Solid-State Drive Reviews

Absolutely avoid this drive at all costs, there is an engineering flaw that prevents it from working properly.

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SSD failed within 12 days from installation taking my brand new OS (paid for), apps and files to a "bricked" grave ... literally "dead" and no-access for any troubleshooting - RMA with OCZ was a slow process and they will "exchange only" not refund -...

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Lian Li had quite a bit on display, including the better portion of their case lineup and accessories, and a new series of power supplies that is yet to be released. The pictures tell the tale.

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When Intel entered the SSD market one of its declared goals was to bring the technology into the mainstream. The goal was so important to Intel that its consumer drive was branded X25-M, with the M standing for mainstream. Intel's desire for SSD...

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Patriot were alive and kicking at CeBIT 2011 showing the world a new NAS solution and their new Wildfire SSD - SATAIII 6GBps.

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A very portable SSD with impressive performance but less-than-satisfactory backup software

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Let’s preface this conclusion by stating the obvious first: under no circumstance is the DC S3700 series designed to be used in a home

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With the recent announcement of the SSD DC S3700, Intel is firmly targeting enterprise customers with something not normally seen on spec sheets: performance consistency. Will their latest offering live up to expectations, or fall short? Lets find out.

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Performance Mode" is a feature that can be enabled through the Intel Data Center Tool Software. This feature is only possible on the 800GB model, but not for the reason you might think. The 400GB model is *always* in Performance Mode, since it can go...

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We decided to re-visit one of our all-time favorite drives the Corsair Force GT 240GB. What has prompted this re-examination is RAID 0 TRIM. The Force GT can now be updated to 503 firmware and therefore we can run a pair of these drives in RAID 0 with...

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Whilst there are obvious performance benefits to upgrading to a 6GB/s SSD many enthusiasts still have qualms with pricing against the conventional hard drive but today’s review subject reveals that this no longer needs to be an issue.

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A number of metrics are used to quantify storage performance. If you're a regular Joe, you have to be wondering how such dry terminology can apply to office work. Rather than telling you, we're going to dissect several routine computing tasks.

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We use a ton of terms to quantify storage performance. If you're a gamer, you have to be wonder how such dry terminology can apply to having fun. Rather than telling you, we're going to dissect three more popular titles to illustrate for you instead.

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Should you buy a new processor for your next machine? How about a new graphics card? Have you given any thought to the status of your storage subsystem? We're making a case for incorporating solid-state technology the next time you're upgrade-shopping.

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We have all four SSDs on-hand and are prepared to show you just how capacity and configuration affects the SSD you end up buying

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With that question weighing on an increasing number of enthusiasts' and IT professionals' minds, we set out to investigate SSD reliability and sort the facts from the fiction

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The Serial ATA International organization announced mSATA back in September of 2009. It's important to note that mSATA, which stands for mini-SATA is a form factor; it has nothing to do with the micro interface connector used to attach 1.8" hard drives

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Today's story is the product of our own efforts to maximize the amount of useful space you can squeeze from your valuable SSD. We also want to put some of those performance claims to the test using a couple of different drives in order to gauge whether...

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Crucial has released a firmware update that offers up significant performance improvements, among other things, and all for the low, low price of free.

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I have browsed through the 128GB SSD drives at Newegg and price-wise the Patriot drive is somewhere in the middle of all of them. You can get drives with similar speeds for about the same price.

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Consider that the most recent wave of economy SSDs have been low capacity models, such as Intel's X25-V, which has 40GB capacity. A quick comparison makes the SSD 310's value clear. That said, we’re still proponents of Seagate's latest hybrid drive,...

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The comparison chart below shows how the Kingston SSDs performed when comparing to a standard hard drive and against different configurations.

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