Right on the heels of SandForces game changing announcement of their SF-2000 SATA 3 processors earlier today, OWC is the first manufacturer to announce the new SF-2000 processor in their enterprise and consumer release products. It seems that the announcement of a single SSD wasn’t enough as OWC is showing complete confidence by announcing the early 2011 release of, not only 8 …
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SandForce Announces SATA 3 SSD Processor Capable of 500MB/s Read and Write Speeds
Sandforce has announced its release of a new SATA3 SSD processor that is capable of, not only equaled 500MB/s read and write speeds, but also, random read and write IOPS at the 4k random transfer level will sustain an unbelievable rate of 60k. A few days ago, The SSD Review was contacted by Michael Schoolnik of Story Public Relations and …
Read More »JEDEC Aims To Set The Record Straight on SSD Endurance and Reliability Standards
The new SSD consumer has a daunting enough task in learning as to whether a SSD is right for them and where to purchase, much less trying to understand the details of the drive packaging itself which might be just a bit deceiving. The SSD Review has tackled the issue of advertising SSD high sequential read and write performance scores for …
Read More »Crucial C300 RealSSD Getting Closer To $2/Gb
It wasn’t so long ago that many were looking at SSDs at the $3/Gb mark and stating that they would buy once the price of SSDs was down to $2/Gb. With Crucial’s price drop on their RealSSD C300 128Gb SSDs today ($259US /$269Cdn) we are becoming very close with this SSD now dipping to $2.02/Gb US and $2.10/Gb Cdn respectively at …
Read More »Crucial C300 64Gb RealSSD Review
Most recently, The SSD Review has completed its build of a new Test Bench which we hope to be future proof, in that, it is capable of testing new SATA3/USB3 hardware releases. Can you imagine our surprise when we started to get requests from hardware manufacturers asking if we would like to run their their SATA3/USB3 hardware through its paces? One …
Read More »OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 120Gb SSD Review
The SSD Review has been utilizing two drives for the passed two months now and we have to say that we just can’t get enough of these drives!!! They are truly hidden gems of the ssd world and we are not alone in this belief. It seems that everyone that seems to be buying them or, as in our case, …
Read More »SSD Manufacturers
The below list comprises all SSD manufacturers, each listed in alphabetical order and is updates as frequently as possible. Should an error, an error, omission or update be recognized, please contact The SSD Review and we wil do our best to get the list updated . . SLC versus MLC The majority of solid state drives use MLC (multi-level cell) Nand …
Read More »OWC Mercury Pro Extreme RE 100Gb SSD Review
Lets just get the article going by stating that this drive is a rocket of a SSD and if you want the best in performance right out of the gate, you have it here. We were so accustomed to the huge success of the Intel drives in overall performance that we had to give the Intel a few runs just …
Read More »Why Do I Want an SSD?
Ok so thats it! You have spent weeks reading every article ever created about SSDs and are convinced that you have to have one. Life will simply cease to exist if you cant experience the amazing technology that has rocked the earth for the past 3 years. And thats why you are here! From this point forward, we are going to …
Read More »The SSD Processor
In 2008, a SSD controller manufacturer named JMicron released their new and amazing SSD controller to manufacturers for inclusion in their solid state drives. SSD companies received mass shipments, blindly incorporated them into their SSDs and got them out to millions of consumers worldwide. This controller wreaked havoc on the growth of solid state drives as it did the reputation of …
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