Looking to upgrade the SSD in my system, and I have an mSATA slot on my motherboard that is currently unpopulated. High capacity mSATA SSDs aren't very easy to come by these days, at least ones from a ...

New versions of Samsung's popular drive take different physical designs, while offering almost exactly the same performance and features as their larger sibling. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been ...

UK price (as reviewed): £172.60 (inc VAT) (M.2 500GB); £339.10 (inc VAT) (mSATA 1TB) US price (as reviewed): $249.99 (ex Tax) (M.2 500GB); TBC (mSATA 1TB) Late last year the SSD 850 EVO launched and ...

We rarely get to test SSDs headed to the OEM / system integrator market before the drives are released in notebooks, desktops and other full systems. This isn't the first time we've published an ...

At Storage Visions 2015, Lite-On showcased an array of client and enterprise SSDs. First up is the EP1 Series SSD which is Lite-On’s latest top of the line enterprise storage solution. Available in ...

More than a decade has passed since PATA (Parallel ATA) was made redundant by SATA. Originally designed to provide a maximum throughput of 16MB/s, PATA and was eventually upgraded to 133MB/s, which ...

Before we delve in, we should note that our current SSD test motherboard (Asus Maximus V Extreme) does not have an M.2 port, nor do we have an adaptor. As such, to test the M.2 drive, we switched to a ...

Samsung is introducing a number of new members to their SSD 850 EVO line-up of Solid State Drives, based on different form factors than the standard 2.5” drives we showed you here. The brand new mSATA ...

CES 2015 - We learned today that Samsung plans to release two small form factor products from the 850 EVO product series. This news comes on the heels of Samsung's new portable USB 3.0 SSD that uses ...

Honestly I was not expecting mSATA to perform as well as it did. Very impressive. That goes for both form factors, albeit the 120GB version of the M.2 form factor based SSD was disappointing in write ...

Our Test Methodologies: Under each test condition, the Solid State Drives tested here were installed as secondary volumes in our testbed, with a separate drive used for the OS and benchmark ...

3D NAND is physical vertical NAND cell stacking not to be confused with chip stacking in a multi-chip package. In 3D NAND, NAND layers, not chips, are stacked in a single IC. The good news is ...