SSD News

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Corsair announced new capacities available for its Force GT Series SSD today right on the heels of its recently release of new capacities for the Series 3 line as well. As a bit of refresher, we reviewed the GT 120GB here and the Series 3 120GB here where we detailed the difference in performance between the two through use of …

Crucial has posted a firmware update (0009)  for its M4 line which can be downloaded at Crucial.Com by M4 owners. The good news is that the firmware provides significant performance increase for all capacities of the M4 SSD and Crucial has all capacities of their M4 SSD on sale now at great prices. We initially thought this to be a …

THIS DRAW HAS BEEN WON.  SEE BELOW! Have you been sitting on the fence thinking about getting an SSD?  Drooling over the thought of having one in your own system? The simple fact is that a solid state drive almost makes it seem like the computer knows what you are going to do before you do.  Its just that fast …

Not even a week after discovering the root cause of their recent 320 Series SSD issues, Intel has already made a firmware fix to the public which can be uploaded here. The update addresses issues experienced by some where their SSD was left in an almost totally unusable 8MB state and the new firmware version is 0362.  Update instructions can …