SSDs for 2013

ASUS ROG RAIDR Express 240GB PCIe SSD Review

December 6, 2013 | PCI Express is the future of performance storage, but native PCIe SSDs are rare. Are these RAID controlled SATA products worthy of their high price?

OCZ Technology Vector 150 120GB SSD Review

November 7, 2013 | Vector 150 120GB comes with 128GB of NAND flash. Overprovisioning moves the user capacity down to 120GB, but steady state performance gets a boost.

OCZ Technology Vector 150 240GB SSD Review

November 7, 2013 | OCZ improves Vector by treating it to 19nm Toggle2 flash, additional spare area, up-to-date accessory package and a new, lower price.

Corsair Force LS 240GB SSD Review

October 7, 2013 | Corsair teamed up with Phison to add another level to the Force brand. The new Force LS uses Phison's S8 controller and Toshiba NAND flash.

PNY Prevail 240GB SSD Review

September 12, 2013 | PNY's Prevail 240GB SSD is supposed to ship with 3K P/E cycle flash, but we found a nice surprise in our sample. It shipped with 5K P/E cycle flash.

Silicon Motion SM2246EN SSD Controller Preview

September 2, 2013 | Silicon Motion is looking to take a large portion of LSI SandForce and Marvell's market share with a new 4-channel SSD controller. Let's take a look.

SanDisk A110 256GB PCIe M.2 NGFF SSD Review

August 28, 2013 | Today we take a full look at SanDisk's new A110 256GB PCI Express M.2 2260 solid state drive. Get a look at tomorrow's storage performance today.

SanDisk A110 PCIe NGFF SSD Performance Preview - Future of Storage

August 13, 2013 | PCIe based SSDs might still be on the vine, but today we picked some fruit ready for consumption. SanDisk A110 PCIe NGFF fruit, that is.

ADATA SX300 256GB mSATA SSD Review

August 6, 2013 | Today we did deep and take a close look at ADATA's SX300 256GB mSATA SSD. It uses new IMFT 20nm flash, but is that a good thing?

Samsung 840 EVO 750GB SSD Review

July 25, 2013 | Wrapping up our coverage of the Samsung 840 EVO today, Chris looks at the new 750GB capacity size. The new 750GB EVO is priced to compete with many other's 512GB class products, but delivers higher capacity and amazing performance.

Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD Review

July 25, 2013 | Our three-part Samsung 840 EVO launch day coverage continues. In this article, Chris looks at the 250GB capacity size and runs the drive through several benchmarks to see how it compares to other 256GB class SSDs.

Crucial M500 480GB SSD Review

July 18, 2013 | Three down, one to go. Today we look at the final capacity size in the Crucial M500 product family, the 480GB model.

Crucial M500 240GB SSD Review

July 16, 2013 | We've seen the large 960GB M500 and the smaller 120GB drives. Today we look at the sweet spot for enthusiasts and power users, the 256GB class model. Sold with 240GB of user capacity, does the mid size model suffer from the same performance issues that plague the 120GB model or does this one take after big brother?

Crucial M500 120GB SSD Review

July 12, 2013 | With all of the capacity sizes in hand, we're finally ready to take a closer look at the Crucial M500 products. We start things off with the 120GB model, the smallest capacity size in the new SSD series.

Plextor PX-M5M mSATA 256GB SSD Review

July 5, 2013 | At this point nearly every notebook and ultrabook ships with an mSATA slot. Some products ship with the slot populated and others hide the connector under the keyboard. Upcoming products based on Haswell CPUs will bring more SATA III mSATA ports to notebooks. It's time to find products to populate them.

MyDigitalSSD BP4 960GB SSD Review

July 3, 2013 | In our search to find a Crucial M500 960GB for sale, we stumbled across a new high-capacity SSD. The MyDigitalSSD BP4 is a solid product, we've already tested the other capacity sizes, but today we see if the large capacity model does as well as the smaller versions.

RunCore Pro IV 256GB PATA ZIF SSD Review

July 2, 2013 | RunCore offers an upgrade path for the ZIF form factor with the Pro IV ZIF SSD, and we have it in house for review.

