The pace of development in the SSD world is staggeringly awesome, as each generation of SSD controllers has delivered substantial increases in performance and reliability, while at the same time we've seen flash prices drop like a stone. It's a great time to be storing and accessing data, for sure, but we've also seen…

OCZ's new Octane series is the first solid state drive to squeeze one full terabyte of storage into a 2.5-inch drive, but the awesome doesn't stop there. It has read speeds of up to 560MB/s and write speeds of 400MB/s, versus top competitors who are at 500MB/s read and 315MB/s write.

Sammy just took the lid off of a set of new solid state drives that promise a significant speed boost from their already peppy previous line of SSDs. They look good enough to eat.

Breaking the 250MB/s barrier with no moving parts

SSDs are great, and they're getting smaller all the time. A lot smaller. Intel's teeny new 310 Series SSDs deliver the same performance as the x25s that came before them, but they're just an eighth the size.

If you've got one of the old-school fat PS3s, you can rev up performance by installing an SSD. The real world improvement, according to one forum user: Gran Turismo 5 loading nearly twice as quickly. Vroooom. [Beyond3D via CrunchGear]

The very same Toshiba SSDs that Apple uses in its MacBook Airs are now being offered to other companies who may or may not be green-eyed with envy at the slinkiness of the Airs.

We'd gotten a glimpse at some juicy info about Intel's next-generation SSDs in August—and were already pretty excited about it—but now AnandTech's full spec rundown has us downright giddy.

It's a new world record, this time in the "smallest SSD" category. Available in 4GB - 64GB capacities, SanDisk's integrated "iSSD" is destined for tablets and really, really slim laptops.

These Force Series SSDs from Corsair have up to 280MB/s reads and 260MB/s writes, which are supposedly "class-leading". Even if it's not the fastest solid state drives on the market period, it's the fastest Corsair's ever made.