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Unboxing the Silicon Power Velox Series V30 Solid State Drive

Silicon Power is a new sponsor here at ThinkComputers and one of the first products they have sent us is their Velox Series V30 60GB Solid State Drive. This is their first 6GB/s solid state drive and has rated speeds of up to 550MB/s read and 500MB/s write. Read on as we open up the drive and take a look at what’s inside!

Patriot Wildfire 120GB 6Gb/s Solid-State Drive Review

Patriot is getting in to the SATA 6Gb/s game with the other big players in the solid state market with their Wildfire and Pyro solid state drives.  Last year we were very impressed with the Inferno solid state drive from Patriot.  Today we are taking look at Patriot’s Wildfire drive which sports the SandForce SF-2281 drive controller with Toshiba 32nm MLC NAND.  It boast sequential read and write speeds of 555MB/s and 520MB/s respectively and max random write IOPS up to 85,000 (4K aligned).  Let’s see how it performs against other 6Gb/s drives we have recently tested.

OCZ Vertex 3 240GB Solid State Drive Review

Only a little while ago we visited OCZ at CES and they showed us some of their upcoming solid state drives.  These new drives feature the SandForce SF-2200 controller and boast blistering fast speeds.  OCZ has been at the forefront of SSD technology and this year they are going to be releasing a ton of new drives.  One of the first drives based on the new SandForce SF-2200 controller is the Vertex 3.  This drive has a max read of 550MB/s and max write of 525MB/s!  Those are some of the fastest advertised speeds we have seen in a consumer drive!  OCZ was nice enough to send us an engineering sample version of the drive with BETA firmware on it, so let’s take a look!

Corsair Announces Transition Plan for Force Series Solid-state Drives

FREMONT, California — February 18, 2011 — Corsair^®, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced its plans for the upcoming transition from 34 nanometer to 25 nanometer flash chips used on its solid-state drives.

“There is a lot of confusion in the market about the impact the move from 34 to 25nm flash will have on both the price and the performance of solid-state drives,” said John Beekley, VP of Technical Marketing at Corsair. “We’ve been working closely with SandForce to ensure the smoothest possible transition and we’re sharing the details today.”

OCZ Vertex 2 120GB 3.5-inch Solid State Drive Review

OCZ has been one of the big players in the solid state drive market since the first consumer drives were available.  We have seen them really push the technology to the limit over the past year, but they are also still concerned about you the customer.  That is why they have released 3.5-inch versions of both their Vertex 2 and Agility 2 solid state drives.  The 3.5-inch form factor means you do not need an adapter and OCZ claims this design is a lower cost per GB.  Let’s take a look at this newly designed 3.5-inch version of the Vertex 2.

CES 2011: Patriot Memory

Patriot Memory signed on as a sponsor of ThinkComputers this past year and they have quite a selection of different products.  At CES 2011 they showed us that they are revamping many of these product lines.  They also showed us a new product line that we really did not expect from them.  Read on to see what it is…

CES 2011: Otherworld Computing

Otherworld Computing, more commonly known as simply OWC, made a splash this year at CES with its line of Mercury Aura Pro SSDs for 2008 and 2009 models of the Macbook Air and other Macbooks. It’s the first of its kind made specifically for the MBA. The drive trounces standard HDD performance, and shows a 400% performance increase against the stock SSD from the 2009 model and a 200% performance increase against the 2010 model of the MBA.

Corsair Launches 90GB and 180GB Force Series Solid-State Drives

FREMONT, California — December 2, 2010 — Corsair^®, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced two additions to its award-winning Force Series™ SSD family. The new models include the F90 and F180 Force Series SSDs, with densities of 90GB and 180GB respectively.

Corsair Force Series F100 100GB Solid State Drive Review

At CES every solid state drive manufacturer we met with was raving about the SandForce controller, the new controller that is going to bring blazing speeds to solid state drives and bring current solid state drives in the budget category with these new drives being in the enthusiast category.  The controller from SandForce is the SF-1200 which is a small step down from the enterprise SF-1500 controller.  Corsair has designed a new line of solid state drives around this controller called the Force Series, which is available in 100GB and 200GB versions.  Today we will be looking at the 100GB version which boasts very impressive very impressive read and write speeds at 285MB/s and 275MB/s respectively.  Let’s check it out!

OCZ Technology Introduces 400GB and 480GB Capacities for Vertex 2 and Agility 2 SSD Lineup

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 24, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCZ), a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) and memory modules for computing devices and systems, today introduced new high-capacity Vertex 2 and Agility 2 SATA II 2.5″ Solid State Drives. The award-winning lines now include 400GB and 480GB models, making the Vertex 2 and Agility 2 an excellent SSD option for clients who don’t want to be constrained by storage limitations.