There’s little argument that the Apple MacBook Air is a fantastic computer; my bias after using both since the 2010 refresh notwithstanding. If there’s much to complain about with the July 2011 MacBook Air though, it’s that Apple continues to offer two SSDs that vary widely in performance. If you’re unlucky, you get stuck with a Toshiba
SanDisk Ultra SSD Review (240GB)
The SanDisk Ultra SSD was announced just earlier this year. Our 240GB unit has a $420 street price and features a SandForce SF-1222 processor. It also uses the company’s own NAND flash memory. Check out our review where we compare it to other SSDs in its market segment and see how it compares.
Western Digital WD TV Live Review
Western Digital has added to their line of media streaming products with their latest effort, the WD TV Live (WDBHG70000NBK). TV Live is designed to get both your networked media files and streaming services into new places in the home. Where the WD TV Live Hub is the bigger brother with 1TB of internal storage and geared to
OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid First Thoughts Review
OCZ recently announced availability of the 1TB RevoDrive Hybrid, which marries a 1TB 2.5" hard drive with a 100GB OCZ SSD and caching software to deliver SSD like speeds across the larger storage volume. The hybrid idea of course isn’t new, Seagate’s Momentus XT has shipped over one million units and there are several client
Samsung SSD 830 Review (256GB)
In mid-August Samsung announced their SSD 830, the updated follow-up to the 470 SSD. Samsung’s 470 and now 830 SSDs are becoming a bit of a rarity; both SSDs are built entirely in house with Samsung components. The Samsung 830 features a 3-core MCX controller, 2x nm Toggle MLC NAND, 256MB SDRAM cache and firmware, all made by
Western Digital My Passport Studio Review (1TB)
WD just launched a pair of external hard drives largely designed for Mac users. The My Passport Studio is the higher end of the two, featuring an all metal anodized aluminum body, sleek rounded edges, capacities up to 1TB, dual FireWire 800 ports and a suite of drive management and security software. The new drives essentially put
Western Digital My Book Studio Review (3TB)
This summer WD revamped their My Book Studio line of desktop external hard drives. The new My Book Studios feature an all metal aluminum enclosure and an increased capacity 3TB Caviar Green hard drive inside. The result is a drive that blends in perfectly with Apple’s aluminum-cased products and offers rapid transfers over FireWire 800.
Western Digital My Passport for Mac Review (1TB)
Western Digital completely redesigned and increased the capacity on both their My Passport for Mac and My Passport Studio portable hard drives. Besides the new look, the latest models increase the capacities offered, upping the previous cap at 500GB to 750GB and 1TB. In this review we take a look at the more affordable 1TB My Passport
Crucial m4 SSD 64GB/128GB Review (Firmware 0009)
We’ve looked at the Crucial m4 SSD in the past – once with the original firmware and then again with the updated firmware 0009. In this review we add in the data sets for the 64GB and 128GB versions with the old and new firmware. The goal: find out if they improve the same as
Intel SSD 320 RAID Review
The Intel SSD 320 is the company’s follow-up to its highly successful X-25M series of consumer solid state drives (SSDs). This mainstream SSD sits right behind the 510 in Intel’s product lineup; we reviewed the 510 here back in February. Our Intel SSD 320 review today is about the results from setting up two of




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