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Apple has unveiled a new revision of the MacBook Air that is sure to fuel the fires in the ongoing Ultra wars. Just when PC manufacturers are all climbing aboard the SSD caching train for both performance and capacity,  Apple introduces a new MacAir that contains not only a 512GB SSD, but also, a Toshiba branded ‘LSI SandForce Driven’ one …

If you are in the market for a mSATA SSD, we guarantee this article is going to be one of the best finds for some time. MyDigitalSSD just released two mSATA versions of SSDs, the value oriented Bullet Proof 3 and the Smart Series for those loving that lightning fast ‘LSI SandForce Drive’ performance that we have come to know. …

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 …

OCZ honed in on enterprise interests at Computex 2012 and that effort, along with their relocation from the Grand Hyatt to the Taipei International Convention Center, was proving to be an overwhelming success, as confirmed by Alex Mei, OCZ CMO. Of particular interest was the Intrepid 3, the  enterprise version of the Vertex 4 with the Everest 2 platform that …

Memoright consistently reigns as the most complete display for SSD technology at Computex and, if their products this year are any indication of things to come, MemoRight will be pushing the bar that much further once again. From a PCIe with their own controller, to the worlds thinnest 2.5″ form factor ssd, and then quadrupling the life of present NAND …

Crucial and Amazon appear to have gone on the offensive in SSD pricing with prices as low as 77 cents per GB today, something that hasn’t been even considered in a top tier SSD yet. We might have expected this from lesser caliber SSD that has not had the popularity of the M4, but in the M4’s time on the …

If I were to have a personal favorite SSD form factor it would just have to be the mSATA SSD.  At under 10gm and 1/3 the size of a business card, the performance this device is capable of is reminiscent of that of a worker ant that can lift 20 times its weight. Needless to say,  learning of ADATAs new …

Stopping by KingSpec at Computex 2012 uncovered a new and interesting PCIe SSD dubbed the KingSpec Mutticore Series SSD. Housing eight mSATA SSDs, the Multicore answers the obvious question we have had of similar mSATA x 4 PCIe SSDs and this SSD can be configured with 64 to 2TB of available storage. The Multicore is still technically a prototype and …

It was only a few days back that we broke the news of Biwin’s introduction of the NuvoDrive NX SSD which used a new to market controller by NovaChips designated as the Bugatti NVS3600A. Today at Computex we were able to speak with Joe James, VP of Worldwide Marketing, Biwin America, who walked us through a few benchmarks and also …

Word of an OEM disk caching solution has been the talk for some time and we had to wonder who would be the first and when, until today that is. The opportunity to purchase a laptop with both the power of an SSD and the storage capacity of a hard drive has been some time in the making and, unexpectedly, …