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Today’s highlight was chosen simply because it had the word ‘kid’ in the title.  Sticking with the theme of May, Mom and you are a mom if you have a kid! Since there are only a few shopping days until Mother’s day I continue to post the link below to Amazon’s Mother’s Day Shop. So for all you techies out …

Just over a month ago, OCZ released it’s new Vertex 4 6Gbps SSD which garnished industry praise as a result of it’s ability to handle highly incompressible data such as movies, photographs and music, however, many felt the V4 was a little conservative when testing in compressible data. To most, this might never be noticeable except for the fact that …

My thought for today is a reminder for all you techies out there. While you all sit behind your computers, remember that before all this technology was a part of your world, your mother was. That being said there is plenty of time to make sure that she knows you are thinking about her. Do not forget that unless you …

The fact that Crucial would be a leader in competitive SSD pricing has been front and center for quite some time now. In fact, only a few days ago we posted what we thought to be a great deal on the Crucial M4 128GB SSD as it broke the $1/GB barrier and seemed to be a sign of things to …

Every now and then, it’s nice to give a bit of a heads up as to what we are working on behind the scenes at The SSD Review as it may be a good measure of articles yet to come. Having started in the SSD field back in 2007, it’s easy to say that the ‘fun’ I have playing with …

Individual or team player, which are you? Sitting here watching the third overtime period of the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers NHL playoff game and thought it was a good question to ask. There is really nothing wrong either way.  I consider myself a team player. Found a review to highlight, that is kind of about being a teamplayer or …

Hitachi Global Storage Technology, well known for their high performance storage solutions, has unveiled the very first SAS 12 Gbps SSD which is capable of a total available interface bandwidth of 4.8GB/s per drive. The SAS 12Gbps interface represents the highest performance interconnect seen on SSDs thus far, aside from PCIe of course. The new drives will be on display …

It has been a long time coming but seeing SSDs break that $1/GB barrier is becoming pretty common these days. In fact, yesterday, Amazon sold out of the M4 128GB SATA 3 SSD at $128.99 so what did they do?  They dropped the price to $124.99 and increased availability significantly. If you were ever on the fence with respect to …

We took a look at the SanDisk Extreme a few months ago, and found it to be one of the fastest drives on the market, combining the tried-and-true SandForce 2281 with Toshiba’s 24nm Toggle NAND. A new FW update for the Extreme promises to fix TRIM for the drive. When being used in IDE mode the TRIM command would not …

Can you believe it is already May?  Four months have completely slipped by. I found a definition of ‘May’ that I want to highlight – ‘the springtime of life; youth’… To me it’s about new beginnings, fresh starts. There is the old addage – April showers, bring May flowers. That being said, I thought the Highlight Review below was a …