SSD

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 June 3, 2009 · 0 comments

Information overload is the name of the game when it comes to Computex. So many new goodies from so many manufacturers it’s hard to keep up with it all.Here are some of the interesting products from the show:CasesThermaltake Level 10…

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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

by Rafael Hernandez on May 18, 2009 · 0 comments

If you were avoiding the initial batch of solid state drives we can’t blame you, they were expensive and unprovent technologies despite the promise of insane performance and durability. Thankfully there’s more competition, which has lead to lower prices, and…

Read more Solid State Drives, Fast and Slightly More Affordable

by Rafael Hernandez on May 13, 2009 · 0 comments

There was a time when every single component in a notebook computer was a generation or so behind what could be found on desktop computers, nowadays you’ll find feature parity in almost every category outside of the latest and greatest…

Read more Notebook SSD Upgrades, Are They Viable?

by Rafael Hernandez on May 12, 2009 · 0 comments

Solid state drives are quite speedy at what they do regularly trouncing spindle based hard drives of old quite easily much to the joy of PC enthusiasts everywhere. There are some things that it can’t do however and that is…

Read more Acard ANS-9010 RAMdisk Versus OCZ Vertex 30GB SSD, Plain Not Fair

by Pedro Hernandez on May 9, 2009 · 0 comments

As solid state drives (SSDs) appear in more notebooks and PCs in the coming years, Microsoft wants to make certain that Windows 7 is not only on speaking terms with the storage technology, but that the OS provides an optimized…

Read more Windows 7 Plays Nice with SSDs

by Rafael Hernandez on April 22, 2009 · 0 comments

There you were, pining for your very own solid state drive, hoping against hope that their pricing would fall to a reasonable enough level. With time comes more competition so the day you have your very own SSD might be…

Read more Kingston SSDNow 80GB, The Floodgates Open

by Rafael Hernandez on April 22, 2009 · 0 comments

There comes a time when your system, or server’s, on-board storage solutions aren’t cutting it, and if you’re bound by the speed of your storage system that time is very evident once you load up your target applications.PC Perspective has…

Read more PC Perspective On The HighPoint RocketRaid 4310 SAS/SATA RAID Controller

by Rafael Hernandez on April 12, 2009 · 0 comments

The solid-state drive has a ton of benefits that users are clamoring for namely insanely high speeds, much improved reliability when it comes to bumping them around, and lower power usag. Unfortunately they’ve been on the pricier end of the…

Read more OCZ Vertex 120GB, The SSD Gets Cheaper