SanDisk Corporation, a world-leading producer of flash storage devices, is announcing its new Optimus MAX Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid state drive (SSD), representing the world’s first 4TB SAS SSD. SanDisk’s Optimus MAX offers storage capacity that even exceeds the current highest-capacity 2.5″ 10,000 rpm and 15,000 rpm SAS hard disk drives (HDDs), creating the first true replacement for legacy …
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Samsung Announces Mass Production of Industry’s First 3-bits-per-cell (MLC) NAND-based SSDs For Data Centers
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leading producer of memory products, is announcing that it has begun mass production of the industry’s first high-performance SSDs utilizing three-bits-per-cell (MLC) NAND that is geared toward servers and data centers. This new SSD will allow IT pros to better manage workloads that are related to e-mail, web browsing and social networking, helping to …
Read More »OCZ RevoDrive 350 PCIe SSD Review (480GB) – LSI SandForce Driven Once Again
OCZ was the first to introduce a PCIe SSD solution to the consumer with their original RevoDrive PCIe SSD way back in 2010, this updated by the RevoDrive X2 PCIe SSD the following June and the RevoDrive 3×2 a few months later. There was no question that OCZ had struck gold with the RevoDrive 3×2 PCIe SSD as it was …
Read More »Kingston Adds 240GB And 480GB Capacities To SSDNow mS200 mSATA SSD Lineup
Kingston Digital, Inc., which is Kingston Technology Company, Inc.’s Flash memory division, and also a leading global producer of memory products, is announcing the addition of 240GB and 480GB capacity points to its existing SSDNow mS200 mSATA lineup of SSDs. The addition of larger capacity points offers enthusiasts and system builders a cost-effective performance upgrade compared to HDDs, providing quicker …
Read More »Micron M500DC Enterprise SSD Review (480GB) – Great Write Performance At A Great Price
Today, Micron has announced a new member of its enterprise SSD family, the M500DC. Typically, Micron likes to focus on performance and reliability with their enterprise drives, with cost being a secondary factor. With the M500DC, they have made price a priority. INTRODUCTION About this time last year, we were reviewing the Crucial M500 960GB. This was the first drive …
Read More »Acer Chromebook C720 SSD Upgrade To MyDigitalSSD M.2 (NGFF) 128GB SSD – Worlds Easiest Upgrade
If you are looking for a new computer and are a typical PC user, you need to take a look at the Google Chromebook. There are three brands of the Chromebook (Acer, HP and Samsung), it is SSD driven which means lightning fast startups and operation, they get anywhere from 8 to 10 hours battery life, and they are CHEAP! …
Read More »How Does an SSD Work – Learning To Run With Flash
‘How Does An SSD Work’ is the fourth article in our series entitled ‘Learning To Run With Flash’. In this series, we take the time to try to explain the ins and outs of SSDs to you the reader, as well as doing our best to provide an understanding of how this amazing technology will benefit you. If you are …
Read More »Win a Plextor M6e PCIe SSD For Your PC!
The SSD Review and Plextor are teaming up to give away one of their newest M6e PCIe SSDs to one lucky reader! That’s right, break that SATA barrier in any system that has an open PCIe slot. If you are new to our little corner of the web, check out our recent report on the Plextor M6e where we tested …
Read More »Plextor M6S SSD Review (256GB) – Strength in a New Marvell SSD Controller Offering
It has been a long time in the making but the new Plextor M6S family is finally rolling out. Based on Marvell SSD controllers and Toshiba NAND flash memory, we got our first glimpse at the M6e M.2 PCIe X2 SSD some months ago in our IO-Switch Raijin Review, followed by our official analysis of the 512GB capacity M6e (and …
Read More »MyDigitalSSD Pocket Vault SSD Review – Speed & Capacity In a Value Driven Ultra Small Mobile SSD
Size is everything in the world of SSDs and first hand proof of this can be seen in any number of ultrabooks, including the Apple MBA. True ultrabook size can only be accomplished through mSATA or M.2 SSDs. Much is the same with external storage where we have seen size reduced significantly, while performance has jumped exponentially with the introduction …
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