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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 …

A few days ago we looked at the MyDigitalSSD SMART SSD which gave us a peak of what has become an ever growing mSATA SSD market. That SSD, based on the ADATA XPG SX300 architecture, is the fastest and highest capacity mSATA SSD available to date. The MyDigitalSSD Bullet Proof 3 256GB SSD is the little brother of the SMART …

Korean semiconductor fabricator SK Hynix has announced a deal to acquire California’s Link_A_Media Devices. Hynix manufactures NAND flash memory for SSDs and mobile applications in addition to other memory and semiconductor products. Hynix is the second largest memory products manufacturer by revenue behind fellow Korean firm Samsung. Back at Computex, Corsair announced announced a new line of high performance SATA III …

They are calling for a ‘heat wave’ in Toronto, Ontario.  Apparently, we have a name for 3 days in a row that are above 30 degrees celsius. I just spent 3 days in China, average temperature was 32.  Better yet, I followed that with 7 days in Taiwan and  the average temperature there was 35 degrees. Bring on summer!  The only thing better than 3 …

A little over a month ago, we here at The SSD Review took Corsairs new Accelerator line of SSDs to the test, focusing specifically on the 60GB model and how drive-caching technology affected system performance. Astounded by the results, we were curious as to how the Accelerator performed at opposite ends of the capacity spectrum. Hence, those of you looking for …

The most confusing thing to me is why Samsung,  a company that makes one of the top SSDs on the market, would venture elsewhere to supply SSDs for their own Ultrabook, an Ultra that is arguably the best on the market in many respects. Our report today will be an overview of the new Samsung Series 9 15″ Ivy Bridge …

It’s not often that I credit a companies business practices but this is going to be the exception for Matt Dawson and MyDigitalSSD who recently sent us three new SSDs for review, the Smart 256GB mSATA, the Bullet Proof 256GB value driven mSATA and the 512GB BP 3 2.5″ SSD. Today’s evaluation will be on the MyDigitalSSD Smart Series 256GB …

Apple has unveiled a new revision of the MacBook Air that is sure to fuel the fires in the ongoing Ultra wars. Just when PC manufacturers are all climbing aboard the SSD caching train for both performance and capacity,  Apple introduces a new MacAir that contains not only a 512GB SSD, but also, a Toshiba branded ‘LSI SandForce Driven’ one …

Originally unveiled as the exclusive of Corsair, Link A Media issued a Press Release today opening up business to other potential SSD companies.  First seen in the Corsair Neutron SSD at Computex, the LM87800 6Gbps SATA controller just may be seen upcoming SSDs. Touting features designed to help get new LAMD powered drives to market quickly, the LM87800 could help …

When was the last time you went out of your comfort zone? It’s interesting how many people actually never do. They never take that step to push themselves that extra mile. Some people never venture out of their country, city or neighborhood. If your one of those people I highly suggest you do it. Do it today, plan it for tomorrow, …

If you are in the market for a mSATA SSD, we guarantee this article is going to be one of the best finds for some time. MyDigitalSSD just released two mSATA versions of SSDs, the value oriented Bullet Proof 3 and the Smart Series for those loving that lightning fast ‘LSI SandForce Drive’ performance that we have come to know. …

An internal security audit by LSI discovered that the world famous SandForce 256-bit AES encryption of LSI Flash Storage Processors (FSP) has never been, and is not presently enabled in SandForce SSDs, as stated by LSI SandForce representatives today. Fret not, however, as 128-bit encryption is still in place and, unique to SandForce, the SandForce SSDs are the only ones …