SSD / Storage Reviews

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   Kingston HyperX SSD 240GB & 120GB SSD Storage Review

   By Chris Ramseyer   August 17, 2011

   Kingston's move into the SandForce SSD market is great news for the consumer. With its new HyperX branded solid state drives in hand, we take a look at these amazingly fast SSDs and examine if an SSD from Kingston should be on your short list for your next storage purchase.

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   NAND Flash Faces Off - Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

   By Chris Ramseyer   August 07, 2011

   News flash! All flash NAND is not created equal! Sure, you know about multi-level and single-level NAND when it comes to speed, but what about synchronous and asynchronous NAND inside your shiny new SSD? We have answers and tell you where your money is best spent for real data speed.

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   OCZ Technology Vertex 3 SSD 120GB and 240GB Review

   By Chris Ramseyer   June 27, 2011

   Today we take a look at the OCZ Technology Vertex 3 in both 120GB and 240GB capacities. The Vertex 3 was the first SF-2000 based client SSD to hit the market in 2011 and such will be the product in which all others will be judged against. The Vertex 3 is capable of transferring data at 550+MB/s.

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   Intel Smart Response Technology - SRT

   By Chris Ramseyer   May 11, 2011

   Cache I/O isn't a new advancement in storage technology but does play a large role in the future of storage on many Intel systems. Today we look at Intel's new Smart Response Technology and give our thoughts while keeping an eye on the future of consumer storage advances.

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   SSD RAID scaling under Windows 7

   By Marc Adams   July 06, 2009

   What can you expect when you get your new Windows 7 install working with those crisp new solid state hard drives? SSD drives are not what they used to be already. And just how is that Intel ICH10R chipset serving you?

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   Intel's New Solid State Drive - Video Review

   By Kyle Bennett   September 25, 2008

   A lot of smart people have said a lot of smart things about Intel's new 80GB Solid State Drive recently sampled to the media. But some of the basic questions I had on my mind were left unchecked, like, "Is it really faster, or is that just what HDTach tells you on a graph?" We get out the stop watch and a 5-disk RAID array and go to town.