The introduction by SanDisk of a solid state drive (SSD) and Samsung’s shipping its first hybrid hard disk drive (HDD) this month marks the latest turning point for the notebook computer storage ...

by Daniel A. Begun — Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 11:12 AM EDT MSI has just announced the MSI U115 Hybrid, which it claims is "very first notebook computer in the world that is capable of operating ...

MSI has launched a netbook that uses both solid-state and hard-disk drives. The U115 Hybrid, unveiled on Monday, comes with a solid-state disk (SSD) for most of the PC's operations, together with a ...

The SSD world is more competitive than ever, especially since SandForce readied up their SF-1200 mainstream controllers for manufacturers which kept pricing down whilst pushing performance to new ...

Performance Summary: The WD Black 2 isn’t a barn burner, as our benchmarks have shown. To squeeze a 120GB solid state drive and 1TB hard disk drive, into a single 2.5” device, with 9.5mm Z-Height, WD ...

If you find yourself in the enviable position of getting new hardware for your gaming PC, it's worth taking the time to make sure you’re getting components that are going to serve you well. When it ...

If you’re weighing up the differences between an SSD and HDD for PC gaming – we’ve covered the essentials for you here. SSDs have been around for a while now, but for many still gaming on a HDD (Hard ...

Derek is a writer and marketing pro specializing in communicating complex or technical issues in a way that is accessible to wider audiences. When it comes to selecting the PCs, laptops and servers ...

AS SSD Benchmark confirms the RevoDrive Hybrid's strong sequential read performance as it pumped 386.5MB/s on its first run. As we've seen previously, it offered poor sequential write performance ...

An SSD can read and write data many times faster than the best mechanical hard drive. On the downside, flash memory is many times more expensive than the innards of a typical hard drive, so ...

The idea of the user having to deal with the separation of data is obscene anyway, just as it was when Windows machines used to ship partitioned into system and user data. Avoiding that is the worthy ...

Considering the CrystalDiskMark benchmark runs each test five times and takes the average, we didn't expect to see a difference between the first and third runs – and there wasn't. The RevoDrive ...