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It’s Game Over for Most Consumer SSD Companies

At StorageReview we made the conscious decision some time ago to stop talking about all the tiny SSD brands running around in the marketplace with a SandForce reference design drive, or an SSD more or less made for them by one of the leaders in the space. The drives are generally poorly supported and have

Consumer  ◇  SSD

Kingston HyperX FURY SSD Announced

Today at COMPUTEX TAIPEI, HyperX, a division of Kingston, announced the addition of the FURY SSD to its HyperX FURY family. The FURY SSD is a 2.5" form factor SSD with SATA (6GB/s) interface, comes in either 120GB or 240GB capacities, and has a 3-year warranty with free technical support. The FURY SSD features locked

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Intel PCIe with NMVe SSDs Announced

Intel has announced a new line of powerful SSD that combine PCI Express with NVM Express (NVMe) technology for substantial performance gains over SATA SSDs and traditional hard disk drives. The Intel SSD Data Center Family for PCIe are designed to meet the increasing needs for high-performance, consistent, and reliable storage solutions in the data center, all the

Consumer  ◇  SSD

SanDisk SanDisk Extreme PRO SSD Released

SanDisk announced today the availability of its new SanDisk Extreme PRO SSD. The SanDisk Extreme PRO SSD is an enthusiast class SSD with sequential speeds up to 550MB/s read and 520MB/s write and having an upper capacity around 1TB. Using SanDisk’s two-tiered caching architecture, nCache, the SanDisk Extreme PRO SSD can optimize its speed and

Consumer  ◇  SSD

Crucial MX100 SSD Review

The Crucial MX100 (a brand of Micron) is a mainstream consumer SSD targeted toward users who are looking to upgrade PCs or laptops from hard drives to an SSD on a budget. The MX100 is a direct replacement for the M500, the core changes are in a NAND die shrink and firmware enhancements. Crucial claims the net result is the

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Samsung SSD 845DC EVO Review

The Samsung SSD 845DC EVO line of drives are specifically designed to provide high performance and reliability–though cost-effective–solutions for today’s increasing data traffic in servers and data centers. Samsung indicates its new family of SSDs will deliver a very high level of sustained performance as well as consistent low latency over the life of the

Consumer  ◇  SSD

Corsair Force Series LX SSD Review (CSSD-F256GBLX)

The Corsair Force Series LX SSDs are the company’s latest foray in the solid state market and successor to the Force LS Series, which we found to be a decent drive as far as sequential read performance goes. The new Corsair line is specifically designed for mainstream consumers on a budget, with specs quoted to boast fast sequential and

Consumer  ◇  SSD

Samsung Launches New SSDs Based on 2nd Gen 3D V-NAND

Samsung has announced that it has begun mass production of the industry’s first three-dimensional (3D) V-NAND flash memory using 32 vertically stacked cell layers, its second generation V-NAND offering.​ Samsung’s 32-layer 3D V-NAND (or Vertical NAND) requires a higher level of design technology to stack the cell arrays than the previous 24-layer V-NAND; however, it still

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Toshiba PX03SN Enterprise SSD Review (800GB)

The PX03SN is Toshiba’s latest option for customers looking to take advantage of the rapidly evolving light enterprise SSD niche. The PX03SN a read-intensive enterprise SSD that leverages 19nm Toshiba MLC NAND for duties which require enterprise read performance such as host server storage and caching where write operations would total less than the PX03SN’s rated

Consumer  ◇  SSD

Kingston SSDNow mS200 mSATA Review (240GB)

The Kingston SSDNow mS200 is an mSATA SSD that is built specifically for system builders, OEMs, and enthusiasts. Roughly eight times smaller than a 2.5” drive, the SSDNow mS200 claims sequential read/write speeds of 550MB/s and 530MB/s.  The device is fully compliant with mSATA interface, uses NAND based flash memory and supports Intel’s SRT, S.M.A.R.T., and