SSD

by Rafael Hernandez on April 8, 2010 · 0 comments

One of the biggest issues with Solid State Drives today is that their varying performance, size, and pricing leads to quite a bit of confusion. You just can’t rely on one measure to be completely happy. The Corsair Nova V128 Solid State Drive sports some mighty impressive performance given its decent pricing. Benchmark Reviews has […]

Read more Corsair Nova V128 Solid State Drive provides great performance at a good price

by Rafael Hernandez on April 8, 2010 · 0 comments

Solid State Drives are fast and all of that good stuff but the technology can go even farther with the proper interface processor and enough bandwidth. Upgrade-ability wouldn’t hurt either. OCZ is touting their new Z-Drive R2 PCIe based Solid State Drive which will allow customers (they’re thinking enterprise level here) to upgrade their purchase […]

Read more OCZ Z-Drive R2 PCIe SSD goes upgradable

by Rafael Hernandez on April 5, 2010 · 0 comments

Solid State Drives are, in fact, very fast storage devices but they’re all not created equally. As much as you’d like to rely on the speed of the flash chips in a drive the controller has a bigger part to play in how well it performs overall. The SandForce SF-1200 SSD Processor is the brains […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 3, 2010 · 0 comments

SATA 6Gbps support is one of those features enthusiasts have been clamoring for yet its shelf life is likely to be quite short. Storage interfaces rarely meet their full potential before another faster standard is released, thankfully at least one company is pushing their products into using SATA 600 before it goes away completely. The […]

Read more Micron Crucial RealSSD-C300 Solid State Drive brings on the SATA 6Gbps support

by Rafael Hernandez on January 22, 2010 · 0 comments

Solid State Drive performance depends on quite a few factors but the biggest tends to be the controller driving all of the individual memory chips. A good controller is needed in order to keep data moving for the best possible performance. Benchmark Reviews has a look at the Toshiba T6UG1XBG Solid State Drive Controller found […]

Read more Toshiba T6UG1XBG Solid State Drive Controller powers…SSD drives

by Rafael Hernandez on January 19, 2010 · 0 comments

It’s readily apparent that Solid State Drives outperform the age-old spindle-based solutions by insanely wide margins and, as time goes on, the performance gap is only going to get larger while they come down in price. The G.Skill Falcon II 128GB SSD offer blazing performance and can even outrun some of its SSD based competition. […]

Read more G.Skill Falcon II 128GB SSD is as fast as you’d imagine

by Rafael Hernandez on October 19, 2009 · 0 comments

Solid State Drives deliver quite well on their stated performance claims, unfortunately for their manufacturers customers are never happy and want quicker hardware and the faster something goes the sooner they want improved products. Thankfully the OCZ Z-Drive exists for those with a serious need for speed. It fits into any free PCIe x8 slots […]

Read more OCZ Z-Drive m84 is faster than you can imagine

by Rafael Hernandez on October 15, 2009 · 0 comments

Sure you may know that solid state drives are fast but as with any technology a fair bit of familiarity with a product makes you take them for granted despite the fact that they are game changing products. Shame on you. Hardware Bistro reviewed the OCZ Agility 30GB SSD and runs it through the usual […]

Read more OCZ Agility SSD serves up files damn quick

by Rafael Hernandez on September 21, 2009 · 0 comments

You may have thought things were good, no great even. We finally got rid of the cable nightmare that was PATA and have a much better cable and signaling system in Serial ATA, unfortunately you’re standing in the way of…

Read more mini-SATA on its way, promises smaller drives

by Rafael Hernandez on September 2, 2009 · 0 comments

Being the relatively new and high priced storage solution solid state drives will get an insane amount of attention until they truly go mainstream…which may take a while since their cost per GB is still a bit up there but…

Read more Solid State Drives Rounded Up and Tested, nothings changed still fast

by Rafael Hernandez on August 28, 2009 · 0 comments

You know the deal by now…solid state drives are fast, much faster than the conventional rotating platters of the past, but not all of them are created equal. There are differences in the differing controllers and flash chips they use…

Read more Kingston SSDNow V+, insanely fast storage