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In May of 2011, OCZ announced a new type of firmware for Indilinx-controlled drives. That firmware, named for a type of carnivorous fish, carried the name Arowana Flash Translation Layer. The Arowana FTL eventually made its way into the Vertex Plus family, however, enthusiasts with the original Barefoot-controlled drives would have to wait until now, ten months later, to get a chance to …

Todays SSD landscape consists of two major players, LSI SandForce and Marvell, both of whom seem to be in a cat fight for top spot with several companies using their controller architecture in their respective SSD products. Plextor has wisely chosen the server-grade Marvell 88SS9174 Marvell processor for their M3 and our report will give you an in depth view …

If you own a desktop computer, or even a dual drive laptop computer, and you haven’t considered the advantages of solid state drives yet, this review is going to open your eyes. Our review today will examine the Crucial Adrenaline SATA 3 50GB Caching SSD and how it fits into the consumer market.  We will explain the simplicity of installation, …

SanDisk has finally jumped full tilt back into the world of SSDs and our report today will introduce you to the use of yet another brand of NAND flash memory that we haven’t seen in any SATA 3 SSDs, at least that I am aware of. The benefit, of course, is that this memory is owned by SanDisk.  This allows …

Our SSD review today will be on the Toshiba MK4001GRZB 400GB SAS 6Gb/s Enterprise SLC SSD and will be the first to undergo our new Enterprise Test Protocol. This SSD brings with it some of the best sustainable performance in the realm, and also has recently taken the Grand Prize for Excellence in Energy Efficiency and Conservation from the Japan …

Renice Technology, well known for their line of high performance SSDs, has announced the release of their X3 50mm mSATA (MO-300B) SSD in a 240GB form factor. The LSI Sandforce based drive will deliver read/write speeds of 285MB/s and 275 MB/s and up to 30,000 4KB random read IOPS. The new product will be available in 240 GB capacities, in addition to the …

A casual reader of The SSD Review has probably grown accustomed to seeing the huge RAID numbers from any number of our RAID tests as well as the great results seen in our evaluations of consumer SSDs. We do have a penchant for throwing around numbers in excess of 450,000 IOPS and 4GB/s throughput in our reviews so, for the …

Marvell was the first to enter the SATA 3 SSD market by several months.  The Crucial C300 used the first SATA III Marvell processor as early as mid-2010. Since that time, there several manufacturers have used the Marvell controller, and with great success. No stranger to enterprise needs, Marvell controllers have also been used to equal success in enterprise flash …

Elgato, well known for their PC TV products and storage solutions, has announced the release of their first Thunderbolt SSD. Aimed at Macs (but usable on any computer with a Thunderbolt interface), the aptly named Thunderbolt will deliver transfer rates (presumably read speeds) of up to 270 MB/s. The drives will be available in capacities of 120GB and 240GB, with …

In taking a close look at the need for mSATA SSDs in today’s SSD arena, it just doesn’t really seem clear as to why manufacturers are jumping into the mSATA fold so quickly. We might be able to say that the push to market of mSATA SSDs has become a trend, in fact. Our analysis today will be the MyDigitalSSD …