THIS DRAW HAS BEEN WON. SEE BELOW! Have you been sitting on the fence thinking about getting an SSD? Drooling over the thought of having one in your own system? The simple fact is that a solid state drive almost makes it seem like the computer knows what you are going to do before you do. Its just that fast …
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Intel Releases Firmware Fix For 320 Series SSD – Addresses Bad Context 13x Error
Not even a week after discovering the root cause of their recent 320 Series SSD issues, Intel has already made a firmware fix to the public which can be uploaded here. The update addresses issues experienced by some where their SSD was left in an almost totally unusable 8MB state and the new firmware version is 0362. Update instructions can …
Read More »Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD Review @ Vortez
Kingstons most recent product release just last week sees their very first SSD launch under the HyperX branding.HyperX being their premium label for enthusiasts, professionals and gamers. That isnt all though, this is the first SSD by Kingston using the SATA3 interface. The HyperX SSD first appeared at CES 2011, at the beginning of the year but was only officially …
Read More »OWC Upgrades SATA 3 6G SSD Line To Toshiba Flash and SandForce SF-2282 Processor (240GB only) – Final Thoughts
THE COMPANY I will precede this these final thoughts by stating right off that OWC is an advertiser on The SSD Review (look right) and they understand that reviews and editorials are completely independent of that. Myself and their Founder and President, Larry O’Connor, have met personally and he will be the first to admit that I speak my mind …
Read More »Runcore Introduces First SATA 3 mSATA SSD & Joins US Marketplace
Runcore has made a bold move in expanding for the first time from their China facility to San Jose, California, in order to make an impact in North American SSD sales. Concurrently, they will also be releasing the markets first SATA 3 mSATA SSD, the Runcore Pro V T50, which contains the SF-2281 and is capable of 550MB/s read and …
Read More »Corsair Force Series GT 120GB SATA 3 SSD Review – Force Series GT vs Force Series 3 SSD Compared
The Force Series GT 120GB SSD is Corsairs premium SATA 3 SSD Series offering and our review today falls directly on the heels of its younger brother, the Force Series 3 SSD a few days back. As similar as these SSDs are, there is a key physical difference that affects performance and cost of each Corsair Force SSD significantly. Conceivably, reading …
Read More »OCZ RevoDrive 3 x2 480 GB PCIe SSD Review – Conclusions
The word of the day has got to be ‘proprietary’ because OCZ has created an amazing storage medium in the RevoDrive 3×2 and the design is completely theirs. Because it is propietary VCA 2.0 and contains OCZ’ patented Superscale Storage Accelerator, their choice of the new SandForce SF-2281 processors is simply genius. In doing so, they seem to have taken …
Read More »OCZ RevoDrive 3 x2 PCIe SSD Review – 1.5GB Read/1.25GB Write/200,000 IOPS As Little As $699
Todays complete review of the OCZ RevoDrive 3 x2 PCIe SSD is published on the heels of our Quick Look of the Revo 3 a few weeks back which resulted in a flurry of attention by PC enthusiasts worldwide. As many e-mails that were received in result, they never compared to the backlinks returned from dozens of forums with members …
Read More »OCZ Revo 3 x2 240GB PCIe SSD Quick Look – This is Going To Be Fast!
In anticipation of the release of several new SSDs in the near future, The SSD Review has a bit of a treat for you that comes in the form of an exclusive with respect to OCZ Revo 3 x2 PCIe SSD benchmarks. Its not an exclusive in such that that other reviewers couldnt have conducted the same testing while at …
Read More »The SSD Review Computex Taipei Update: Corsair Announces Force 3 GT SSDs For The Enthusiast
The SSD Review had the opportunity to meet with Robert Pearce, Sr Technical Marketing Specialist of Corsair, this week at Computex Taipei and he had some rather unexpected SSD news to pass on. It appears that Corsair will be releasing an enthusiast line of SSDs known as the Force 3 GT line right on the heals of their new ‘Sandforce …
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