ADATA Launches the Premier SP550 M.2 2280 SATA 6Gb/s SSD Light, high speed and easy storage upgrade for ultrabooks and slim laptops Taipei, Taiwan June 21, 2016 ADATA Technology, a leading manufacturer of high performance Continue reading “ADATA Premier SP550 M.2 2280 SATA 6Gb/s SSD Launched”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jun. 22, 2016 at 12:07pm
CORSAIR Announces New High-Performance Neutron Series XTi SSDs, in Capacities up to 1920GB FREMONT, CA June 8th 2016 – CORSAIR, a world leader in enthusiast memory, PC hardware and components today announced the launch of Continue reading “CORSAIR Neutron Series XTi SSDs Debut With 2TB Model Coming Soon”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Jun. 8, 2016 at 1:24pm
Samsung just let us know that they have announced worldwide availability of the Samsung 750 EVO SSD (SSD) series to both mainstream consumers and PC builders. This drive was only available in Asia when it Continue reading “Samsung 750 EVO Series Gets 500GB Drive and Worldwide Availability”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 24, 2016 at 8:56pm
OCZ RD400 M.2 SSDs Boast 2,600MB/s Read Speeds The Toshiba XG3 family of client NVMe M.2 PCIe SSDs were quietly launched back in August 2015. The Toshiba XG3 1TB drive just happened to be the Continue reading “Toshiba OCZ RD400 M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD Review – 512GB”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
May 24, 2016 at 8:05pm
750 EVO SSD – 2D Planar TLC NAND The Samsung SSD 750 EVO has been shipping since 2015 in Asia, but it was only released in North America in 2016. This SATA III SSD drive Continue reading “Samsung SSD 750 EVO 120GB and 250GB Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Mar. 31, 2016 at 3:47pm
Seagate Demonstrates Fastest-Ever SSD Flash Drive CUPERTINO, Calif.– Seagate Technology plc today unveiled a production-ready unit of the fastest single solid-state drive (SSD) demonstrated to date, with throughput performance of 10 gigabytes per second (GB/s). Continue reading “Seagate Shows Off 10GB/s SSD That Has 6.7GB/s Of Throughput”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Mar. 8, 2016 at 2:52pm
Over the weekend a report titled ‘Flash Reliability in Production: The Expected and the Unexpected‘ was published that was written by Professor Bianca Schroeder of the University of Toronto, and Raghav Lagisetty and Arif Merchant Continue reading “SLC and MLC NAND Flash Are Equally Reliable on SSDs”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 29, 2016 at 4:16pm
TOSHIBA ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF HIGH CAPACITY ENTERPRISE AND DATA CENTER SATA SSDs The HK4 Series is Toshibas first enterprise SSD to embed 15nm MLC NAND flash memory for enterprise and data center applications IRVINE, Calif. Continue reading “Toshiba HK4 Enterprise SSD Series Announced With 15nm MLC NAND Flash”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 23, 2016 at 3:41pm
TOSHIBA ANNOUNCES CLIENT SSD WITH EMBEDDED TLC NAND FLASH MEMORY Toshibas SG5 high capacity SSD is optimized for notebook PCs and desktop PC applications IRVINE, Calif. February 16, 2016 Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., a Continue reading “Toshiba SG5 SSD Series Announced With 15nm TLC Memory”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 17, 2016 at 1:00pm
Sony has entered the international SATA III 6Gbps SSD market with a 2.5-inch drive series called SLW-M. The Sony SLW-M SSD series has two drives available right now at two capacity points 240GB (SLW-MG2) and Continue reading “Sony Now Making Consumer SSDs – SLW-M Series Debuts With Phison S10 Controller”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 5, 2016 at 4:39pm
Toshiba Introduces the Next Generation OCZ Trion 150 Series Solid-State Drive Series Refreshed OCZ Trion SSDs feature improved real world performance for the ultimate hard drive upgrade SAN JOSE, CA February 2, 2016 Toshiba America Continue reading “OCZ Trion 150 SSD Series Promises Better Performance Than the Trion 100 Series”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Feb. 4, 2016 at 9:10pm
Corsair Carbide 400Q Silent Mid-Tower Case Just scant weeks ago we took a look at Corsairs new Carbide 600C full tower case and as a follow-up, Corsair sent us what at first blush appeared to Continue reading “Corsair Carbide 400Q Silent Mid-Tower Case Review”. …more
By Joe Evans •
Jan. 18, 2016 at 3:56pm
CES 2016 – Plextor Presents New Storage Drives Plextor was showing off several new SSD’s and PCIe M.2 drives at CES 2016. Let’s take a brief look at what they are planning on releasing near Continue reading “Plextor Presents New Storage Drives at CES 2016”. …more
By Steven Kean •
Jan. 8, 2016 at 12:15am
Kingston Digital Releases Enterprise Client SSD with Fast, Reliable Performance 15x Faster Than a Hard-disk Drive Business Class Reliability with Advanced Data Protection Available in Full Range of Capacities Fountain Valley, CA January 6, 2016 Continue reading “Kingston Digital Releases Enterprise Client SSD with Fast, Reliable Performance”. …more
By Steven Kean •
Jan. 6, 2016 at 5:00pm
Crucial BX200 SSD – Affordable Entry Level TLC NAND Flash Drives It’s hard for enthusiasts to grasp that as we near the end of 2015 that a large portion of PC users around the world Continue reading “Crucial BX200 480GB SATA 2.5-Inch SSD Review”. …more
By Nathan Kirsch •
Nov. 3, 2015 at 4:30pm