New versions of Samsung's popular drive take different physical designs, while offering almost exactly the same performance and features as their larger sibling. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been ...

Samsung is introducing a number of new members to their SSD 850 EVO line-up of Solid State Drives, based on different form factors than the standard 2.5” drives we showed you here. The brand new mSATA ...

Looking to upgrade the SSD in my system, and I have an mSATA slot on my motherboard that is currently unpopulated. High capacity mSATA SSDs aren't very easy to come by these days, at least ones from a ...

As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. TweakTown may also earn commissions from other affiliate partners at no extra cost to you. M.2 is destined to supplant mSATA in the near ...

We rarely get to test SSDs headed to the OEM / system integrator market before the drives are released in notebooks, desktops and other full systems. This isn't the first time we've published an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Antony reviews and covers the latest PC hardware and laptop technology This article is more than 7 years old. Samsung is a name ...

At CES earlier this year, one of the SSD vendors with a lot to show off was Plextor who had a number of new SSDs planned for early 2014. Among the SSDs they showed were the Plextor M6e, a M.2 form ...

The Plextor M6e series is the most interesting of the three products for us because it uses the newly developed M.2 interface. For those wanting to ditch the limitation of a SATA SSD then the PCI ...

The Plextor M6M series is based on the same technology as the M6S series except with a different form factor. Whereas the M6S is a 2.5" drive, the M6M comes in mini-SATA (mSATA) packaging, which is ...

In this round of benchmarks we start off with our real-world file copy tests. Currently certain controllers benefit from compressed files, while others don't. Certain storage units hate small files, ...

Performance Summary: When we closed out our review of the 2.5" Samsung SSD 850 EVO, we said, “...the 500GB drive we tested performed extremely well throughout our battery of tests. The drive performed ...

More than a decade has passed since Parallel ATA was made redundant by SATA. Originally designed to provide a maximum throughput of 16MB/s, PATA was eventually upgraded to 133MB/s, which was plenty ...