Traditional mechanical hard drives are about as exciting as geriatric walking shoes. Seriously. While capacious, they’re old technology that can’t hold a candle to the much faster, lighter and smaller SSD that is finally beginning to become mainstream. But even with SSD ushering in a clear path to the future, hard drive manufactures still look to HDDs to cater to users with data storage needs first and speed second. Even with the drastically reduced pricing...

Hate your wallet? Punch it in the face with one of OCZ’s new super speedy (and potentially very expensive) SSDs from the Octane series. The technology, recently acquired by way of acquisition back in March, will allow for super fast 570 MB/s read and 400 MB/s write speeds and feature up to 45,000 read IOPS. Not only that, the new Octane series drives will come in a vast assortment of capacities starting at 128 GB and jumping all the way up to a full terabyte. A...

If you happen to be a multi-million dollar corporation (or a normal citizen with a small fortune buried in the back yard) Intel has something you’ll want to take a look at, especially if uber-fast SSDs are your thing. Today the company took the wraps off of their next-gen 710 series SSDs which look to trounce the outgoing X25-E Extreme model thanks to the 710′s use of 25-nanometer MLC flash memory. So just how fast are the new drives? According to...

If you want the fastest of fast solid state drive, getting even the fastest SATA III hardware you can find pales in comparison to OCZ’s latest Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD. Because of the nature of PCI in general, the potential for performance is much higher. Nothing highlights this fact better than simple directing your to OCZ’s advertised 2800 Mbps transfer speeds and 500,000 I/O operations per second. With a price tag that surely costs as much as a small island, it...

Already picked up a fancy Mushkin SSD and paired it with a super sexy pack of Mushkin RAM? Why not make your hardware party the perfect trifecta? Popular SSD and RAM manufacturer, Mushkin, is branching out into uncharted waters today with the announcement of their new line of SD and microSD cards. Starting at the lower end, the Class 2 cards will come only in 2 GB capacities while moving up a level to Class 4 opens the doors to larger 4 GB, 8 GB, and 16 GB capacities. The...