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CONCLUSIONS In examining our reviews of the past few months, it has only been the last few reviews that SandForce SSDs have held top spot with such prominence. Our original intent was to tell you that the top 6 drives we have tested with PCMark Vantage are all ‘SandForce driven’ SSDs and all but one of these contain the SF-1200 series …

XFX are a leading manufacturer in the video card world supplying the latest AMD Radeon graphics cards with funky styling, extreme performance and good values. Over the past year,, XFX have carried on doing what they do best, but have also entered the power supply market releasing a whole line of PSUs in various wattages in the hope to tick …

The response to the pictures I had previously posted from the Monster Party has been overwhelming. There have been so many request for additional pictures that, quite frankly whether we are a technology site or not, this couldn’t be avoided. It was an unexpected and amazing experience and here are a few more piks.

While attending Show Stoppers as part of the CES experience in Las Vegas, The SSD Review met up with David Leong of Kingston Technology who had some very interesting news to pass on. Kingston and SandForce have joined forces to put together an enthusiast class SSD as part of Kingstons new HyperX Experience line and its release should be Q2 …

Sometimes we find things that are just so funny they have to be passed around folks! Enjoy!

About a week or so before CES, a female colleague described the CES experience to me when, admittedly, I first heard the term booth babes.  She had made the statement, You will like the sights as booth babes are back this year and, as I had never been to CES prior, I was a bit confused. Having only spoken with …

THE PRICE IS RIGHT Is this one of Bob Barkers beauties showing off the latest in ThermalTake gaming gear? POLICE OFFICERS We can see here that Cobra thought it beneficial to bring in the police to show us how to avoid getting pulled over. Wait… Did I just say AVOID getting pulled over by these officers? This next picture is rather …

If a company by the name of Other World Computing (OWC) sounds familiar, its because The SSD Review has evaluated several OWC SSDs including the Mercury Pro Extreme 40GB SSD most recently. That Mercury Extreme Pro is the highest performing SATA based SSD we have ever tested with a Vantage HDD Suite score of a mind boggling 44103 points. It does so …

OCZ opened the vault to The SSD Review during CES and spared no expense to make sure their goal was clear. They mean business. Not only were they one of the few oems to showcase the anticipated SandForce SF-2000 series line, but also, their innovation was obvious through technology demos of the IBIS Optical HDSL with a transfer speed of a whopping …

THE HELIOS New on the block will be the OCZ Helios which is available in mlc, emlc and slc and is in the 3.5″ form factor.  Mlc and emlc capacities will top at 1024GB with 800 GB usable while the slc versions will follow suit with 512GB with 400GB max usable.  There is no need to guess at the processor …

Super Talent has become the true leader in USB 3 flash drive technology today and their display at CES 2011 focused, not only on flash drives but also, their success and innovation in the area of solid state drives and memory as well. Their new RAIDDrive R2S was on display and would simply rock any system it got its hands …

There are things that occur in life that define us. These moments can never be forgotten and they often occur through an opportunity that allows only a moment to make a decision with the understanding that with risk may come disappointment or the reward of something never expected. This was one of these moments. . Very briefly, we attended the Monster Party …

Up very early once again to try and get a little background of the previous days activities out so our readership has the goods first and foremost. I have to admit that I am amazed at how many bloggers and sites can find the time to get things up so fast. We never had a chance to even pull the laptop out …

Its about 7:30am and the start of Day 2 at CES and I am sitting in the room with very little sleep. For anyone who has never experienced CES or even Las vegas previously, much like I, there is simply no way to describe it. We began yesterday bright and early with registration at CES followed by our attendance at Storage …

Quick note and a Team shot as we just returned from the Corsair ‘Invite Only’ Press release at the Venetian as part of CES in Las Vegas today. Corsair announced the release of a new SSD based on the Marvell 9174 controller as their entry to the SATA 3 entry line. It is expected to be released prior to March with …