SONY ULTRABOOK PRO 13 CONFIGURATIONS DIFFER A few weeks back, we published our review of the Sony VAIO Pro 13 ultrabook where we discovered that there were two different configurations of the VAIO being shipped, that with a SATA 3 M.2 SSD and that with a native M.2 PCIe SSD. Not only did the system that we received contain a …
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If the fact that Toshiba is now selling retail SSDs to the consumer surprises you, it should. For some time now, the SSD industry has had its eye on Toshiba as they seemed to get caught behind the eight ball. From our perspective, the only Toshiba SSDs we had reported on were the client THNSN 128GB SATA 2 mSATA SSD …
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A few weeks back, we posted an article that stated our opinion of the new Apple MBA as being one of the top ultraportable laptops available today, and quite possibly, untouchable. The backlash from Sony fans was amazing, many clearly noting that we hadn’t tested, or included, the new VAIO 13 Pro as a comparison system in that report…and they …
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Our attendance at the Samsung Global SSD Summit in South Korea brought us a first glimpse of a new standard in ultrabook storage performance. At the Summit, the Samsung XP941 M.2 PCIe SSD was displayed reaching 1GB/s transfer speeds and Apple has since released their 2013 MacBook Air which has a customized variation of the XP941; this attaining native performance of …
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PCIe SSDs are a funny animal as they have been out for a few years yet haven’t really caught on just yet. They are very limited to either very expensive and system specific enterprise variations or require driver installation that isn’t always as simple as instructions seem. We have yet to see an affordable plug and play PCIe SSD solution …
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We never imagined the popularity of Sony laptops until we posted a totally unrelated article about the 2013 MBA being the best ultra in the world earlier this week. It seems that resulted in a flurry of e-mails questioning why the new Vaio Pro 13 wasn’t included in our analysis of the top Ultras money can buy. Who knew? After …
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One of our favorite activities is the inevitability of a new PC build when a new SSD form factor is introduced. It’s the reason to dig in and try to build a system that’s unique and, if the enjoyment we had with this MPCIe Test Bench is any indication of success, we have succeeded in our goal. InWin, Corsair, Crucial, …
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At Storage Vision 2013 in January, SMART Storage Systems (a SanDisk Company) made a splash with the announcement of the CloudSpeed 1000 and 1000E enterprise SSDs. We have been patiently waiting for our chance to put these drives through their paces. In SSD time, it felt like an eternity but with our previous experience with their Optimus SSDs, we knew …
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Although SK Hynix isn’t as well known as Toshiba, Samsung or Intel/Micron (IMFT), they are one of the few in the world that own the fab. By owning the fab, we mean that SK Hynix manufacturers NAND flash memory. In the SSD world, the key to ultimate success (some might say) is to be able to market a complete package …
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It doesn’t seem so long ago but it it was 2010 when SandForce teamed up with Intel to display the first working model of an SSD using Intel’s new 25nm NAND flash memory. That led to several very popular articles on TSSDR as it was the first clue that led us on the track of discovering that Intel would be …
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