At CES Corsair formally announced they had partnered with NVELO to launch a caching SSD for consumer use. The Corsair Accelerator Series Caching SSDs are shipping now and promise to give users up to a 5X performance boost over a standard hard drive. With hard drives trickling to market at up to 4TB, the idea

The OCZ Vertex 4 SSD is a bold step for the company – OCZ has abandoned the high-flying LSI SandForce controller for their own Indilinx Everest 2 in the flagship Vertex 4 client SSD. It could be said that OCZ has had as much to do with SandForce’s success as SandForce has had with OCZ’s.

When we reviewed the Plextor M3S last year, it earned an Editor’s Choice award for excellent read performance, aggressive pricing and class leading support with the included five year warranty. At CES in January, Plextor showed us the upcoming M3P (P stands for Pro), which from a hardware perspective is nearly identical to the M3S,

Last week WD announced the latest generation of their popular My Passport portable hard drives. The newly redesigned enclosures surround a 2.5" 15mm Western Digital hard drive that uses four platters to offer capacities up to 2TB, making it the highest capacity drive available in this form factor. The My Passport also picks up USB

Announced earlier this month, the Icy Dock DuoSwap 2.5″/3.5″ SATA Hot Swap Drive Caddy gives buyers an easy solution to connect any size of hard drive or SSD into their desktop computer. Offering twin hot-swap bays, the DuoSwap Caddy supports both 3.5-inch hard drives, as well as 2.5-inch hard drives or SSDs that are 9.5mm

We just completed a review of the Seagate Thunderbolt adapter which is designed for Seagate’s line of GoFlex portable hard drives. The Thunderbolt adapter is appealing, but with current Seagate externals it can only go so far, equaling USB 3.0 and FireWire 800 speeds due to the limitations of the external hard drives offered. What’s

Seagate’s claim to fame when it comes to both their GoFlex desktop hard drive line and the GoFlex portable hard drive line are the adapters that allow the user to swap between interfaces. Seagate has long supported USB, USB 3.0 and FireWire options, but at CES they announced a new Thunderbolt option. This gives Mac

We’ve reviewed OWC’s perpetually growing line of Apple MacBook Air SSDs a few times, most recently the 240GB capacity of their Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G, which bested the SSDs Apple includes with the MacBook Air in every single benchmark we ran and in one case the OWC drubbed the Apple offerings by 10 times.

The Kingston SSDNow KC100 may sit in Kingston’s business-class family of SSDs, but don’t let the standard grey casing fool you – it’s a performance drive through and through. Sharing the same high-throughput components as their enthusiast-grade HyperX SSD, the Kingston KC100 gives client users within the enterprise up to 555 MB/s read speeds and