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Our report on the Samsung 840 Pro SSD begins post take off from Pearson Int’l Airport in Toronto and on route to Seoul, South Korea. Having had this SSD in our hands for some time, even the enormity of the Samsung 840 family release celebration cannot overshadow the performance of what just might be the hottest solid state drive to …

Today at the Samsung 2012 Global SSD Summit in Seoul, South Korea, details were revealed regarding the consumer driven Samsung 840 Series SSD, the most interesting being the fact that this SSD will be contain Samsungs own TLC memory and over provisioning. Capacities are listed as 120, 250, and 500GB and the over provisioning is intended to increase the lifespan …

The first official day of fall here is Canada.  Driving through the country today it was evident that summer was leaving. The beautiful fall colors are taking over the leaves as they start to fall.  What will the winter of 2012 be like? HIGHLIGHT REVIEW It’s the latest iPhone, it’s landing on doorsteps and shop floors today and we have …

Samsung announced the release of two new SSDs this morning (Korea Time) at the 2012 Samsung SSD Global Summit at Samsung Headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. Dubbed the new Samsung SSD 840 Family, two variations of the 840 will be available consisting of the 840 for the typical consumer, along with the 840 Pro for the enthusiast/business, and initial product …

We’ll, it was apparently just a matter of time, because it looks like game consoles are finally embracing SSDs as well. Sony will be releasing its new PS3 “Super Slim” any day now, and will offer a variant which includes, you guessed it, long overdue solid state storage. The new, skinnier, PS3 will be delivered in three versions, two with 250GB …

Following up on our recent review of the ADATA XPG SX300 mSATA SSD, we are now going to be running a similar analysis of the 256GB version of the same family. We have been curious as to what this particular review would hold, as we had done a review of the MyDigitalSSD SMART 256GB mSATA SSD some time ago and …

The SSD Review offices are going to be a bit undermanned this week as we have received a last minute request by Samsung to meet with them at their Headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. Were we surprised?  Well, I will be the first to concede that, of all the places we might travel for SSD technology, I would never have …

Velobit, a provider of high-performance solid state drive caching software, is marking their second anniversary with two new releases that reflect an amazing two years of growth. One of the few prior drawbacks to utilization of Velobit software was lack of support for Windows-based operating systems. WINDOWS AND HYPER-V OS SUPPORT ADDED VeloBit is pleased to announce that Windows and …

This year at FMS 2012, we were met one day by LSI representatives who politely handed us a non-nondescript cardboard box and simply said, “Enjoy”. We had been waiting for this box for some time and new it to be the LSI Nytro MegaRAID NMR 8120-4i Application Acceleration Card, part of the trinity of new LSI application accelerating products, all …

With the popularity of mSATA SSDs being all the rage as of late, it was only a matter of time before a new PCIe adapter was introduced that might allow users to take advantage of that extra storage should they find an mSATA SSD at a great price. Our review today will look at the new OWC Mercury AccelsiorM mSATA …

Welcome to Week Three of TSSDR’s Grand Birthday SSD Giveaway Celebration and we are going to mix things up a bit for this one! This week, TSSDR has teamed up with Crucial to give away one of the smallest, highest capacity and most powerful storage devices on the planet, a Crucial M4 256GB mSATA SSD.  Weighing in at only 7 …

Earlier this year, SK Hynix announced that they would be manufacturing their own consumer SSDs and followed that with the purchase of Link A Media Devices and their LM8700 controller, a controller which has already proving itself to be one of the top in the industry. Today, we are going to bring you an exclusive review of the fruit of …

If you haven’t yet checked out the Forums make sure you take a moment to see what this weeks contest is about.  You never know when it’s your turn to win, but you can’t win if you don’t enter. HIGHLIGHT REVIEW Today we are going to look at Asus latest gaming headset in the Republic of Gamers line, the Vulcan …

Western Digital has announced the release of the world’s thinnest 2.5″ hybrid drive. Targeted at Ultrabooks, the drive will weigh in at a mere 5mm thick, undercutting even the thinnest 7mm drives currently on the market. The new products will deliver up to 500GB of storage space and will be conducive to systems with severely cramped quarters. The drives should be …

 SuperMicro has achieved up to million IOPS in their SYS-6047R-TXRF servers using STEC’s PCIe SSDs (or SSAs as STEC refers to them, for Solid State Accelerators). These servers are based on the Intel Xeon E5-2600 family of CPUs (Socket 2011) and support up to 512GB of RAM. STEC’s current PCIe offerings are based on their own silicon, and come in PCIe Gen2 …