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Welcome to Week Four of TSSDRs Grand Birthday SSD Giveaway Celebration and we are going to mix things up a bit for this one! This month, TSSDR has teamed up with Kingston to give away a 240GB capacity Kingston HyperX ‘LSI SandForce Driven’ SSD each week. This contest will be open to Canada and USA only and, although there is …

Our report today is going to take a look at the OWC Mercury Helios PCIe Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis and we guarantee that is unlike any you will ever see. In fact, we don’t know of many others who could even pull this off! In this report, we will not only cover the Helios as it was shipped to us with …

Don’t you just love surprises! I know I certainly do, only the good ones of course,  this week has been full of them. If you haven’t been following our forums, make sure to check them out again on Sunday, when we begin our next give away. You too may be surprised. HIGHLIGHT REVIEW In mid-2011, AMD released their first generation …

Back at the Flash Memory Summit in August, we had the opportunity to see a mock up of a Toshiba hybrid HDD/SSD solution. Whether or not the drive would go into production was unclear at the time, but the Japanese company announced today that it intends to go forward with the design. Toshiba, which makes NAND flash, SSDs, and conventional …

Our report on the Samsung 840 Pro SSD begins post take off from Pearson Int’l Airport in Toronto and on route to Seoul, South Korea. Having had this SSD in our hands for some time, even the enormity of the Samsung 840 family release celebration cannot overshadow the performance of what just might be the hottest solid state drive to …

Today at the Samsung 2012 Global SSD Summit in Seoul, South Korea, details were revealed regarding the consumer driven Samsung 840 Series SSD, the most interesting being the fact that this SSD will be contain Samsungs own TLC memory and over provisioning. Capacities are listed as 120, 250, and 500GB and the over provisioning is intended to increase the lifespan …

The first official day of fall here is Canada.  Driving through the country today it was evident that summer was leaving. The beautiful fall colors are taking over the leaves as they start to fall.  What will the winter of 2012 be like? HIGHLIGHT REVIEW It’s the latest iPhone, it’s landing on doorsteps and shop floors today and we have …

Samsung announced the release of two new SSDs this morning (Korea Time) at the 2012 Samsung SSD Global Summit at Samsung Headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. Dubbed the new Samsung SSD 840 Family, two variations of the 840 will be available consisting of the 840 for the typical consumer, along with the 840 Pro for the enthusiast/business, and initial product …

We’ll, it was apparently just a matter of time, because it looks like game consoles are finally embracing SSDs as well. Sony will be releasing its new PS3 “Super Slim” any day now, and will offer a variant which includes, you guessed it, long overdue solid state storage. The new, skinnier, PS3 will be delivered in three versions, two with 250GB …

Following up on our recent review of the ADATA XPG SX300 mSATA SSD, we are now going to be running a similar analysis of the 256GB version of the same family. We have been curious as to what this particular review would hold, as we had done a review of the MyDigitalSSD SMART 256GB mSATA SSD some time ago and …

The SSD Review offices are going to be a bit undermanned this week as we have received a last minute request by Samsung to meet with them at their Headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. Were we surprised?  Well, I will be the first to concede that, of all the places we might travel for SSD technology, I would never have …

Velobit, a provider of high-performance solid state drive caching software, is marking their second anniversary with two new releases that reflect an amazing two years of growth. One of the few prior drawbacks to utilization of Velobit software was lack of support for Windows-based operating systems. WINDOWS AND HYPER-V OS SUPPORT ADDED VeloBit is pleased to announce that Windows and …

This year at FMS 2012, we were met one day by LSI representatives who politely handed us a non-nondescript cardboard box and simply said, “Enjoy”. We had been waiting for this box for some time and new it to be the LSI Nytro MegaRAID NMR 8120-4i Application Acceleration Card, part of the trinity of new LSI application accelerating products, all …

With the popularity of mSATA SSDs being all the rage as of late, it was only a matter of time before a new PCIe adapter was introduced that might allow users to take advantage of that extra storage should they find an mSATA SSD at a great price. Our review today will look at the new OWC Mercury AccelsiorM mSATA …

Welcome to Week Three of TSSDR’s Grand Birthday SSD Giveaway Celebration and we are going to mix things up a bit for this one! This week, TSSDR has teamed up with Crucial to give away one of the smallest, highest capacity and most powerful storage devices on the planet, a Crucial M4 256GB mSATA SSD.  Weighing in at only 7 …