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In the mood for some free hardware? Well then you're in luck: our awesome community team in conjunction with Toshiba is holding a giveaway for a quartet of the company’s SSDs. Altogether we have two 240GB OCZ XS700s – Toshiba’s new line of SATA-based USB-C portable drives – along with a pair of literally tiny 240GB OCZ RC100 M.2 SSDs. Toshiba RC100 & XS700 Specifications RC100 240GB XS700 240GB Form Factor Single-sided M.2 2242 B+M key External (USB-C) Controller Toshiba unnamed Toshiba unnamed Interface NVMe 1.2.1 PCIe 3.1 x2 SATA-over-USB 3.1 Gen 2 DRAM None NAND Toshiba 64L BiCS3 3D TLC Sequential Read 1600 MB/s 550 MB/s Sequential Write 1050 MB/s 500 MB/s Warranty 3 years As far as the RC100 goes, our SSD-meister, Billy Tallis, took a look at the new drive earlier this month. The tiny drives are aimed at a small but none the less important...
OCZ Suite Tour: Vector 180, JetExpress PCIe NVMe Controller & Z-Drive 6000
While the Barefoot 3 platform is already a couple of years old, it is still going strong. OCZ has been in the process of adopting Toshiba's latest A19nm to...
26 by Kristian Vättö on 1/9/2015
Best SSDs: Holiday 2014
We published our last 'Best SSDs' article in July and to be completely honest the core of my recommendations has remained unchanged, but there are a couple of new...
38 by Kristian Vättö on 12/15/2014
PCIe SSD Faceoff: Samsung XP941 (128GB & 256GB) and OCZ RevoDrive 350 (480GB) Tested
We are currently on the verge of PCIe transition. Nearly every SSD controller vendor has shown or at least talked about their upcoming PCIe designs, and the first ones...
47 by Kristian Vättö on 9/5/2014
AMD Radeon R7 SSD (240GB) Review
In 2011 AMD took the first step in expanding the Radeon brand and partnered with Patriot and VisionTek to provide AMD branded memory. With the launch of the Radeon...
54 by Kristian Vättö on 8/28/2014
OCZ ARC 100 (240GB) SSD Review
OCZ launched the Barefoot 3 platform and the Vector SSDs in late 2012, and with their new direction OCZ has been trying to change their image to become a...
54 by Kristian Vättö on 8/26/2014
AMD Jumps Into the SSD Market: Radeon R7 Series SSD Launched
Back in 2011, AMD made a rather unexpected move and expanded its Radeon brand to include memory in addition to graphics cards. With today's announcement AMD is adding another...
43 by Kristian Vättö on 8/19/2014
OCZ Launches ARC 100 Value SSD
The release of the Vector marked as a change in OCZ's strategy. With a new CEO, OCZ's goal was to change the company's brand image from being a low-cost...
15 by Kristian Vättö on 8/13/2014
OCZ's CEO Outlines Post-Acquisition Plans for TLC and Native PCIe SSDs
Late last year Toshiba announced its intentions to acquire OCZ's assets for $35 million in cash. The offer came after OCZ filed for bankruptcy, following a year of corporate...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/7/2014
An Update Regarding OCZ's Warranties
There's been some level of uncertainty regarding OCZ and especially the outstanding product warranties. I covered OCZ's situation and its position at Toshiba in our Vertex 460 review but...
24 by Kristian Vättö on 1/31/2014
OCZ Vertex 460 (240GB) Review
The last few months have not been easy at OCZ. After long-lasting financial issues, the company filed for bankruptcy on November 27th and a week later Toshiba announced that...
69 by Kristian Vättö on 1/22/2014
OCZ Releases Intrepid 3000: First In-House Enterprise SSD
The last few weeks have been tough for OCZ. The company filed for bankruptcy and a week later OCZ announced that Toshiba will be acquiring their assets. While there...
22 by Kristian Vättö on 12/12/2013
Toshiba Acquires OCZ's Assets for $35 million
Following last week's news of OCZ's bankruptcy filing, it's now official that Toshiba is acquiring OCZ's assets for $35 million cash. The agreement includes all of OCZ's client and...
43 by Kristian Vättö on 12/3/2013
OCZ Files for Bankruptcy - Toshiba Offers to Buy the Assets
OCZ has just issued a press release announcing their filing for bankruptcy, which was expected since Nasdaq had halted the trading of OCZ stock earlier today. OCZ has had...
68 by Kristian Vättö on 11/27/2013
OCZ Vector 150 (120GB & 240GB) Review
The holiday season is one of the busiest shopping seasons of all year. As it can be the lifesaver (or destroyer) of company's financials, having a competitive product lineup...
59 by Kristian Vättö on 11/7/2013
OCZ Announces ZD-XL PCIe SQL Accelerator SSD Solution
About a year and a half ago OCZ announced the acquisition of Sanrad, an enterprise storage solutions company with experience in flash caching. Today we see some of the...
26 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/23/2013
OCZ Releases Vertex 3.20 with 20nm IMFT NAND
Yesterday OCZ introduced an updated version of their Vertex 3: The Vertex 3.20. The name derives from the fact that the new Vertex 3.20 uses 20nm IMFT MLC NAND...
27 by Kristian Vättö on 2/20/2013
OCZ Vector (256GB) Review
Times are changing at OCZ. There's a new CEO at the helm, and the company is now focused on releasing fewer products but that have gone through more validation...
151 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/27/2012
OCZ Vector: The First True Indilinx Based SSD (Barefoot 3) from OCZ
I just saw the outcome of a year long effort from both the Indilinx and the PLX teams at OCZ: the Vector SSD (pictured above). Unlike the Octane and...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2012
OCZ Agility 4 (256GB) Review
For the last few years, OCZ's consumer SSD lineup has primarily consisted of two models: Vertex and Agility. The history of these two goes all the way back to...
41 by Kristian Vättö on 9/1/2012
OCZ Vertex 4 Review (128GB), Firmware 1.4/1.5 Tested
When OCZ released the Vertex 4 in April, it brought us excepionally great write performance. Based on OCZ's Everest 2 controller (Marvell IP with custom firmware), the Vertex 4...
60 by Kristian Vättö on 8/4/2012
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