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The first long weekend of the summer is about to descend upon us Canadians.  Also known as May-twofour, it is our ‘official’ start of summer. Those who are fortunate enough head to their cottages for the first time, others will hold or attend yard sales. If your not familiar with this national holiday, it is a celebration of Queen Victoria’s …

External drives have given rise to NAS (Network-Attached Storage). Accessing and accumulating data at one central location has become all the rage, as HTPC, media streaming, and HDTV-ready devices and technologies have become more affordable, and thus have made the push into the homes of consumers. Our report today will examine the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Home Network Storage System and, …

LSI Corporation is announcing its new DataBolt technology for bandwidth optimization in datacenter applications.  This unique performance acceleration feature for LSI’s 12 GB/s SAS products is designed to allow users to take advantage of 12 GB/s speeds with their existing 6 GB/s drive infrastructure. This technology will deliver up to a 2X increase in throughput performance  for 6 GB/s systems.  It …

Another special day gone by. Never really thought about it, but was wandering do other countries acknowledge Mother’s day? It appears there are a number that do.  While some countries celebrate in March there are some that do not celebrate it at all. I personally think it is a great idea. Curious how you spent it? HIGHLIGHT REVIEW The Radeon 7870 …

Transcend today launched their MSA720 mSATA SSD, offering this small form-factor (3cm x 5cm) drive in 64Gb and 128Gb flavors. The MSA720 features SATA 3.0 (6Gb/s) built around the SandForce SF2281 controller, with blistering speeds of up to 560MB/s read and 530MB/s write, and impressive 4K random file writes up to 91,000 IOPS, making it possibly one of the fastest …

If you thought the most exciting improvements with OCZ’s new Vertex 4 firmware were reserved for the 256GB and 512GB models, you’d be wrong. As it happens, the most interesting and substantial performance improvements are to be had with the 128GB Vertex 4. We happen to have a 128GB Vertex 4 on our bench in order to find out what makes …

Mach Xtreme Technology, well known for their extensive SSD product line, has announced the release of their low-profile 6Gb/s MX-KATANA Series of drives, which have been developed specifically with cramped quarters in mind. This means they should be a perfect complement to mobile devices such as Apple’s MacBook Air. Being LSI Sandforce based, the new products will offer Read/Write speeds of up to …

A ‘globe’ do you know what it is? Not the official dictionary definition, but just the item itself. For some it’s a reminder of an era gone by, a simpler time.  They were colorful and stood out in the classroom. some were smaller and sat on the teacher’s desk while others stood up tall from the floor. But they all taught …

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 …

Our detailed analysis of the Intel 910 Series PCI Express 800GB SSD marks the beginning of Intel’s push into the PCIe SSD enterprise storage market. If the difficulty experienced reviewing this SSD is any indication of it’s caliber, the world is in for a pleasant shock as it was rather difficult to get the 910 to settle into it’s Steady …

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 …

It was only a matter of time before the idea of expandable storage was introduced into the world of PCIe SSDs and, although we have seen a few prototypes in the last year, none have quite made it to market just yet. Our analysis of the OWC Mercury Accelsior 480GB PCIe SSD not only opens the possibility of upgradeable capacity …

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 …