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Well it seems SMART is at it once again piling on yet another great SSD to add to their rapidly growing collection, this time in the form factor of a 1.8″ SAS Enterprise Grade Optimus SSD. The SAS Optimus is capable of 500MB/s SATA 3 transfer speeds, up to 100,000 IOPS, comes with a five year warranty, and is available …

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. is announcing a new 20nm NAND flash version of its award-winning Vertex 3 series of SSDs.  This new Vertex “3.20” is a SATA III (6 GB/s) multi-level cell (MLC) drive in the now standard 2.5″ form factor.  The Vertex 3 series will now be built around smaller, state-of-the-art NAND flash process geometry at 20nm. Utilizing the …

Arguably, the two most important components of an SSD are the controller and NAND flash memory.  In the memory industry, manufacturers may dispose of sub-par memory on the open market where, at least in the case of SSDs, more suitable applications may be found. The potential downside to this commonplace practice is the memory has the potential to be counterfeited …

 Intel is now addressing the Linux server enterprise market segment by offering their CAS or Cache Acceleration Software for Linux-based servers–specifically 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 5/6, CentOS 5/6, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11* SP1.  Intel Cache Acceleration Software seamlessly accelerates targeted applications running on virtual machines and physical servers. No migration effort or storage and/or application configuration are needed, although …

Samsung has released a major overhaul of their Magician SSD software, bringing the software to version 4.0. One of the biggest boons to owning a Samsung SSD is Samsung’s attention to detail, as evidenced by this extremely useful SSD optimization/tuning and management tool. The last version of the Magician software was 3.2 and supported up to Windows 7. When attempting …

Back in August of last year, Kent Smith delivered an excellent  lecture on over provisioning at the Flash Memory Summit, held in San Jose, California, and we published a quick summary in result. We find that consumers still don’t quite understand over provisioning and this is seen, many times, through the amount of e-mails received asking us to explain why …

Gamers gotta love these give kind of deals and we have seen phenomenal response in past SSD/Game purchase combinations! For a limited time only, a purchase of an OCZ 256GB or 512GB Vector SSD will see the new SSD owner receiving up to two codes (2 SSD purchases) for the PC version of Ubisoft Far Cry 3.  These codes are …

EXCEEMO has launched the Platinum Series SATA III SSD in capacities ranging from 32GB to 512GB with an unheard of 30 year warranty.   The Platinum Series provides maximum sequential read/write and IOPS speeds of up to 555/530 and 67,000/81,000, respectively, and contains the LSI Sandforce SF-2281 flash storage processor.   Exceemo offers two primary variations, a standard operating temperature commercial model (0 deg C …

SP (Silicon Power) has launched the 7mm thick Slim S50 SSD series in capacities from 32GB to 256GB with maximum sequential read/write speeds up to 530MB/s and 200MB/s respectively. The slim height is important as it opens up the range of devices it may be installed into from ultrabooks to desktops. The Slim S50 SSD features a SATA III 6Gbp/s with NAND flash. SP is …

Thanks to the kindness of Samsung and the SSD Angels, The SSD Review is giving away a HUGE 512GB  Samsung 840 Pro SSD and it can be yours! We nabbed the 840 Pro while in sunny Las Vegas waited  and for just the right moment to enjoy posting this contest to the world.  As many know, our home base is …