Solid State Drives

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World’s First 2.5-Inch 1TB SSD Needs To Be In Laptop Bellies Now

1:30AM October 21, 2011 | Brent Rose

OCZ’s new Octane series is the first solid state drive to squeeze one full terabyte of storage into a 2.5-inch drive, but the awesome doesn’t stop there. It has read speeds of up to 560MB/s and write speeds of 400MB/s, versus top competitors who are at 500MB/s read and 315MB/s write. More »


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Samsung Announces New Super-Fast Solid State Drives

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2:00PM October 17, 2011 | Alex Kidman

It doesn’t seem like all that long ago that SSDs were insanely expensive and ludicrously small. There’s no word on what Samsung’s newly announced SSD drives will cost, but they’re certainly not small — or slow. More »


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The LaCie Little Big Disk Is Pretty — Pretty Fast

2:10PM August 31, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

It’s got a 500GB solid state drive and an exterior designed by Neil Poulton — what more do you want? Thunderbolt? Yes, it does that too. More »


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Samsung New Double-Speed SSDs

9:00PM August 17, 2011 | Brent Rose

Sammy just took the lid off of a set of new solid state drives that promise a significant speed boost from their already peppy previous line of SSDs. They look good enough to eat. More »


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SSDs About To Get 7x Faster If Phase-Change Memory Catches On

8:40AM June 4, 2011 | Max Behrman

Hard drives are all about how much you can store and how quickly you can store it. And this soon-to-be-unveiled phase-change memory drive is expected to up the ante quite a bit. More »


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SSD + Hard Drive = OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid

1:55AM June 4, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Oh, to have the lightness and speed of an SSD, but with the capacity of a hard drive! OCZ, the mind-reader it is, has made a component that will offer up to 1TB in HDD space, and up to 120GB in SSD. More »


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SSD Showdown: 4 Top Drives Reviewed

10:40AM April 20, 2011 | Nathan Edwards

Breaking the 250MB/s barrier with no moving parts

If the automotive world progressed as fast as the computer industry, the old joke goes, we‘d all have $US1000 cars that get 400 miles to the gallon, never need maintenance, and crash catastrophically every eight weeks for no reason. Ancient punch lines aside, comparing this year’s storage options to those of even half a decade ago would be like entering a Bugatti Type 35 in the Preakness Stakes. More »


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Why The Limitations Of SSDs Are Actually Good

9:20AM January 25, 2011 | Adam Dachis

You’ve been holding off on buying an SSD for awhile now, telling yourself they’re too expensive and too limiting. Well, you’re wrong. Here’s why. More »


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Intel’s 310 Series SSDs Are An Eighth The Size Of Their Predecessors

4:37AM December 30, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

SSDs are great, and they’re getting smaller all the time. A lot smaller. Intel’s teeny new 310 Series SSDs deliver the same performance as their predecessor, the x25, but they’re just an eighth the size. More »


MacBook Air’s SSDs Will Be Sold To Other Companies By Toshiba

10:00PM November 8, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

The very same Toshiba SSDs that Apple uses in its MacBook Airs are now being offered to other companies who may or may not be green-eyed with envy at the slinkiness of the Airs. More »