Taipei - SSDs, with their advantages of high performance, compactness and low power consumption, are the perfect adaptation of storage products to the emergence of tablet PCs and Ultrabooks. Indeed, ...

Though we already reviewed the regular EVO 850 SSD series, there are more form factors and a week ago Samsung announced their Samsung 850 EVO SSD based on the M.2 slot as well as the mSATA slot.

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 ...

CrystalDiskMark is a disk benchmark utility that measures performance for sequential and random reads/writes of various sizes for any storage device. It is useful for comparing the speed of both ...

Samsung is bringing its much praised 840 EVO family of SSDs down to ultra thin territory with a handful of new models in the mSATA form factor. At 1.5 inches thick that's a full inch thinner than a ...

Switching to a solid state drive, as we've mentioned repeatedly, is one of the best upgrades you can make. Because of the cost, though, you usually have to trade storage capacity for that performance ...

Until now, a majority of products shipping with mSATA ports used SATA II connections. A few SATA III products hit the market, nearly all ultrabooks, but notebooks and desktop motherboards were ...

A flash RAM-based SSD gives your PC amazing speed, but it’s expensive by the gigabyte. An old-fashioned, spinning-platter hard drive gives you vast amounts of storage for very little money. But if you ...

Crucial's SSD products are in an odd position at this time. The m4 products launched during the first quarter of 2011, around 18 months ago. In SSD years, that's quite some time. To keep up with other ...