There is no doubt in anyones mind that 2014 will be the year of the M.2/NGFF SSD, however, Samsung is about to release an SSD that is guaranteed to rock the SSD community like few others have. This SSD is the Samsung 840 EVO 1TB mSATA SSD and it, not only is the one and only mSATA SSD capable of …
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Samsung 840 EVO mSATA SSD MSRP Announced – Only $10 Higher Than present Samsung EVO SSDs.
Since our news of Samsung’s new 1TB mSATA EVO SSD a week or so ago, we have received an overwhelming number of e-mails questioning the price of this new SSD release, many believing it will be a very premium priced item because of its market impact. To speak of just Lenovo Thinkpad professional’s alone, this could mean millions of sales, …
Read More »Samsung 840 Pro SSDs now RAPID Compatible and Benched at 1GB/s Speeds – Samsung Magician Free Download
On release of the Samsung 840 EVO SSD earlier this year, Samsung introduced a new ‘caching’ technology called RAPID Mode, a technology that could increase Samsung EVO SSD transfer speeds up to 1.2GB/s with absolutely AMAZING low 4K random write speeds as well. RAPID Mode could be enabled through the free download of Samsung’s SSD Magician and the initial release …
Read More »Samsung Announces 840 EVO 1TB mSATA SSD Capable of RAPID Speeds to 1GB/s
Higher performance and capacities in a smaller SSD form factor is something many of us dream of when considering the advance of this amazing technology and this morning Samsung has tackled just that. Building on their ever popular Samsung 840 EVO Series, Samsung has just announced a new 840 EVO mSATA, fully capable of their RAPID Technology, which means that …
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 »Hard Lesson Learned With Late-2013 Apple Products Containing Lesser Performing 128GB SSDs
The practice of using unbranded peripherals in computers is common. Apple does this and carries things a step further by demanding that components, such as the SSDs, are proprietary to a specific build only. Not only can the SSD in Apple’s new Mac products not be upgraded with third-party SSDs, but also, they can’t even be switched off with SSDs …
Read More »Samsung XP941 NGFF M.2 PCIe SSDs in RAID 0 – Worlds Smallest SSD Combination Hits 2GB/s
M.2 PCIe SSDs Reviews Sometimes we get fortunate enough to have just the right hardware at just the right time. Such was the case when Sony sent us their new VAIO Pro 13 Ultrabook with a Samsung XP941 M.2 PCIe SSD for review. That SSD provided performance speeds over 1GB/s and enabled our statement of the VAIO Pro 13 as …
Read More »Sony VAIO Pro 13 Ultrabook M.2 Native PCIe SSD Review – 1GB/s Performance Fastest Ultra Speed To Date
SONY ULTRABOOK PRO 13 CONFIGURATIONS DIFFER A few weeks back, we published our review of the Sony VAIO Pro 13 ultrabook where we discovered that there were two different configurations of the VAIO being shipped, that with a SATA 3 M.2 SSD and that with a native M.2 PCIe SSD. Not only did the system that we received contain a …
Read More »Samsung Announces Innovative High-Efficiency Green Memory Solution Combining DDR4 DRAM And PCIe SSD
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world-leading developer and producer of advanced semiconductor solutions, is utilizing its Memory Solutions Forum 2013 to announce its fifth generation of green memory products. Today’s announcement was made in Seoul, Korea at the first of Samsung’s such forums. A second Memory Solutions Forum 2013 will be held later this month in the U.S., and will …
Read More »Toshiba Set To Change SSD Landscape with Upper Tier SSDs at Rock Bottom Pricing – 256GB SSD Hits Low $149
If the fact that Toshiba is now selling retail SSDs to the consumer surprises you, it should. For some time now, the SSD industry has had its eye on Toshiba as they seemed to get caught behind the eight ball. From our perspective, the only Toshiba SSDs we had reported on were the client THNSN 128GB SATA 2 mSATA SSD …
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