Even though solid state drives have come down significantly in price over the past year, cache drives are still quite popular with those who want to enjoy the performance gains an SSD has to offer, without a large expense. They can also be added to existing mechanical hard drive systems …
Read More »Exclusive Natasha Sampson interview reveals Radeon RAMDisk secrets
Most of the noise around the AMD brand recently has focused on the low share price, the redundancies and the company's overall prospects for the future. Today, we're taking a look at one of its recent technology launches, Radeon RAMDisk. KitGuru gets up close and personal with AMD memory guru, …
Read More »ADATA Premier Pro SP300 24GB mSATA Cache Solid State Drive Review
ADATA is targeting Intel Smart Response Technology users with its 24GB SP300 mSATA SSD. Can the SandForce SF-2141 controller and SATA 3Gb/s boundary-pushing speeds lure value-orientated and budget-conscious consumers? With an increasingly widespread adoption of the emerging mSATA interface by motherboard and laptop companies, many SSD manufacturers have designed low-cost options that make …
Read More »Samsung follows OCZ lead on large-sized SSD pricing
It's like a tiny glimpse into the future. OCZ has been pushing out some very aggressive deals into the market on large scale SSD – and now the big boys are following. The latest game of price-based kiss-chase is happening around the 240/256GB drives. Both Samsung and OCZ have something …
Read More »240GB SATA III SSD hits £129 on OcUK
While some of the big players in the market, like Kingston working with Overclockers and eBuyer, have peppered the £100 mark with some 240/256GB SSD deals, those have been for the older SATA II technology. Old stock depleted, cluster bombs of SATA III product are now targeting the same area. …
Read More »Kingston drops price bomb on 60GB
While the overall price of SSD's have been falling for a good year now, the ‘really crazy' deals have normally been on things like refurbished stock. News in from one of the UK's biggest resellers, shows that the price of brand new drives has dropped further than anyone thought possible …
Read More »DinoPC Predator Extreme 3570K OC Review (4.7GHz i5 3570K / GTX 670 OC)
DinoPC offers a wide variety of pre-built systems that can be tailored to your specific needs. It's the turn of their Predator Extreme 3570K OC gaming system to be put through its paces at KitGuru labs. Can the 3570K and GTX 670-based system prove its worth in such a heavily-contested …
Read More »Add an SSD from just £14.99 – check how
One of the UK's oldest and most respected component resellers, Aria, has opened up a new deal for re-engineered Solid State Drives. While you can ponder if the whole concept is or isn't right for you, the fact is that some SSDs are getting sold for £14.99 with a manufacturer …
Read More »Low-priced, refurbished, guaranteed Corsair SSD?
We live in a price sensitive world, so when KitGuru noticed that Aria was offering 80GB and 240GB refurbished SSDs from Corsair, we decided to dig a little deeper and consider what actual value these offers have. We warn you, if you have been seriously considering putting an SSD in …
Read More »MSI GT70 0NC 17.3″ Laptop Review (i7 3610QM / GTX 670M)
Touting a 17.3” 1080p screen, 16GB of memory, RAID 0 SSDs, a BluRay drive and Killer Gaming network card, is MSI’s latest ‘Gaming Series’ iteration worth its credit card-crunching £1,999 price tag?!
Read More »SSD companies target share of $50Bn market
IDC loves tracking stuff. When it's not too busy counting the PCs, laptops and tablets that are flying through the world's retail channels, it has smaller divisions that apply the same kind of ‘must know it all' mentality to other markets. Dan Vesset runs the Business Analytics effort and, right …
Read More »Do 480GB SandForce SSDs leave you feeling unsatisfied?
Memory giant Corsair, made its name when it stumbled upon the idea that systems which can use 2 modules of memory (at the same time), would benefit if the memory itself was ‘twinned' before sale. TwinX was born and Corsair sales went into overdrive. Now ADATA engineers claim to have …
Read More »240GB OCZ SSD drops under £140
In the words of Michael Corleone, “Everytime we think we've found a way out – they pull us back in”. In the case, the gravity is being provided by SSD assassins OCZ working in ninja-like partnership with reseller Aria and OcUK. KitGuru pushes aside the more expensive deals from the …
Read More »Kingston drops 128GB SSD to £59.98 with Dabs
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, another offer coms along and blows you away. Today sees the first 3rd generation SSD drive from a major manufacturer to go below £60. KitGuru wonders how much lower it can get. It was the SanDisk second …
Read More »Can SSD prices get pounded any lower?
