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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 …

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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. …

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OWC Upgrades SATA 3 6G SSD Line To Toshiba Flash and SandForce SF-2282 Processor (240GB only) – Final Thoughts

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THE COMPANY I will precede this these final thoughts by stating right off that OWC is an advertiser on The SSD Review (look right) and they understand that reviews and editorials are completely independent of that. Myself and their Founder and President, Larry O’Connor, have met personally and he will be the first to admit that I speak my mind …

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Kingston HyperX 240GB SATA 3 SSD Review – SSD Components and Test Protocol

The PCB contains the SandForce SF-2281 capable of equal read and write performance in excess of 500MB/s.  There are also 16 Intel 25nm NAND flash memory chips (29F16B08CCME2), each being of 16GB density for a total of 256GB RAW capacity. SandForce utilizes a full memory module (16GB) for its over provisioning and firmware needs to include their patented DuraClass technology.  …

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