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It was some time ago that we were putting our Test Bench together and we were contacted by a company called Icy Dock.  As coincidence had it, Jeff Sung, Sales and Marketing Manager of Icy Dock USA, thought we might be interested in their 4 in 1 SAS/SATA Backplane RAID Cage for our new system. Today, we find ourselves with …

Perhaps one of 2011’s most memorable technology accolades will be the introduction of SATA 6Gbps to the computing environment and the flurry of activity as companies jump in feet first to stay abreast of the change. In the SSD world, early entries were seen by Crucial and Intel with their Marvell 9174 controllers while the SandForce SF-2200 series was seen …

An Intel ‘Sandforce Driven’ SSD you say? Its almost like a play from a playbook but, once again, someone seems to have gotten their hands on an Intel Roadmap which discusses upcoming SSD releases. All in all we may be seeing up to 5 releases by years end but there is one particularly interesting release in the bunch as shown …

An SSD arrived earlier today that I thought all might like to read about.  A quick change of plans to the negative of a few and here we are taking pictures and benchmarking the new OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G 120GB SSD. Having just completed testing, OWC gets a big thumbs up for being only the second manufacturer to release …

With USB 3.0 now becoming standard in many new laptops and computers alike, we thought it might be an ideal time to review an external USB  3 solid state drive and were fortunate to be offered the opportunity by Kingston Technology. Our review today will take a close look at the Kingston HyperX Max 3.0 USB 3 SSD and the …

Every so often a subject presents itself that, on the surface, leaves people wondering what the heck the company had in mind when they started the production line rolling. The 320 Series SSD seems to be just that as word of this SSD was leaked a few weeks back and the technology community seems to think Intel would be crazy …

Following our reviews of the Areca 1880 RAID Card and LSI 9260-8i MegaRAID Card, we are going to evaluate the LSI 9265-8i MegaRAID Card, an eight-port PCI Express SATA+SAS RAID Controller that is configured for 6Gb/s devices.  With the speed and power of SSDs reinventing mainstream storage, RAID card manufacturers are challenged to deliver a product that can handle the …

The best part of reviewing SSDs is the ever changing atmosphere and pace at which things progress. As a reviewer, one never knows what to expect until a SSD is in our hands and that certainly is the case with the Crucial M4 SATA 3 solid state drive. We were a bit surprised to learn that Crucials new consumer version …

We have done it again so it seems!!!  We are throwing a bit more gold into the pot by having a ‘week only’ giveaway right in the middle of our Intel 17-975 Extreme Site Giveaway!!! The SSD Review and Fractal Design have joined forces to offer a Fractal Design Define R3 giveaway to a lucky site member to be drawn …

Hot on the table in our labs today is the LSI 9260-8I MegaRAID 6Gb/s SATA+SAS internal RAID card and it happens to be sitting beside 8 Crucial C300 SATA 3 SSDs and 8 OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSDs. We are going to put this card through its paces and brace yourself because we have been pulling off amazing speeds …