These days, watching heavyweight boxers in the ring is like watching children eyeing up chocolate bars. Almost nothing happens for ages, then a tiny bit of action and it’s all over. Back in the day, when Ali, Foreman, Norton, Frazier and co ruled the world – the action started when …
Read More »OCZ throws down on SSD pricing – 240GB at £149
We all knew it would happen, the only question was “Which of the major SSD brands would want to be first?” The latest deals coming out of eBuyer show that the 240GB Agility drive from OCZ has ducked under the magic £150 mark. KitGuru hangs in a buffalo stance and …
Read More »Kingston drop SSD price to £69.99 – official
It seems that hardly a day passes without an exclamation of shock from at least one of the Gurus of the Kit. Today's news from Kingston has been highly anticipated, but why is the number being quoted so shocking? KitGuru prepares to go head to toe in order to find …
Read More »Kingston release HyperX SSD for budget-minded enthusiasts
The Kingston HyperX solid state drive is regarded as one of the best performing drives on the market, featuring the latest Sandforce SF-2281 controller. Being an top-end drive, it has a high price tag to match which may not be affordable for some enthusiasts. With this in mind, Kingston have …
Read More »Lite-On expecting a 6 to 700% increase in 2012 SSD revenue
If the question was asked about what type of hardware Lite-On is renowned for bringing to market, I'm sure the majority of you would have been quick to say optical drives. A statement was briefly made by the company this week that it expects to see massive growth in one …
Read More »Intel 320 Series 300 GB SSD Review
There has never been such a wide selection of solid state drives available on the market before from so many different manufacturers. This can make it confusing for some consumers, when it comes to deciding on a purchase. KitGuru spend a lot of time looking at the latest performance SSDs …
Read More »Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD Review
There has been a bustle of activity in recent months within the Solid State Drive market. OCZ led the way with the latest revision of Sandforce powered drives, followed by other manufacturers such as ADATA and Corsair. Today we are looking at the new 240GB HyperX SSD drive from Kingston …
Read More »AData first to market with fresh SSDs – Sandforce error free
Right now, everything about SSDs is sexy and exciting, so when the new Sandforce 2281 controller was rumoured – enthusiasts across the world worked extra shifts in their local comic book stores – ready to pay for it. It went wrong, but now it seems that the issues have been …
Read More »FREE SearchStorage guide to SSD for Business
At KitGuru, when we see the latest and greatest in SSD technology we get a collective tingling in our loins and Zardon drifts off to a happy place where half a dozen of the new drives are strapped together in RAID 0 in order to make one of his benchmarks …
Read More »Corsair release new 90GB and 180GB Force Series SSD’s
The Corsair Sandforce powered SSD's have proved popular with the enthusiast community and rightly so – the performance of these drives is spectacular. Corsair are expanding the range by adding new 90GB and 180GB capacities which will probably be replacing the 80GB and 160GB models. Performance levels should be close …
Read More »Kingston HyperX Max 3.0 128GB Drive Review
Kingston have impressed us recently with many of their products, especially the low cost, high performance SSDNow V100 128GB SSD drive. Today we are looking at their new external storage solution called HyperX MAX 3.0 which utilises the latest USB 3.0 superspeed interface. According to Kingston the HyperX Max 3.0 …
Read More »Iomega release USB 3.0 External SSD drives
Iomega have just announced a new series of USB 3.0 external Solid State Drives, ranging in size from 64gb to 256GB. These new drives are based around an external enclosure offering superfast USB 3.0 speeds while remaining compatible with the older USB 2.0 interface. USB 3.0 is clearly the way …
Read More »Size of UK market for SSD in 2011 revealed
Not many things will increase the performance of an existing system as much as GPU, CPU and SSD. KitGuru spends a lot of time in the Lab looking at this kind of thing, so we know what we're talking about. While every PC has some form of CPU and GPU, …
Read More »Sexy Crucial C300 series out of stock (almost) everywhere
Every now and then, a product comes along that tickles a lot of fancies. SSD is already sexy, the idea of running your whole system from RAM is like a dream come true for the hundreds of millions of geeks out there who can still remember when a 1.2MB floppy …
Read More »64GB SSD: Can you live with it?
Through all the high-end performance testing with dual SSD drives in RAID formation, and the ultra-high capacity, ultra high-speed drives like the 240GB OCZ Vertex 2 weighing in around £590, KitGuru wanted to know how a plain and simple 64GB Crucial drive could impact every day performance. You know, quality …
Read More »Silverstone: Fastest boots since Usain Bolt?
Whether you’re building a new system or trying to re-energise an existing rig, one of the most annoying things to get wrong is the boot time. There are loads of things that can cause a slow boot and ALL of them are bloody annoying. So is it a case of …
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