mSATA is about to blow up this year. This tiny form factor that was once an enabler of small netbook devices is starting to make its way into notebooks and even desktop systems. For the most part ...

Since my last review of a Renice Technology Mini PCIe form factor solid state disk the company has upped it’s line of Mini PCIe form factor SSDs to include the Renice K3VLAR 50MM mSATA SSD, which adds ...

[Trucki] wanted to upgrade the internal storage on his JooJoo. There’s an mSATA connector inside but devices that use that protocol are hard to come by and when you do they’ll cost you and arm and a ...

Mushkin is set to release PCIe and mSATA solid state disks based on the SandForce SF-2281 controller, you can learn more about these disks over here. Based on the ever-popular SF-2281 controller, the ...

UK price (as reviewed): £172.60 (inc VAT) (M.2 500GB); £339.10 (inc VAT) (mSATA 1TB) US price (as reviewed): $249.99 (ex Tax) (M.2 500GB); TBC (mSATA 1TB) Late last year the SSD 850 EVO launched and ...

Intel has introduced its first mSATA SSD drive which offers a full 6GB/s connection. The Intel SSD 525 Series offers buyers a small, fast and efficient fixed storage solution. The new drive series ...

Looking to upgrade the SSD in my system, and I have an mSATA slot on my motherboard that is currently unpopulated. High capacity mSATA SSDs aren't very easy to come by these days, at least ones from a ...

Let's be clear that the 310 Series isn't something Intel is pitching to home users to buy and pop in their existing laptop or desktop rig, and because of the mSATA form factor (which we'll discuss in ...

A) Do 2.5" laptop SSDs use "Mini SATA"? B) Is 2.5" SATA(as in, the SATA on a 2.5" drive), different dimension connector to 3.5" SATA(as in, SATA on a 3.5" drive)? C) Are all mSATA(micro SATA) and all ...

New versions of Samsung's popular drive take different physical designs, while offering almost exactly the same performance and features as their larger sibling. Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been ...

The term "form factor" is used in the computer industry to describe the shape and size of computer components, like drives, motherboards and power supplies. When hard disk drives initially made their ...

Remember Mushkin? I do. Back when the Intel Core i7 was but a mere twinkle in a daydreaming engineer's eye, and we're going back some 10 years here, Mushkin was, in the main, a purveyor of ...