Plextor is upgrading its SSD line with a new SATA 3 entry SSD called the M2P which apparently will only be a limited edition release. The ‘M2P’ will be available in 64, 128 and 256GB capacities, contain the Marvell 9174 processor, Toshiba NAND flash memory and performance is much the same as we are already seeing from the updated Crucial …
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KingMax Announces 1TB SATA II SSD Capacities
Kingmax has announced the release of their new SSD line which carries SSD capacities from 32GB all the way to 1TB. Capacities of 32, 64, 128, 256, 512 and 1TB will be available and these SSDs are SATA II and are accompanied by a Kingmax 3 year warranty. ECC, TRIM, NCQ and TRIM are supported and performance for these SSDs …
Read More »Intel’s New SSD Roadmap Displays SandForce Characteristics, PCIe Cards and Greater Capacities
How they keep doing it we’ll never know but VR-Zone has scooped the new Intel SSD Roadmap before the ink even got a chance to dry. A quick look sure depicts an entirely different picture than most had less than a year ago when many believed Intel to be folding their proverbial SSD shop for other interests. Who would have …
Read More »ASUS UX21 & UX31 Zenbook With A-Data XM11 SSDs – Beware of Blazing SandForce SATA III Speeds!
Word has finally reached the public of a ‘SandForce Driven’ SSD found native inside a new release ultra portable laptop, this being the Asus UX21 and UX31 Series. The partnership between ASUS and AData will see the new AData XM21 mSATA SandForce based SSD available in both the UX21 and Ux31 Series. The XM21 will contain the SandForce SF-2281 6Gbps …
Read More »Open The Doors For The SSD Driven Ultra Portable!!
Its been some time in the making but manufacturers have opened their doors yesterday to the worlds new lines of ultra portable SSD configured laptops. You may remember our review of The Samsung Series 9 earlier this year where we were able to give you just a hint of what we think will be in store for those hoping to …
Read More »Patriot Improves SSD Line With Patriot PyroSE SATA III Solid State Drive
Patriot yesterday announced a new member of their Patriot Family in the guise of the PatriotSE SATA III SSD. The ‘SE” will be ‘SandForce Driven’ and, as its older brother thePyro, will contain the world famous SandForce SF-2281 6Gbps controller. As we know, the SF-2281 is capable of parallel read and write speeds of over 500MB/s along with IOPS above …
Read More »SandForce Driven Intel SSD Gets Closer To Reality
As much as we had the first scoop (albeit an educated guess) on this story months back, we have to give complete credit to VR-Zone for having the true inside track on all Intel news as they have shown themselves to be the leader in Intel document leaks! VR-Zone has recently learned that the date for the new Intel Series …
Read More »OCZ Introduces New Synapse Cache Series SSD To Appeal To Hard Drive Crowd
OCZ has recently announced their new Synapse Cache line of SSDs which are a SATA III family of SSDs available in 64 and 128GB. The intent of the Synapse Cache is to appeal to the hard drive crowd that absolutely needs that extra capacity by optimizing caching applications and leverages DataCache software which will be included with the SSD. It …
Read More »The SSD Review Is On Facebook! – Check out Our Unexpected and Unpublished Pictures and Videos!
Its been some time in the making but The SSD Review is finally on Facebook and you can find us HERE! We wanted to find an avenue to show you things that go on behind the scenes at the review, things such as pictures that don’t make it to the reviews, videos as well as showing you a bit of …
Read More »Corsair Attracts Consumer With New Capacity SSDs in Both Force Series 3 and GT Series
Corsair announced new capacities available for its Force GT Series SSD today right on the heels of its recently release of new capacities for the Series 3 line as well. As a bit of refresher, we reviewed the GT 120GB here and the Series 3 120GB here where we detailed the difference in performance between the two through use of …
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