There is no doubt in anyones mind that 2014 will be the year of the M.2/NGFF SSD, however, Samsung is about to release an SSD that is guaranteed to rock the SSD community like few others have.  This SSD is the Samsung 840 EVO 1TB mSATA SSD and it, not only is the one and only mSATA SSD capable of …

Closing off our first giveaway yesterday with three lucky people winning 240, 480 and 1TB Crucial M500 SSDs, one couldn’t think we could beat that but we can!  The SSD Review has teamed up with such great companies as LSI and Adaptec this holiday season and we have three items to be giveaway that we don’t ever think can be …

Super Talent has once again been busy behind the scenes and their newest entries into the SSD market include a new M.2 NGFF design called the DX1. Anything but ordinary, the STT DX1 is available as a SATA M.2 SSD (known as the STT NGFF DX1), or that of a PCIe X1 interface where a SATA 3 SSD is routed …

And the winners are – Craig BARTLETT (UK) and Ricardo COOPER (USA). Congratulations and thank you to all those who entered. THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED AND WINNERS WILL BE POSTED SHORTLY. Just when we think the holiday season gift basket couldn’t get better, Adaptec (By PMC) pulls off something we thought we would never see.  Up for grabs in this …

CONTEST CLOSED WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED HERE.  CONGRATULATIONS to the winners:  1TB – K. Todd (USA);  480GB – J. Spinner (Canada); 240GB – E. Lemus Rodriguez (Spain).  Don’t forget there is still time to get in on the other draws on TSSDR and Technology X. It’s the start of a great day when we can post news of free stuff during the …

Marketing of PCI Express SSDs has always been somewhat tricky as the fine balance between performance and value wasn’t much of a balance at all; performance being the obvious strongpoint of these cards.  The difficulty in manufacturing a consumer directed PCIe SSD, that can promise value, has most likely been the reason all haven’t jumped aboard the ‘PCI Express’. VisionTek …

The advent of M.2 SSDs holds the promise of eliminating the SATA bottleneck and, while it may not seem that big of a deal for the typical consumer, improved performance to a media professional is pure gold.  Faster transfer speeds translate into quicker job completion which realizes increased business and higher revenue.  Although we have had M.2 SSDs in hand …

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 …

ADATA recently announced availability of their new DashDrive Elite SE720 External SSD and sent one along to us for analysis.  Without stealing the thunder of this entire report, the SE720 is ultrathin, extremely well-built, has LSI SandForce speeds and we were floored at the Amazon pricing we found that brought this external SSD below that of many similar bare 128GB …

It seems like there are a lot of discussions going on about freedoms. Freedom of speech, the right to say what you want; Freedom of love/marriage, the right to love or marry who we want; and of course just plain freedom; something many women and men have paid the ultimate sacrifice for and so many take for granted.  On Monday, …