G.Skill Shows Phison E7 Based Phoenix Blade X PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD
G.Skill isn't a name that is often associated with SSDs, but the company has been making SSDs as a sort of a side product for several years. We reviewed...
4 by on 6/9/2015Thermaltake Computex 2015 Booth Tour
Winner of Thermaltake's modding contest As E., our case, cooling and peripheral editor, wasn't at Computex this year, I had the opportunity of meeting with most of the companies to...
21 by on 6/9/2015ADATA Displays XPG SX930 SSD, Two New TLC SSDs, Several PCIe Drives & USB Type-C Products
After a long week of meetings and over a day worth of traveling, I'm finally back from Taipei. Given our hectic schedule (it was just me and Ian at...
7 by on 6/8/2015OCZ Announces Trion 100 TLC SSD & Shows Off an Upcoming NVMe Drive with Toshiba Controller
One of the things I've been expecting to see at this year's Computex is more TLC NAND based SSDs. So far only Samsung and SanDisk have been shipping TLC...
4 by on 6/2/2015SanDisk Releases Z400s SSD for Mainstream PCs & Embedded Applications
With Computex only a week away, SanDisk is taking a head start today with the release of Z400s SSD. SanDisk is aiming to cater two different markets with the...
25 by on 5/26/2015Crucial MX200 (250GB, 500GB & 1TB) SSD Review
Last year Micron launched M600 SSD for the OEM market, but unlike in the past there was no simultaneous retail product release. We were told that the M600 firmware...
62 by on 5/22/2015Inside OCZ's Factory: How SSDs Are Made
At CES I had the opportunity to sit down with OCZ's CEO, Ralph Schmitt, to discuss the state of OCZ after Toshiba acquired the company in late 2013. We...
64 by on 5/20/2015OCZ Introduces Z-Drive 6000 Enterprise PCIe SSD Series with NVMe Support
Back at CES OCZ teased us by showcasing the Z-Drive 6000, but the drive was still under development, so the details were rather scarce. Today OCZ is finally lifting...
33 by on 5/20/2015The Truth About SSD Data Retention
In the past week, quite a few media outlets have posted articles claiming that SSDs will lose data in a matter of days if left unpowered. While there is...
87 by on 5/13/2015Intel Releases SSD DC S3510
In February Intel refreshed its enterprise SATA SSD lineup with the DC S3610 and S3710 SSDs, but left the entry-level S35xx series untouched. That changes today with the launch...
9 by on 5/5/2015New Samsung SSD 840 EVO Read Performance Fix Coming Later This Month
The Samsung SSD 840 EVO read performance bug has been on the table for over six months now. Initially Samsung acknowledged the issue fairly quickly and provided a fix...
81 by on 4/14/2015Crucial BX100 (120GB, 250GB, 500GB & 1TB) SSD Review
Crucial has been doing very well in the client SSD market during the past year. Crucial's/Micron's ability to quickly roll out the 16nm NAND node definitely paid off because...
67 by on 4/10/2015Samsung SM951 PCIe SSD Now Available
We reviewed Samsung's SM951 PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD a little over a month ago and it ended up being clearly the fastest client-level SSD, beating its predecessor XP941 by...
29 by on 4/7/2015Intel SSD 750 PCIe SSD Review: NVMe for the Client
Ever since our SSD DC P3700 review, there's been massive interest from enthusiasts and professionals for a more client-oriented product based on the same platform. With eMLC, ten drive...
134 by on 4/2/2015The Samsung SSD 850 EVO mSATA/M.2 Review
Four months ago Samsung introduced the world to TLC V-NAND in the form of SSD 850 EVO. It did well in our tests and showed that 3D NAND technology...
58 by on 3/31/2015Estimating Intel-Micron 32-layer 3D NAND Die Size
Yesterday Intel and Micron shared some new details of their 3D NAND technology and during the presentation they also showed a production wafer. I missed the wafer during the...
36 by on 3/27/2015Intel-Micron Share Additional Details of Their 3D NAND
Today must be the busiest day in the world of NAND. Earlier today, Toshiba announced that it has begun sampling of its 48-layer 128Gbit 3D NAND part and now...
35 by on 3/26/2015Toshiba Announces 48-layer 128Gbit 3D NAND - Samples Shipping Today
The 3D NAND race is heating up. Samsung has been shipping its 3D NAND products for over six months now, but so far we have known very little about...
13 by on 3/26/2015OCZ Releases Intrepid 3700 Enterprise SSD
A little over a year OCZ introduced its first in-house designed enterprise SSD series called the Intrepid 3000. What separated the Intrepid from OCZ's earlier enterprise SSDs was the...
10 by on 3/25/2015The OCZ Vector 180 (240GB, 480GB & 960GB) SSD Review
OCZ has been teasing the Vector 180 for quite some time now. The first hint of the drive was unveiled over nine months ago at Computex 2014 where OCZ...
89 by on 3/24/2015