If you believe you are going to get a close look at ultrabooks in this update , you might be a bit disappointed. If we might suggest a cure to your ailment, however, let us recommend Intel’s owned hand picked Ultra Nurses to ease the pain. Imagine, if you will, that you work at Intel and your boss tells you …
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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 »OCZ Officially Names Vertex 4 and OCZ Enterprise is Booming – CeBIT 2012 Update
Our first stop at CEBit 2012 in Hannover, Germany, was at the OCZ booth and were we in for a shock. It wasn’t ten minutes since the doors opened and the crowd surrounding OCZ enterprise products was unbelievable. So much for getting those early shots right? Hoping to be the first to visit the OCZ booth, we think even they …
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 »Samsung SSD Angels Travel Europe – Samsung SSD Love Mends Broken Relationships Worldwide
Its been some time since Samsung has put out an SSD video but they seem to be spreading the SSD love throughout Europe as of late. It seems that Samsung has taken 50 of their prized 830 Series SSDs, one ambulance turned Tech bench and 4 SSD angels (of which one definitely is) and has toured Europe in hopes of …
Read More »LSI Releases Code To Manufacturers – New Increased Capacity ‘SandForce Driven’ SSDs Hit The Streets
Up until this morning, the most recognizable characteristic of a ‘SandForce Driven’ SSD was the fact that it’s capacities were always 60, 120, 240 or 480GB, unlike the standard of 64, 128, 256 and 512GB. This was a strong clue which supported our belief that LSI SandForce and Intel had teamed up for manufacture of their enthusiast level 520 Series …
Read More »Runcore ProV Max 120GB SSD Review – Runcore Strikes Gold With SandForce Premium Firmware
It was just over a year ago that we analyzed the Runcore ProV 3Gbps 240GB SSD as one of the top SSDs available, then surpassing some RAID configuration performance results. As amazing as that review was, it now stands to be a great example of how far SSD technology has progressed this past year. This report looks at Runcore’s ProV Max …
Read More »Understanding SSD Advertised Performance and Its Purchase Implications – An SSD Primer
Understanding SSDs Performance and Implications Today’s SSD close up is going to teach us the most valuable thing we can ever learn about an SSD. This is the fourth paper in a series of articles that explain the benefits, types and components of a solid state drive and will go so far as to make up our SSD Beginners Guide …
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