http://www.anandtech.com/show/7549/ocz-fil...-buy-the-assets

OCZ is dead. Suck for users who need warranty support.

Toshiba is top NAND producer. If it acquire OCZ engineering expertise on controller, it could be interesting.
More competition is always better for consumer.

yup, was aware of that Toshiba offer, but It is actually pending bankruptcy court approval (could take some time).
Toshiba is giving OCZ "free" financing now (before that deal get approved) so that OCZ can still support its customers.
Even if the deal is successful, I think we will still see the end of OCZ brand (too much tainted history).
Toshiba has been a big player in the OEM SSD sphere. I really like to see it push into the retail market with this acquisition.

Plextor M5S (I supposed?) is a solid SSD

http://www.thessdreview.com/daily-news/lat...id-speeds-1gbs/
Samsung 840 EVO available in mSATA form factor, in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB capacity.

http://www.thessdreview.com/daily-news/lat...-free-download/
RAPID mode available to Samsung 840 Pro now.

This post has been edited by nexus2238: Dec 12 2013, 10:29 PM

http://www.thessdreview.com/daily-news/lat...msung-evo-ssds/

MSRP of Samsung 840 Evo mSATA is similar to SATA form factor.
Available in 1TB if you have the money

http://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/cr...d-review-480gb/

Review of Crucial M500 SATA m.2. Has power loss data protection feature

This post has been edited by nexus2238: Dec 22 2013, 08:22 AM

http://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/sa...great-security/

review of Samsung 840 Evo mSATA 1TB.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7803/intel-s...30-480gb-review

http://www.thessdreview.com/our-reviews/in...review-2x480gb/

review of Intel 730 SSD.

reading a few of the review on Samsung 850 Pro, what strike me:
Samsung is claiming that with its V-NAND technology, they will be able to push out a 8TB SSD in 2017

I am so looking forward to this.

If that come true:
1. SSD capacity will probably overtake HDD capacity by 2017.
2. Since Samsung V-NAND is going back to 40 nm, price of SSD will probably drop pretty fast from now till then.

All the other NAND manufacturers are also working hard on their VNAND tech, since if they don't catch up soon, Samsung may be able to wipe the floor with price competition if it decide to be aggressive.

This post has been edited by nexus2238: Jul 3 2014, 07:22 PM