 250 GB and performance ranges from 450MB/s read & 210MB/s write for the 120GB to 500MB/s read & 315MB/s write for the 250GB version. Watch for our complete 510 Series REVIEW within the …