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Our first presentation of the day at Storage Visions 2016 brings us to Rob Peglar, VP of Advanced Storage at Micron Technologies, who discusses what he believes to be the new approaches in storage. Three of the trends that were discussed includes software defined storage now making way for software defined networking, the ‘start to the end’ of SAN and …

Samsung Electronics America is announcing the Samsung Portable SSD T3, a premium multi-terabyte external solid state drive (SSD) in a palm-sized form factor.  The T3 features Samsung’s proprietary Vertical NAND (V-NAND), along with Samsung TurboWrite technology to provide superior performance to consumers, business and IT professionals, as well as content creators for the quick and easy  storage and transfer of large multimedia …

The competition between value based SSDs is getting ever more fierce this holiday season. Comparing back to just a few weeks ago we see most manufacturers offering great prices to entice more sales before year’s end. Building upon this steam is MyDigitalSSD with their latest model, the BP5e Slim 7 Series. BP5e stands for Bullet Proof 5 Eco, which is …

VisionTek Products LLC, U.S.-based producer of award-winning, high-performance accessories and upgrades for PCs and Macs, is announcing the addition of three new capacities to its lineup of VisionTek USB 3.0 Pocket SSDs in thumb drive-sized form factor. The three new capacity offerings are 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB, all utilizing high-endurance MLC NAND. VisionTek’s USB 3.0 Pocket SSD is similar in …

If we could give you at least a day of your life back a year as a Christmas gift, would that be good?  Would you pay it forward?  We can and, more importantly, you can. There seems to be no doubt that we spend far too much time on the PC these days, however, many of us fail to realize …

PMC-Sierra, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise and big data hardware and software solutions, is announcing the HBA 1000 series of 12Gb/s SAS/SATA Host Bus Adapters. The HBA 1000 series represents the first products in PMC’s new Smart lineup of solutions for high-performance enterprise and cloud server storage connectivity. The HBA 1000 series utilizes PMC’s SmartIOC controller and Smart intellectual …

Without a doubt, the most common downfall of SD cards is the lack of understanding the consumer has with respect to class levels.  Most buy cards for price only, not realizing how this might benefit them at times when they are really pushing their camera to its limits.  The demands of today’s newest cameras, and even today’s smartphones capable of …

We have done it again. Pulled together the opinions of others to try and make your decision making a little easier.  It’s better to make an educated decision when purchasing high end components. HIGHLIGHT REVIEW ZOTAC GeForce GTX980 AMP Graphics Card @ Technology X With Fallout 4 just being released on November 10th 2015, some of you may be looking …

Black Friday is finally here and deals are a plenty! Of course, we at The SSD Review are looking after you and have created a guide to help you navigate through this Black Friday’s SSD deals. After checking out Amazon this morning, this is what we found. SPOTLIGHT DEALS SanDisk Ultra II The SanDisk Ultra II is the second TLC …

A short time ago, Kingston sent us their newest HyperX Savage USB 3.1 128GB flash drive for report and we have been doing a bit of testing to see if it makes spec.  Most importantly, it is a USB 3.1 Gen1 flash drive which means it is the newer version of USB 3.0 with SuperSpeed, and it is still only …

Samsung’s recent release of their 950 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD (Report here) seems to have caught the industry off guard, much as they do at just about the same time every year. Without question, it is the most powerful SSD in the world for its size, and because of its speed, size and great value mix, has stirred the interest …

Samsung has a new version of their Magician software available on their downloads page. It has been updated to version 4.9, which adds support for the Samsung 750 EVO SSD, the 750 being a value oriented SSD that is currently only available to the Japanese market. The Magician software is a free download for Samsung SSD owners. Below are the …

This week we were looking around for the best deal at the ~250GB capacity range of SSDs. Hands down, it turned out to be the AMD Radeon R7. At a low price of just $69.99 it is even cheaper than many of its competitors and delivers great performance! The Radeon R7 is a 2.5″ 7mm form factor, SATA 6GB/s SSD. It …

Crucial has always been quite aggressive with their value driven strategy in the SSD market and it has resulted in success for many of their products. This has led to their most recent product launches of the MX200 and the introduction of a new entry-level product line earlier this year with the BX100. The BX100 was set out to be …

One of the big marketing points for SSDs, besides their shear speed, is their low power consumption compared to their mechanical rivals. SSDs are not only more power efficient during workloads, but they are able to read and write so quick, that most of the time they are in an idle state. Not only that, but when they are in …