SSDs
Sabrent tends to get into news when it launches ultra-high-performance SSDs for enthusiast-grade desktops, but this week the company introduced a completely different type of product: a small form-factor M.2-2242 SSD aimed at Lenovo's Legion Go handheld and ultra-thin laptops that don't accomodate M.2-2280 drives. And even though it's not an enthusiast-grade drive, the Rocket Nano still boasts with quite decent performance and capacity. The Sabrent Rocket Nano 2242 (SB-2142) drive is based on the Phison E27T platform, a PCIe 4.0 x4 controller that is that is designed for mainstream DRAM-less SSDs, and in the case of the Rocket Nano, is paired with 3D TLC memory. The SSD is available in a single 1TB configuration, and is rated for read speeds up to 5 GB/s...
Intel Testing Firmware Fix for SSD 320 8MB Power Bug
Not too long ago Intel officially recognized that its SSD 320 is impacted by a bug that results in the drive's capacity being limited to 8MB. Today Intel announced...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/15/2011
Two New SATA Specs: SATA Express & µSSD
The SATA IO working group announced one new spec and that it has begun work on another: µSSD and SATA Express, respectively. These two specs span the gamut from...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/11/2011
The SandForce Roundup: Corsair, Kingston, Patriot, OCZ, OWC & MemoRight SSDs Compared
It's a depressing time to be covering the consumer SSD market. Although performance is higher than it has ever been, we're still seeing far too many compatibility and reliability...
90 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/11/2011
Samsung Announces PM830, Its First 6Gbps SSD with up to 512GB Capacities
With each subsequent generation, Samsung's SSDs have been getting noticeably better. Two years ago its drives were unrecommendable, but just this year we met the Samsung SSD 470. While...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/10/2011
OCZ Releases Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD
OCZ has updated their enterprise Z-Drive lineup with new fourth-generation R4 PCIe SSD. OCZ had a prototype of this SSD on display at Computex (our article). R4 adapts SandForce's...
7 by Kristian Vättö on 8/3/2011
SanDisk SSDs Coming To Your PC
The SSD market gets bigger and bigger and now one of the big guns in Flash memory is stepping into the game. Having previously primarily released OEM SSD products...
3 by Jason Inofuentes on 7/27/2011
2011 MacBook Air SSD Features the Same Controller as Samsung 470
Like we suspected in April, the Samsung SSD found in some 2010 and 2011 MacBook Airs is indeed using the same controller as Samsung 470 series. The controller carries...
0 by Kristian Vättö on 7/27/2011
It's Also the Summer of Storage: Patriot Wildfire SSD Giveaway
What's this - another contest during our Summer of Honeycomb giveaway? Indeed it is. We write about SSDs quite frequently here at AnandTech so it's about time that we...
3147 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/11/2011
OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 (480GB) Preview: 200K IOPS & 1.5GB/s for $1699?
Although consumer SSDs are far from a mature technology, PCIe SSDs are even further behind on the growth curve. The upside is huge. As SandForce has already demonstrated with...
38 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/28/2011
OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS & Patriot Wildfire SSDs Reviewed
Not wanting to be completely married to Intel NAND production, OCZ wanted to introduce a version of the Vertex 3 that used 32nm Toshiba Toggle NAND - similar to...
114 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/23/2011
This Just In: OCZ's Vertex 3 MAX IOPS 120GB, The New Mid-Range King?
I mentioned in our Mid-Range SSD Roundup that most SSD vendors like sampling the best balance of capacity/performance when it comes to SSD review samples. For the SandForce SF-2281...
112 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/15/2011
Intel SSD 710 and 720 Series Specifications Revealed
In our Intel roadmap article published in May, we shortly previewed Intel's upcoming 700 Series SSDs. Back then there wasn't much to talk about as very few specs were...
21 by Kristian Vättö on 6/15/2011
The 2011 Mid-Range SSD Roundup: 120GB Agility 3, Intel 510 and More Compared
A year ago whenever I'd request an SSD for review I'd usually get a 128GB drive built using 3x nm 4GB 2-bit MLC NAND die. These days the standard...
68 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/7/2011
Micron's P320h: A Custom Controller Native PCIe SSD in 350/700GB Capacities
SSDs are beginning to challenge conventional drive form factors in a major way. On the consumer side we're seeing more systems use new form factors for SSDs, enabled by...
22 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/2/2011
Kingston's HyperX SandForce SSD
Kingston is a pretty big player in the SSD space but mostly on the mainstream/value end of the spectrum. With a fairly conservative strategy we haven't seen Kingston be...
6 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/1/2011
Computex 2011: Diskeeper ExpressCache Provides an Alternative to SSD Caching for OEMs
As we found out in our Z68 review, Intel's SRT (SSD Caching) is basically a software tool baked into Intel's RST driver - there's no real hardware requirement in...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
The New Indilinx Everest SSD
OCZ acquired Indilinx not too long ago and today we're seeing the first new controller from the company since 2009. OCZ calls it the Everest Platform, and it's an...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
Computex 2011: OCZ's RevoDrive Hybrid, HDD & SSD on PCIe Card
OCZ is feeling quite experimental these days as it has announced a hybrid RevoDrive. Take the new RevoDrive 3 and use it as a cache in front of a...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
Computex 2011: OCZ Z-Drive R4 88, Eight SF-2281 Controllers in RAID-0
OCZ's consumer accessible PCIe SSD line is the RevoDrive, but if you're an enterprise customer and want a custom configuration OCZ will build you a Z-Drive. To show you...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/31/2011
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