Corsair recently announced new capacities for both the Series 3 and Force GT lines of their SSD family making them the easy winner in capacity selection for any single SSD series choice that we know of. Shortly after that announcement, a Corsair Force GT SATA 3 240GB SSD arrived at the office and we couldn’t resist the chance to throw …

The Mushkin Chronos Deluxe is an SSD bred through a company that, like many others, has a framework in the memory field to rely on. Unlike many others though, Mushkin’s lineage starts at the base of The Rocky Mountains and their ‘Welcome Message‘ by Company President, D. George Stathakis, speaks of community values and ideals often lost in the realm …

BENCHMARK PROTOCOL AND THE TEST BENCH This is The SSD Review Test Bench Number One. A quick click on the photo will give you a better look. In testing, our main objective is to obtain results as pure and as accurate as possible and we want to ensure that no anomalies slip through. Simply put, we want to provide you …

Crucial has posted a firmware update (0009)  for its M4 line which can be downloaded at Crucial.Com by M4 owners. The good news is that the firmware provides significant performance increase for all capacities of the M4 SSD and Crucial has all capacities of their M4 SSD on sale now at great prices. We initially thought this to be a …

INTERIOR COMPONENTS The Runcore T50 SATA 3 mSATA 120GB SSD is assembled on a printed circuit board (pcb) which measures 51mm x 32mm x 4mm and weighs under 30 grams.  The easiest way to understand how small this is has been depicted in the phot on the first page of this report.  It is exactly 1/3rd the size of the …

PCMARK VANTAGE X64 HDD SUITE The SSD Review uses benchmark software called PCMark Vantage x64 HDD Suite to create testing scenarios that might be used in the typical user experience. There are eight tests in all and the tests performed record the speed of data movement in MB/s to which they are then given a numerical score after all of …

Todays review is going to take a look at a SandForce controlled SSD which is being sold by a UK based company who are hoping to push low SSD prices in worldwide sales. The SSD itself is ‘SandForce Driven’, assembled and shipped from the USA for North American sales. In fact, our sample SSD shipped with 32Gb Toshiba NAND flash …

Frequent followers of our SSD reviews have already been introduced to Strontium, a SSD manufacturer from Singapore. Our first review of the company’s product was the Gamma Series 115GB published last week. The Gamma Series is Strontium’s entry level SSD that uses a SandForce SF-1200 controller and pairs it with 25nm IMFT flash. The Matrix Series drive that we are …

The PCB contains the SandForce SF-2281 capable of equal read and write performance in excess of 500MB/s.  There are also 16 Intel 25nm NAND flash memory chips (29F16B08CCME2), each being of 16GB density for a total of 256GB RAW capacity. SandForce utilizes a full memory module (16GB) for its over provisioning and firmware needs to include their patented DuraClass technology.  …

Although we are putting the final touches on our new and upgraded System Test Benches, we felt this picture would be of benefit. A simple click will enlarge it to assist. Our main goal in testing is to ensure that all test results are as accurate as they can be and no anomalies slip through. We conduct all tests three …