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November 1, 2021 | 14:00

Inscryption Review

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October 27, 2021 | 12:05

SilentiumPC Regnum RG6V TG Case Review

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

October 21, 2021 | 09:43

Marvell PCI-E SSD claims stunning 2GB/s speed

COMPUTEX 09: Forget the OCZ Z-Drive, Marvell has premiered an SSD of even faster proportions

June 1, 2009 | 11:38

JMicron 612 SSD Controller to feature cache

COMPUTEX 09: JMicron will launch its new JMF612 controller at Computex. It will apparently fix stuttering and still be fairly cheap.

May 28, 2009 | 15:26

OCZ Vertex 120GB SSD

SSDs might have high read speeds covered, but writing data, especially random write speeds, has held many back. Today we look at OCZ's latest high speed SSD, the Vertex, to see if the addition of onboard cache and an ARM processor can allow SSDs to fulfil their true potential.

May 15, 2009 | 10:17

OCZ launches PCI-E SSD RAID cards

OCZ announces that its PCI-E Z-Card SSDs have gone into production, with capacities of up to 1TB, although the 1TB model costs £2,640.34.

April 24, 2009 | 17:00

SandForce launches first SSD range

SandForce has announced its first range of SSDs for enterprise and mobile use, and it has a trick up its sleeve in the form of a neat new controller dubbed Duraclass.

April 14, 2009 | 14:49

Intel releases SSD firmware update

New software update promises to fix the internal fragmentation issues first reported by PC Perspective, resulting in improved long-term write speeds.

April 14, 2009 | 12:27

Super Talent launches “affordable” 512GB SSD

It still costs almost £1,000, but the new MasterDrive RX SSD offers some interesting features like an internal RAID system to boost performance.

April 10, 2009 | 10:45

Corsair launches 256GB Performance SSD

Corsair reveals its latest P256 SSD, which promises a faster maximum sequential write speed than Intel's X25-E, while also offering 256GB of storage.

April 8, 2009 | 17:20

Super Talent to launch SSD RAID card

Super Talent has pre-announced a range of SSD-based RAID cards which add up to 2GB of storage with 1.2GB/s throughput to any PCIe 8x slot.

April 2, 2009 | 10:17

Western Digital buys SSD entry

Western Digital has bought SSD specialist SiliconSystems for $65 million in order to enter the growing market for low-power solid state storage in netbooks.

March 31, 2009 | 13:43

Hagiwara shrinks SSD tech to 1"

Hagiwara SSD has announced a new range of tiny 1" SSD drives which use caching and wear-levelling technologies originally developed for 2.5" units.

March 30, 2009 | 16:02

SDHC to be replaced by SDXC

The SDHC flash memory format is seeing stiff competition from newcomer SDXC, with solid state specialist Pretec announcing a 32GB card based around the new standard.

March 6, 2009 | 09:56

Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB

While we've looked at plenty of SSDs recently, there's still place in the market for an ultra-fast mechanical drive.Today we're looking at Western Digital's 10,000RPM 300GB VelociRaptor and finding out if it's a clever girl or facing extinction in the face of the new crop of SSDs.

March 6, 2009 | 09:04

OCZ unveils lightning fast PCI-E x8 SSD RAID

CeBIT 09: 1TB of storage from four SSDs in RAID and connected through PCI-Express x8? I'll take 3, please.

March 5, 2009 | 12:48

Asus Eee keyboard could be out in May

Asus’ company chairman reveals that Asus' Eee Keyboard with a built-in HTPC could be out as soon as May this year.

March 4, 2009 | 13:11

Toshiba to buy Fujitsu HDD division

Toshiba has announced a memorandum of understanding which will see it purchasing rival Fujitsu's entire hard drive operations - including manufacturing and R&D.

February 18, 2009 | 09:55

OCZ to use Indilinx controller in Vertex SSDs

Indilinx's Barefoot controller is reportedly forming the backbone of OCZ's new SSDs.

February 16, 2009 | 16:29

SanDisk shrinks to 32nm

SanDisk has announced that it has perfected a 32nm die shrink that will allow for chips carrying 4GB of data each to be squeezed into a microSD card form factor.

February 12, 2009 | 14:06

OCZ Apex 120GB SSD

The SSD arms race is hotting up, with the latest Samsung NAND flash based drives going toe to toe with Intel's high performance SSDs. We find out how the OCZ Apex 120GB, featuring dual disk controllers and quoted read speeds of 230MB/s write, fares.

February 9, 2009 | 06:48

G.Skill Titan 256GB SSD

G.Skill is back with its latest SSD and it's a whopper, the 256GB Titan. However, this drive isn't just big - it uses two drive controller chips rather than one to try and solve some of the issues that are common with SSDs, as well as speed things up too. Does it succeed? Read on to find out!

January 20, 2009 | 10:24

Next Gen OCZ SSD claims massive performance

OCZ's next generation Vertex 2 SSD claims a whopping 550MB/s read and 480MB/s write!

January 12, 2009 | 11:17

SanDisk announces G3 series SSDs

CES 2009: SanDisk has this morning announced its third generation family of solid state drives at CES. It claims they're the fastest MLC drives ever.

January 8, 2009 | 21:26

Intel X25-E 32GB SSD

SSDs might be able to deliver blistering read speeds, but they tend to fall down when it comes to write. Not so the Intel X25-E, which claims both blistering fast read and write speeds thanks to the use of SLC NAND flash memory. We find out if Intel's Extreme series SSD can make the grade and justify its monster price tag.

December 17, 2008 | 08:26