Having been involved in the storage industry for several years, we can tell you first hand that, traditionally, storage companies have typically been very conservative when it comes to marketing strategies. This all changed at Storage Visions 2013 where SMART, not only introduced the new high endurance Cloudspeed 1000 line but also, introduced their new NAND Band to the world …
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Samsung SSD Angels On the Job At CES 2013 Las Vegas
The Samsung SSD Angels made their first appearance at CES Las Vegas 2013 and we couldn’t resist the opportunity to put them to the test. For those new to the Samsung SSD Angels history, they have traveled the world ‘showing the Samsung love’ by upgrading sometimes unsuspecting people to the world of SSDs. Not wanting to pass up a great …
Read More »OCZ Unveils Vector PCIE SSD at CES 2013 Las Vegas
Our visit with OCZ at the Venetian in Las Vegas this morning resulted in a close up of their new flagship Vector PCIe consumer SSD that is expected to be released sometime in the next quarter of this year. The Vector PCIE SSD is driven by two Indilinx Barefoot 3 controllers and is available in 240, 480 and 960GB capacities …
Read More »SanDisk Displays Ultra Plus SSD and X100 Upgrade: Storage Visions 2013 Update
Up first at Storage Visions 2013 in Las Vegas, we spoke with SanDisk who are displaying enterprise, client and retail upgrade and new release solid state drives. On the retail side of things, SanDisk today announced release of their new UltraPlus SSD which the targets mainstream consumer just starting to examine the move to SSDs. Of interested in client though, …
Read More »Acer Unexpectedly Introduces New SSD Form Factor In S7 Ultrabook
I live for days like today. In less than 24 hours, I will be sitting back on some white sand Honduran beach in front of my villa yet my excitement is still right here in the SSD storage world; and so it should be. As it stands, we just ripped open a brand new Acer S7 because we had to …
Read More »Kingston Wi-Drive Now Available in 128GB Capacity
Kingston has released an upgrade to one of our favorite toys lately which should interest a number of readers. As you may remember, we reviewed the Kingston Wi-Drive in a 64GB capacity a while back and it deservedly received out Innovations Award. Quite frankly, I never expected the Wi-Drive to be so useful and it has since become one of …
Read More »Samsung Acquires NVELO and Gains SSD Caching Software
In an unexpected move, Samsung has acquired NVELO and has added to their SSD portfolio with a proprietary caching solution that is arguably the most powerful in the industry. NVELO Dataplex software has been examined here at TSSDR on many occasions and is the only that we are aware of that can provide nearly identical SSD specifications on a hard …
Read More »Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Ultrabook Review and SSD Performance Analysis
It might seem a bit odd displaying the X1 in such a fashion for our opening shot, however, this ranks high in the list of unique qualities of the Lenovo X1 Carbon. In fact, if you are like I and spend a great many hours on the road typing articles in the passenger seat of a vehicle with the X1 …
Read More »Technology X is Live! – Check It Out and become Part of Our Team!
Well it has been some time in the making, but after a great deal of work and much pushing by readers for us to get it up, Technology X is live! Technology X will cover everything The SSD Review doesn’t and we are hoping to see it grow into an ‘all inclusive’ technology resource that has a worldwide reach! From …
Read More »OCZ Vector SSD Review – Indilinx Barefoot 3 Becomes Reality
To say the new OCZ Vector was a long time in the making would be an understatement as discussion over the development of this platform just might be one of the oldest SSD conversations to date. Today’s Vector release may mark the first major success story of OCZ’ purchase of both Indilinx and PLX, this story born through development of …
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