We reviewed the original KingSpec MultiCore 1TB drive not so long ago and, although it offered great performance, we wondered how fast a drive would be with a more up-to-date controller and some better NAND.

Toshiba isn't known for solid-state drives, and this SSD seems unlikely to change that.

UPDATED Controller chipsets are difficult to get right, but OCZ pulls it off.

While on the outside it looks slim, this portable hard drive holds a hefty 500GB capacity.

What makes a hard drive fast? USB 3.0? Thunderbolt? Solid state technology? Or a go faster stripe, like the one here?

This small hard drive connects to your TV, with a compact design to make it as unobtrusive as possible.

Just as Intel has done with the 335 series, Kingston has come up with a new range of drives matching the old LSI SandForce SF-2281 controllers with the latest ideas in NAND technology.

The Buffalo MiniStation Thunderbolt is a sturdy, portable and attractive hard drive that uses Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 speeds.

PNY is a name normally associated with Nvidia-based consumer graphics cards, and maybe the odd memory modules. In fact it makes a whole range of memory-based hardware too.

Like its little 330 series sibling and its bigger brother, the 520 series, it's based around the LSI SandForce SF-2281 controller, but unlike the other two this one uses Intel's latest 20nm MLC NAND.

The question Samsung's asking is just how much are you willing to pay for the ultimate in SSD oomph.

The Korean giant is currently cranking out world-beating kit in several segments, from smartphones to ARM chips and HDTVs. So how do their latest and greatest SSDs stack up?

With the My Book VelociRaptor Duo, Western Digital has taken two of the fastest drives it makes, with a SATA 6Gb/s interface.

UPDATED Affordable synchronous NAND with great performance. The real-world difference between this and the Neutron GTX is marginal.

The name KingSpec may be new to you, and indeed us, but the company has been in the flash storage business since 1995.

With the current crop of solid-state drives already knocking very hard on the door of SATA 6Gbps bandwidth limit, we might have to start looking elsewhere for speedy SSDs.

The Transcend SSD18C3 contains a solid state drive, rather than the older mechanical drives, for faster data read and write speeds.

Where the Transcend StoreJet 25M3 had a durable case, the Transcend StoreJet 35T3 USB 3.0 External Hard Drive has quick and secure data backup.

The Integral Crypto SSD won't just give your PC a big speed boost, it also offers advanced protection for your data.

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. The divine benevolence in question is the belated and very much awaited arrival of TRIM support when operating SSDs in RAID arrays.

Can this latest Crucial drive compete with its SATA 3Gbps connection when it's competitors are chucking around the 6Gbps standard?

The Plextor M5 Pro comes sporting Marvell's new firmware and Toshiba's new NAND memory to deliver some seriously quick SSD speeds.

Corsair's latest SSD boasts fast write speeds that compliment a good storage size. It's perfect for editing and large enough for everyday tasks

UPDATED If the thought of using desktop drives in a NAS environment used to concern you, worry no more - WD now has the answer.

UPDATED Corsair doesn't mess about when it comes to solid state drives. It seemingly doesn't matter what sort of configuration you want, you can pick one up from the former memory maestro.