Today’s review is on the Super Talent RC8 50 GB USB Flash Drive which just may be the most powerful flash drive on the planet. Who would expect more from a ‘SandForce Driven’ product pushing 8 channels of NAND flash memory? Lets not confuse things though as this USB 3.0 flash drive is a solid state drive through and through. …
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Runcore T50 SATA 3 mSATA 120GB SSD Review – Internals, Test Bench and Test Protocol
INTERIOR COMPONENTS The Runcore T50 SATA 3 mSATA 120GB SSD is assembled on a printed circuit board (pcb) which measures 51mm x 32mm x 4mm and weighs under 30 grams. The easiest way to understand how small this is has been depicted in the phot on the first page of this report. It is exactly 1/3rd the size of the …
Read More »Runcore T50 6Gb/s mSATA 120GB SSD Review – ATTO, Crystal Disk Mark and Anvil Storage Utilities
ATTO DISK BENCHMARK VER. 2.46 ATTO Disk Benchmark is perhaps one of the oldest benchmarks going and is definitely the main staple for manufacturer performance specifications. ATTO uses RAW or compressible data and, for our benchmarks, we use a set length of 256mb and test both the read and write performance of various transfer sizes ranging from 0.5 to 8192kb. …
Read More »Runcore T50 6Gb/s mSATA 120GB SSD Review – HDTune Pro Testing
HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.60 BENCHMARK HDTune is a great software program which covers all areas of our testing and does a great job of showing how capable this drive truly is. FILE BENCHMARK RANDOM TESTING EXTRAS All of the HDTune tests seem to be in order except for the ‘Sequential Outer’ result in this test above. In most other SATA …
Read More »Runcore T50 6Gb/s mSATA 120GB SSD Review – PCMark Vantage Testing and The SSD Hierarchy
PCMARK VANTAGE X64 HDD SUITE The SSD Review uses benchmark software called PCMark Vantage x64 HDD Suite to create testing scenarios that might be used in the typical user experience. There are eight tests in all and the tests performed record the speed of data movement in MB/s to which they are then given a numerical score after all of …
Read More »Runcore T50 6Gb/s mSATA 120GB SSD Review – The Verdict
I have been saying for some time now that mSATA SSDs would soon find there way into each and every notebook and things are well on there way. To think that a little ingenuity could see a laptop today pushing transfer speeds above 500MB/s with a terabyte plus hard drive right beside it. This raw power in ultraportables such as …
Read More »Runcore T50 6Gb/s 120GB EXCLUSIVE mSATA SSD Review – The Worlds First 6Gbps mSATA SSD Hits The Streets
It is almost four years to the day that the first consumer solid state drive was making its appearance which makes todays EXCLUSIVE SATA 3 mSATA SSD review truly sweet. Runcore is timing this ‘world first’ release with the news that they are also opening shop in California to better serve North American enterprise and client needs. The Runcore T50 …
Read More »Future Storage 240GB SATA 3 SSD Review – SandForce Makes Strides Worldwide
Todays review is going to take a look at a SandForce controlled SSD which is being sold by a UK based company who are hoping to push low SSD prices in worldwide sales. The SSD itself is ‘SandForce Driven’, assembled and shipped from the USA for North American sales. In fact, our sample SSD shipped with 32Gb Toshiba NAND flash …
Read More »Future Storage 240GB SATA 3 SSD Review – ATTO, Crystal Diskmark and Anvil Pro Benchmarks Results
ATTO DISK BENCHMARK VER. 2.46 ATTO Disk Benchmark is perhaps one of the oldest benchmarks going and is definitely the main staple for manufacturer performance specifications. ATTO uses RAW or compressible data and, for our benchmarks, we use a set length of 256mb and test both the read and write performance of various transfer sizes ranging from 0.5 to 8192kb. …
Read More »Future Storage 240GB SATA 3 SSD Review – PCMark Vantage, The SSD Hierarchy and The Verdict
PCMARK VANTAGE X64 HDD SUITE The SSD Review uses benchmark software called PCMark Vantage x64 HDD Suite to create testing scenarios that might be used in the typical user experience. There are eight tests in all and the tests performed record the speed of data movement in MB/s to which they are then given a numerical score after all of …
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