In every sense of the word, the 96GB Kingston SSDNow V+100 is a “midrange” SSD. Positioned as an entry-tier enterprise class drive in Kingston’s SSD catalog, the drive’s oddball 96GB capacity puts it squarely between the more common 64GB and 128GB solutions. A cynical take on all of this would be to point out that

Well, it’s on now – SandForce has announced their new client SSD processor and OCZ is the first to jump – with their new Vertex 3 SSD. While the SF-2281 is the centerpiece, delivering quoted sequential speeds of up to 550MB/s read and 525MB/s writes, the updated SATA 6Gb/s interface deserves credit too. By comparison to the

After going through standard retail channels, we’ve managed to get our hands on two brand new 60GB OCZ Vertex 2’s. The first is a latest-generation 60GB 25nm NAND model, the second an older stock 34nm NAND version. Buyers can’t tell the difference thanks to OCZ’s dubious marketing, but we can, and in this mini-review we’ll dive

Bigger isn’t always better, and in the world of SSDs smaller and specialized form factors are becoming more popular and look to shake up the way we think about storage in portable devices. OWC’s Mercury Aura Pro SSD is one of the few 1.8″ performance-based SSDs on the market designed to meet this need. This

At the end of last year Intel announced a new SSD product, diminutive in size but not performance, the Intel SSD 310. Available in 40GB and 80GB capacities, the mSATA SSD promises to deliver mainstream SSD speeds in a form factor an eighth of the standard 2.5″ SSD size. The SSD 310 is finding its way

Corsair’s family of Force Series SSDs are well known to us; the SandForce SF-1200 powered drives have already been reviewed in 40GB and 120GB capacities. The new 90GB F90 is part of a capacity update announced in early December that also included the 180GB F180. The F90 fills an interesting capacity and price point void that existed between the 60GB and

SandForce’s SF-1200 controller has more or less taken the Solid State Drive world by storm, and with good reason. SandForce-based drives provide performance that’s consistently near the top of the heap, and benefits from not requiring DRAM for caching. It’s an appealing piece of hardware to build an SSD around so it’s no small surprise

Samsung has been playing in the consumer SSD space longer than most people know. It was their early SSDs that graced the likes of Sony ultraportable notebooks and found their way in other high-end premium builds from many other brands. But not until recently have consumers been able to trot out to the store to

SandForce solid state drives seem to be the hotness in the market right now, and why wouldn’t they be? The SandForce controllers are popular pieces of technology for a reason: their design allows for dispensing with drive cache, and they perform awfully fast. It’s no surprise many manufacturers have produced drives based on SandForce hardware,