The average price that computer manufacturers pay for a 128GB solid-state drive (SSD) dropped to $50 in the second quarter, while the average price of a 256GB SSD plunged to almost $90, according to ...
This is our second round of testing with Samsung's Ultra M.2 PCIe-based XP941 enthusiast / prosumer SSD. In round 1, we tested the 512GB model and found it to be an amazing performer, but we also ...
If you've been looking to grab some SSDs on the cheap, then this 128GB SATA drive from Orico might just be the thing. You're ...
Samsung made an impressive debut in the consumer SSD space a year ago with its 470 Series drives. These delivered attractive performance, but were hampered by their use of SATA II, which with a ...
I have to admit I wasn't a big fan of the Samsung 830. We only tested the 128GB model and no matter what firmware we loaded on the drive, the write latency on that capacity size was always an issue.
So the Crucial M4 sample has finally arrived in our underground test facility, it's the 128GB version of the drive, which means it's also slightly slower in writes compared to the 256GB model due to ...
As we recently saw with our look at why TRIM is so important, there’s a lot more to picking the right SSD than there is to choosing a hard disk. Performance degradation, wear levelling, sequential ...
OCZ’s Vertex series have always been OCZ’s most popular high performance consumer grade SSDs. First introduced in 2009, the original Vertex shook the storage industry by becoming one of the most ...
At Samsung’s Tech Day in their San Jose, CA headquarters and at the 2017 Flash Memory Summit, the company laid out a number of new products and initiatives. These products spanned from the world’s ...
Only Apple recommends buying its Macs with 128GB of SSD storage, because only Apple is trying to hit a price point. Everyone else — including us — will tell you that you need more, but nobody really ...
Back in 2010, Crucial released their RealSSD C300 and while it had some pretty severe problems out the gate, it eventually became one of the fastest SSDs on the market. At the time, the C300 was among ...