Solid-State Drive Reviews

Once again, the best things in life are far from free

2 expert reviews

Samsung's 256GB SSD shows us how it's done

3 expert reviews

SSD's have been around the block for quite awhile now, coming from the age of complete unaforrdable-ness to the age where it's actually normal to buy a laptop with one - at least so you can install your system on them. Read and write speeds came up...

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In our opinion, the OCZ Apex 120GB SSD drive is a good product if reading is important for you. For example for backing up your files and using it as an external drive connected to your notebook/PC, or just for boosting the reading performance for...

9 expert reviews | 15 user reviews

make sure to use with the SATA controller set to AHCI mode to get it to function as fast as possible

1 expert reviews | 112 user reviews

Mountain bikers live by the axiom: "Strong, light and affordable; pick two." In some ways, flash memory is the same. Solid state drives (or SSDs) offer some pretty compelling advantages over legacy HDDs, most notably speed, portability and toughness,...

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Despite the disappointment of lower than hoped performance (even Verbatim says up to 120MB/s read, but 30MB/s write) and reduced functionality as a possible boot drive, this ExpressCard SSD remains a handy and painless way to add storage to a suitably...

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The FPM32GRSE is as fast as the small 4GB SSD that came in my Asus 901. The 901 XP comes with two SSD, one "fast" 4GB which soldered to the board and a second replaceable slow 8GB in the PCIE ZIF slot (which the FPM32GRSE replaces). The FPM32GRSE may...

32 user reviews

have to wait to see long term performance on reliability and degradation.

13 user reviews

Sorry, I said Newegg had the 64GB for $240 two weeks later when it was for $140.

13 user reviews

I decided to leap into an OCZ SSD drive, to improve my system performance. Here's what I've noticed: * 30GB is barely enough for Windows 7 and all of my programs. I had to do a special procedure to mount another drive to the /users directory, and...

27 user reviews

I was given this drive as an unexpected birthday present (they of course bought it from NewEgg) and was really ecstatic at first, but these freezes are really annoying.

10 user reviews

Very very simple to setup, pretty easy to use, day time image is great, night time image not to good (grainy image) dont think id ever be able to positively id a face at night... but you will be able to see everything an intruder does at night... all...

7 expert reviews | 4 user reviews

Buy it. You will wish that you bought one for everything that takes a hard-drive. You dont even need to worry about magnets that much since there's no magnetic platters in this device, it's all NAND gates.

1 expert reviews | 17 user reviews

well, fast

1 expert reviews | 6 user reviews

ESATA and SATA to USB power works great. Extremely fast transfer speeds. However, I only have 1 HDD in the enclosure.

11 user reviews

I have three of these drives; they all post similar speed benchmarks. But... If you update the firmware to the latest version, 1.11, expect to see a POST error message about "smartdrive failure" which is strange because the release notes suggest that...

46 user reviews

I hate to say it but I just can't get past the cost of the Solidata K5. Even as an enterprise product that is designed to outlast the consumer drives by years, I just can't budge on this issue. The dark horse in the room is the Intel X25-E (enterprise...

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What kind of storage do you need while you are on the move? Let's have a look at the all new Buffalo MicroStation 32 GB portable silicon disk. Compact, durable, with excellent storage capacity and data retrieval speed, but is it reliable and worth the...

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Transcend's SSD18C3 is a USB 3.0 solid state drive that's small and attractive. However, it doesn't provide much of a speed upgrade over a traditional USB 3.0 hard drive and with a cost per gigabyte over $5, it's also very expensive.

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I can't hear noise coming out of this. Very fast response time. You never need to defrag. Load everything very quick. SSD is the future

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Manufacturers have been forced to use some creative ideas to help lure consumers to their product. SSD technology already carries a premium price tag over the alternative, which is why product presentation becomes so important. The Corsair P64 SSD...

2 expert reviews | 7 user reviews

I'll come back in three months and post again. Things of concern are; 1) Continued speed with use 2) Durability Scored a 73 on Win 7 experience rating for primary drive. Takes 20 secs from turning the power on to looking at a login screen....

30 user reviews

This is the earlier generation of turbo series and does not have auto trim built in. But you can send trim commands through a exe file downloadable from OCZ. I made the mistake of flashing the SSD using the Vertex normal series firmware causing it to...

23 user reviews

If you search on the manufacturer's site, you'll find that this SSD has a 64mb cache, which eliminates the 'stutter' problem that many SSDs suffer from. I have owned this drive for about three months and I have had no issues whatsoever! I was able to...

11 user reviews