Tag Archives: Solid State Drive

OCZ has recently announced their new Synapse  Cache line of SSDs which are a SATA III family of SSDs available in 64 and 128GB. The intent of the Synapse Cache is to appeal to the hard drive crowd that absolutely needs that extra capacity by optimizing caching applications and leverages DataCache software which will be included with the SSD. It …

Our featured shot is the PCB of a brand new Samsung PM800 SATA 3 256GB solid state drive that this report is going to speak to. It just may be an exclusive as Samsung’s new 6Gbps SSD cannot be opened by way of removal of any screws. The SSD had to be pried apart in order to get this shot, …

SSDs that utilize ‘Async’ NAND flash memory seem to be all the rage these days.  Despite the initial concerns with ‘async’ SSDs, we stated our belief that the price versus performance difference would appeal to the consumer, a tradeoff that seems to be paying off in dividends. Our report today is on the Super Talent TeraDrive CT3 120GB SATA 3 …

Corsair recently announced new capacities for both the Series 3 and Force GT lines of their SSD family making them the easy winner in capacity selection for any single SSD series choice that we know of. Shortly after that announcement, a Corsair Force GT SATA 3 240GB SSD arrived at the office and we couldn’t resist the chance to throw …

Today’s review is on the Super Talent RC8 50 GB USB Flash Drive which just may be the most powerful flash drive on the planet.  Who would expect more from a ‘SandForce Driven’ product pushing 8 channels of NAND flash memory? Lets not confuse things though as this USB 3.0 flash drive is a solid state drive through and through.  …

Crucial has posted a firmware update (0009)  for its M4 line which can be downloaded at Crucial.Com by M4 owners. The good news is that the firmware provides significant performance increase for all capacities of the M4 SSD and Crucial has all capacities of their M4 SSD on sale now at great prices. We initially thought this to be a …

It is almost four years to the day that the first consumer solid state drive was making its appearance which makes todays EXCLUSIVE SATA 3 mSATA SSD review truly sweet. Runcore is timing this ‘world first’ release with the news that they are also opening shop in California to better serve North American enterprise and client needs. The Runcore T50 …

Todays review is going to take a look at a SandForce controlled SSD which is being sold by a UK based company who are hoping to push low SSD prices in worldwide sales. The SSD itself is ‘SandForce Driven’, assembled and shipped from the USA for North American sales. In fact, our sample SSD shipped with 32Gb Toshiba NAND flash …

Our review today examines the Kingston HyperX 240GB SATA 3 SSD.  The HyperX is Kingstons first offering of a SATA 3 SSD and their first partnership with SandForce through use of their SF-2281 6Gbps processor, a processor which has taken the SSD community by storm. With full intention of their HyperX line being the absolute best, Kingston has included all …

To say that Sandisk is an Innovator in solid state drives would be an understatement as we can all thank them for getting the SSD ball rolling. Sandisk was the first company to release their Sandisk U5000 32GB SSD to the public in 2007  and, on August 18, 2007, I was one of the first to publish a SSD review …