We should all be very well versed by now on just how fast solid state drives are compared to their spindle based ancestors, but how fast are they when compared to each other? Controller chips and flash memory modules differ…
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Crucial is widely known for their desktop and notebook memory products but the company isn’t content with simply storing your data on some volatile memory, oh no they’ve expanded to the solid state drive space in order to offer speedy…
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Progress, it’s a good thing.In this case it’s a great thing as Kingston has announced that they’ve launched their new SSDNow V+ series of solid state drives. 64, 128, and 256GB drives are in their product plans with the 64GB…
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You have to feel some form of pity for the marketing types, the guys that decide what to call products and, eventually how to market them. There are only so many ways you can desribe something as worth purchasing. What…
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…
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…
SATA 6.0 Gb/s storage controllers from Marvel have been having something of a hard time keeping themselves stable so the introduction of 600MB/s SATA ports on motherboards, specifically the major Intel P55 launch over the coming months, appears to be…
Read more SATA 6G Launch Delays, SSD Insanity Restrained a Little Longer
RAID storage setups have been, in the past, a good way to bump up your system’s storage performance. Given that platter based drives were the slowest component in a computer any added speed was always welcome when doing any sort…
Solid state drives offer a very attractive performance increase over the old platter based hard drives of the past, unfortunately getting the most out of them isn’t as simple as plugging in the drive. Given the technology’s early state you’ll…
Read more Windows Vista and SSDs, A Case Study
It seems like jumping into a purchase can foil you in ways you never thought possible. It appears that Apple’s new 13″ and 15″ MacBook Pros have an issue where their SATA ports are limited to around about 1.5Gb/s…
Read more Some New Apple Mac Portables Suffer SATA Speed Degradation, SSD Users Saddened
