Crucial has been making reliable cost effective mainstream SSDs for years now. Each new product release striving for better performance, reliability, and value. The recent release of the M550 built upon their M500, offering even better performance, but at a higher price point per GB. Because of this, Crucial needed to release a more modern lower budget drive. They had …

With Computex 2014 now behind us, it’s time to start focusing on the summer.  That means a whole lot of different things to a whole lot of different people.  I like to think of focusing on summer as focusing on me, beach volleyball, running team and anything else I can do outdoors. I hope that you take the time to …

To anyone not familiar with SSDs, our title might not seem that striking, but it represents a huge step forward in storage technology within a very short time.  It also speaks highly of ASRock for again leading the way in advancing storage, as they are the only to incorporate a new SSD innovation into their Extreme 6 motherboard; this of …

With the recent craze over the Heartbleed Bug, now is a great time to visit ways to protect your information and data. This becomes even more important when data protection and encryption is necessary for your specific career, which may deal with individual’s private information. Although we can’t say for sure whether companies use USB sticks to transfer private files, …

Some time ago, Silicon Motion had sent us a new SSD controller they were working on  a prototype SSD for review.  The SM2246EN controller that we looked at was a four  channel SATA 3 controller, capable of 510MB/s read and 410MB/s write with up to 80K IOPS, also capable of 256-Bit AES encryption.  Up until this report, that was as …

It’s Easter weekend! Here in Niagara, the sun is shining but there is a cool breeze. Hope that you are spending time with those you hold precious. In case you have felt the need to take a moment and check out the computer, thank you we are glad you stopped by The SSD Review. See what is new at  Technology …

For media professionals, or even that proud parent, often they will find that it will take a few shots before the image becomes ‘picture perfect’. Hence, why it is important to keep track of the number of images that are left to be taken on your current storage device (E.g., SD Card). No one wants to miss out on that …

It’s giveaway time again as TSSDR teams up with Plextor. Don’t forget to read the instructions carefully and get your entry in. Good Luck! HIGHLIGHT REVIEW Samsung XP941 Native PCIe M.2 SSD @ TechnologyX As we have previously mentioned in our review of the Plextor M6M solid state drive, it is important to remember that SSD’s can come in different shapes …

It has been a long time in the making but the new Plextor M6S family is finally rolling out.  Based on Marvell SSD controllers and Toshiba NAND flash memory, we got our first glimpse at the M6e M.2 PCIe X2 SSD some months ago in our IO-Switch Raijin Review, followed by our official analysis of the 512GB capacity M6e (and …

Today we have pulled together a number of reviews on key components in building a system, including of course SSDs.  Don’t forget if you are just starting out in the SSD world, check out The SSD Review’s Beginner Guide. HIGHLIGHT REVIEW ADATA Premier Pro SP920 SSD @ TechnologyX ADATA has definitely proven that they are a force to be reckoned …