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Kingston Wi-Drive Now Available in 128GB Capacity

Kingston has released an upgrade to one of our favorite toys lately which should interest a number of readers.  As you may remember, we reviewed the Kingston Wi-Drive in a 64GB capacity a while back and it deservedly received out Innovations Award.  Quite frankly, I never expected the Wi-Drive to be so useful and it has since become one of …

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Samsung Acquires NVELO and Gains SSD Caching Software

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In an unexpected move, Samsung has acquired NVELO and has added to their SSD portfolio with a proprietary caching solution that is arguably the most powerful in the industry. NVELO Dataplex software has been examined here at TSSDR on many occasions and is the only that we are aware of that can provide nearly identical SSD specifications on a hard …

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Intel DC S3700 Data Center SSD Review (200/800GB)

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A few months back, we randomly heard three words during a passing conversation; Intel, Taylorsville, and latency. That was it; no context, no explanation and no hints. Given that we happened to be at the Flash Memory Summit, it was a safe bet that something solid state was afoot, but at the time these were just random words to file …

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Affiliate Tech Reviews for November 30, 2012

It’s hard to believe that we have already reached the last day of November. 2012, is 31 days away from being over, but the not before the best part of the year. With December comes the start of many holiday celebrations and lots of gift giving. Who gets the best new piece of technology?Here is a link to a great …

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OCZ Vector SSD Review – Indilinx Barefoot 3 Becomes Reality

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To say the new OCZ Vector was a long time in the making would be an understatement as discussion over the development of this platform just might be one of the oldest SSD conversations to date. Today’s Vector release may mark the first major success story of OCZ’ purchase of both Indilinx and PLX, this story born through development of …

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Affiliate Tech Reviews for November 22, 2012

 Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends! So many great deals happening in the next few days whether you get out to the stores or shop on line. Take a moment to check out the great deals that Amazon is offering. Black Friday Deals at Amazon   HIGHLIGHT REVIEWS PC Specialist Inferno 11.6 inch Laptop review @ Kitguru If like me, …

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ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T 32GB Tablet Review

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ASUS is widely known for producing computer parts and peripherals, but rarely do they indulge in anything pre-made. Introduce the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity TF700T, and now we have seemingly one of the first ASUS products in the mobile market. Frankly speaking, it makes sense for ASUS to dive into tablets. They already produce premium lines of business and gaming …

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Kingston 200GB SSDNow E100 Enterprise SSD Review – Kingston Gets Back to the Enterprise

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Kingston, like other memory manufacturers, wanted to get into the solid state storage game a few years back. At the time they chose to partner with Intel, offering their own label on the chipmaker’s first gen SSDs like enterprise-oriented X25-E. Eventually, they branched out with new controllers from Toshiba and JMicron, resulting in a bewildering array of options. More recently, Kingston switched to …

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Affiliate Tech Reviews for November 20, 2012

 The countdown to Black Friday is on!  What does that mean to you and I? Great deals on electronics and other gadgets.  A perfect time to pick up the perfect gift for the electronic geek on your list. To assist you in checking out some of the great deals we are providing you with the link to Amazon’s Black Friday …

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AIS 2012: Longer Ultrabook Battery Life

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Ultrabooks haven’t been the smashing commercial success that Intel and it’s partners might have hoped for, but they’re still popular, and represent a big chunk of growth in the PC industry. We stopped by Kent Smith’s (of LSI SandForce fame) session on Ultrabooks and flash technology here at AIS to see about the future of those portables from a storage …

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LSI AIS 2012: Kingston Demos Off the Shelf Components Pulling Down 1.8M IOPS

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We spent some time with Kingston today at AIS discussing an interesting product demo. The massive memory product purveyor showed what they could do with just a few off-the-rack parts in a demonstration which managed a heady 1.8 million IOPS. Using three LSI MegaRAID cards, 24 eMLC-based E100 SSDs, and an Intel based server, the test system was shown looping 4K random read and …

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