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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...
AT20 Giveaway Day 20: Toshiba OCZ Remembers Why MLC SSDs Rock
After 19 days and 30 giveaways, the end is finally upon us. That’s right, today’s the 20th and final day of our 20 day giveaway celebration of AnandTech’s 20th...
536 by Ryan Smith on 5/23/2017Giveaway: OCZ RD400 & VX500 SSDs
In the mood for some free hardware? Well then you're in luck: our awesome community team in conjuction with OCZ is holding a giveaway for a trio of SSDs...
29 by Ryan Smith on 4/19/2017Reminder: OCZ SSD Giveaway & Ask The Experts Recap
As a final reminder to anyone who has yet to enter, our OCZ SSD giveaway closes on later this week on Friday. We'll be giving away 3 SSDs altogether...
24 by Ryan Smith on 10/12/2016Giveaway: OCZ VX500 & RD400 SSDs
It’s been a while since we’ve last had a hardware giveaway, so for those of you looking for some new hardware, you’re in luck. As part of the recent...
14 by Ryan Smith on 9/29/2016The Toshiba OCZ VX500 (256GB, 512GB, 1024GB) SSD Review
Toshiba's new OCZ VX500 SSD is a replacement for the Vector 180 that adopts a different controller to enable much better power management, support for 15nm MLC NAND and...
29 by Billy Tallis on 9/13/2016Evaluating the Toshiba OCZ RD400 M.2 NVMe SSD on a Skylake NUC
The Skylake NUCs have faced plenty of issues since their introduction late last year. However, stability has improved with the latest BIOS updates. One of the issues with the...
16 by Ganesh T S on 7/5/2016The Toshiba OCZ RD400 (256GB, 512GB, 1TB) M.2 PCIe SSD Review
Having recently assimilated OCZ and turned it into an enthusiast-oriented consumer brand, Toshiba has released their first M.2 PCIe SSD into the consumer market. Initially previewed by OCZ as...
42 by Billy Tallis on 5/25/2016Toshiba Revamps OCZ Brand
Over the past few months, Toshiba has started fully assimilating & integrating OCZ, the SSD business they acquired from bankruptcy in 2014. Rather than just absorb OCZ's SSD-related assets...
11 by Billy Tallis on 5/25/2016The OCZ Trion 150 SSD Review
The OCZ Trion 150 is the latest entry-level SSD from Toshiba's subsidiary. It makes almost no hardware changes from the Trion 100 aside from using Toshiba's newer 15nm TLC...
79 by Billy Tallis on 4/1/2016OCZ Releases Trion 150 SSD
As previewed at CES, OCZ has released an update to their budget-oriented Trion 100 SATA SSD. The Trion 150 switches from parent company Toshiba's A19nm TLC to their 15nm...
27 by Billy Tallis on 2/4/2016OCZ Announces First SATA Host Managed SSD: Saber 1000 HMS
Today OCZ is introducing the first SATA drive featuring a technology that may be the next big thing for enterprise SSDs. Referred to by OCZ as "Host Managed SSD"...
18 by Billy Tallis on 10/15/2015OCZ Trion 100 (240GB, 480GB & 960GB) SSD Review: Bringing Toshiba to the Retail
It's been a year and a half since OCZ went bankrupt and Toshiba acquired its assets. In this time we have seen OCZ transition all of its products to...
65 by Kristian Vättö on 7/9/2015OCZ Announces Trion 100 TLC SSD & Shows Off an Upcoming NVMe Drive with Toshiba Controller
One of the things I've been expecting to see at this year's Computex is more TLC NAND based SSDs. So far only Samsung and SanDisk have been shipping TLC...
4 by Kristian Vättö on 6/2/2015Inside OCZ's Factory: How SSDs Are Made
At CES I had the opportunity to sit down with OCZ's CEO, Ralph Schmitt, to discuss the state of OCZ after Toshiba acquired the company in late 2013. We...
64 by Kristian Vättö on 5/20/2015OCZ Introduces Z-Drive 6000 Enterprise PCIe SSD Series with NVMe Support
Back at CES OCZ teased us by showcasing the Z-Drive 6000, but the drive was still under development, so the details were rather scarce. Today OCZ is finally lifting...
33 by Kristian Vättö on 5/20/2015OCZ Releases Intrepid 3700 Enterprise SSD
A little over a year OCZ introduced its first in-house designed enterprise SSD series called the Intrepid 3000. What separated the Intrepid from OCZ's earlier enterprise SSDs was the...
10 by Kristian Vättö on 3/25/2015The OCZ Vector 180 (240GB, 480GB & 960GB) SSD Review
OCZ has been teasing the Vector 180 for quite some time now. The first hint of the drive was unveiled over nine months ago at Computex 2014 where OCZ...
89 by Kristian Vättö on 3/24/2015OCZ Releases Important Firmware Updates for ARC 100 & Radeon R7 SSDs
A little less than two weeks ago OCZ released mandatory firmware updates for the ARC 100 and Radeon R7 SSDs, so I figured I would give the owners a...
16 by Kristian Vättö on 2/9/2015Interview with OCZ's CEO Ralph Schmitt: The New Tides of OCZ
At CES I had the opportunity to sit down with Ralph Schmitt, OCZ's CEO, for a good hour to discuss the state of the company. Before we get to...
21 by Kristian Vättö on 1/27/2015