Content and news by Robert Tanner

More choices for consumers is always a good thing, and Super Talent seems to agree with that philosophy. The company has just launched its the TeraDrive CT3 SSD. Sharp readers may remember it was just a month ago that Super Talent launched the TeraDrive PT3 SSD. Both are powered by the latest-greatest SF-2281…

“If you build it, they will come”. Well, OCZ has built another SSD monster; say hello to the RevoDrive 3 andRevoDrive 3 X2. This third generation PCIe-based SSD boasts the highest performance ever seen yet for workstation or even desktop use. Featuring version 2.0 of OCZ’s Virtualized Controller Architecture…

When we took OCZ’s Vertex 3 SSD for a spin last month, there was no other way to sum up our thoughts than ‘blown-away’. How could such a drive get even better? With tweaked firmware and a doubling-up of NAND chips, of course. Let’s take a look at the Vertex 3 Max IOPS edition and see if its price premium is justified.

Shortly after launching the first several free-to-play games on Steam, Valve has added one more to the list: Team Fortress 2. While this won’t come as a surprise to some given the notoriously steep discounts TF2 often received during frequent sales, until now the game has varied between the price of one or two Mann Co keys. As of today…

OCZ’s Vertex series of SSDs have earned the reputation as being some of the best, by offering excellent throughput and random 4KB IOPS performance. Vertex 3 takes things to an entirely new level, in some cases doubling the performance of its predecessor, and gives us an uncompromising balance across any performance metric you care to throw at it.

It is one thing to offer to sell an existing product to the server market, but quite another to offer to sell directly to enterprise customers looking for custom designs. That may be why OCZ has just announced the Deneva 2 SSD line. Not content with just offering static SF-2582 powered SSDs such as the Vertex 3 Pro (equivalent to the consumer SF-2281)…

If you ask most tech enthusiasts, they will credit Intel with starting the SSD trend as we know it. Which if true, may be why it would surprise some to learn that the original X25-E Intel launched way back in 2008 has never seen a refresh or product update. For those like me with short-term memories, the X25-E was the server / enterprise variant of…

In an announcement that may not come as a huge surprise to some, Kingston revealed at Computex plans to introduce a new series of solid-state drives featuring SandForce controllers. This marks the first time Kingston will have utilized any SandForce controllers in its products. This is particularly intriguing news given that Kingston…

It has been less than two months since Intel launched its new SSD 320 series solid-state drives, but yesterday it was announced that the company would be extending the traditional three year warranty to a full five years for both current and future 320 series owners. It’s very possible Intel liked the numbers it was seeing on failure…

If you are salivating over the second generation SandForce-powered SSDs or are simply eager to see more competition in the SSD market, then we have some good news for you. Corsair has today announced its Force Series 3 solid-state drives. As one may expect they utilize the SATA 3.0 “6Gbit/s” interface and are powered by…

OCZ has officially taken the lid off of the new Agility 3 and Solid 3 SSD model families. For those not familiar with either of those model names, they have traditionally been lower-cost alternatives to each of previous generations of the Vertex SSD family. The Agility 3 and Solid 3 models are indeed based upon the same…

In a surprise move by Amazon, Portal 2 is on sale for $30 right now. For a game that was just launched two weeks ago (read our review), this is surprising. Especially so considering the overwhelming positive reception it has received from players and critics alike – if the Metacritic score of 95 wasn’t enough to go by. If you were waiting to…

Beginning today, AT&T will be implementing a monthly data cap plan for its DSL and U-verse customers. AT&T DSL customers will have a 150GB per month limit, while U-verse customers receive a slightly roomier 250GB monthly cap. Subscribers that exceed these limits will be charged $10 per each additional 50GB over the limit.

OCZ has added another model to the venerable Vertex 3 solid state drive family. In addition to the Vertex 3 for consumers and the Vertex 3 Pro for enterprise customers OCZ has introduced the Vertex 3 Max IOPS SSD. As the name implies the max IOPS on this drive is a whopping 75,000 IOPS, compared to 60,000 IOPS for the regular Vertex 3.

Well that didn’t take long. After our previous post regarding the surprise launch of Intel’s 510 Series where we questioned what may have become of the much awaited “G3” drives, we have our answer. Intel has launched its X25-M G2 successor under the guise of the Intel SSD 320 Series. This third-generation Intel controller reportedly…

Kingston has emailed us to get the word out to all SSDNow V100 users about a latent technical issue discovered in the V100 drive’s firmware. This issue can cause the drive to become unresponsive at POST or during the booting process. Various posts across several forums allude to the SSD becoming completely inaccessible…

In what has to be surprising news for just about everyone, OCZ Technology has publicly announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Indilinx, best known for being the designer and manufacturer of the Indilinx Barefoot controller used in many previously well-regarded solid-state drives over the past several years.

Given the history of Intel’s SSD line-ups, we’re generally aware of what a new launch is going to bring to the table, but the company side-swiped us with the announcement of its SSD 510 series. Rather than feature Intel’s G3 controller, the company opted for a Marvell offering to help deliver some incredible sequential performance.

There couldn’t be a better time than the present to purchase an SSD, and on the same token, it’s also a strange time. Performance drives cost the same as budget drives, and a perfect example of this is Corsair’s Force F90. It’s priced-right, offers incredible performance, and makes perfect use of its SandForce SF-1200 controller.

It was only last month that OCZ announced its plans to accelerate the departure from the DRAM business, as to instead change focus towards morphing into a leading provider of solid-state drives. Although the news that OCZ would no longer be selling new memory was indeed surprising, just a quick look at future DRAM market…