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CRYSTAL DISK BENCHMARK VER. 3.0 X64 Crystal Disk Benchmark is used to measure read and write performance through sampling of raw (0/1 Fill/compressible) or random data which is, for the most part, incompressible. Many new SSD owners who can’t wait to test the performance of their SSD often grab this program and run a quick test, not realizing that they …

If you were with us at Computex, you may remember that we pushed the bar just a bit by being the first technology site to do actual benchmark testing during our SSD manufacturer interviews.. I can say that some were none too impressed with the lack of advance notice and declined the opportunity while others such as Kingston, Super Talent …

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 …

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.  …

Cooler Master already enthused the ocinside.de online magazine with some Silent Pro Gold Series power supply units, which can be found in the upper price segment. Today we look at the much more inexpensive Cooler Master GX-650 Bronze power supply, which should have a good energy efficiency in spite of the low price. Let us compare the results of this …

The Corsair H80 is a sealed liquid cooling system, a.k.a. a water cooler. Let’s test it and see if it offers great performance. Full Story at Hardware Secrets.

ADATA isn’t new to the SATA III market. The company already released the S501; a Marvell controlled SATA III drive with good wear capabilities. The S501 was a stopgap product between ADATA’s successful S599 SandForce SF-1200 drive and the new S511 featuring SandForce’s latest flagship, the SF-2281. In the past ADATA has competed for the price / performance crown and …

Being fascinated with the concept of time travel for as long as I can remember, there are always moments of my life where I would just sit there and wonder, “If I could travel back in time, would I have done things differently?” While my enthusiastic self-study of theoretical physics in my free time (I am actually in Electrical Engineering) …

Recently we have seen several Hard Drive enclosures but today is the turn of something very similar, yet completely different. While that may be a bit of an exaggeration there are certainly quite a few differences. Today we are taking a look at the Akasa Flexstor DiskLink USB 3.0 Adapter, and it that, an adapter not an enclosure. While you …

Despite only announcing their product line today, Phanteks has a wealth of expertise in this domain adding another credential to their line-up of features. Lets see if they can take on the challenge set by Noctua and Thermalright. Full story at Vortez

At the moment we’re going through these little phases with video cards; we get a couple in and then it dies down for a few weeks. Then a few more come in and it dies down a little bit again. The latest card to slide into the lab here comes from Sapphire and is an expansion of the Vapor-X series. …

For many enthusiasts, fitting the very best hardware into a computer case comes at a high price. Unfortunately it means having large, unwieldy enclosures to house all of their hardware. To combat this, Lian Li has created an enclosure with unique properties to combat the growing bloat of systems, and to their credit it seems to has worked. By allowing …

Since the 1999 release of X-Men which completely re-invigorated the comic book movie adaptation business after it was murdered so completely by 1997’s Batman & Robin, the movie industry has been awash with every superhero from both the major American comic studios Marvel and DC and other independent studios, generating billions of dollars in ticket sales and rejuvenating the comic …

So much of the technology market is aimed at men, whereas we all know that at least half the tech being bought these days is going to be owned/used/operated/upgraded by ladies. KitGuru loaded up the Digital SLR at Multiplays i43 event and went in search of the human side of female gaming. Full story at Kitguru.

With everyone expecting the overall outlook for electrical retail stores to remain fairly bleak, the main competitors are working to find new ways to deliver shareholder value and return a dividend. At Multiplay i43, there was a surprising announcement on the main stage. Heres what they said and a question: Should other retailers be worried? Full story at Kitguru.