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This week we purchased a new family vehicle, a Ford Edge.  After checking out a number of internet reviews and of course a few personal ones were offered, we had made our decision.  Everyone had an opinion, including me on what would be best for our needs and wants. It reminded me of why we do this website in the first place. To offer opinions, …

It has been some time since Computex and I definitely owe an apology to Patriot as I happen to find this great little card lying around the office today and definitely deserves  a bench or two. It is the Patriot EP Pro 32GB Class 10 SDHC card and, being a Class 10 card, this is definitely the card for full …

When you think about SSDs, the first names that come to mind are probably those of bigger companies, such as OCZ, Intel, Samsung, Toshiba, Kingston, and SanDisk…just to name a few. Recently however, a fairly new company named MyDigitalSSD has been making headlines, especially here on The SSD Review. Keeping the trend alive, we take a fresh look at the …

A new week is upon us and it’s time to get back into the swing of things. Well for a week anyway. One of the great things about our summer is all the mini-vacations that we take. Almost every weekend is a new adventure, whether we are on our motorcycles or in our truck. It keeps us fresh and we meet so …

Following up on our first MacBook Air Review a few days back, we couldn’t resist getting a second MBA in our hands to pair off both the Samsung and Toshiba SSDs in a head to head battle of speed and performance. The Toshiba SSD is LSI SandForce controlled and should excel in typical user performance , whereas, we would expect …

World renowned memory and flash module manufacturer Kingmax has announced their new mSATA SSD — the MMP20.  Upgrading to an SSD has a lot of appeal to many notebook users, but they may have concerns about having to settle for smaller capacity; or spending a tidy sum to have similar capacity to their original 2.5″ HDD.  The Kingmax MMP20 reconciles …

Other World Computing (OWC) has announced the release of the OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express / Mercury Aura Envoy as the industry’s first high-performance Solid State Drive upgrade and bus-powered enclosure bundle for 2010-2011 MacBook Air computers.  OWC is referring to this as a “Dream Team” of performance and convenience.  The Mercury Aura Bundle includes a Mercury Aura Pro Express …

LSI’s new PCIe 3.0 HBA and MegaRAID offerings promise oodles of extra performance above and beyond the limitations imposed by PCIe 2.0. While the new Gen3 MegaRAID solutions are still a ways out, we happen to have a Gen3 HBA here. This particular 9207-8i is destined for our enterprise evaluation system, but since it’s a new product and all, we …

I was the ultimate PC Guy.  Being an avid PC enthusiast, as I am a motorcycle enthusiast, I believed that Apple and Harley Davidson were simply brilliant marketing schemes that sold millions on the belief that brand ownership was more important than product build. That was then. Three days ago I received a new Ivy Bridge Mac Air, locked myself …

ADATA Technology has announced a new addition to its powerful XPG line of SSDs in the form of the new XPG SX910 SSD, adding on to the XPG SX900 family. Highlighted by ADATA’s new industry leading five year warranty, the XPG SX910 is one of what seems to be only ADATA SSDs to offer the famous LSI SandForce processor name …

June has almost passed us by and the official beginning of summer here in Ontario, Canada starts with the end of school and the July 1st long weekend. The forecast is awesome for all outdoor activities.  Families will embark on the lakes and campsites in full force. Smores galore will be made and of course the cold beer will be chillin’. Wishing everyone …

Writing fifty times a solid state drives capacity in one day is a lot. Multiply that by five years, and you have a staggering amount of data written to a drive, somewhere near 91,250x the capacity of said drive. That would be in excess of 17 Petabytes for a 200GB drive. The ability for any SSD to achieve this is …

New standards take time to design, ratify, and implement. As one standard proliferates, the next version is already in the works. Just as SATA II gave way to SATA III, PCIe Gen 2 devices are being replaced by PCIe Gen 3. LSI has finally lifted the veil on it’s new PCIe 3.0 family of MegaRAID and HBA controllers. PCIe 3.0 …

According to Amazon, the SanDisk Extreme SSD is the top consumer rated SSD available with 79 customer feedback’s, 69 of which are all five star ratings, something we never expected. Add to this the fact that, right now, the SanDisk Extreme is available at up to 50% off and all found at under $1/GB and SanDisk is set up for …

The Mac enthusiasts and solid state evangelists over at Other World Computing (OWC) have announced a new 2.5″ SSD with 1024GB of flash onboard. Dubbed the Mercury Electra MAX 3G 960GB SSD, it’s one of the first 1TB 2.5″ drives to hit North America. While the ability to have 1TB of solid state storage in a 2.5″ form factor is sure to be a …