Right now at Amazon, the Samsung 840 Pro SATA 3 512GB SSD can be purchased for an all time low price of $458.60. That being said, other 512 GB SSDs have been available for less but none that were arguably the best on the market and unquestionably the best selling. Since it’s release, the Samsung series of SSDs have hit …
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TSSDR Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SSD Giveaway (CLOSED-WINNER Gary SMITH From Quebec, Canada)
Thanks to the kindness of Samsung and the SSD Angels, The SSD Review is giving away a HUGE 512GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD and it can be yours! We nabbed the 840 Pro while in sunny Las Vegas waited and for just the right moment to enjoy posting this contest to the world. As many know, our home base is …
Read More »Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme SSD Review (256GB) – 100,000 IOPS and Excellent Performance
It seems that our relationship with Plextor has had a shot of Adrenaline since our meet at CES Las Vegas 2013 and ‘first up’ analysis of the new Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme SSD is the result. We did have a bit of a heads up when Plextor asked us to review the M5 Pro in this meeting, but definitely never …
Read More »Plextor M5 Pro SSD Review (256GB)
While at our meeting with Plextor at CES Las Vegas 2013, we had a conversation with respect to how TSSDR and Plextor could better serve the consumer in forming a bit tighter of a relationship with respect to upcoming product release. In this conversation, the fact that we had yet to review the Plextor M5 Pro came up and we …
Read More »PNY XLR8 Pro 480GB SSD Review – Capacity, Price and Performance
Our SSD review today examines the new PNY XLR8 Pro 6Gbps SSD and one might think that, after reviewing SSDs for six years and having somewhere in the area of 100TB of SSD storage in the office, receiving a 480GB SSD in the mail wouldn’t be exciting. In that, you would be wrong. As much as getting such an SSD …
Read More »BitFenix Prodigy Case Review – Mini-ITX Done To Perfection
Much of modern day and future technology is focusing on making products smaller and smaller, yet still completely functional and easy to use. For personal computing, the thinking is reverse, as more people prefer to have mid-sized or XL-sized cases and builds for full functionality. It makes sense, and until recently, mini builds were typically utilized as NAS units, home …
Read More »Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SSD Review – Performance, Value, Battery Life and Untouchable IOPS
Our report on the Samsung 840 Pro SSD begins post take off from Pearson Int’l Airport in Toronto and on route to Seoul, South Korea. Having had this SSD in our hands for some time, even the enormity of the Samsung 840 family release celebration cannot overshadow the performance of what just might be the hottest solid state drive to …
Read More »Samsung SSD 840 Specs Revealed – TLC Memory To Equal Lifespan of Competitors MLC SSDs
Today at the Samsung 2012 Global SSD Summit in Seoul, South Korea, details were revealed regarding the consumer driven Samsung 840 Series SSD, the most interesting being the fact that this SSD will be contain Samsungs own TLC memory and over provisioning. Capacities are listed as 120, 250, and 500GB and the over provisioning is intended to increase the lifespan …
Read More »Comay Venus Pro 3 240GB SSD Review – In Drive UPS, Overload Protection and Top Performance
Just over a month ago, we conducted an analysis of what we thought to be the Comay Venus Pro 3 and, only after the review, were informed that we were actually looking at the Venus 3, an SSD that was not only branded incorrectly, but was also a special configuration for a specific customer. It appears our orders were mixed …
Read More »BitFenix Shinobi XL Computer Chassis Review – Is Bigger Always Better?
Released last year by BitFenix, the Shinobi became an instant hit in the chassis market, winning multiple awards in the process. Remakes are typically not as good as the originals, hence there was a sense of foreboding when BitFenix released the larger version of its mid-tower case; the Shinobi XL. Instead of a new design, the engineers at BitFenix boldly …
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