The Corsair Force Series GT 180GB SSD has a lot of things going for it. At 180GB of storage space it provides a healthy amount of room for your operating system, swap file, and a number of applications which you want to load near instantaneously. There’s its rated 555 MB/s read and 525 MB/s write speeds […]
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The Patriot Pyro SE solid state drive sounds like some high end storage device that is ridiculously overpriced and out of reach but, interestingly, it can be had for quite a bit less than you’d imagine yet still put out impressive numbers. The drive comes in three sizes with the middle of the pack 120GB […]
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It’s going to be difficult to compare the relative performance of any product without having them on hand and that can get cost prohibitive very quickly if you’re dealing with Solid State Drives so be glad sites like ITShootOut takes the reigns on this sort of endeavor. They’ve taken a look at the G.Skill Phoenix […]
Cards like the Areca ARC-1882i come into play when you have a huge need for healthy dosages of storage bandwidth. Of course in order to thoroughly test a solution you can just throw a laughable spindle based hard drive at it, you’re going to have to give it some juice to the tune of seven solid […]
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The current crop of solid state drives that are hitting the market have a hard time capturing people’s attention given the fact that most every model is capable of impressive speeds and they’re all at some sort of feature parity. Patriot’s Pyro 120GB SSD goes with the memorable naming scheme conjuring images of people with […]
If you don’t know of the tremendous speed benefits a solid state drive can bring to your PC you’ve probably been living under a rock. While the first generation of drives showed impressive capabilities the latest round of drives being shipped are tearing up the performance charts spearheaded by the Intel 510 series of SSDs […]
The bulk of solid state drives tend to go for a small form factor because their internal guts don’t take up much room at all but there’s a small inconvenience when it comes time to mount one in a desktop computer which means using adapter bays and other unsightly gadgets. The OCZ Technology Vertex 2 […]
Solid State Drives can’t be judged by their pretty box art nor can you expect any sort of reference design to base expectations on so digging into the details is about the only way to know which models are worth it. The new G.Skill Phoenix Pro SSDs come out of nowhere and perch themselves at […]
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People’s performance needs vary greatly so while someone might need the fastest, and most expensive, video cards or processors you might need fast storage to speed up your particular applications. The OCZ RevoDrive X2 PCI-Express SSD cobbles together 4 separate flash controllers and addresses them in a RAID 0 configuration packed into a PCI Express […]
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Solid State Drives have brought about a new era of performance to the personal computer but their performance is somewhat limited by the storage interfaces we have in our systems…so the obvious fix is to implement better ones. OCZ’s Ibis prototype drive can link up with its custom built board that, in theory, can accept […]
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Smaller systems tend to put a squeeze on the amount of space they have for just about everything including storage. The InnoDisk nanoSSD 64GB provides speedy access in a drive that’s insanely minuscule. Seriously its power plug is bulkier than the drive itself…which sort of kills the whole space aspect but who cares anyway. The […]
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