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Once again this year, Samsung has worldwide press present in Seoul, South Korea for their annual 2013 Samsung SSD Global Summit.  Simply put, this means that a significant consumer SSD release is about to occur. Front and center this year is the new Samsung 840 EVO capable of superior performance and with a welcoming higher capacity point than its predecesor, …

An interesting find at CES was a new SSD created by Xi3 for use in their modular computer systems, these systems being just over 4″ x 3″ 3″ in size. Their new SSD contains the designation of mSATAmax and, considering that it will be available in capacities up to 1TB and have performance of 1GB/s read and write, this just …

The experience that CES and surrounding events truly is cannot always be explained but there is a great deal of work done while attending these events.  Such can be seen with Essentially Tech Media’s Kingpin (or rather Queenpin) Karen Tokar at her best networking with HP while at ShowStoppers Las Vegas this week. Kingston was also at the event showing …

Since Day One in the SSD arena, there has been a constant struggle where a seemingly three way tug of war is seen between performance, capacity and value. Enter TLC memory and we just may hit both value and capacity at some point, however, manufacturers still believe the feasibility of marketing a 1TB SSD just isn’t there yet. This a …

KingMax didn’t waste any time showing off their new 1TB SSD at Computex 2012 this year. One of the first of its kind, the SMU22 is SATA 2 and available in 64, 128, 256, 512 and 1TB capacities.  With the 1TB version capable of 250MB/s read and 200MB/s write transfer speeds, a  Silicon Motion SMI2250 controller is  at the heart …

Axtremex Technology, a global supplier of high performance memory solutions, has announced the release of their 1TB USB 3.0 SSD. Weighing in at only 45 grams, the new drive will deliver read/write performance of 240 MB/s and 150 MB/s respectively. Axtremex’s new product will no doubt be very successful at winning over those who have heavy duty external storage requirements …

Our review today will be a long awaited look at the OCZ Octane 6Gbps 512GB SSD. Eight months ago, OCZ bought Indilinx with full intention of spreading their wings in the development of their own proprietary controller based on the Indlinx Everest design.  OCZ has spoken of higher incompressible data performance, quicker disk access as well as better sustained write …

OCZ Technology posted product info and specs of the OCZ Octane SATA 3 SSD today and we dug a bit further and were fortunate to get their manufacturers suggested retail pricing on all but the 1TB capacity as well. The Octane will be the first consumer release of an ‘Indilinx Infused’ SSD since the purchase of Indilinx by OCZ last …

It has been only seven months since OCZ’s purchase of Indilinx and today they are introducing their own ‘Indilinx Infused’ SATA 2&3 line of solid state drives. Two key elements of that purchase were Indy’s Everest platform as well as their NDurance technology which claims to significantly increase the life span of NAND flash memory.  The advent of both technologies …

The OCZ Revodrive Hybrid 1TB PCIe SSD is OCZs pairing of their newly integrated Revo 3 line with Toshibas 1TB HDD, a much anticipated response to the consumers desire for SSD performance with HDD capacity. Our  review of the ‘Hybrid’ today, we promise you, will be unlike any other as we have stripped it down to its ‘barebone’ components and …