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TSSDR Affiliate Reviews for March 21, 2013
The opportunity has arisen for me to attend The Price is Right Life Show in Hamilton, Ontario. How awesome is that! While the games are the same, these shows are not televised, nor hosted by Drew Carey, but still how many people can say they attended? What if my friend or I actually get called to ‘come on down’ and …
Read More »TSSDR Affiliate Tech Reviews for March 18, 2013
Here we go…a fresh week, a fresh outlook and fresh reviews from our Affiliate Review Sites. It’s amazing how we can run out of time before we run out of things to do. Life becomes so busy that we have to reset priorities and somethings get set back. Ultimately, it is important that when things are brought to your attention that …
Read More »Seagate Demonstrates 12Gb/s SAS SSD and Promises More On the Way- ceBIT Germany 2013 Update
You know a company is considered established when change is made and talked about worldwide. Such is the case with recent news that Seagate is dropping its 7200RPM line and rumors grow rampid. Of interest to us is Seagate’s stance on SSD development and we couldn’t count the discussions and emails we have received regarding rumored purchases or beliefs that …
Read More »TRIMcheck: Does Your SSD Really have TRIM Working?
The question of whether TRIM is working, and working correctly, remains to be one of the most active SSD discussions to date. What started out as a Forum thread identifying a free new software that allows the SSD user to determine if TRIM is working, has grown to a full fledged working group where new members and our ‘in house …
Read More »MyDigitalSSD BP4 Slim 7 Series SSD Review (240GB)
A week or so ago, we published a review of the MyDigital BP4 that was ‘ a wolf in sheeps clothing’ in a way as it was a 120GB SSD with an exterior label claiming to be 240GB. After posting the review, MyDigitalSSD called and insisted on sending the REAL 240GB BP4, claiming that it’s performance would be something to …
Read More »Kingfast F3 Plus SSD Review (240GB) – Looks Like The Real Thing
Ok so we have had a few hectic weeks since the last KingFast F3 Plus SSD was received and analysed. In result, KingFast was nice enough to send us a new one right away. Based in Shenzen, China, KingFast ships about 50,000 SSDs monthly when we combine enterprise, business, consumer and oem. Our analysis today examines the F3 Plus which …
Read More »KingFast Unknowingly Sends Counterfeit SSD With Fake Memory For Review
Arguably, the two most important components of an SSD are the controller and NAND flash memory. In the memory industry, manufacturers may dispose of sub-par memory on the open market where, at least in the case of SSDs, more suitable applications may be found. The potential downside to this commonplace practice is the memory has the potential to be counterfeited …
Read More »Intel 525 Multi-Capacity SSD Review – mSATA SSDs Just Became Mainstream
Our first mSATA SSD review was published a little over two years ago today and, at that time, the thought of a SSD 1/3 of the size of a credit card becoming mainstream was really non-existent. It is a bit amusing because that SSD was the Intel 310 mSATA and since then, 35 mSATA SSDs (blade style included) have been …
Read More »Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme SSD Review (256GB) – 100,000 IOPS and Excellent Performance
It seems that our relationship with Plextor has had a shot of Adrenaline since our meet at CES Las Vegas 2013 and ‘first up’ analysis of the new Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme SSD is the result. We did have a bit of a heads up when Plextor asked us to review the M5 Pro in this meeting, but definitely never …
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