When it comes to SSDs, ADATA has never fallen short at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan. 2016 is no different. From demonstrations of upcoming products to include both NVMe SSDs using the newest SMI and Marvell controllers, to a new release using the little known Maxiotek MK8115 controller, and even the newest Seagate SF3514 controller, ADATA seems to be unequaled yet …
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Understanding SSD Advertised Performance and Its Purchase Implications – An SSD Primer
Understanding SSDs Performance and Implications Today’s SSD close up is going to teach us the most valuable thing we can ever learn about an SSD. This is the fourth paper in a series of articles that explain the benefits, types and components of a solid state drive and will go so far as to make up our SSD Beginners Guide …
Read More »SandForce Unleashes SF-2200 Processors For Blazing SSD Performance at 500MB/s
This morning, SandForce officially releases their SF-2200 series processors to manufacturers which are capable of parallel transfer speeds of 500MB/s read and write. It is hard to believe that SandForce only opened their doors just over a year ago and their impact has changed the way we are looking at solid state drives today. Earlier this year, I made a …
Read More »SandForce Announces SATA 3 SSD Processor Capable of 500MB/s Read and Write Speeds
Sandforce has announced its release of a new SATA3 SSD processor that is capable of, not only equaled 500MB/s read and write speeds, but also, random read and write IOPS at the 4k random transfer level will sustain an unbelievable rate of 60k. A few days ago, The SSD Review was contacted by Michael Schoolnik of Story Public Relations and …
Read More »OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 120Gb SSD Review
The SSD Review has been utilizing two drives for the passed two months now and we have to say that we just can’t get enough of these drives!!! They are truly hidden gems of the ssd world and we are not alone in this belief. It seems that everyone that seems to be buying them or, as in our case, …
Read More »OWC Releases 400Gb SSD
This just in from OWC Folks!!! I also have a 100Gb version of the newly released SSD below enroute to play with and review. More To Follow!!! . . . . . . . . OWC Doubles Capacity Of Award Winning Built In The US Mercury Extreme Pro Solid State Drive To 400GB. SandForce® processor based SSD line offers up to 285MB/s …
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