Word has finally reached the public of a ‘SandForce Driven’ SSD found native inside a new release ultra portable laptop, this being the Asus UX21 and UX31 Series. The partnership between ASUS and AData will see the new AData XM21 mSATA SandForce based SSD available in both the UX21 and Ux31 Series. The XM21 will contain the SandForce SF-2281 6Gbps …
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Open The Doors For The SSD Driven Ultra Portable!!
Its been some time in the making but manufacturers have opened their doors yesterday to the worlds new lines of ultra portable SSD configured laptops. You may remember our review of The Samsung Series 9 earlier this year where we were able to give you just a hint of what we think will be in store for those hoping to …
Read More »Patriot Improves SSD Line With Patriot PyroSE SATA III Solid State Drive
Patriot yesterday announced a new member of their Patriot Family in the guise of the PatriotSE SATA III SSD. The ‘SE” will be ‘SandForce Driven’ and, as its older brother thePyro, will contain the world famous SandForce SF-2281 6Gbps controller. As we know, the SF-2281 is capable of parallel read and write speeds of over 500MB/s along with IOPS above …
Read More »Intel 710 Series 200GB 3Gbps SSD Review – A Welcome Addition to The Enterprise Storage Space
This review is an indepth look at the Intel 710 Series 200GB 3Gbps solid state drive. At first glance, we see that the 710 is SATA II, capable of typical speeds of 270MB/s read and 210MB/s write with advertised specs of 38500 IOPS read and 2700 IOPS write; this at a MSRP of $1250. All is not as it seems, …
Read More »The Memoright FTM Plus SATA 3 240GB SSD Review
Our review today is going to examine the Memoright FTM Plus 6Gbps 240GB SSD; a ‘SandForce Driven’ SSD capable of read/write performance in excess of 500MB/s. Memoright focuses primarily on enterprise sales, however, they were one of the first to release a consumer SSD back in 2007. Submission of their MR25.1 128GB SLC SSD for review was our first introduction …
Read More »OCZ Z-Drive R4 C PCI Express 1.6TB SSD Review – OCZ Z-Drive R4 versus FUSION-IO ioDrive Duo
The OCZ Z-Drive R4 PCI Express SSD contains eight SandForce SF-2281 processors, 128 pieces of NAND flash memory and a Superscale Storage Controller. If ever a MONSTER storage device was created, the R4 definitely answers that call. In fact, a simple review just doesn’t seem appropriate for the OCZ Z-Drive R4 (Z-R4). Let’s throw it in the ring against FUSION-IO’s …
Read More »SandForce Driven Intel SSD Gets Closer To Reality
As much as we had the first scoop (albeit an educated guess) on this story months back, we have to give complete credit to VR-Zone for having the true inside track on all Intel news as they have shown themselves to be the leader in Intel document leaks! VR-Zone has recently learned that the date for the new Intel Series …
Read More »OCZ Introduces New Synapse Cache Series SSD To Appeal To Hard Drive Crowd
OCZ has recently announced their new Synapse Cache line of SSDs which are a SATA III family of SSDs available in 64 and 128GB. The intent of the Synapse Cache is to appeal to the hard drive crowd that absolutely needs that extra capacity by optimizing caching applications and leverages DataCache software which will be included with the SSD. It …
Read More »Samsung 830 256GB SATA 3 SSD Review – Make Way For Incredible Performance & Lower Prices
Our featured shot is the PCB of a brand new Samsung PM800 SATA 3 256GB solid state drive that this report is going to speak to. It just may be an exclusive as Samsung’s new 6Gbps SSD cannot be opened by way of removal of any screws. The SSD had to be pried apart in order to get this shot, …
Read More »The SSD Review Is On Facebook! – Check out Our Unexpected and Unpublished Pictures and Videos!
Its been some time in the making but The SSD Review is finally on Facebook and you can find us HERE! We wanted to find an avenue to show you things that go on behind the scenes at the review, things such as pictures that don’t make it to the reviews, videos as well as showing you a bit of …
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