SSD News

A few weeks back The SSD Review posted our evaluation of the new Samsung 470 Series SSD and a barrel full of e-mails were received asking when it would be available in Canada. It seemed that it was readily available in the US but retail sales couldn’t be found in Canada. . It seems that our conversations with Samsung Reps, both …

Corsair®, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced two additions to its award-winning Force Series SSD family. The new models include the F90 and F180 Force Series SSDs, with densities of 90GB and 180GB respectively. These latest additions to the Corsair Force Series are built using the Sandforce SF-1200 SSD Processor, …

Back in late October 9TO5MAC reported that PhotoFast began producing 256GB SSD upgrade kits for Apples latest MacBook Air lineup. PhotoFasts third-party SSD upgrade for the new MacBook Airs read and write at 250MB/s while Apples included SSD runs at between 150MB/s and 160MB/s.. Now, according to a source close to the company, Apple contacted PhotoFast last week and had them …

NEW SSD MANUFACTURER RELEASE . Leading flash memory manufacturer, Silicon Power today unleashes their new 2.5 SATA solid state drive (SSD) ~ E20, a new prospect in computer storage! . . . . The new E20 challenges SSD limitations with uniquely developed technology to boost read speeds up to 250MB/s and write speeds up to 230MB/s, both data transfer rates surpass the major SSD …

It was only a few weeks ago that the SSD Review evaluated one of the fastest drives on the market with the Super Talent USB 3.0 SuperCrypt Flash drive pulling in scores of 254MB/s in our testing and then showing absolutely incredible side by sides with true solid state drives. Well, it seems that wasn’t enough for Peter Carcione and Super …

If you keep an eye out at the Crucial Firmware Update section this morning (22Nov10) you will be seeing a new firmware posted for the C300 RealSSD series. Having already had an opportunity to check it out, I can say that the f/w is available for all capacities and takes but a few seconds to install. . Looking at the change log …

Dual Interface SSD makes the decision to upgrade to SSD even easier!!! San Jose, California “ November 17, 2010 “ Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced their 480GB UltraDrive MX SSD is now shipping. . The UltraDrive MX features a new dual-interface for both SATA II and mini-USB connections. The new …

The SSD Review has just received first sample copy of Kingstons soon to be released SSDNow V100 series 128GB SSD. The refreshed offering from Kingston now has capacities of 64-256GB, TRIM support and boasts performance results of 250MB/s read and 230MB/s write. Kingston was nice enough to send us the notebook upgrade version which includes the SSD, A Hard Drive Cloning …

UPDATE!!! Just ripping apart and getting some piks of the Super Talent FT2 and guess what shows up on my door step??? Its a brand new Mach Extreme Technology MX-DS Series SSD 40GB retailing everywhere but North America so stay tuned our readers from the other side of the world!!! Take a look below!!! And again!!!! Believe it or two Crucials were …

The SSD Review has been fortunate to experience an enormous increase in trafffic lately and we are looking for talent!!! Have you got an SSD thats not reviewed on The SSD Review? Have you ever considered doing a review yourself? Do you have something to say with respect to SSD technology? We are actively seeking people who can add to the site …