Les Tokar

is a technology nut and Founder of The SSD Review. His early work includes the first consumer SSD review along with MS Vista, Win 7 and SSD Optimization Guides. Les is fortunate to, not only evaluate and provide opinion on consumer and enterprise solid state storage but also, travel the world in search of new technologies and great friendships. Google+

TechwareLabs Review: CA Technologies Online Backup Software

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CA Technologies (https://www.ca.com) is an IT solutions company that has been supporting Fortune 2000 companies with computer products and services since 1976. Now, theyre offering a suite of software aimed at the home user, including CA Internet Security Suite Plus, CA AntiVirus Plus, CA PC Tune-Up, and CA Online Backup. Ill be looking at the latter product, the backup software, …

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Powercolor HD6970 PCS+ Review @ KitGuru

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AMDs HD6970 has been a strong seller since it was released on December 15th 2010.The combination of class leading performance and competitive price point has served AMDs partners well. Today we are looking at the new PowerColor HD6970 PCS+ which receives a high level of TLC, with enhanced clock speeds and a striking dual fan heatpipe cooler. Full Story @ …

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Thermalright Archon CPU Cooler Review @ Real World Labs

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Thermalright is an elite design house that manufactures cooling products for computer components for the best quality and performance your money can buy. In 2002, AMD released its first generation Thunderbird CPU and since then we have been there every step of the way to counter high voltage and high heat with innovative design and highly acclaimed cooling solutions not …

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Join The SSD Review and WIN BIG!!!!

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WHY HAVENT YOU JOINED?!? We understand why members aren’t telling their friends but the truth is that the chances to win one of our giveaways are incredible!!! The first draw, a 64GB Crucial C300 was was drawn amongst a site membership of 153. This draw is much the same and, if you read the OWC Mercury Extreme Pro Rules, you …

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Intel 310 Series 80GB SSD Review – SSD Build and Test Protocol

If anything starts to seem familiar with this solid state drive, thats understandable because it really is an Intel X25m in disguise. The controller is the Intel PC29AS21BAO that has had such success in the X25m and X25v series SSDs and once again the flash is none other than Intel 34nm 29F16B08JAMBA flash modules.  The 80GB version contains 5x16GB flash …

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Intel 310 Series 80GB SSD Review – Benchmark Testing

1.  ATTO Disk Benchmark Ver. 2.46 Test results of 214MB/s read and 87MB/s write have to be applauded when the specs list 200MB/s read and 70MB/s write. Nice start Intel!! 2. Crystal Diskmark x64 ver. 3.0 Crystal DiskMark almost mirrors ATTO in the high sequential scoring and adds to this by showing us great 4k random writes at 44MB/s.  This …

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Intel 310 Series 80GB SSD Review – More Benchmark Testing

5. HDTune Pro Ver. 4.6 “ Benchmark Pushing up the maximum read benchmarks to an average of 256MB/s was a bit unexpected so we retested a few times, each resulting in similar results. HDTune Pro Ver. 4.6 “ File Bench HDTune Pro Ver. 4.6 “ Random Access HDTune Pro Ver. 4.6 “ Extras We like to include the HDTune Pro …

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Cooler Master Storm Spawn Gaming Mouse Review @Hi Tech Legion

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“The Cooler Master Storm Spawn Gaming Mouse impresses at first glance with a dark crimson and black finish. The Storm Spawn is hardly just a pretty face, however, boasting 3500 DPI adjustable on the fly with anti-drift sensing, polling rates up to 1000Hz, macro recording ability and 32kb of memory onboard to save those macros to the Storm Spawn itself. …

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