Our SSD Reviews

The Samsung 470 Series SSD is the top performing SSD tested since our first was published in 2007. If you are considering a SSD purchase, this article is a must as it compares four of the best SSDs available today. Read on!!! . Solid state drives were first introduced to the consumer in 2007 and Samsung was one of the first …

TEST BENCH CONFIGURATION Motherboard Asus Rampage III Gene SATA 6Gb/s USB3 CPU Intel i7-930 CPU@2.80Ghz (OC’d to 3.2Ghz) RAM 6Gb G.Skill 1600 Triple Channel Graphics MSI N460GTX DDR5 768MB Power Supply OCZ ModXStream-Pro 600w CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212+ OS Windows 7 64 Bit Ultimate Wifi Belkin Surf & Share Wireless USB Adapter Monitor Dell E228WFP 22″ Flat Panel …

4. HDTune Pro Ver 4.5 We have used HDTune Pro for a number of years and in all other tests there has been spiking within the chart above.  We have never seen such a level result straight across and it was on the first pass.  Other reviewers are chuckling right about now I am sure as we have all been …

5.  PCMark Vantage X64 We left the best for last with respect to testing and one will soon see why.  The SSD Review uses benchmark software called PCMark Vantage x64 HDD Suite to create testing scenarios that might be used in the typical user experience.  There are eight tests in all and the tests performed record the speed of data …

It almost seems fitting that we would be writing a review on Halloween about a USB Flash drive that is truly an SSD in disguise. We have been back and forth with Peter Carcione, Super Talents Director of Marketing, many times in the last while and quite frankly much of what they are doing is rather amazing. As much as we …

The USB 3.0 SuperCrypt flash drive is ready to use right out of the box but for best performance, Super Talent recommends download of their own driver. The user simply downloads and uncompresses the zip file, clicks on ‘Setup’ and then ‘Install’ and the new driver is installed. It gets a bit tricky from this point as we then go into Device Manager …

The SSD Review uses benchmark software called PCMark Vantage x64 HDD Suite to create testing scenarios that might be used in the typical user experience. There are eight tests in the suite, all of which record the speed of data movement in MB/s. The simulations are as follows: Windows Defender In Use Streaming Data from storage in games such as Alan Wake …

We believed we were in the home stretch and thought it appropriate to conquer the idea that we could clone our OS onto the SuperCrypt and then boot the system from the flash drive. We understood, of course that the initial boot might be in USB 2.0 speeds but were curious as to what would occur once the Super Talent driver …

Prior to receiving the survivor, we sincerely believed that The SSD Review Test Bench simply would not fit into that case because of the size of the CPU Cooler, Graphics card and array of storage devices. We even e-mailed BitFenix and had to ask, “Are you sure?’ to which the answer was that we would see soon enough. CHASSIS AND INSTALLATION …

At the end of the day, its entirely believable that the planning of this mid-tower gaming case wasn’t accomplished overnight because its simply the best we have seen yet and by a long shot. We really haven’t even scratched the surface on the smaller things that BetFenix has paid attention to such as a newly patented design called the BetFenix Lockdown …