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If you want the fastest SSD around, you should look at the Samsung 840 Pro 128 GB / 256 GB and the OCZ Vector 256 GB. The Plextor M5 Pro SSDs are almost as fast, and cost about the same. If getting the most value for your money is important to you, then shopping around is definitely worth it. As prices are right now, the Kingston V300 120GB, takeMS UTX-2200 120GB, Plextor M5S 256GB, takeMS UTX-2200 256GB and Sandisk Extreme SSD 240GB are very good options.
The Seagate FreeAgent GoFlext Ultra-Portable hard drive is more than just a portable 2.5" SATA HDD. key to the system's brilliant usefulness is that Seagate designed this hard drive to interface with a series of modular cable interface adaptors, docks and a media player. It's what you'd call, really very flexible.
Seagate has recently re-branded their consumer storage products, formerly named Barracuda, in time for the launch of their 15th-generation. The 4TB Seagate Desktop HDD (OEM model ST4000DM000, retail kit STBD4000400) features a SATA 6Gb/s interface with Native Command Queueing (NCQ). Eight data heads read and write to four 1GB disc platters which enable 625Gb/in2 areal density. Cached by 64MB DRAM, this 5900 RPM hard disk drive is specified to move files at 180 MB/s sustained data rate. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests performance and explores new features on the 4TB Seagate Desktop HDD.
SD and MicroSD have the most popular type of memory card for some time. People use them for digital cameras, smartphones, tablets and other portable devices that require storage. There's a huge number of them on the market, and not all of them are equally fast. The specifications from the manufacturers won't be able to tell you, so Hardware.Info tested 49 of them to find out which ones are the fastest.
Micron Technology updates their product family with the new Crucial M500 solid state drive, which arrives in capacities ranging from 120GB-960GB for 2.5" SATA, mSATA, and M.2/NGFF form factors. Built upon the Marvell 88SS9187-BLD2 SATA 6Gb/s controller using custom Crucial firmware, M500 utilizes 20nm Micron-branded Synchronous Multi-Level Cell (MLC) NAND Flash components for an increased per-die NAND capacity that makes the entire more affordable. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the 480GB Crucial M500 Solid State Drive (model CT480M500SSD1) and compare it against the fastest SATA 6GB/s storage solutions available.
We can conclude from our price comparison tool that SSDs with capacities of 120/128 GB and 250/256 GB are by far the most popular. It's not really a surprise, as 60 and 64 GB drives are almost too small to be really useful. You could fit Windows 7 and a couple games, and that's about it. Not only that, smaller capacity SSDs are slower than the larger ones, simply because there are less flash chips that can be accessed simultaneously. SSDs with a capacity of 480 and 512 GB are less popular because of the very high prices. Not many consumers feel like spending £420 or more for just storage. We asked all SSD manufacturers to send us a number of samples with capacities between 120 and 256 GB and a SATA 600 interface, and we ended up with 48 different solid state drives for our round-up.
Most of our readers of course have at least one SSD in their desktop and laptop, but for large volume storage you're still relegated to conventional hard disks. We tested 42 current hard drives, both 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch models. Find out what the perfect hard disk is for your desktop PC, your laptop and your NAS device.
We all use USB sticks at work or at home, it's the easiest and often the fastest way to copy or transfer some files. There's a huge number of different ones out there - some extremely cheap, and others more expensive. It can be a challenge to find a good one, and now that USB 3.0 memory sticks are becoming more common, that's even more the case. Are they by default faster than a USB 2.0 stick? The marketing text on the packaging of course says so, but in practice it's not always the case. We tested 32 different USB 3.0 memory sticks and can give you the definitive answer.
Nach dem kürzlichen Test der schnellen Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme 256GB SSD wollten wir noch mehr Performance erreichen.
Gesagt, getan, denn heute testen wir zwei der schnellen Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme 256GB SSDs.
Wir testen die beiden SSDs im Hardware RAID0 Verbund und vergleichen die Performance mit einem Software RAID 0 Verbund, mit einer einzelnen Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme 256GB SSD und mit zwei Crucial m4 SSDs im RAID 0 Verbund.
Schauen wir uns an, wie sich die beiden Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme 256GB SSDs als RAID schlagen.
Über die Hardware Test Rubrik gibt es übrigens noch ein Plextor Gewinnspiel, wo man eine M5 Pro Xtreme 256GB SSD gewinnen kann.
Users interested in a blazing fast RAID0 SSD setup but don't require that much storage have other options, however. Another popular line of SSDs from OCZ is the Vertex, which starts out at only 30 GB versus the Apex entry level model at 60 GB. The Vertex is categorized as a performance solid state drive and although it uses the same multi-level cell (MLC) technology as the Apex, there are some notable upgrades inside, including the Indilinx SSD controller and the inclusion of 64 MB of onboard cache. The Vertex is more expensive per GB than the Apex, but the dual 30 GB configuration we will be tinkering with today will only set you back $300, half the price of the dual Apex drives we used... but only 25% of the capacity.
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