The bulk of a Solid State Drive’s performance potential lies in its embedded flash memory controller which tend to vary in features and speed from chip manufacturers leaving the end user to dig through countless reviews to find the gems. PC Perspective has gathered together four SandForce powered SSDs and put them through some rigorous […]
Read more SandForce SSDs Rounded Up and tested for your vicarious speed needs
One of the biggest issues with Solid State Drives today is that their varying performance, size, and pricing leads to quite a bit of confusion. You just can’t rely on one measure to be completely happy. The Corsair Nova V128 Solid State Drive sports some mighty impressive performance given its decent pricing. Benchmark Reviews has […]
Read more Corsair Nova V128 Solid State Drive provides great performance at a good price
Solid State Drives are fast and all of that good stuff but the technology can go even farther with the proper interface processor and enough bandwidth. Upgrade-ability wouldn’t hurt either. OCZ is touting their new Z-Drive R2 PCIe based Solid State Drive which will allow customers (they’re thinking enterprise level here) to upgrade their purchase […]
Read more OCZ Z-Drive R2 PCIe SSD goes upgradable
Solid State Drives are, in fact, very fast storage devices but they’re all not created equally. As much as you’d like to rely on the speed of the flash chips in a drive the controller has a bigger part to play in how well it performs overall. The SandForce SF-1200 SSD Processor is the brains […]
Read more SandForce SF-1200 SSD Processor powers speedy SSDs
SATA 6Gbps support is one of those features enthusiasts have been clamoring for yet its shelf life is likely to be quite short. Storage interfaces rarely meet their full potential before another faster standard is released, thankfully at least one company is pushing their products into using SATA 600 before it goes away completely. The […]
Read more Micron Crucial RealSSD-C300 Solid State Drive brings on the SATA 6Gbps support
Solid State Drive performance depends on quite a few factors but the biggest tends to be the controller driving all of the individual memory chips. A good controller is needed in order to keep data moving for the best possible performance. Benchmark Reviews has a look at the Toshiba T6UG1XBG Solid State Drive Controller found […]
Read more Toshiba T6UG1XBG Solid State Drive Controller powers…SSD drives
It’s readily apparent that Solid State Drives outperform the age-old spindle-based solutions by insanely wide margins and, as time goes on, the performance gap is only going to get larger while they come down in price. The G.Skill Falcon II 128GB SSD offer blazing performance and can even outrun some of its SSD based competition. […]
Read more G.Skill Falcon II 128GB SSD is as fast as you’d imagine
When it comes to storage performance you may think what’s included with your motherboard is as good as any other product on the market, unfortunately that’s not always the case as some companies devote considerable more time to perfecting their storage solutions than others. Benchmark Reviews has a look at the Marvell SATA-6G controller and […]
Read more Marvell SATA-6G and Intel ICH10 storage performance battle
Sure you may know that solid state drives are fast but as with any technology a fair bit of familiarity with a product makes you take them for granted despite the fact that they are game changing products. Shame on you. Hardware Bistro reviewed the OCZ Agility 30GB SSD and runs it through the usual […]
You may have thought things were good, no great even. We finally got rid of the cable nightmare that was PATA and have a much better cable and signaling system in Serial ATA, unfortunately you’re standing in the way of…
