Samsung’s 840 Evo repair tool available to download, but be careful of the caveats when you update

Samsung's 840 Evo repair tool available to download, but be careful of the caveats when you update

URL: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/192419-samsungs-840-evo-repair-tool-available-to-download-but-be-careful-of-the-caveats-when-you-update


Samsung has released the fix for the 840 Evo, but users should be careful to read the instructions -- it's not entirely straightforward.

Samsung's 840 EVO update fixes slow reads with old data

Samsung's 840 EVO update fixes slow reads with old data

URL: http://techreport.com/review/27212/samsung-840-evo-update-fixes-slow-reads-with-old-data

Last month, Samsung confirmed that its 840 EVO SSD can suffer from slower read speeds with older data. The company promised to address the issue with updated firmware, and we've been experimenting with the fix.

Before we get into the results of our testing, we should spend ...

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AMD is preparing to enter the SSD business

URL: http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/07/amd-radeon-r7-ssds/?ncid=rss_truncated

With all the computing components AMD makes already, it's still hard to believe the company has yet to explore the solid-state drive space. But that's about to change soon -- it looks like AMD's finally ready to get into the business of making SSDs....

Samsung SSD 850 Pro 128GB and 1TB Review

URL: http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Samsung-SSD-850-Pro-128GB-and-1TB-Review/

In the past few weeks, we’ve seen a steady stream of new solid state drive releases, from the likes of Plextor, Crucial, and SanDisk. Our review of the Plextor M6M mSATA drive can be found here, and we covered Crucial’s MX100 series here. And reviews of some new SanDisk drives are currently in the works. Today, however, Samsung...

Intel unveils new Xeon chip with integrated FPGA, touts 20x performance boost

URL: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184828-intel-unveils-new-xeon-chip-with-integrated-fpga-touts-20x-performance-boost

Late yesterday, Intel quietly announced one of the biggest ever changes to its chip lineup: It will soon offer a new type of Xeon CPU with an integrated FPGA. This new Xeon+FPGA chip will fit in the standard E5 LGA2011 socket, but the integrated FPGA will allow each chip to be customized to specific workloads. This move is almost certainly intended to make Intel-x86 a better all-round platform for a wider variety of workloads, and to dissuade customers from switching to GPGPU accelerators from the likes of Nvidia.

SanDisk Unveils Industry's First Consumer SSDs with Ten-Year Warranty

URL: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20140606044253_SanDisk_Unveils_Industry_s_First_Consumer_SSDs_with_Ten_Year_Warranty.html

SanDisk Extreme Pro Sports Up to 960GB Capacities, Extreme Performance, Unprecedented Warranty

Samsung SSD 840 EVO mSATA Review

URL: http://hothardware.com/Reviews/Samsung-SSD-840-EVO-mSATA-Review/

A few months back, we took a look at Samsung’s SSD 840 EVO series of solid state drives. At the time, we found their performance to be quite good, and the drives were competitively priced too. Shortly after the 2.5” versions of Samsung’s SSD 840 EVO drives hit the scene, the company prepared an array of mSATA drives featuring...