Solid-State Drives

Jumping on the solid state bandwagon, but keeping its balance

7 expert reviews | 12 user reviews

Kitguru says: If you want to adopt an mSATA drive for your laptop or desktop system, this is a high performance product and an ideal size for a boot drive.

7 expert reviews | 6 user reviews

For more details, check out the Corsair Neutron XTi (480GB) review on our sister site, Computer Shopper.

7 expert reviews | 1 user reviews

Heard of NVMe? No? You should do as it is the new standard that is setting the PCIe SSD world alight with blistering speed. Read on as we test the new king of SSD performance: The Intel 750 Series PCIe SSD.

5 expert reviews | 113 user reviews

ThinkPad X300 is not a cheap notebook, but it only costs the sum of the components it offers, so you're getting what you pay for. The SSD and 3G features make this a great road warrior, and Lenovo's ThinkPad design leaves us confident it will take a...

12 expert reviews | 1 user reviews

CoreRise is back with its Comay brand and our second look at a Venus Pro 3 and its special power safety features that are rarely seen on consumer drives.

5 expert reviews

- You're not just paying for the brand, you're paying for a high-quality, fast SSD.

1 expert reviews | 6 user reviews

IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to ensure...

2 expert reviews

Welcome to Myce's review of the Intel DC P3700 1.6TB NVMe Enterprise SSD (hereafter referred to as the Intel P3700). This is the first NVMe drive we have reviewed. NWMe stands for ‘Non-Volatile Memory express'. NVMe, is a specification that allows a...

6 expert reviews | 7 user reviews

Samsung’s 830 Series 512GB SSD is an exemplary solid-state drive, able to boast very decent sequential reading and writing speeds. Its controller seems to be tuned to favour reads over write speeds in small file juggling, but overall all-round...

2 expert reviews | 294 user reviews

is with the ADATA's Nobility N002 well defined. However, its performance is according to the manufacturer 200 MB/s during reading and 170 MB/s during writing, which is slower than the OCZ Enyo and its current price of 360.- euro is clearly above our...

5 expert reviews

Great, it's Kingston, my 2011 Mac is fast, it boots in just 10 esconds!!!

4 expert reviews | 72 user reviews

All in all, while it is an improvement over the S8, the S10 (and by extension, the Neutron XT) lacks a 'wow' factor that would really help it stand out from the rest. The TLC NAND support in the S10 is certainly a nice feature, but I don't want to...

3 expert reviews | 56 user reviews

In a sea saturated with solid state drives from every memory manufacturer under the sun, the Kingston HyperX Savage 240GB is one product that stands out -- literally. It does not strike me as common for an SSD to look good (Not saying they are usually...

5 expert reviews | 6 user reviews

The MX100 is excellent. It performs well, it offers plenty of storage and most important of all, it's affordable.

2 expert reviews | 17 user reviews

The power consumption statistics of the F4EG were not too different from other hard disks in the market, which isn't brilliant, considering this hard disk's positioning in the 'green' segment. Still, the improvement in noise reduction and reduced heat...

2 expert reviews | 243 user reviews

I use this with my Blackmagic Cinema Camera and works flawlessly. Great product.

1 expert reviews | 231 user reviews

Bought 2 of them so far and I am impressed with how well they work! Wish I had bought more when the price was right.

1 expert reviews | 119 user reviews

It's a peculiarity of the current market for solid state drives that a largely unheralded little outfit known as SandForce makes the dominant SSD controller chipset. Not, perhaps, for much longer. The big boys are fighting back and one of the early...

10 expert reviews | 21 user reviews

SandForce sets aside more NAND capacity than most controllers for spare area. While Intel, Marvell, Samsung and others default to ~7% of total NAND capacity for spare area, SandForce is almost double that. The difference boils down to RAISE,...

20 expert reviews | 255 user reviews

The Kingston SSDNow M series SNM125-S2/80GB is a small, cool, quiet and quick 2.5in solid-state hard drive that will fit into your laptop hard drive bay or mini-PC. Its has a very high cost per gigabyte, however, and a relatively low total storage...

9 expert reviews | 5 user reviews

Only just installed so can't speak for longevity but seems to be good! No mac software so had to download 3rd party program... I used Superduper, worked fine with the supplied cable. Good bit of kit, girlfriends iMac now super fast!... Although not...

1 expert reviews | 526 user reviews

Although it's only an average performer, the inexpensive SanDisk Extreme delivers tremendous bang for your SSD buck.

9 expert reviews | 1237 user reviews

Fit into my computer system perfect... working like a charm... Fast, Reliable Disk Storage... no problems with it so far

1 expert reviews | 67 user reviews

Just as the world and its faithful canine companion gets ready to release its new SandForce-powered SSDs, Intel has jumped the gun with its Intel 510 Series 120GB SSD.

3 expert reviews