Intel Optane SSD 900P 280GB Review
£230 for 280GB? 3D XPoint has a point to prove.
WD Black SN750 1TB Review
Can WD's latest PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD differentiate itself enough?
Kingston UV500 Review (480GB)
Less than £100 for nearly 500GB, but how does it perform?
The Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB has been our favourite hard disk for almost a year, and now Samsung brings us a higher capacity follow up in the form of the EcoGreen 1.5TB. Fitted with three 500GB platters but with a spindle speed of only 5,400RPM, we find out how it measures up to the competition.
October 5, 2009 | 11:39While SSDs might be the hot topic in storage this year, Western Digital remains focussed on HDDs, with the new 2TB Caviar Black it's new top end model. With four 500GB platters and a spindle speed of 7,200RPM, does the Caviar Black show there's life in HDDs yet? We find out.
October 2, 2009 | 10:45SSDs are great, but Windows Vista wasn't designed with them in mind. If you want to get the best from your SSD, you'll need to perform a number of tweaks and fixes to not only improve performance, but keep your OS from needlessly thrashing your drive. We show you how.
August 27, 2009 | 11:46A simple USB key with 256GB of storage? Crickey! You can carry around the equivalent of 54 DVDs on a piece of plastic half the size of your finger, and it even includes privacy software too - but with a low write speed and high price, has Kingston crammed in more than it can chew?
August 2, 2009 | 12:30With the latest crop of SSDs proving they've got what it takes to thrash hard disks on every level, Patriot is getting in on the action with it's new Torqx. Using the very capable Indilinx ARM drive controller, does the Torqx match up to the competition? We find out.
July 3, 2009 | 11:55The SSD market has been really hotting up lately, and today we're looking at another contender in the form of the G.Skill Falcon. Sporting the same drive architecture as the OCZ Vertex while costing a lot less, is this the SSD you're upgrade's been waiting for?
June 24, 2009 | 11:38Memory specialist Corsair has entered the SSD arms race with the Corsair P256, a new 256GB drive based on Samsung's latest drive controller architecture. Featuring an ARM processor and a 128MB DRAM cache to maximise performance, is this the next big step in SSD performance? We find out.
June 5, 2009 | 10:13If you've got a library of HD content and are looking for an easy way to get it onto your HDTV then the latest Icy Box could be just what you're after. Boasting playback of even the beefiest 1080p files and with a list of supported codecs as long as an MP's expenses claim is this a genuine alternative to a full HTPC?
May 28, 2009 | 10:34SSDs might have high read speeds covered, but writing data, especially random write speeds, has held many back. Today we look at OCZ's latest high speed SSD, the Vertex, to see if the addition of onboard cache and an ARM processor can allow SSDs to fulfil their true potential.
May 15, 2009 | 10:17What do you get when you combine a fully featured digital TV recorder, NAS and digital video player with enough outputs to make AV enthusiasts swoon? The AC Ryan Playon! DVR TV that's what! We take a look to see if this jack of all trades device deserves a place beside your TV.
April 25, 2009 | 11:26Seagate has released its latest 7200.12 hard disks and we're taking a look at the ever popular 1TB capacity. Packing just two 500GB platters it promises to deliver both high performance and cool operation. Can it topple the Samsung Spinpoint F1? Read on to find out!
April 13, 2009 | 09:05The march of ever larger hard drive capacities takes a big step forward with Western Digital's massive 2TB Caviar Green. With four enormous 500GB platters boasting more storage than any other 3.5" drive, we find out how this colossus of hard disk drives performs.
March 13, 2009 | 08:00While we've looked at plenty of SSDs recently, there's still place in the market for an ultra-fast mechanical drive.Today we're looking at Western Digital's 10,000RPM 300GB VelociRaptor and finding out if it's a clever girl or facing extinction in the face of the new crop of SSDs.
March 6, 2009 | 09:04This time in our On Our Desk round-up we take a look at remote control helicopters, iPhone games, card readers, hard drive enclosures and a copy of the Mass Effect OST - mainly because we've got to give our worktops a good spring cleaning before we move offices.
January 29, 2009 | 08:32G.Skill is back with its latest SSD and it's a whopper, the 256GB Titan. However, this drive isn't just big - it uses two drive controller chips rather than one to try and solve some of the issues that are common with SSDs, as well as speed things up too. Does it succeed? Read on to find out!
January 20, 2009 | 10:24Earlier in the week, we published the best games of the year and today it's time to look back at what's happened in the technology industry over the last year. Find out which products are the best of the year, and also which innovations have caught our eye during 2008.
January 2, 2009 | 17:56We here at bit-tech have a saying - "you can never have too much storage," In which case the Seagate 1.5TB hard drive seems ideal, packing more gigabytes into a shiny 3.5" drive than ever before. We find out how this jumbo drive stacks up against the competition.
January 1, 2009 | 10:02SSDs might be able to deliver blistering read speeds, but they tend to fall down when it comes to write. Not so the Intel X25-E, which claims both blistering fast read and write speeds thanks to the use of SLC NAND flash memory. We find out if Intel's Extreme series SSD can make the grade and justify its monster price tag.
December 17, 2008 | 08:26With promises of hugely improved read speeds without compromising on write speed, has the Solid State Drive finally come of age? We take a look at three of the best from the current crop of 2.5" SSDs and see if it's time to put that mechanical hard disk in the bin.
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