Today, we’re once again forging a trail off the mainstream with a something a little more unusual than our normal fare. We have another military and industrial SSD from Telecommunication Systems (TCS) in house, and we can’t wait to scope it out. “Mission Critical Application” is any application in which failure of the Product could result, directly or indirectly, in personal injury or …
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It’s been some time in the making but Crucial has finally released it’s new M4 SATA 3 mSATA SSD into the SSD arena. Available in capacities of 32, 64, 128 and 256GB, Crucial has priced to compete with MSRP listings of $52.99, $80.99, $121.99 and $225.99 which brings the upper capacities under that infamous $1/GB barrier and makes their pricing …
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ASUS has recently released their new flagship motherboard in the new P8Z77-V Premium and it’s an addition we have been anticipating for some time. As much as the Z77 series has benefited from such things as WiFi, Bluetooth, integrated graphics, faster USB and ASUS has stepped even further with Thunderbolt Technology, Smart Digi+ Power Control and even top level caching …
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Following up on our first MacBook Air Review a few days back, we couldn’t resist getting a second MBA in our hands to pair off both the Samsung and Toshiba SSDs in a head to head battle of speed and performance. The Toshiba SSD is LSI SandForce controlled and should excel in typical user performance , whereas, we would expect …
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LSI’s new PCIe 3.0 HBA and MegaRAID offerings promise oodles of extra performance above and beyond the limitations imposed by PCIe 2.0. While the new Gen3 MegaRAID solutions are still a ways out, we happen to have a Gen3 HBA here. This particular 9207-8i is destined for our enterprise evaluation system, but since it’s a new product and all, we …
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I was the ultimate PC Guy. Being an avid PC enthusiast, as I am a motorcycle enthusiast, I believed that Apple and Harley Davidson were simply brilliant marketing schemes that sold millions on the belief that brand ownership was more important than product build. That was then. Three days ago I received a new Ivy Bridge Mac Air, locked myself …
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They are calling for a ‘heat wave’ in Toronto, Ontario. Apparently, we have a name for 3 days in a row that are above 30 degrees celsius. I just spent 3 days in China, average temperature was 32. Better yet, I followed that with 7 days in Taiwan and the average temperature there was 35 degrees. Bring on summer! The only thing better than 3 …
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The Crucial M4 has recently been the poster child for high performance at low prices. We’ve been following the M4’s pricing for a while now, and recent sales have been dropping the Crucial well below the 1GB/$ range. Yesterday, the 128GB variant was selling for a mere $99, which works out to around $0.83 cents per usable GB. The 256GB …
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Read today how the latest big Canadian Lottery winner, $50,000,000.00, is planning to continue working. Crazy! I have to admit that, yes I would want to keep busy. but I would so be taking at least a year off to travel the world with those who meant the most to me. With that much money you could take each person, …
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LATEST UPDATE 19 Feb 18 WITH: The SSD Reviewers Guide to SSD Optimization 2018 (click link) PREVIOUS UPDATE ON 23 FEB 13 WITH: The SSD Optimization Guide Ultimate Windows 8 (and Win7) Edition [LINK] Welcome to The SSD Review and congratulations on finding the internets most sought after resource in the optimization of solid state drives; The SSD Optimization Guide. …
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