Back in August of last year, Kent Smith delivered an excellent  lecture on over provisioning at the Flash Memory Summit, held in San Jose, California, and we published a quick summary in result. We find that consumers still don’t quite understand over provisioning and this is seen, many times, through the amount of e-mails received asking us to explain why …

Gamers gotta love these give kind of deals and we have seen phenomenal response in past SSD/Game purchase combinations! For a limited time only, a purchase of an OCZ 256GB or 512GB Vector SSD will see the new SSD owner receiving up to two codes (2 SSD purchases) for the PC version of Ubisoft Far Cry 3.  These codes are …

Our first mSATA SSD review was published a little over two years ago today and, at that time, the thought of a SSD 1/3 of the size of a credit card becoming mainstream was really non-existent. It is a bit amusing because that SSD was the Intel 310 mSATA and since then, 35 mSATA SSDs (blade style included) have been …

Thanks to the kindness of Samsung and the SSD Angels, The SSD Review is giving away a HUGE 512GB  Samsung 840 Pro SSD and it can be yours! We nabbed the 840 Pro while in sunny Las Vegas waited  and for just the right moment to enjoy posting this contest to the world.  As many know, our home base is …

It seems that our relationship with Plextor has had a shot of Adrenaline since our meet at CES Las Vegas 2013 and ‘first up’ analysis of the new Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme SSD is the result.  We did have a bit of a heads up when Plextor asked us to review the M5 Pro in this meeting, but definitely never …

Without a doubt, the thing we love most about the review business is the opportunity to introduce new technology and things get even better yet when we are selected to be one of the first to introduce a product to the world…through a more detailed analysis.  On the flipside, it truly hurts to have to ship back those products that …

It has been some time now since the rumor mill started where Seagate was in search of a flash storage solution partner, all rumors coming to fruition this afternoon with Seagates strategic partnership with flash storage vendor Viradent Systems Inc. In exchange for a 40 million dollar investment (again very close to previous rumors of what they were willing to …

Intel this morning announced their new 525 Series SATA 3 mSATA SSD family making available more capacities than we think we have ever seen from any other similar release. The new Intel Series 525 mSATA SSD will be available in capacities of 30, 60, 90, 120, 180 and 240GB and performance is listed as 550MB/s read, 520MB/s write and 80,000 …

Perhaps one of the hottest tech items to hit in the last year is the ultrabook, a laptop typically measuring under 1/2″ thick, weighing less than 3 lbs, having performance as high as 1GB/s transfer speeds and being capable of up to ten hours battery life. As new and amazing as the ultra is, the consumer also learned of the …

Micron today introduces the new P400m Enterprise SATA 3 SSD that is a high endurance SSD and capable of up to 7PB lifetime data writes. The P400m enterprise SSD is available in capacities of 100, 200 and 400GB and SATA 3 performance is expected to be 350MB/s read and 300MB/s write with up to 55,000 IOPS read and 17,000 IOPS …