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PNY Optima SSD Series Review (240 GB) – New Controller and a Wicked Price
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 …
Read More »OCZ RevoDrive 350 PCIe SSD Review (480GB) – LSI SandForce Driven Once Again
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 …
Read More »Plextor M6S SSD Review (256GB) – Strength in a New Marvell SSD Controller Offering
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 …
Read More »MyDigitalSSD Pocket Vault SSD Review – Speed & Capacity In a Value Driven Ultra Small Mobile SSD
Size is everything in the world of SSDs and first hand proof of this can be seen in any number of ultrabooks, including the Apple MBA. True ultrabook size can only be accomplished through mSATA or M.2 SSDs. Much is the same with external storage where we have seen size reduced significantly, while performance has jumped exponentially with the introduction …
Read More »ADATA SP920 SSD Review – Capacity, Speed, Value and Something Unexpected
When SSDs were first introduced to the consumer way back in 07/08, many companies understood the value of what could be brought to the table and jumped aboard the new SSD train. SanDisk was the first to appear, followed by Samsung and Intel, all being NAND flash memory manufacturers. Several third-party companies were quick to join in through contracts with …
Read More »Crucial M550 SSD Review (1TB) – Increased Speed, Capacity and Value
It’s been some time since Crucial introduced the M500 Series SSD and, as it was when first released, the M500 remains to be a top value premium SSD offering. At $439 for a 960GB M500, this translates to .43/GB which is still lower than some premium SSDs of half that capacity. Not so much a difficulty with respect their target …
Read More »ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac Mobo Reaches 6 GB/s & 850K IOPS
Our report today will demonstrate single and RAID tests when we combine the newest ASRock Z87 Extreme11/ac motherboard with eight HGST SSD800MM SAS 12Gbps 400GB enterprise SSDs. Our charts will display how the HGST SSD800MM scales as it is tested on its own, as well as in RAID 0 at X2, X4 and X8 combinations. We can validate right off …
Read More »Plextor M6e PCIe M.2 SSD Review – RAID Tested at 1.4GB/s
Some time ago, we conducted a review of a new PCIe Card called the IOSwitch Raijin and it was constructed of a M.2 to PCIe x4 adapter, along with the Plextor M6e native PCIe M.2 (NGFF) 256GB SSD. At the time, the M6e was an unreleased SSD and it seemed that even Plextor was caught off guard at the publicity …
Read More »Intel SSD 730 Series SSD Review (2x480GB)
Yesterday, we posted a report that seems to have drawn amazing attention, one that spoke to Intel’s final acknowledgement that their 3rd Generation controller was manufactured by none other than LSI. That really isn’t that big of a news scoop unless you are an SSD geek. It does tell us a great deal about the Intel 730 Series SSD we …
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