Corsair Neutron GTX 19nm 2013 Edition SSD (120GB, 240GB and 480GB) Review

June 27, 2013 | Not long ago, we wrote about the Corsair Neutron base model with new 22nm SK Hynix flash. Today Chris walks us through the flagship GTX model that now features new 19nm Toggle flash from Toshiba.

ADATA M.2 SSDs Performance Preview and the NGFF Story

June 9, 2013 | Thanks to old and new friends, we managed to piece together the parts needed to get a M.2 (NGFF) preview together before anyone else, and wrap our heads around how all of this is going to roll out.

SanDisk Extreme II 480GB SSD Review

June 3, 2013 | Concluding our coverage of SanDisk Extreme II flagship SSD, we look at the largest capacity sized offered, 480GB.

SanDisk Extreme II 240GB SSD Review

June 3, 2013 | The 256GB capacity class is the sweet spot for enthusiasts. This size maximizes the price, capacity and performance ratio. SanDisk has high hopes for Extreme II, but in order to sell these drives in big numbers, it has to do well here.

SanDisk Extreme II 120GB SSD Review

June 3, 2013 | We're starting our SanDisk Extreme II review coverage with the 120GB capacity size. Later today we'll publish reviews of the 240GB and 480GB, but the 120GB size has more talking points and shows why SanDisk now has the most advanced NAND on the market today.

MyDigitalSSD BP4 240GB mSATA Review

May 31, 2013 | MDSSD's new BP4 with the latest programming for the Phison S8 is one of the least power consuming products on the market. If you use your notebook or ultrabook on battery, but crave more battery life, you'll want to read this.

OCZ Vertex 450 256GB SSD Review

May 23, 2013 | The rapid drop in 25nm flash availability and slow ramp up of 20nm production puts OCZ in a tough position. Vector availability is about to get scarce and Vertex 3.20 can't be profitable at less than $1 per GB. OCZ needs a higher profit product with the flash available today and it has to be faster than SandForce to sell, enter the new OCZ Vertex 450.

PNY Prevail Elite 240GB SSD Review

May 10, 2013 | With all the talk about TLC, 20nm and other new forms of flash that reduce the number of P/E cycles - it's nice to see one company fight against the flow. PNY's Prevail Elite is a 10K P/E cycle SSD that uses a LSI SF-2200 Series controller.

Corsair Neutron 128GB and 256GB (2013 Hynix Edition) SSD Review

May 8, 2013 | Recently Corsair made some changes to their popular Neutron Series products. Both the base model and GTX have new firmware, new flash and new price points. The Neutron 256GB is now one of the best value SSD's on the market and they are selling like crazy.

Seagate 600 SSD ST480HM000 480GB SSD Review

May 7, 2013 | Continuing our coverage of the new Seagate 2013 SSD line up, Chris tests the largest capacity size in the consumer model category.

Seagate 600 SSD ST240HM000 240GB SSD Review

May 7, 2013 | We have a number of Seagate SSD articles hitting TweakTown today. Let's start with the cornerstone of the mainstream consumer class.

ADATA XPG SX900 128GB with SandForce B02 controller SSD Review

April 10, 2013 | ADATA is first to market with a retail product using SandForce's new B02 stepping controller. SURPRISE! TRIM is also fixed thanks to ADATA's new 5.0.7a firmware that's available for ADATA drives with SandForce 2000 Series controllers. Too little too late, or good things come to those who wait?

Crucial M500 960GB SSD Review

April 9, 2013 | The Tera-Era has begun! Crucial leverages its 20nm NAND flash to achieve a major milestone, the first consumer 2.5" SSD to reach 1TB. Since parent company Micron owns the flash fab, the price is much better than you might expect.

Intel 335 Series 180GB SSD Review

April 8, 2013 | The Intel 335 Series is known as 'That Intel Drive with 20nm Flash', but it's so much more. The 180GB capacity size gives you comfort room with Windows 8 and does very well in our power test.

