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Crucial RealSSD C300: Fastest SSD Yet?

Crucial RealSSD C300: Fastest SSD Yet?

by admin April 10, 2010

As of July 2010, the Crucial SSD C300 series Solid State Drives is still one of the fastest consumer drives that money can buy in terms of read speed – at least if you can tap into its SATA 3.0, 6Gbps support. They’re definitely not cheap, but considering the performance gain many power users will consider one of these little miracles a bargain.

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OCZ Vertex 2 Review

by admin July 26, 2010

Today we’ll have a look at OCZ’s Vertex 2 SSD. As the ‘2′ in the name implies it is of course a follow-up to the original Vertex, which was developed to tackle Intel’s then-new (but still very popular) X25-M drives. This time around, OCZ has teamed up with SandForce–a relatively new name in SSD technology that has quickly gained momentum thanks to highly efficient controllers.

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OCZ Agility 60GB Deal: Save $60

by admin July 22, 2010

The Agility series from OCZ was hailed as “the affordable alternative” when the drives came out about a year ago, with the 60GB version priced at $220. In that case it’s almost twice as affordable now, for $119.99 after a $50 price cut plus an additional $10 mail-in rebate. Note: This rebate expires 07/31/2010.

OCZ Agility

Granted, the Agility can no longer compete with the fastest SSDs on the market right now, but it still offers good 230 MB/s read and 135 MB/s write speeds, assisted by a 64 MB cache. That, by the way, is faster than the 30GB version from the same series, which is rated at 185 / 100MB/s reads/writes.

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New SSDs from Mach Xtreme
July 13, 2010

Mach Xtreme – yet another computer RAM manufacturer to go into solid state storage – is now launching a number of new SSDs with the JMF616 controller from JMicron under the hood. The fastest units have been dubbed Jet Mx Pro and are all equipped with NAND flash of the MLC variety. As usual, the [...]

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Mushkin Launches Callisto Deluxe
July 6, 2010

Only a few weeks after introducing its first solid-state drive with the model name Callisto, Mushkin launches an updated version with improved performance. Callisto Deluxe is an SSD based on the Sand Force SF-1200 controller. This model comes with 60, 120 or 240 GB of storage space and supports TRIM.
The specifications state that it should [...]

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The 540 MB/s RevoDrive: PCIe-based SSD from OCZ
June 28, 2010

OCZ is definitely one of the hottest players in the SSD marketplace with scores of models (and slight variations of models) on the market. The company is also very quick to introduce new technology. The latest announcement from OCZ is their new RevoDrive – a PCIe-based solid state drive that might actually find its way [...]

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OCZ Moves in on the 1.8-inch Form Factor
June 23, 2010

OCZ is an extremely fast-moving manufacturer when it comes to introducing new technology and more importantly new SSDs. And they are certainly not resting on their laurels – now they are about to hit the shelves with two new 1.8″ drives for ultrathin and ultra-everything laptops – including the likes of MacBook Air, Lenovo X301 [...]

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