Solid-State Drive Reviews

This product had a single 1-star rating when I bought it, so I was a little worried. I shouldn't have been. This isn't for beginners, though. It takes some effort and experimentation to get set up. B ut once it is set up, it's rock solid.

6 user reviews

Bottom Line: The Crucial BX500 is a solid, budget-friendly 2.5-inch SATA SSD with a value bent, but at our test capacity, the company's own MX500 is a better choice for most.

2 expert reviews

Bottom Line: While ADATA's XPG SX6000 Pro is a fine enough PCI Express M.2 SSD taken in isolation, its XPG older brother casts a speed and value shadow.

2 expert reviews

If you're a light user and price is the key purchase factor, then the M500 suffices and saves you money. However, if you're a power user and want performance, then it's better to look for the SanDisk Extreme II or Seagate SSD 600, or grab the Samsung...

2 expert reviews | 1 user reviews

Product worked great and the price was the best.

4 user reviews

This is my 8th SSD drive over the past year. My other drives are Kingston, OCZ, Crucial and Verbatim. I have not had one issue with any of them. Same now goes for this Silicon Power drive. This drive is replacing an old 80GB Maxtor SATA-1 data drive in...

4 user reviews

I bought this as part of a Christmas present. In was in such a cheap and flimsy box, I was too embarassed to give it to the little boy concerned.

2 user reviews

For those who haven't made the step up to a SATA 6Gbps board, PQI has a very capable line of SSDs with the S535 series featuring the proven SandForce SF-1222 controller. However, these are a generation behind now and there's plenty of competition in...

2 expert reviews

Although this SSD performs well, it is difficult to recommend owing to its high price and small capacity.

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Ironically, considering its design makes it the ideal Mac partner, we wouldn't recommend buying this device if you're an Apple user because it will be limited to USB 2.0 speeds. There are some laptops beginning to ship with USB 3.0, however, and USB...

2 expert reviews

Its real nice. If you can justify getting an SSD just do it. even a small one for a boot. You really got to experience it for youself. Everything fires up almost instantly. Mushkin has such nice stuff. you can kinda tell cause they only make a few...

2 user reviews

My overall rating is based off of the price of the standard price. At the price of 180 dollars as I got it (on sale) I would give it 4 stars, only lacking 1 due to having no TRIM support. If you can get it on sale buy it, otherwise check out other...

2 user reviews

To see how the SiliconEdge performs, we installed it into an easily upgradeable, late 2008 Unibody MacBook with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 2GB of RAM. We ran a series of tests on the MacBook’s internal 5400-rpm, 2.5-inch Toshiba hard drive to...

2 expert reviews

I think I jumped on the SSD bandwagon a little early. The read/write numbers are what I want (obviously), but this drive def does NOT perform as advertised. I keep my computer clean, drives maintained, registry in check, etc. It's extremely obnoxious...

2 user reviews

I found the Transcend model to be too slow for Readyboost on 3 machines both Vista and WIndows 7 so returned.

2 user reviews

I bought this drive almost immediately when it came out. It started out well, but then went sour. I experienced data loss, stuttering, pauses and lockups. I RMA'ed the drive to Newegg and got a brand new drive. I flashed the firmware to 1571 and...

4 user reviews

Fast

2 user reviews

No Pros

9 user reviews

Money no object, if I were to recommend one upgrade in any system, it will most definitely be a SSD. Offering nearly double the performance over the fastest hard drive I have ever tested speaks volumes about the performance that a SSD delivers. Even a...

2 expert reviews | 7 user reviews

Allyn came back from CES with a pre-release Vertex 2 Pro from OCZ. This new drive comes equipped with a previously unknown Sandforce controller, which gave us some shocking results, especially in the areas of IOPS scaling and fragmentation-over-time....

2 expert reviews

I returned this item because it does not work with OSX which it should. Under Windows or Linux a very nice product !!

5 user reviews

Seller might clearly state that additional purchase will be required (AIC) to use since its in the same search results I assumed it would so I am partially to blame as well for assuming....

8 user reviews

Have you actually done the math since you were the one that provided the feedback. 128GB * 1000 = 128000. 128000 / 1024 mibibytes per gibibyte still comes out to 125 GB NOT 119. I also have a difficult time believeing that on 125 GB that the FAT or...

5 user reviews

It does exactly what it says. If you need an easy way to store some data, this is perfect.

8 user reviews

It's interesting that Intel chose to use a PCIE interface that utilizes components for storage that are about the size of a RAM module. Add a larger PCB containing more storage and it kind of seems like we're one half step towards using something like...

2 expert reviews | 2 user reviews