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Every now and then, it’s nice to give a bit of a heads up as to what we are working on behind the scenes at The SSD Review as it may be a good measure of articles yet to come. Having started in the SSD field back in 2007, it’s easy to say that the ‘fun’ I have playing with …

Individual or team player, which are you? Sitting here watching the third overtime period of the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers NHL playoff game and thought it was a good question to ask. There is really nothing wrong either way.  I consider myself a team player. Found a review to highlight, that is kind of about being a teamplayer or …

Hitachi Global Storage Technology, well known for their high performance storage solutions, has unveiled the very first SAS 12 Gbps SSD which is capable of a total available interface bandwidth of 4.8GB/s per drive. The SAS 12Gbps interface represents the highest performance interconnect seen on SSDs thus far, aside from PCIe of course. The new drives will be on display …

It has been a long time coming but seeing SSDs break that $1/GB barrier is becoming pretty common these days. In fact, yesterday, Amazon sold out of the M4 128GB SATA 3 SSD at $128.99 so what did they do?  They dropped the price to $124.99 and increased availability significantly. If you were ever on the fence with respect to …

We took a look at the SanDisk Extreme a few months ago, and found it to be one of the fastest drives on the market, combining the tried-and-true SandForce 2281 with Toshiba’s 24nm Toggle NAND. A new FW update for the Extreme promises to fix TRIM for the drive. When being used in IDE mode the TRIM command would not …

Can you believe it is already May?  Four months have completely slipped by. I found a definition of ‘May’ that I want to highlight – ‘the springtime of life; youth’… To me it’s about new beginnings, fresh starts. There is the old addage – April showers, bring May flowers. That being said, I thought the Highlight Review below was a …

Have you ever done something outside of your comfort zone? Physically challenged yourself beyond what you believed your threshold to be? Well, there is a world wide challenge called the Warrior Dash. I know most of you challenge yourself, mentally, but physically?  This is a great challenge even for those who do not consider themselves physically fit.  So today’s highlight …

Permabit’s Albireo Data deduplication technology is now supporting enterprise level flash technologies. By deduplicating data before it ever hits the flash, Permabit is claiming it can reduce the cost of enterprise flash storage by 5x to 35x. Not because the enterprise solid state device is somehow cheaper thanks to Albireo, but because you don’t need as much flash to hold an …

When it comes to SSDs, we all know that pricing is, in many cases, the pivotal factor that helps determine whether or not consumers will even keep a given product on their purchasing compass. Certainly, this has been a major source of discord in the industry, especially among those that offer LSI SandForce based products. This is understandable, as cost is, …

Are you someone who is always on time or late? Me, I’m always on time but it seems that most of my friends are what I still refer to as ‘slow pokes’.  Is it because they are simply unorganized and don’t prioritize their departure accurately, or do they simply want to be seen. You know grab the attention of the …