Solid-State Drive Reviews

Though the 256GB Crucial m4 offers good performance in most situations, it's surpassed by competing drives from OCZ and Intel that push SSD technology a bit further.

14 expert reviews | 1812 user reviews

With fast performance and a good warranty, the OCZ Vector 150 is a great SSD for first-time adopters. It's not a worthwhile upgrade for the original Vector drive, however.

7 expert reviews | 52 user reviews

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20 expert reviews | 44 user reviews

In this market, to sell products you need to either have the fastest SSD or offer the best value. No one wants to be the guy who spent too much and didn't get enough for it. The best SSD shouldn't have to wait for another model to enter end-of-life...

12 expert reviews | 30 user reviews

Other than its cost, the Samsung Portable SSD T1 is what any portable drive should be.

2 expert reviews

The MX100 was a revolutionary product in many ways. It was the first drive to move to sub-19nm NAND, which brought cost savings along with it. The combination of price and performance made the MX100 arguably one of the most cost efficient drives on the...

14 expert reviews | 154 user reviews

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40 expert reviews | 74 user reviews

If you're an ordinary consumer, you're going to be better served by a different SSD, but if you're doing a great deal of photo editing or other write-heavy tasks, the Seagate 600 Pro may be worth the premium. The 22% overprovisioning guarantees that it...

6 expert reviews | 24 user reviews

At the end of the day most people are looking at external drives for one reason, for extra storage for their portable devices or for a drive they can use to swap files between two different systems. The SE720 accomplished that no problem, but also...

9 expert reviews | 2 user reviews

The Seagate 600 is an impressive first SSD outing from Seagate that offers basically all you want in a solid-state drive.

6 expert reviews | 157 user reviews

The Plextor PX-256M5S is not widely available at time of review, but we have seen it on sale for under £190 in 256GB capacity. Considering its first-division performance, it should make a compelling choice as a high-performance upgrade for any modern...

7 expert reviews | 120 user reviews

It started out in my Lenovo S10-3 and I eventually moved it to my Lenovo X120e. I purchased this SSD to protect myself from mechanical failures,. Most of my past HDDs in laptops have ended dying and clicking.

24 expert reviews | 40 user reviews

I believe there's a very specific niche that is interested in something like the RevoDrive 3. A customer that needs the performance and is too resource limited to go after the more expensive solutions on the market. I believe it's a lot like what we...

31 expert reviews | 118 user reviews

It shouldn't come as a surprise to see Samsung and Intel leading the charge in PCIe SSDs, with innovative products that set the standard for performance and reliability. There is still a lot of room for other companies to introduce new and exciting...

8 expert reviews | 32 user reviews

Other than its cost, the Samsung Portable SSD T1 is what any portable drive should be.

8 expert reviews | 276 user reviews

As for the SM2256 controller, it's clear that Silicon Motion is learning to deal with the challenges of managing TLC flash, and many of the remaining weaknesses exhibited by the SP550 can be blamed on the limitations of the flash rather than the...

10 expert reviews | 209 user reviews

Combining the excellent Marvell 88SS1074 controller found in the Crucial MX300 and Toshiba's proven 15nm TLC IC chips found in the OCZ Trion 150 480GB, was the Kingston SSDNow UV400 480GB a genuinely good idea in reality, or something that seemed good...

6 expert reviews | 11 user reviews

Ironically (given our introduction), if you're looking for an inexpensive SSD these days, your best bet is likely going to be one of the many SandForce SF-2281 drives. The 240GB SF-2281 drives are routinely available for around $170/£105, sometimes...

9 expert reviews | 309 user reviews

I did let JMicron know about my performance concerns when I tested the JMF670H reference design samples because sequential read performance in particular was below the average. JMicron promised an improvement through an upcoming firmware update and...

13 expert reviews | 1 user reviews

The OCZ Vector 180 is a good, affordable solid-state drive backed up by a lengthy, user-friendly warranty.

6 expert reviews

With unimpressive performance that doesn't match its high price, there's no reason why you should pick the Plextor M6S over other SSDs on the market.

12 expert reviews

hybrid drive at around $180 if storage is important to you.

18 expert reviews | 28 user reviews

With nearly 350,000 apps and counting, the iPhone's maximum capacity of 32GB doesn't allow you to even scratch the surface of the App Store's catalog. Throw i...

13 expert reviews

The My Cloud Home Duo’s 45MBps read performance with a collection of small files, its 110MBps performance with a single large 20GB file, and its large file write performance of 44MBps aren’t the fastest we’ve seen by a long shot, but they’re...

3 expert reviews | 13 user reviews

Blazing-fast SF-2281 performance; pretty chassis.

5 expert reviews | 6 user reviews