Solid State Drives (SSD) are faster, silent, more expensive and sometimes more complicated to maintain than conventional platter based hard drives. Especially the maintenance of the drive is a factor that may keep users away from purchasing a drive, or frustrated if they find out that their SSD does not support TRIM or garbage collection. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

How do you buzz on the Internet? One of the most successful ways is a viral marketing campaign. Samsung thought of a great way of promoting their new 256GB MLC Solid State Drives. They decided to create an uber-geeky computer system powered by 24 of their SSDs in Raid mode and show of the video [...]

Categories: Cool, Entertainment, The Web

Solid State Drives (SSDs) have many advantages over conventional hard drives like their faster access time, lower power consumption and silence while running. The read speed of SSD drives can be compared to those fast 15,000-rpm state of the art hard drives. The only real downside of SSDs was their rather low write speed which [...]

Categories: Hardware