To say the new OCZ Vector was a long time in the making would be an understatement as discussion over the development of this platform just might be one of the oldest SSD conversations to date. Today’s Vector release may mark the first major success story of OCZ’ purchase of both Indilinx and PLX, this story born through development of …
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Super Talent USB3 Express RC8 100GB Flash Drive Review – Windows To Go Tested and Certified
It was just over a year ago that we reviewed the Super Talent 50GB RC8 ‘SandForce Driven’ USB 3 Flash Drive and made the call of it being the fastest flash drive on the planet. Our prediction then was that it would be a natural progression that, soon enough, we would be booting complete systems off of just this type …
Read More »LSI AIS 2012: PNY Shows Off new HP V300 and V500 SSD Family
PNY showed off just a bit of SSD gold this week in a new production development they have signed with none other than HP. Just as we saw in 07/08 with the first Samsung/Corsair partnership, PNY will be manufacturing solid state drives under HP branding that are remarkably similar to that marketed by PNY, up to and including PNY’s exclusive …
Read More »LSI AIS 2012: Everspin Debuts ST-MRAM Ultra-High Storage Performance Via DRAM-like DDR3 Interface
This week at AIS 2012, Everspin Technologies announced commercial production of the first ever Spin-Torque Magnetoresistive RAM (ST-MRAM). This new type of ultra-low latency and high-performance memory is expected to transform storage architecture, while driving the continuous evolution of Moore’s Law. Sampling has already begun with select customers, and Everspin is engaging strategic partners to prepare design and manufacturing ecosystems. …
Read More »Mushkin Announces Industries Most Powerful 30GB mSATA SSD
Mushkin has announced release the Atlas Deluxe 30GB SSD, their smallest capacity and possibly the most powerful mSATA SSD on the market for it’s size. The Atlas Deluxe specifications list the Atlas at 555MB/s read and 365MB/s write with 92,000 IOPS with a three year standard warranty. The Atlas Deluxe will be yet another shining example of the ‘LSI SandForce’ …
Read More »Quicker Start Times Make Todays SSD Purchase Viable – An SSD Primer
The one question the always seems to resurface as we travel spreading the SSD word, is how an SSD is so much better than a hard drive. Even today, we are still at a point that this question seems to be the first question asked, even before the obvious, “What is an SSD?” As it does most, we think the …
Read More »OWC Mercury Electra MAX 3G 960GB SSD Review – Imagine a 1TB SSD in Your Notebook!
Since Day One in the SSD arena, there has been a constant struggle where a seemingly three way tug of war is seen between performance, capacity and value. Enter TLC memory and we just may hit both value and capacity at some point, however, manufacturers still believe the feasibility of marketing a 1TB SSD just isn’t there yet. This a …
Read More »Intel 335 Series SSD Review – Low Price and Performance Through 20nm MLC Memory
It’s been roughly two years since the SSD industry transitioned to SATA 3 and many believed that Intel had missed the bus. Early leaks of the ‘Intel Road Map’ showed a mere X25 upgrade creating concern as the industry was graduating to SATA 3 and Intel had no 6Gbps design in place. Intel jumped back to reality with the ‘Marvel’ …
Read More »OWC Mercury Elite Pro 2TB External Storage Quick Look With Both SSD and HDD Performance Tests
Every now and then its nice to break away from the SSD world just a bit and take a look at traditional storage innovations. With that, I called up our friends at OWC and asked them to send me their Mercury Elite Pro Storage Solution for a quick look. After all, I thought it might be nice to see what …
Read More »PNY XLR8 Pro 480GB SSD Review – Capacity, Price and Performance
Our SSD review today examines the new PNY XLR8 Pro 6Gbps SSD and one might think that, after reviewing SSDs for six years and having somewhere in the area of 100TB of SSD storage in the office, receiving a 480GB SSD in the mail wouldn’t be exciting. In that, you would be wrong. As much as getting such an SSD …
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