Samsung 840 / 840 EVO susceptible to flash read speed degradation over time
** Edit ** (24 Sep) We have updated this story with temperature effects on the read speed of old data. Additional info on page 3. ** End edit...
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Author: Allyn Malventano
ADATA Premier SP610 SATA SSD – SM2246EN Full Capacity Roundup
Introduction: It seems a lot of folks have been incorporating Silicon Motion's SM2246EN controller into their product lines. We first reviewed the Angelbird SSD wrk, but only in...
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Micron launches M600 SATA SSD with innovative SLC/MLC Dynamic Write Acceleration
You may already be familiar with the Micron Crucial M550 line of SSDs (if not, familiarize yourself with our full capacity roundup here). Today Micron is pushing their tech further...
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IDF 2014 Storage Roundup – RAM and NVMe and IOPS! Oh my!
The Intel Developer Forum was last week, and there were many things to be seen for sure. Mixed in with all of the wearable and...
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IDF 2014: Through Silicon Via – Connecting memory dies without wires
If you're a general computer user, you might have never heard the term "Through Silicon Via". If you geek out on photos of chip dies and wafers, and how chips are assembled…
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IDF 2014: Western Digital announces new Ae HDD series for archival / cold storage
We talked about helium filled, shingled HDD's from HGST earlier today. Helium may give you reduced power demands, but at the added expensive of hermetically sealed enclosures over conventional HDD's. Shingling may…
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IDF 2014: HGST announces 3.2TB NVMe SSDs, shingled 10TB HDDs
It's the first day of IDF, so it's only natural that we see a bunch of non-IDF news start pouring out :). I'll kick them off with a few announcements from HGST.…
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Corsair Force LX 256GB and 512GB Review – Silicon Motion on the cheap
Introduction: We first looked at the Silicon Motion 2246EN controller in our...
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Western Digital My Passport Wireless – Mobile Wireless Terabytes
Introduction: Today I'm going to talk to you about something you might not have thought you needed, but once you realize what this new device can do, you might...
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AMD Radeon R7 480GB SATA SSD Full Review – Gaming Barefoot
Introduction: AMD has been branching their brand out past CPUs for nearly a decade now. Back in 2006, AMD acquired ATI, and their video card branch has...
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Western Digital launches My Passport Metal Edition. 10th Anniversary Edition coming soon.
It's the 10th anniversary of Western Digital's My Passport line. To celebrate the occasion, they have launched an updated series: The My Passport Ultra is available in 1TB and 2TB capacities, in both…
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Angelbird SSD wrk 512GB Full Review – Silicon Motion all dressed up
Introduction: You might have never heard of Angelbird - until now, that is. Angelbird Technologies GmbH is an SSD maker based out of Vorarlberg, Austria. Their product lines...
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