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If you happen to pop off the bottom casing of your laptop and find out that your 2.5″ disk drive is nowhere to be found, do not panic. Instead, it’s possible that your laptop may be utilizing a different form factor than the 2.5″ drive. When it comes to solid-state drives, there are three main form factors that you should …

Our report today examines Crucial’s latest SATA 3 SSD release, the M550 2.5″ 512GB SSD. The M550 is directed towards the personal computing market and is advertised with increased performance, expanded battery life for mobile users, a more fluid set of form factors and the standard high capacities. The Crucial M550 2.5″ SSD features the SATA III (6Gbps) interface as …

January was quite eventful for OCZ; first finalizing their acquisition by Toshiba, going through a name change to OCZ Storage Solutions and even better yet, releasing their new Vertex 460 SSD. It is quite commendable to persevere through their acquisition, and still be able to produce a drive that is of high quality. Yes, that may be due to new partnerships …

Founded in 2002, Strontium is a relatively new company which specializes in flash memory products. It has been noted that Strontium produces 7,000,000 flash products every month, and here at Technology X we got the opportunity to check out the Strontium Nitro 566X SDXC UHS-1 64GB Card and the Strontium Nitro 466X Micro SDHC UHS-1 32GB Card. Let’s take a …

VisionTek is an American-based company  that traditionally has been known for graphic cards, and started to get their feet wet in memory and flash storage back in 2011.  This summer VisionTek released the Go Drive consumer SSD lineup, and here at Technology X we get the opportunity to test out the 240GB VisionTek Go Drive. Before we get started, it …

Samsung is a manufacturer that needs no introduction and they are about to release a mSATA SSD that will definitely be making waves across the SSD market, never mind the technology world. The Samsung 840 EVO mSATA SSD will soon be gracing our presence, and the performance unprecedented thanks to Samsung’s software engineering sorcery. Samsung has clearly dedicated themselves to …

From USB flash drives to solid-state drives, ADATA is worldly renown for their memory products. They routinely produce innovative products and this October ADATA released the DashDrive Elite SE720 external solid state drive, which is not only innovative, but stunning!  The DashDrive is sleek, practically weightless, and has the performance potential to embarrass an external hard disk drive! DESIGN ADATA …

When it comes to solid-state drives, OCZ needs no introduction. The manufacturer has been around long before SSDs first entered the consumer market, and helped push them towards the performance and affordability standards of today. Out of the original bunch of companies, OCZ is one of the very few remaining that still holds a sizeable share in the SSD market. …

Between TSSDR and Tech X in the last while, we have been fortunate to publish reports on some great Toshiba SSD releases to include their newest Q Pro Retail SSD, an exclusive report on their brand new client HG5d M.2 SSD, along with another on their client mSATA SSD.  Today’s report is going to show a bit of our last Toshiba …

It is no secret that the popularity of mSATA SSDs is being pushed around just a bit by M.2 PCIe design.  M.2 SSDs may even tempt us with a great deal more power for the punch and capacity down the road.  What M.2 doesn’t have, as of yet, is just about every popular ultra book in the world in their …