OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a prior leader in high-performance solid state drive (SSD) technology for client and enterprise markets, has announced that they have received approval from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware to transfer the substantial portion of the SSD-related assets to Toshiba Corporation.  Many have asked if the OCZ name would live on under …

January, the month where everyone tries to make resolutions and changes.  What better time for some system upgrades? Keep checking back as we try to provide you with easy access to numerous opinions on the newest technology updates. HIGHLIGHT REVIEW Thermaltake Displays New Cases,  PSUs, Cooling and Peripherals – CES 2014 @ Technology X Yesterday had us visiting Thermaltake’s display in …

Our visit to OCZ at CES 2014 brought forward news that they have been working on a new consumer SSD, this SSD being the first example of things to come as it is the result of a new partnership between OCZ and Toshiba.  Not only does the new Vertex 460 contain Toshiba’s latest advanced 19nm MLC Toggle Mode NAND flash …

OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a pioneer of high-performing solid-sate drives (SSDs) for both client and enterprise, is announcing their next-generation of enterprise SSDs, dubbed the Intrepid 3000 series.  The enterprise-class SATA III Intrepid 3000 series, in capacities of  up to 800GB, becomes OCZ’s highest performing and largest capacity of enterprise SATA SSDs so far. Utilizing OCZ’s Everest 2 platform that combines …

Toshiba is a world leader in many different technologies and applications.  In the NAND market, for instance, they supply components for some of our favorite SSDs.  But, they haven’t really been known as a major player in turn-key storage products.  While they have an impressive offering of mechanical drives, especially for automotive and industrial uses, they are dwarfed by the …

The number of times that we migrate systems for test purposes can be somewhat mind-boggling, when considering that we have tested just about every SSD in existence today.  The main staple for this activity has been Paragon’s Migrate OS to SSD for as long as I can remember, and Paragon has just released Version 4.0 of this software, sending us …

Early this morning, OCZ issued a press release that Toshiba had successfully purchased OCZ under a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy agreement for 35 millions dollars.  This is great news for the millions of present OCZ customers who have been holding their breath as we will now see OCZ opens its doors once again, and serve existing and future OCZ customers during …

OCZ Technology, provider of high-performance solid state drives for both consumers and enterprise, has announced that Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. has taken exclusive control of the company’s depository accounts at Silicon Valley Bank and Wells Fargo Bank, NA.  As stated in OCZ’s recent SEC filings, OCZ and Hercules were parties to a loan and security agreement, the terms of …

Watched the American Music Awards and could not help but notice that they too were highlighting technology. No more ‘envelope’ identifying who the winner was but a cellphone. It appears they started this process in 2012 with the use of the Samsung Galaxy Note II.  Unfortunately, I wasn’t paying enough attention to see which one was used this year. HIGHLIGHT …

A few weeks ago we received an e-mail asking our opinion on the VisionTek mSATA SSD as the writer had found an amazing deal on that SSD, yet there wasn’t a review in site.  Admittedly, even I wasn’t all that familiar with VisionTek and didn’t even know they were marketing SSDs. In conducting a quick search, I had to laugh …