Word showed up on our Forums earlier tonight of MSI joining Forces with LSI SandForce but all were initially unsure of their plans until someone found the goods on Industry News. It appears that MSI is jumping into the SSD Arena with both feet and will be marketing a new ‘LSI SandForce Driven’ Reflex Series of SSDs in 60, 120 …
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Mushkin Atlas 240GB mSATA SSD Review – Top Performance at an Unbeatable Price
It seems that the LSI SandForce Flash Storage Processor (FSP) combined with Toshiba Toggle Mode NAND is the perfect mix for solid state drives if we follow recent trends. Some manufacturers are even re-releasing SSDs with premium Toggle Mode NAND as the upgrade for that IOPS boost. The Mushkin Atlas 240GB mSATA SSD contains both ingredients and our analysis will …
Read More »OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G SSD First Piks For 2012 MacBook Air Only
These just may be the worlds first official pictures of the OWC Mercury Aura Pro SSD for the new 2012 MacBook Air and our thanks definitely go to OWC for sending us this SSD so quickly. We should also thank the Electronista for breaking the news as this allowed us a bit of leverage with respect to early release of …
Read More »Micron C400 256GB 6Gbps mSATA SSD Review – Crucial M4 mSATA SSD in Disguise
If there was one thing we wouldn’t have predicted, it was the rush of computer enthusiasts lining up to be the first to have what amounts to be the smallest and most powerful consumer storage medium available. For the most part, we have Lenovo to thank for that as millions of Thinkpad owners played a key role in mSATA SSDs …
Read More »Crucial Releases M4 SATA 3 mSATA SSDs Into The Wild
It’s been some time in the making but Crucial has finally released it’s new M4 SATA 3 mSATA SSD into the SSD arena. Available in capacities of 32, 64, 128 and 256GB, Crucial has priced to compete with MSRP listings of $52.99, $80.99, $121.99 and $225.99 which brings the upper capacities under that infamous $1/GB barrier and makes their pricing …
Read More »Intel Adds Capacity and Lowers Prices on Entire Retail SSD Family
Intel announced today that it will be adding a capacity to it’s 330 Series of ‘LSI SandForce Driven’ SSDs, as well as significantly lowering prices and their entire SSD line. With respect to the Intel 330 SSD family, popularity of this family has been such that they felt adding a new 240GB capacity SSD would make a good fit for …
Read More »Asus P8Z77-V Premium MotherBoard Equipped With Fully Functioning Lite-On mSATA SSD
ASUS has recently released their new flagship motherboard in the new P8Z77-V Premium and it’s an addition we have been anticipating for some time. As much as the Z77 series has benefited from such things as WiFi, Bluetooth, integrated graphics, faster USB and ASUS has stepped even further with Thunderbolt Technology, Smart Digi+ Power Control and even top level caching …
Read More »Plextor M5S 256GB SATA 3 SSD Review – True Speed Through and Through
Our SSD report today will be a detailed analysis of the Plextor M5S 256GB SATA 3 SSD, a drive that was officially unveiled by Plextor only yesterday. This report is a bit special as Plextor contacted us several weeks back and asked if we might enjoy first crack at this SSD, promising to let them know if it was anything …
Read More »Patriot EP PRO 32G SDHC Card Quick Look
It has been some time since Computex and I definitely owe an apology to Patriot as I happen to find this great little card lying around the office today and definitely deserves a bench or two. It is the Patriot EP Pro 32GB Class 10 SDHC card and, being a Class 10 card, this is definitely the card for full …
Read More »MacBook Air (mid-2012) MBA Review Part 2 – Samsung and Toshiba (SandForce) SSDs Go Head To Head
Following up on our first MacBook Air Review a few days back, we couldn’t resist getting a second MBA in our hands to pair off both the Samsung and Toshiba SSDs in a head to head battle of speed and performance. The Toshiba SSD is LSI SandForce controlled and should excel in typical user performance , whereas, we would expect …
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