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Samsung T1 portable SSD review: the best things come in small packages
Today we’re looking at the Samsung T1, a business-class SSD designed for portability. The T1 brings SSD speeds to a form factor somewhere between a USB flash drive and a full-size SSD, with USB 3.0 allowing that speed advantage to actually be realised. Let’s take a look at how it performs.
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Samsung 850 EVO review – putting 3D vertical NAND to the test
I recently bought a Samsung 840 EVO on Amazon – a great deal at £90 for a 250GB solid state drive, or so I thought. A few days later, I was offered the chance to review the 850 EVO, and of course I couldn’t pass that up – especially as I now had the perfect…
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Startech WiFi 2.5″ enclosure (S2510U2WUKEU)
Today we will be looking at the Startech WiFi enclosure for 2.5” SATA HDD’s.
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Samsung 840 250GB and Samsung 840 Pro 256GB vs. OCZ Agility 3 240GB
Introduction Solid State Drives (SSD’s) define a great deal of today’s computing power. For more serious computer users, conventional hard disk drives (HDD’s) are mere storage devices, if possible tucked away in a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) in the closet. The advantages of SDD’s? Zero noise, like USB-sticks; low power consumption; extreme reading and writing speeds.…
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Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB
Introduction With the effects of the Thailand floods finally behind us and more manufacturers joining the SSD party, the SSD market has become quite competitive. We recently looked at two Plextor SSDs that provided an impressive amount of power, and now we’re looking at another top tier SSD, the Corsair Neutron GTX, that promises to…
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Plextor M5 Pro SSD
Introduction It was less than two weeks ago that our review of the Plextor M3 Pro was published, and already we have in our hands its successor, the Plextor M5 Pro. This new solid state drive comes packing Marvell’s latest 88SS9187 controller and Toshiba’s 19 nm NAND – both of which are firsts. With new…
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Plextor M3 Pro SSD
Introduction Plextor is not a name that you would have immediately associate with SSD manufacture – they’re probably best known to old timers as a leading manufacturer of CD/DVD drives – but they’ve been in the business a while. Unlike Intel or Samsung who have made their mark with their own brand controllers and software,…
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Crucial Adrenaline – Cache SSD
Introduction The Crucial Adrenaline is Crucial’s new SSD cache system, designed to speed up your hard drive! It takes a 50GB M4 SSD and their Dataplex software and caches all of your often used files, such as the ones required for Windows boot up and puts them on the SSD: giving you the space…
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Samsung 830 SATA III 6Gbps 128GB SSD
Introduction Samsung might be in the middle of a big smartphone patent war with Apple, but that hasn’t stopped it unveiling a new SSD built on the SATA III standard. Today I’m looking at the 830 128GB, putting it up against some of the last few solid state drives we’ve reviewed here. Let’s check it…