Sometimes you just have to take a break, like it or not. And saying that, there is also always a time to get back to the shop and so here I am. After a brief ‘personal hiatus’, I came back to find an inbox full of graphic card reviews. If your looking for a different view on the newest graphic card …
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Gaming in 2012 Vice the 1980s and Tech Reviews for March 21, 2012
What happened to the simplicity of video games? Remember Simon, just using your memory to hit the right color. Then of course there was Atari entering the market. Did you sit for hours trying to get Pacman to race the maze or organizing blocks in Tetris before the speed got you. A couple of my personal favorites were Paperboy and …
Read More »All for One and One for All – Tech Reviews shared for March 19, 2012
What is your definition of the statement “all for one and one for all”? Do you relate it to your work team, sport team or maybe your family. I like the statement and personally relate it to all three.Work and sport teams ultimately have the same goal and obtain the best results when working together. Family support systems work best …
Read More »Raw Flash Vs SSDs in Enterprise Applications Offers a Choice of Component Or Complete Solution
In reading this article, you might think it runs along the lines of the still popular Hulk vs Superman Debate except in this case, it’s storage related and this storyline is Storage Mojo vs The SSD Guy. Self-professed ‘Storage Mojo’ is none other than Robin Harris while ‘The SSD Guy’ seemed to be a tag given to me years ago. …
Read More »Avnet Embedded Assembles The Best In The SSD Industry For FREE SSD Virtual Summit on April 3/4
Whether it be consumer or industry, anybody seriously looking at solid state drives today has become familiar with such names as Crucial/Micron, Intel, Kingston and OCZ in the client world along with Adaptec, Dell, Hitachi, LSI, Rorke Data, Seagate, Smart Storage Systems, STEC and Toshiba in the business and enterprise world. So what would you think if Avnet brought the …
Read More »SanDisk Extreme 240GB SATA 3 SSD Review – Equal 4k Read/Write IOPS Performance Observed
SanDisk has finally jumped full tilt back into the world of SSDs and our report today will introduce you to the use of yet another brand of NAND flash memory that we haven’t seen in any SATA 3 SSDs, at least that I am aware of. The benefit, of course, is that this memory is owned by SanDisk. This allows …
Read More »Toshiba MK4001GRZB 400GB SAS 6Gb/s Enterprise SLC SSD Review
Our SSD review today will be on the Toshiba MK4001GRZB 400GB SAS 6Gb/s Enterprise SLC SSD and will be the first to undergo our new Enterprise Test Protocol. This SSD brings with it some of the best sustainable performance in the realm, and also has recently taken the Grand Prize for Excellence in Energy Efficiency and Conservation from the Japan …
Read More »Renice Technology Releases 240GB mSATA SSD As Capacity Complements Flexibility
Renice Technology, well known for their line of high performance SSDs, has announced the release of their X3 50mm mSATA (MO-300B) SSD in a 240GB form factor. The LSI Sandforce based drive will deliver read/write speeds of 285MB/s and 275 MB/s and up to 30,000 4KB random read IOPS. The new product will be available in 240 GB capacities, in addition to the …
Read More »The SSD Review Solid State Storage (SSS) Enterprise Test Protocol
A casual reader of The SSD Review has probably grown accustomed to seeing the huge RAID numbers from any number of our RAID tests as well as the great results seen in our evaluations of consumer SSDs. We do have a penchant for throwing around numbers in excess of 450,000 IOPS and 4GB/s throughput in our reviews so, for the …
Read More »Marvell Releases SATA 3 88SS9187 SSD Controller – Promises Low Power and 500MB/s Speeds For Ultras
Marvell was the first to enter the SATA 3 SSD market by several months. The Crucial C300 used the first SATA III Marvell processor as early as mid-2010. Since that time, there several manufacturers have used the Marvell controller, and with great success. No stranger to enterprise needs, Marvell controllers have also been used to equal success in enterprise flash …
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