Plextor M5 Pro 128GB with Xtreme Firmware SSD Review

April 5, 2013 | Plextor has given its M5 Pro 128GB SSD the Xtreme firmware treatment. We put it up against the 128GB kings from Samsung (840 Pro) and OCZ (Vector) to see how it goes.

Intel 525 Series mSATA SSD Review: Five Capacities Tested

April 3, 2013 | Chris takes five Intel mSATA SSDs from the 525 Series for a spin. The mSATA standard is all around you in new products and you might not even know your new notebook has an open mSATA slot.

OCZ Vertex 3 .20 120GB SSD Review

March 27, 2013 | Today Chris tests the new OCZ Vertex 3.20 120GB and finally gets a chance to put IMFT 20nm next to Toshiba 19nm NAND.

OCZ Vertex 3 .20 240GB SSD Review

March 26, 2013 | OCZ brings makes changes to an old favorite and repositions SandForce to the mainstream market.

Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB SSD Review

March 14, 2013 | Kingston brings SF-2281 to the mainstream with 19nm Toggle NAND and new 5.0.5 firmware. We look at this new mainstream role for LSI SandForce SATA 6G controllers and how it changes the market from now till NGFF.

Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SSD Review

March 8, 2013 | The battle for the enthusiast crown continues. Today Chris finishes the series of the 840 Pro verses Vector in this showdown between the two highest performing enthusiast class SSDs.

Monster Digital Daytona 240GB SSD Review

March 7, 2013 | We finally received TRIM enabled firmware for the Daytona, a SSD we've had for several months. The late firmware was just the start of issues that surround the Daytona and the sum of all of these problems lead us to question anyone buying a SSD from Monster Digital.

Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme 256GB SSD Review

March 6, 2013 | Plextor's new flagship M5 Pro Xtreme hits our lab in the 256GB capacity size. Can Plextor break into the top performance tier with this product or will Xtreme just be another mainstream drive with aspirations of the crown?

Plextor M5 Pro 256GB SSD with Xtreme 1.02 Firmware Review

March 5, 2013 | Plextor announced its new M5 Pro Xtreme SSD at CES 2013, but M5 Pro owners also received a free performance increase thanks to new Xtreme firmware.

Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD Review

February 14, 2013 | In the enthusiast SSD market two products stand taller than the rest - the OCZ Vector and Samsung's 840 Pro. Today we're looking at the 256GB capacity size. Two drives enter, one drive leaves the champion.

MyDigitalSSD BP4 120GB 2.5-inch SSD Review

February 7, 2013 | Yesterday we published our review of the new MyDigitalSSD BP4 240GB. Today we're running the smaller 120GB model through the ringer. This drive costs less than $100 and uses the latest NAND technology on the market today.

MyDigitalSSD BP4 2.5-inch 240GB SSD Review

February 6, 2013 | Always on the cutting edge of flash technology, leading the capacity vs. price ration, MyDigitalSSD is back with a new, faster Bullet Proof. BP4 uses new Toshiba Toggle 2 NAND with 16K page sizes for higher performance and the new over-provisioning increases random performance.

SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB SSD Review

January 30, 2013 | SanDisk brings another consumer friendly SSD to the market. This four-channel controlled drive should hit a very low price point and the programming should keep it very quick.

Toshiba THNSNF256GCSS 'Thin Sniff' 256GB SSD Preview

January 30, 2013 | You don't hear a lot about this drive since it's a business class product, but it does pack some new technology and innovative features straight from Toshiba's R&D department.

Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD Review

January 8, 2013 | The most talked about SSD in 2012 finally makes an appearance. At this time there are two high-end drives fighting it out for the enthusiast performance crown, OCZ's Vector and the drive were looking at today, Samsung's 840 Pro.

Mushkin Chronos DX 480GB SSD Review

January 6, 2013 | Mushkin has quietly held a price lead throughout 2012 on the 480 / 512GB capacity size. The Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 480GB isn't always the absolute lowest priced SSD in this size, but it's the lowest priced SSD with synchronous / toggle mode flash.