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They are adding a simple second to our day today. Will we even notice, I think not. Although, previous additions have been known to cause problems with technology, there is no anticipated reason for worry. Enjoy your second while you can. HIGHLIGHT REVIEW AMD A8 7650K APU Review @ Technology X Oftentimes we will get people asking us about building …

Lite-On Technology Corp., a world-leading producer of enterprise Solid-State Drives (SSDs), is announcing its low-latency EP1 series for I/O intensive workloads.  The EP1 series was recently chosen by one of the largest cloud service providers for use in their storage deployments.  Lite-On’s in-house firmware development allows it to maximize the EP1’s performance for read-intensive and mixed-usage scenarios, and deliver SSDs with …

It is said that 2015 will be the year of the M.2 SSD form factor and, by all indications, this assumption seems to be correct.  This is a very big plus for the SSD industry, as well as a very clear demonstration of the progress we have made in flash technology within the last few years.  For instance, our Patriot …

The Intel 750 is the first NVMe SSD released into the consumer market. It offers users some pretty killer performance at a price point that is roughly twice that of top performing SATA SSDs. Back in April we were able to review the 1.2TB model. After seeing the results we were quite impressed, however, at over $1,000 the 1.2TB model …

Computex is now out of the way and everyone is back in their respective homeland. This gives us the opportunity to pull together some of our Affiliates work for you as a quick guide to comparing thoughts. HIGHLIGHT REVIEW Noctua NH-D9L CPU Cooler Review @ Technology X In our review of Noctua’s flagship NH-D15 air cooler, we found it to …

The biggest roadblock in moving mainstream consumers from hard drives to SSDs is that of migration.  It seems like such a difficult process when one has to do anything related to opening up a PC and switching out a hard drive for a SSD, never mind having to understand the instructions to migrate the system in the first place. We …

Super Talent Technology, a leading producer of NAND flash storage devices, is announcing the USB 3.0 Express Dram*Disk. The USB 3.0 Express Dram*Disk and its proprietary built-in software (included) utilize your computer’s available RAM to transfer files at blazing speeds – up to 4041 MB/s sequential reads and up to 5388 MB/s sequential writes. Available in capacities up to 64GB, …

In our last two SSDs of the Weeks we had some insane value dollar/GB. This week however, we have a different type of value with the SanDisk Extreme Pro released a year ago. The Extreme Pro’s value lies in its performance and warranty. Even after a year on the market it still stands as one of the most consistent SATA …

When SandForce emerged from stealth mode in 2009, the SSD industry took on an entirely new look.  SandForce was quick, aggressive and as much as many might think they may have introduced things just a bit too early, they played a very large part in shaping the SSD industry into what it is today.  They inspired competitiveness and not many …

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation, a world-leading producer of NAND flash controllers for solid state storage devices (SSDs), is announcing that its SM2256 client SSD controller now supports Micron’s latest 16nm TLC NAND. This enables solid state drive producers to create TLC-based SSDs that are high-performance, feature unprecedented reliability, and are cost-effective. Silicon Motion’s SM2256 is the best-performing, cost-optimized four-channel SATA …

As much as the common theme with SSD manufacturers has been to ‘wait for the Flash Memory Summit’ at Computex 2015 this year, Phison seems to be ready to make serious position play in the SSD space, displaying a number of SSD designs at their suite.  First and foremost, we were more than happy to see two NVMe SSDs based …

Micron Technology, a world-leading producer of NAND flash memory, is announcing the latest addition to its flash storage lineup – 16nm TLC NAND designed for use in cost-sensitive consumer products such as USB flash drives, media cards and consumer solid state drives (SSDs). This newest TLC NAND being built on Micron’s 16nm process provides an excellent balance of capacity, performance …

SanDisk Corporation, a world-leading producer of flash storage devices, is announcing its new CloudSpeed Eco GenII SATA SSD, designed specifically for cloud service providers, in capacities up to 2TB.  Utilizing 15nm NAND flash memory, SanDisk’s new CloudSpeed Eco GenII SSD provides more storage density with 3X the streaming bandwidth as compared to hard disk drives (HDDs).  Geared as a drop-in …

Crucial, a world-leading provider of memory and storage devices, is announcing significant updates to its SSD “toolbox” called Storage Executive. The newest version (3.20) adds Momentum Cache, which is an intelligent caching feature that is able to improve burst performance by up to 10X, also extending an SSDs lifespan by reducing redundant write operations. Momentum Cache utilizes idle RAM for …

Considering the path OCZ has taken throughout the years from saturating the market space with several different options in their SSD line, right up to their purchase by Toshiba and change of focus to premium SSD releases, most wouldn’t expect an entry level release any time soon.  They would be wrong and, although they may be describing this as an …