solid state disk

by Rafael Hernandez on April 12, 2010 · 0 comments

Certain settings choices can cripple system performance severely while others are capable of giving a small boost which is always a good thing to have. Thankfully there are those that will test settings until their faces turn blue. Benchmark Reviews tries out ACHI and IDE settings when running a number of SATA Solid State Drives. […]

Read more Solid State Drive ACHI vs IDE throwdown

by Rafael Hernandez on July 23, 2009 · 0 comments

Solid state drives are the current best path to improved PC performance. Its speed is great enough that it’ll cut down on application load time and make memory to disk swapping all the more bearable, unfortunately they cost about as…

Read more Intel's X25-M G2, More of the Same but Cheaper

by Rafael Hernandez on July 21, 2009 · 0 comments

Intel’s solid state drives have been some of the fastest consumer drives available although their pricing meant they were a bit of a reach for most people. The company has been working on that fact and has launched their new…

Read more Intel's SSDs Hit 34nm, Cheaper Drives Incoming

by Rafael Hernandez on June 10, 2009 · 0 comments

PhotoFast is stepping up their solid state drive offerings with new entries into the expresscard and 3.5″ drive markets. First up their new ExpressCard/54 solid state drive offers up:The new drive comes in 32, 48, and 64GB flavors, has a…

Read more PhotoFast ExpressCard / 3.5" G-Monster SATA SSDs Announced

by Pedro Hernandez on June 4, 2009 · 0 comments

Why bother mimicking hard drive form factors any more? TweakTown has video of InnoDisk’s tiny 128GB solid-state drive (SSD), the nanoSSD, and it is indeed puny (that’s it on the right). From what I can gather, write speeds can…

Read more InnoDisk's Itty Bitty 128GB SSD

by Rafael Hernandez on May 28, 2009 · 0 comments

Solid State Drives are based around a collection of somewhat quick flash memory modules corralled by a memory controller into a storage system that can trounce any spindle based hard drive ever made.If you have any doubts to this…

Read more Windows 7 SSD Performance Analysis, It's Peppy