“Over the years, our storage test rig has run through 70 desktop and notebook hard drives, SSDs, and exotic RAM disks. We’ve compiled all our test data for a massive retrospective that explores storage capacity and performance scaling over nearly the last half-decade.”Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- GSkill Falcon 128GB SATA II SSD @ OC3D
- Kingston 128GB SSDNow V Series Solid State Drive @ Techware Labs
- Patriot Memory 64GB Torqx SSD Review at CCE Reviews
- OCZ Vertex SSD @ PureOverclock
- How to fix a 1TB hard drive that suddenly changes to 32MB in size @ PCSTATS
- Promise SmartStor NS4600 @ X-bit Labs
- Eagle Tech Consus M-Series ET-CSMSU2-BK Hard Drive Enclosure Review @ Verdis Reviews
You’ve come a long way …

The Tech Report has put together a massive conglomeration of drives both SSD and platter based, run singly and in RAID to see the recent evolution of storage. From the fastest SSDs through RAM based storage to old 5400RPM platter drives, there is a lot of numbers to go through. Take a look at which drives excel at which tasks in addition to technology differences and RAID setups.