It was bound to happen sooner or later but we’re beginning to see Solid State Drives (SSD) begin the precipitous fall towards a price range where they’ll be easily adopted into PCs at large. If you’re not up on what these flash memory packed drives can do well just look around at the various examples […]
Read more Solid State Drives start their march down the pricing ladder
The world of the solid state drive is a wild and confusing one with all manner of factors to take into account from the number of flash chips on the drive, which could cut effective bandwidth speeds should there be too few, to the flash controller and the firmware version it’s running. A tough set […]
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The biggest barrier to jumping into the solid state drive owning populace is the cost of entry. Of course you could go for the less expensive models which offer a good amount of storage but abysmal performance numbers or opt for the opposite, more preferable, approach. OCZ Technology’s 50GB Vertex 2 SSD touts a very […]
Read more OCZ Technology 50GB Vertex 2 is small on storage but big on performance
Your trusty portable computing device has something of a bad habit when it comes to loading up files. Its piddly, spindle-based harddrive leaves a lot to be desired in the performance category which can get annoying given the amount of thrashing that goes on in a modern PC. OCZ wants to alleviate your pain with […]
Read more OCZ Launches Vertex 2 and Onyx 1.8″ SSDs for your mobile needs
USB 3.0 is one seriously fast connection offering up to 4.8Gbps of bandwidth which means you’re looking at a whole new world of possibilities for peripherals. Quick storage anybody? The OCZ Enyo SSD crams all of its components into a portable case and offers up a USB 3.0 connection which means you can take your […]
Solid State Drives come in plenty of storage size and flash controller flavors which makes things maddeningly difficult when it’s time to choose a solution without some solid speed numbers to back up your decision. The Kingston SSDNow V+ 128GB Solid State Drive manages some very impressive performance levels despite its rather bland outer casing. […]
Read more Kingston SSDNow V+ 128GB SSD kicks it into high gear
Storage systems used to be the weakest link in a system lagging far behind processors and memory speeds which makes for quite the bottleneck when your CPU needs more data to crunch on. PC Perspective is trying to figure out which of their high-end storage setups offer the best performance: A four drive RAID 5 […]
Read more High End Storage Systems Compared proves your reads and writes can’t compare
Solid State Drives have opened up a whole new realm of performance possibilities which just might be a detriment to those that enjoy their system’s boot up time to be long enough so that they can grab themselves a beverage and a pastry. The Intel X25-M G2 80GB Solid State Drive carries on the blazing […]
The bulk of a Solid State Drive’s performance potential lies in its embedded flash memory controller which tend to vary in features and speed from chip manufacturers leaving the end user to dig through countless reviews to find the gems. PC Perspective has gathered together four SandForce powered SSDs and put them through some rigorous […]
Read more SandForce SSDs Rounded Up and tested for your vicarious speed needs
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
