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Tech Reviews across the Globe for April 20, 2012

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I wonder how many people out there have never heard of Dick Clark? If I were a betting person, I would bet that even those people who claim not to be into music or never watched American Bandstand still heard of him. Who could never seen at least one New York City new year’s ball drop? What a great legacy… if we …

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Affiliate Tech Reviews for April 18, 2012

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Just read about the women in Michigan, US, who won the lottery and continued to collect food stamps and has now been arrested and charged with fraud. Interesting how everyone is trying to pass the buck on who made the biggest mistake. While morally she should have known better and never used them, she didn’t go and steal them. Interesting twist …

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SMART Storage Systems XceedStor 500S 240GB MLC Enterprise SSD Review

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Our SSD analysis today will be on the SMART Storage Systems XCeedStor 500S 240GB MLC enterprise SSD and SMART hopes to cater to the exploding Light-Enterprise market with this new enterprise entry. Many users are now substituting client SSDs for more price-conscious approaches to boosting read-centric environment performance which can expose users to data integrity and security concerns, making the …

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OWC Releases First Fully Bootable PCIe SSD For Mac and PC

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Other World Computing’s new Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD is a new entry in the consumer/prosumer storage market and will be the first such device that is bootable in both PCs and Macs. Composed of a half-height PCIe card with two MacBook Air-styled SandForce powered SSDs in RAID, the Accelsior is capable of SATA III speeds up to 780MB/s read and …

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Garbage Collection and TRIM in SSDs Explained – An SSD Primer

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‘Garbage Collection in SSDs’ is a contributed article that was submitted by LSI and authored by Kent Smith, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Flash Components Division, LSI Corporation. It’s importance cannot be understated for anyone venturing into today’s world of SSDs. Garbage collection (GC) is a fundamental process with all solid state drives (SSDs), but it can be implemented in …

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Intel 330 Series SATA 3 SSD Family Released With SandForce Performance and Great Prices

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This morning, Intel is releasing their new 330 series SATA III SSDs with a healthy mix of performance and value. A new addition to the mainstream 300 series, the 330 is a budget oriented offering which shouldn’t lack for performance. The 330 series is available in 60GB, 120GB, and 180GB capacities and suggested retail pricing is $89, $149, and $249, respectively, …

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Sharing a Weekend of Tech Reviews

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Do you like to share? The wonder of the internet has made that a whole lot easier. It’s interesting because while most ‘Techies”, I know, prefer to work alone they thrive on sharing their information with others. So allow me to share some “tech” reviews I collected recently and check out the highlight item, love it! HIGHLIGHT REVIEW Upgrade Your House (Custom …

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Renice X3 50mm 240GB mSATA SSD Review

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The Renice X3 240GB mSATA SSD will be our second review of a high capacity mSATA SSD and follows of our recent review of the Samsung PM830 256GB  mSATA SSD. While the Renice is SATA 2, with the Samsung PM830 being SATA 3, it’s value cannot be understated as it is only the second mSATA SSD that has reached this …

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Fusion Io Releases ioFX PCIe SSD As Digital Media Drives The Industry Forward

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Fusion IO, well known for their high performance, professional grade solid state drives and more recently, SSD caching solutions, has announced the release of their ioFX PCIe SSD. Part of their ioMemory platform, ioFX is intended to bring cost effective, souped up data storage to the workstation. The drive will deliver 1.5GB/s, and will allow artists to manipulate prodigious amounts of …

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IO-Data Announces SSDN-3TB SSDs With New Toshiba SATA 3 SSD Controller

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IO-Data, well known for its myriad storage products, has announced their latest SSD model, SSDN-3TB. Built around a new Toshiba 6Gbps storage controller, it will deliver read and write speeds of up to 480 MB/s and 350MB/s respectively. In addition, random performance is pegged at 73k IOPS for reads and 58k IOPS when it comes to writes. Initially available in …

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