Welcome to Week Five of TSSDRs Grand Birthday SSD Giveaway Celebration and we are going to mix things up a bit for this one! This month, TSSDR has teamed up with Kingston to give away a 240GB capacity Kingston HyperX ‘LSI SandForce Driven’ SSD each week. This contest will be open to Canada and USA only and, although there is …
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PNY Prevail Elite SATA 3 SSD Review – Performance Meets eMLC Endurance And Consumer Value
The only thing better than being asked to introduce a new solid state drive to market is receiving what could be a game changing SSD out of the blue and from a company we had never dealt with prior. The PNY Prevail 240GB 6Gbps SSD contains 10K rated eMLC memory, LSI SandForce performance, a five year warranty and value. Is …
Read More »MyDigitalSSD USB 3.0 External 2.5″ SATA / 50mm mSATA SSD Enclosure Combo Quick Look
If you are anything like us, you have probably got a bevy of mSATA SSDs lying around and sometimes think that you should be putting, at least a few of these to use. MyDigitalSSD has, at least partially, found an answer to our dilemma with their USB 3 External 2.5″ SATA/50mm mSATA Enclosure Combo. The best thing about this kit …
Read More »Samsung 840 Series 250GB SSD Review – The Worlds First TLC SSD Takes Center Stage
If I were to read an SSD review where the author spoke of traveling 6623 miles to personally receive a sample SSD, only to return those 6623 miles, conduct analysis and write a report on that SSD, I’d tell him that he’d lost his marbles. Having just returned from the Samsung 2012 SSD Summit in Seoul, South Korea, and just …
Read More »SanDisk Extreme 480GB SSD Found At Lowest SSD Prices To Date (0.66/GB) With Free Shipping
It seems SanDisk has done it once again as we have found there 480GB SanDisk Extreme 480GB SSD for a rock bottom price of $319 which we believe has yet to be equaled anywhere prior. Considering that this SSD has remained to be one of the top in the industry for some time now, this is an absolutely great steal …
Read More »OWC Mercury Helios PCIe Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis Review – Imagine 800MB/s and 150,000 IOPS
Our report today is going to take a look at the OWC Mercury Helios PCIe Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis and we guarantee that is unlike any you will ever see. In fact, we don’t know of many others who could even pull this off! In this report, we will not only cover the Helios as it was shipped to us with …
Read More »Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SSD Review – Performance, Value, Battery Life and Untouchable IOPS
Our report on the Samsung 840 Pro SSD begins post take off from Pearson Int’l Airport in Toronto and on route to Seoul, South Korea. Having had this SSD in our hands for some time, even the enormity of the Samsung 840 family release celebration cannot overshadow the performance of what just might be the hottest solid state drive to …
Read More »Samsung SSD 840 Specs Revealed – TLC Memory To Equal Lifespan of Competitors MLC SSDs
Today at the Samsung 2012 Global SSD Summit in Seoul, South Korea, details were revealed regarding the consumer driven Samsung 840 Series SSD, the most interesting being the fact that this SSD will be contain Samsungs own TLC memory and over provisioning. Capacities are listed as 120, 250, and 500GB and the over provisioning is intended to increase the lifespan …
Read More »Samsung Announces Release of SSD 840 Series SSD Family – 100,000 IOPS Performance Achieved
Samsung announced the release of two new SSDs this morning (Korea Time) at the 2012 Samsung SSD Global Summit at Samsung Headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. Dubbed the new Samsung SSD 840 Family, two variations of the 840 will be available consisting of the 840 for the typical consumer, along with the 840 Pro for the enthusiast/business, and initial product …
Read More »ADATA XPG SX300 256GB mSATA SSD Review
Following up on our recent review of the ADATA XPG SX300 mSATA SSD, we are now going to be running a similar analysis of the 256GB version of the same family. We have been curious as to what this particular review would hold, as we had done a review of the MyDigitalSSD SMART 256GB mSATA SSD some time ago and …
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