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 …
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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 »OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G 240GB SSD w/ SF-2282 & Toshiba Toggle Review @ Tweak Town
Other World Computing, the small company capable of big surprises and market leading innovations is back at it again. We’ve already reviewed the Mercury Extreme Pro 6G 240GB solid state drive back in May 2010, but since then a revision was made to the PCB and now a new, more extensive revision has emerged. The new OWC Mercury Extreme Pro …
Read More »Performance Testing Eight Patriot WildFire SF-2281 6Gbps SSDs on a LSI 9265-8i MegaRAID Card
Its been a while in the making but The SSD Review has finally got its hands on eight (8) new generation SATA 3 SSDs in the name of Patriot Wildfire 120GB SATA 3 SSDs for RAID testing. With a host of companies offering the latest SandForce controllers on their SSDs, Patriot is setting out to leap above the pack with …
Read More »Patriot Wildfire SATA 3 SSD Performance Testing – WEI and AS SSD
WIN7 EXPERIENCE INDEX The Win7 Experience Index (WEI) represents Microsofts method of rating computer systems and, more specific to our usage, provides a storage evaluation through a graduated rating system up to 7.9 on pc components and the system as a whole. This benchmark is built into Windows and anyone can use it by simply typing: Go to Win Orb/All …
Read More »Patriot Wildfire SATA 3 SSD Performance Testing – Unbelievable PCMark Vantage HDD Suite Results
PCMARK VANTAGE HDD SUITE One thing that becomes readily apparent when we are running the synthetic benches is that they are just that; synthetic. Where the SandForce drives really excel is in the actual real world tasks, that utilize a variety of data. In PCMark Vantage the data simply cannot be manipulated, and a result is provided based on the …
Read More »Patriot Wildfire SATA 3 SSD Performance Testing – Conclusions
CONCLUSION At the end of the day, we need to illustrate a very important point. While the LSI 9265-8i is the fastest RAID card on the planet, it simply cannot give these drives the true justice that they deserve. The throughput of the Patriots, both in MB/s and IOPS, if they could scale perfectly in RAID would be phenomenal. 4.440 …
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 …
Read More »Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD Review @ Vortez
Kingstons most recent product release just last week sees their very first SSD launch under the HyperX branding.HyperX being their premium label for enthusiasts, professionals and gamers. That isnt all though, this is the first SSD by Kingston using the SATA3 interface. The HyperX SSD first appeared at CES 2011, at the beginning of the year but was only officially …
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