With Computex 2014 now behind us, it’s time to start focusing on the summer.  That means a whole lot of different things to a whole lot of different people.  I like to think of focusing on summer as focusing on me, beach volleyball, running team and anything else I can do outdoors. I hope that you take the time to …

Crucial, a division of Micron Technology and a leading producer of solid-state drive (SSDs) and DRAM modules, is announcing its new MX100 family of SSDs.  The Crucial MX100 offers unrelenting performance and one of the most complete feature sets available in a consumer-grade SSD, and at a low cost per GB.  The MX100 family are produced with Micron 16nm process …

Typically, just before major technology conventions such as CES or Computex, one can expect that new product releases will be few and far between. Luckily, there are a few companies that leave some products as a teaser before the big show, and with just a few days before the Taiwan-based convention, Corsair has done just that with the release of …

With the recent craze over the Heartbleed Bug, now is a great time to visit ways to protect your information and data. This becomes even more important when data protection and encryption is necessary for your specific career, which may deal with individual’s private information. Although we can’t say for sure whether companies use USB sticks to transfer private files, …

Some time ago, Silicon Motion had sent us a new SSD controller they were working on  a prototype SSD for review.  The SM2246EN controller that we looked at was a four  channel SATA 3 controller, capable of 510MB/s read and 410MB/s write with up to 80K IOPS, also capable of 256-Bit AES encryption.  Up until this report, that was as …

OCZ was the first to introduce a PCIe SSD solution to the consumer with their original RevoDrive PCIe SSD way back in 2010, this updated by the RevoDrive X2 PCIe SSD the following June and the RevoDrive 3×2 a few months later. There was no question that OCZ had struck gold with the RevoDrive 3×2 PCIe SSD as it was …

Today, Micron has announced a new member of its enterprise SSD family, the M500DC.  Typically, Micron likes to focus on performance and reliability with their enterprise drives, with cost being a secondary factor. With the M500DC, they have made price a priority. INTRODUCTION About this time last year, we were reviewing the Crucial M500 960GB.  This was the first drive …

For media professionals, or even that proud parent, often they will find that it will take a few shots before the image becomes ‘picture perfect’. Hence, why it is important to keep track of the number of images that are left to be taken on your current storage device (E.g., SD Card). No one wants to miss out on that …

It’s giveaway time again as TSSDR teams up with Plextor. Don’t forget to read the instructions carefully and get your entry in. Good Luck! HIGHLIGHT REVIEW Samsung XP941 Native PCIe M.2 SSD @ TechnologyX As we have previously mentioned in our review of the Plextor M6M solid state drive, it is important to remember that SSD’s can come in different shapes …

It has been a long time in the making but the new Plextor M6S family is finally rolling out.  Based on Marvell SSD controllers and Toshiba NAND flash memory, we got our first glimpse at the M6e M.2 PCIe X2 SSD some months ago in our IO-Switch Raijin Review, followed by our official analysis of the 512GB capacity M6e (and …