Our second private meeting yesterday was at the Aria with Plextor, a leading producer of performance-oriented flash storage devices.  At this meeting they were unveiling two new solid state drives.  The first is the M7e, a Gen 2×4 M.2 SSD, which they are promoting as the fastest SSD in the market today.  There second announcement was of the M6e Black …

It has been quite a while since Mushkin has released a new SSD product. Our last Mushkin product review was in 2013 where we ripped apart their Scorpion Deluxe PCIe SSD which utilizes multiple SandForce controller based SSDs on a single PCIe card. Mushkin has been utilizing SandForce controllers in the majority of their SSD product line for the past few …

Don’t miss out on a chance to upgrade your PC on the cheap. If this Thanksgiving and Black Friday wasn’t enough, there is still time to get some great deals on new SSDs this Cyber Monday. SSDs speed up everything from system boot time, to application loading. We’ve seen dramatic differences in old systems with just a simple SSD upgrade. …

It’s that time of the year again, when online retailers are dropping prices on products left and right. Over the past few days there have been some okay deals when it comes to SSDs in anticipation of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. However, today there are some very good deals on drives from all the big boys in the industry, …

When building a gaming PC, the first thing you think of is speed. What is a better way to speed up your experience than to buy an SSD? But wait, you can’t just get any SSD, you need something bleeding edge to show off and brag about right? Which is why in this week’s SSD of the Week we are …

Following in the footsteps of Samsung, Intel will begin its development of proprietary 3D NAND flash memory in the upcoming year, at least proprietary in terms of its IMFT partnership with Micron.  This announcement was made by Rob Crooke, VP and GM of Intel NVM Group today at the annual 2014 Investor Group Meeting.  Just as good was the news …

In the most recent SSD of the Week we went over the top performing Samsung XP941 as our highlight. It offers speeds that are twice that of the SATA 6Gb/s limit in a M.2 form factor. Now, we are going to focus back on the mainstream market. This week we are looking at the SanDisk Ultra II. The market is …

A few weeks back, Zotac sent us a ZBox Pico PI320 Mini PCS and, for the life of me, I could find a place to start.  At 115.5mm x 66mm x 19.2 mm, this mini-PC is just about the size of two iPhones on top of one another and has to be the smallest full feature PC available. No matter …

If you could load a motherboard with absolute killer features, what would you include?  Intel’s new X99 chipset opens the door a bit where, with the right X99 CPU, our PCIe lanes increase to 40 allowing us the leverage to stack our systems much more than we ever could have before.  Can you imagine a triple SLI/Crossfire graphics card layout …

We have been seeing more M.2 SSDs lately, a lot of which are companies’ first steps into the market since the form factor is so new. They have been designed to meet strict size requirements and allow for greater flexibility in product development. They are the perfect fit for mobile devices with their compact size and light weight. Transcend was …