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Clash of the terabyte titans: Crucial M500 960GB vs. Samsung 840 EVO 1TB by Geoff Gasior — 10:22 PM on December 18, 2013 Despite the fact that they both sell for over $500, the Crucial M500 960GB and Samsung 840 EVO 1TB are relative bargains. These SSDs... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	71
Report: More TLC and PCIe solid-state drives coming next year by Geoff Gasior — 6:00 AM on December 17, 2013 SSDs with PCI Express interfaces are still relatively rare. So are SSDs... Type: News story Tags: Storage	29
LSI to be sold in $6.6-billion deal by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:02 PM on December 16, 2013 My, my, how quickly things change. Just over two years ago, SandForce was snatched up by LSI for $322 million. SandForce went on to... Type: News story Tags: Storage	41
Deal of the week: Keyboards, coolers, and storage by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:31 PM on December 13, 2013 We have a nice variety of deals this week, from mechanical keyboards and liquid coolers to solid-state drives and good old mechanical storage. ... Type: News story Tags: Cooling Storage Input devices	11
ASRock intros Killer gaming mobos, includes M.2 connectivity by Geoff Gasior — 9:24 AM on December 12, 2013 ASRock has introduced a new lineup of gaming-oriented motherboards, and I'm not sure I can set the stage any better than the press... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Storage	17
Samsung brings 840 EVO to mSATA, drops new firmware for 2.5'' version by Geoff Gasior — 6:00 AM on December 10, 2013 Bite-sized mSATA SSDs are perfect for notebooks and small-form-factor systems like Intel's NUC. Their storage capacities used to be somewhat limited, but not... Type: News story Tags: Storage	20
Asus teases custom Radeon R9 290X with DirectCU II cooler by Geoff Gasior — 12:47 PM on December 9, 2013 The Radeon R9 290X is a beast—and a toasty one at that. Cards based on AMD's reference design appear to be thermally limited, especially... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Cooling	72
Next-gen Intel SSDs could have 2TB capacities, integrated heatsinks by Geoff Gasior — 9:21 AM on December 5, 2013 Information about Intel's next-gen SSDs has leaked out. Myce has published a collection of slides detailing several drives due to be released in... Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers	35
Data suggests consumer drives are as reliable as enterprise models by Geoff Gasior — 6:00 AM on December 5, 2013 Last month, online backup provider Backblaze published some interesting statistics on hard drive failure rates in its "storage pods." Now, the company is... Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers	64
It's official: Toshiba will snatch up OCZ's SSD business by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:18 AM on December 3, 2013 Last week, we learned that OCZ had filed for bankruptcy—and that Toshiba... Type: News story Tags: Storage	41
Cyber Monday deals: Hardware edition by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:00 AM on December 2, 2013 Geoff has already covered some of the game discounts available for Cyber Monday this year. Now, let's have a look at some of the... Type: News story Tags: Graphics Storage Displays Input devices Personal tech	38
Deal of the week: Black Friday edition by Geoff Gasior — 11:23 AM on November 29, 2013 Amazon has a massive collection of PC games on sale, including a stack of very recent titles: If you don't have Battlefield... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Cases Storage Mobile computing Gaming	29
OCZ filing for bankruptcy, assets could go to Toshiba by Geoff Gasior — 1:58 PM on November 27, 2013 The writing has been on the wall for a while, and the axe... Type: News story Tags: Storage	87
The SSD Endurance Experiment: Testing data retention at 300TB by Geoff Gasior — 10:02 PM on November 25, 2013 We're slamming six SSDs with a nearly continuous stream of writes to see what happens as the flash wears out. Our subjects have now... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	109
WD's Black² notebook drive combines 120GB SSD with 1TB HDD by Geoff Gasior — 7:00 AM on November 25, 2013 Unlike SSHDs that augment mechanical hard drives with small flash caches, WD's Black² stacks a 120GB SSD on top of a 1TB notebook drive. This... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	36
Deal of the week: Cheap storage, a Bay Trail discount, and more by Geoff Gasior — 2:59 PM on November 22, 2013 Even with Black Friday discounts not due for another week, there are plenty of bargain-priced SSDs out there today. The most appealing one may... Type: News story Tags: Cases Storage Input devices Mobile computing	29
LSI introduces Nytro PCIe SSDs with low power consumption, 2TB capacity by Geoff Gasior — 9:16 AM on November 20, 2013 LSI is showing off some new enterprise gear at its Accelerating Innovation Summit in San Jose, California. The most interesting products may be in... Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers	24
SATA, PCIe interfaces collide in SandForce SF3700 SSD controller by Geoff Gasior — 8:00 AM on November 18, 2013 SandForce's SF-2000 controller has been around since before SandForce was purchased by LSI. It'll be three years old in February, and the... Type: News story Tags: Storage	26

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