Solid-State Drive Reviews

Putting an SSD into your laptop or desktop computer will be the best upgrade that you will ever make. With this drive, or one like it, you can make it blazing fast for under $100. I have friends with $600+ laptops that get mad that I am already up and...

20 user reviews

Samsung doesn’t currently plan to offer the 256GB MLC SSD through normal retail channels, but the Corsair P256 SSD, which features the same hardware, is available on NewEgg and other retailers, and the Samsung OEM version is available as an add-in in...

12 expert reviews | 24 user reviews

Corsair has become a trusted name in my builds, and this drive does not disappoint...even if the mounting plate does.

30 user reviews

CrystalDiskMark was set up to read and write 500MB of data. The fastest that the Neutron GTX managed to achieve was a sequential write speed of 458MB/s, which is very impressive. In real world tests, writing multiple files to the SSD was done at a...

2 expert reviews | 5 user reviews

Strong performance, a great price and a useful upgrade kit, but other drives are quicker for the same money

1 expert reviews | 142 user reviews

So far, the Crucial m4 offers the best value among SSDs. Though it's not the fastest, it's by far the most affordable among its peers.

6 expert reviews | 13 user reviews

Reliable so far. I replaced an OCZ Agility 3 that was a disaster turning off the computer 2-3 times a day with this one that perform a lot better. Nothing spectacular but it does the job

16 user reviews

The OCZ Octane SSD makes an excellent host drive for any laptop or desktop. It offers great value in terms of performance and cost, especially for an SSD.

56 expert reviews | 2110 user reviews

Ideally you’ll be using the RevoDrive Hybrid as a bootable drive, because after installing Windows 7, you’ll need to download the Dataplex software from OCZ’s website as well. Dataplex, however, can only be downloaded once you enter the CDkey that...

20 expert reviews | 25 user reviews

The stand that came with the product was a purple/blue color (more purple), while the SSD itself was black. Kinda looked weird but that is just a note.

12 user reviews

The last time we heard from Intel's SDD department it was throwing around its performance-oriented 520 Series SSD that rocked a SandForce controller and custom Intel firmware with 25nm NAND flash. That drive earned a 9 verdict from us but no Kick Ass...

2 expert reviews

Expensive, but well worth it! I hope OCZ doesn't come out with a larger/faster drive for awhile, or I'll be chomping at the bit to buy another one of their products.

13 user reviews

The AS-SSD sequential benchmark uses incompressible data for all of its transfers. The result is a pretty big reduction in sequential write speed on SandForce based controllers, while other drives continue to work at roughly the same speed as with...

6 expert reviews | 9 user reviews

The Corsair Force series features powerful and fast solid-state drives.

2 expert reviews

If you can afford it and you can justify the cost, you’d be a fool not to invest in this portable little speed demon.

4 expert reviews | 1 user reviews

Corsair has been kind enough to send us a sample of their newly configured Force 3 180GB Asynchronous NAND equipped drive. Nothing special about that right? Well not so fast.....

9 expert reviews | 3 user reviews

Samsung has come out of the gate strong with the 470 Series, its first retail SSD, which offers performance on par with current-gen SandForce-powered drives. Furthermore, its enclosure is the prettiest we’ve seen on an SSD, though that hardly matters...

14 expert reviews | 190 user reviews

The ioSafe Rugged Portable SSD is the storage device you want in your travel bag if you're jetsetting off to exotic locales; its ultra-rugged design is sure to keep your data safe from floods, storms, and ice.

2 expert reviews

A fine mainstream effort from Corsair

1 expert reviews | 54 user reviews

If you want superb storage performance, Corsair's Force Series GT has your name on it. It is the fastest SSD we've ever tested.

7 expert reviews | 386 user reviews

The successor to Intel's popular and powerful X25-M, the 300GB SSD 320 Series solid-state drive is a strong performer with some useful features—but its support for slower SATA II makes it seem a little old-fashioned in 2011.

11 expert reviews | 17 user reviews

This drive stopped working 5 months in. It didn't give any warning, it just stopped booting to Windows. I tried re-installing and it still gives me problems. I thought SSD were supposed to be MORE reliable.

26 user reviews

From a pure storage point of view one or even two Kingston 30GB SSDNow V drives is not adequate for the standalone user with no other drives in their system. From the enthusiast point of view, however, two of these drives in RAID 0 Mode are fast, very...

48 expert reviews | 255 user reviews

We put the Kingston SSDNow V100 128 GB up against the Patriot Torqx 2 in a battle of the latest SATA-300 solid state drives. Let's see which one wins!

18 expert reviews | 133 user reviews

SSD vendors that make one or more components of their drives tend to do better than those who just slap commodity parts on a board and call it a day. Sounds reasonable, right? SanDisk’s Extreme SSD is yet another drive based on the LSI SandForce...

3 expert reviews