Toshiba is a world leader in many different technologies and applications. In the NAND market, for instance, they supply components for some of our favorite SSDs. But, they haven’t really been known as a major player in turn-key storage products. While they have an impressive offering of mechanical drives, especially for automotive and industrial uses, they are dwarfed by the …
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Paragon Migrate OS To SSD V.4 System Migration Software Review And Tutorial
The number of times that we migrate systems for test purposes can be somewhat mind-boggling, when considering that we have tested just about every SSD in existence today. The main staple for this activity has been Paragon’s Migrate OS to SSD for as long as I can remember, and Paragon has just released Version 4.0 of this software, sending us …
Read More »TSSDR Affiliate Reviews for December 4, 2013
Approximately 20 shopping days until Christmas, of course depending on where you live. Over the next few weeks we will continue to pull together our Affiliate’s reviews, in the event you are looking for a product you know nothing about. Here you may find a variety of opinions to help you make your choice. HIGHLIGHT REVIEW What is Steam OS? …
Read More »Toshiba’s 35 Mil OCZ Purchase Re-Opens OCZ Doors, Reassures OCZ Customers and Provides Toshiba With A Great Controller
Early this morning, OCZ issued a press release that Toshiba had successfully purchased OCZ under a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy agreement for 35 millions dollars. This is great news for the millions of present OCZ customers who have been holding their breath as we will now see OCZ opens its doors once again, and serve existing and future OCZ customers during …
Read More »M.2 NGFF PCIe SSD Adapter Overview – Birds Eye View of Our M.2 NGFF SSD Test Hardware
Over the past while, there seems to be an increased interest in our M.2 SSD testing, whether it be with respect to our thoughts on M.2 placement in the industry, ideas on how it best be introduced, or just plain “Where can I get a M.2 SSD?” concerns. Unfortunately, we cannot elaborate on purchase ‘just yet’ but we thought we …
Read More »TSSDR Affiliate Reviews for November 24, 2013
Watched the American Music Awards and could not help but notice that they too were highlighting technology. No more ‘envelope’ identifying who the winner was but a cellphone. It appears they started this process in 2012 with the use of the Samsung Galaxy Note II. Unfortunately, I wasn’t paying enough attention to see which one was used this year. HIGHLIGHT …
Read More »Understanding M.2 NGFF SSD Standardization (Or The Lack Of)
So I am a few thousand miles above beautiful California and the 2013 LSI Accelerating Innovations Summit. I can’t help but reflect on the confusion that still exists concerning the standardization of M.2 SSDs, regardless of how many times we try to explain this in our reports (1, 2, 3). If you are confused and not an industry professional, don’t …
Read More »LSI SandForce SF3700 Flash SSD Controller Questions Answered – LSI AIS 2013 Update
CODENAME GRIFFIN Since our discovery of the next gen LSI SandForce flash controller at Computex earlier this year, it has been the talk of the storage world. Codenamed Griffin, ADATA displayed both enterprise and M.2 ultrabook SSD prototypes of the controller at their event display without mention or word to anyone, almost daring the storage world to take note. It …
Read More »VisionTek mSATA 480GB SSD Review – Trusted LSI SandForce Speeds with a High Capacity
A few weeks ago we received an e-mail asking our opinion on the VisionTek mSATA SSD as the writer had found an amazing deal on that SSD, yet there wasn’t a review in site. Admittedly, even I wasn’t all that familiar with VisionTek and didn’t even know they were marketing SSDs. In conducting a quick search, I had to laugh …
Read More »ADATA DashDrive Elite SE720 128GB External SSD Review – Excellent Build and Performance With an Amazing Price
ADATA recently announced availability of their new DashDrive Elite SE720 External SSD and sent one along to us for analysis. Without stealing the thunder of this entire report, the SE720 is ultrathin, extremely well-built, has LSI SandForce speeds and we were floored at the Amazon pricing we found that brought this external SSD below that of many similar bare 128GB …
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