In such a cluttered SSD market, it is becoming increasingly difficult for manufacturers to distinguish their wares from those of the competition.  Some rely on flashy packaging while others just follow meekly along with everyone else.  Mushkin on the other hand has gone another route by introducing their SF2281-based high performance Chronos Deluxe 120GB at [...]

Crucial may be a newcomer to Hardware Canucks but their SSDs just happen to be some of the most popular around right now due to their excellent pricing and wide availability. Their newest line of M4-series drives continues down the same path as previous generations but now uses the same Marvel 9174 controller we saw [...]

With every other manufacturer well into their enthusiast SATA 6Gbps releases, it was only a matter of time until Kingston joined the fray.  Their new HyperX series uses long-life, high performance Intel NAND with a SandForce SF2281 controller which makes it one of the best possible combinations available for enthusiasts.

Before getting the Wildfire, we had seen our fair share of the Sandforce invasion that is currently running amok in the SSD market.  Expecting yet another rebrand of the same tried, tested and  boring design, we didn’t really expect much from Patriot’s latest flagship drive.  But instead of the same old story, we’ve found an SSD [...]

Corsair’s Performance 3 SSDs were all the rage at this year’s CES but after a short time, they were almost forgotten in favor of newer SandForce-based drives.  Now, months after launch we’re taking a look at the Performance 3 in its 256GB form and have come to realize that its Marvell controller has some unique [...]

In order to satisfy the new generation’s need for extreme speed, the world’s leading memory storage product brand Team Group Inc. released the first generation 2.5 inch SATA III SSD to firmly display their ambition to grab market share. SSD S3 uses the high standard SATA3 6Gb/s interface, and is equipped the enthusiast level SandForce [...]

SMART Modular Technologies (WWH), Inc., a leading independent manufacturer of solid-state storage products and memory modules, today announced the Optimus solid-state drive (SSD) for enterprise storage applications. Featuring a native Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 6Gb/s interface and up to 1.6 TB usable capacity, Optimus is the industry’s highest capacity and fastest SAS multi-level cell (MLC) [...]

Patriot has always been known for their well priced yet highly competitive products and their newest SSD series contiues this tradition.  The SandForce-based Pyro drives will be parachuted into a market segment that’s loaded with similar SSDs so does the Pyro 120GB have what it takes to run with the likes of Corsair and OCZ?

OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced the release of Z-Drive Revision 4 (R4) PCI Express (PCIe) storage solutions designed to dramatically accelerate enterprise applications and significantly reduce total cost of ownership in the data center. The Z-Drive R4 product line features OCZ’s second [...]

Less than a week ago, we looked at Corsair’s flagship SSD with the Force GT but while cutting edge technology is great to drool over, there’s a huge market out there for a more affordable high performance solution.  This is where the Force 3 series comes in since it can be found for less than [...]