Todays SSD landscape consists of two major players, LSI SandForce and Marvell, both of whom seem to be in a cat fight for top spot with several companies using their controller architecture in their respective SSD products. Plextor has wisely chosen the server-grade Marvell 88SS9174 Marvell processor for their M3 and our report will give you an in depth view …
Read More » Our SSD review today will be on the Toshiba MK4001GRZB 400GB SAS 6Gb/s Enterprise SLC SSD and will be the first to undergo our new Enterprise Test Protocol. This SSD brings with it some of the best sustainable performance in the realm, and also has recently taken the Grand Prize for Excellence in Energy Efficiency and Conservation from the Japan …
Read More » A casual reader of The SSD Review has probably grown accustomed to seeing the huge RAID numbers from any number of our RAID tests as well as the great results seen in our evaluations of consumer SSDs. We do have a penchant for throwing around numbers in excess of 450,000 IOPS and 4GB/s throughput in our reviews so, for the …
Read More » OWC has a great range of external storage solutions for both Mac and PC users. With the Elite Pro offerings addressing the desktop solutions, in quad, dual and single Bay formats, there is a need for that “portable” offering that can come in so handy for users on-the-go. This is the slot that the Mercury Elite Pro Mini looks to …
Read More » During CeBIT 2012, LSI has announced that they have expanded their line of MegaRAID controllers to include the new 9266 models. With 2 models accepting either 1 or 2 mini-SAS connectors, the 9266-4i and the 9266-8i, and an external model, the 9285CV-8e, there are a number of upgrade possibilities for users. One of the key changes in the design is …
Read More » Today’s review will be just a bit different as we transition from the typical SSD review to that of CPU as Intel was nice enough to send along a newly released Sandy Bridge E i7-3820 for us to take a look at. The timing of this review couldn’t be more appropriate as many will be looking for that ‘last minute’ …
Read More » SanDisk has had a very busy few days, flexing its muscle and letting the world know its intent to power into the consumer and client OEM SSD market in a big way. After the announcement of the Extreme SATA 3 SSD and the X100 series, they have announced today a strategic partnership with Diskeeper to exclusively license their SSD caching software …
Read More » Our recent RAID review of three Intel 520 SSDs on the Highpoint 2720SGL 6Gbps RocketRAID Controller opened our eyes as we didn’t think performance of 1.5GB/s could be reached with three SSDs. Those results were just a taste of what was yet to come as we simply had to throw eight Crucial M4 256GB SATA 3 SSDs onto the RocketRAID …
Read More » Our release yesterday of our Intel 520 SSD Review (Round One) was probably one of the most anticipated events seen yet in the SSD arena and, if sales can be determined by the extreme numbers of readers who visited the site, Intel will do very well. In that review we made a promise, this being that we would follow up …
Read More » Today we had the chance to speak directly with representatives from TCS about their newest addition to their line of SSDs, the Galatea SSD. TCS is a world leader in highly reliable and secure mobile communication technology that was founded in 1987. The SSD side of the business, TRW components, was recently incorporated into TCS in February of 2011. This …
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