Being the relatively new and high priced storage solution solid state drives will get an insane amount of attention until they truly go mainstream…which may take a while since their cost per GB is still a bit up there but…
Read more Solid State Drives Rounded Up and Tested, nothings changed still fast
Crucial is widely known for their desktop and notebook memory products but the company isn’t content with simply storing your data on some volatile memory, oh no they’ve expanded to the solid state drive space in order to offer speedy…
Read more Crucial's M225, Speedy SSD Storage
Progress, it’s a good thing.In this case it’s a great thing as Kingston has announced that they’ve launched their new SSDNow V+ series of solid state drives. 64, 128, and 256GB drives are in their product plans with the 64GB…
Read more Kingston Launches SSDNow V+ Series
You have to feel some form of pity for the marketing types, the guys that decide what to call products and, eventually how to market them. There are only so many ways you can desribe something as worth purchasing. What…
RAID storage setups have been, in the past, a good way to bump up your system’s storage performance. Given that platter based drives were the slowest component in a computer any added speed was always welcome when doing any sort…
Solid state drives offer a very attractive performance increase over the old platter based hard drives of the past, unfortunately getting the most out of them isn’t as simple as plugging in the drive. Given the technology’s early state you’ll…
Read more Windows Vista and SSDs, A Case Study
It seems like jumping into a purchase can foil you in ways you never thought possible. It appears that Apple’s new 13″ and 15″ MacBook Pros have an issue where their SATA ports are limited to around about 1.5Gb/s…
Read more Some New Apple Mac Portables Suffer SATA Speed Degradation, SSD Users Saddened
Why bother mimicking hard drive form factors any more? TweakTown has video of InnoDisk’s tiny 128GB solid-state drive (SSD), the nanoSSD, and it is indeed puny (that’s it on the right). From what I can gather, write speeds can…
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Solid State Drives are based around a collection of somewhat quick flash memory modules corralled by a memory controller into a storage system that can trounce any spindle based hard drive ever made.If you have any doubts to this…
If you were avoiding the initial batch of solid state drives we can’t blame you, they were expensive and unprovent technologies despite the promise of insane performance and durability. Thankfully there’s more competition, which has lead to lower prices, and…
Read more Solid State Drives, Fast and Slightly More Affordable
There was a time when every single component in a notebook computer was a generation or so behind what could be found on desktop computers, nowadays you’ll find feature parity in almost every category outside of the latest and greatest…
Read more Notebook SSD Upgrades, Are They Viable?
