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Our visit to the Samsung display at ceBIT 2013 this morning resulted in the discovery of a new release of their SM843 SSD in a ‘T’ version with four times the endurance. An associate at the booth credited the endurance boost to a new eMLC version of their 21nm 64Gb memory along with specific firmware enhancements. The present SM843 is …

U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh has ruled that $450 million of the original $1.05 billion judgement awarded to Apple by the jury was based on “impermissible legal theory.”  Just like that, what would have been history largest patent trail award was nearly halved. The original case was ultimately decided on 28 infringing products.  Judge Koh is ordering a new …

Samsung has released a major overhaul of their Magician SSD software, bringing the software to version 4.0. One of the biggest boons to owning a Samsung SSD is Samsung’s attention to detail, as evidenced by this extremely useful SSD optimization/tuning and management tool. The last version of the Magician software was 3.2 and supported up to Windows 7. When attempting …

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 …

The Samsung SSD Angels made their first appearance at CES Las Vegas 2013 and we couldn’t resist the opportunity to put them to the test.  For those new to the Samsung SSD Angels history, they have traveled the world ‘showing the Samsung love’ by upgrading sometimes unsuspecting people to the world of SSDs. Not wanting to pass up a great …

For many models of solid state drives, the last two years has been turbulant with certain models dropping from $3/GB to less than $1/GB.  A quick look at e-tailers, even today, shows quality brand name SSDs as low as the 80-90 cents/GB range.  The Crucial M4 256GB SSD has even been seen on sale as low as 67 cents/GB!  According …

In an unexpected move, Samsung has acquired NVELO and has added to their SSD portfolio with a proprietary caching solution that is arguably the most powerful in the industry. NVELO Dataplex software has been examined here at TSSDR on many occasions and is the only that we are aware of that can provide nearly identical SSD specifications on a hard …

Right on the heals of the Intel DC S3700 release (of which we presently have several in hand), Samsung has struck back with its new enterprise directed SM1625 SSD capable of an incredible 800MB/s read and write performance and capacities of 100, 200, 400 and 800GB.  It’s almost like Samsung is saying, “Take that Intel!” While the SM1625 might look …

The one question the always seems to resurface as we travel spreading the SSD word, is how an SSD is so much better than a hard drive. Even today, we are still at a point that this question seems to be the first question asked, even before the obvious, “What is an SSD?” As it does most, we think the …

Perhaps the hottest tech products in the market today are tablets. It has become a weekly occurrence where we hear about the next latest and greatest tablet, or tablet technology to grace our newsfeeds. The reason is simplicity. Here is a device that is bigger than a smartphone, smaller than a laptop, and brings a convenience and efficiency level somewhere …