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Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to review the Samsung SM951 512GB AHCI PCIe SSD. In the review, I noted that Samsung had originally told us that the SM951 would feature the NVMe protocol, but ...

For a price tag that’s just a little higher than an SSD with a SATA 3.0 interface, Plextor’s M6e delivers a 20-percent jump in read performance. No, M.2 (pronounced M-dot-two) is not a government spy ...

I'm about to do a fresh install on desktop and I have a question about IDE vs. AHCI. Which mode should I pick in the bios? IDE, AHCI or RAID? Does AHCI have any advantages over IDE? My HDD right now ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — ULINK Technology, Inc. announced today the release of a set of new test suites for SATA and PCIe AHCI SSD testing and validation. The release of test ...

If you have an M.2 slot that supports PCIe and a motherboard that will boot from an NVMe drive, the RD400 is one of the fastest storage options currently available. Congratulations, OCZ. You can come ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo explains how SSDs work and offers a few useful tips on how to make them last a long, long time. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been ...

Several years ago, we published our first SSD Optimization Guide for Windows 7, which was very popular among our readers. At the time, SSDs, or Solid State Drives, were still a relatively new product ...

Apple has quietly introduced support for the next generation NVM Express (NVMe) interface to SSD Flash drives in their latest OS X 10.10.3 update as well as in the new Retina MacBook which was ...