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It was just about a month ago that AData announced their upcoming release of a new 6Gbps SSD which would join the masses of ‘SandForce Driven’ SSDs and, not surprisingly, a sample was in the mail on our return from Computex. Today we will be ripping apart an AData S511 120GB solid state drive and its only proper to welcome …

TEST BENCH AND PROTOCOL This is The SSD Review Test Bench and a quick click on the photo will bring it up full size for closer inspection. Our main goal in testing is to ensure that all test results are as accurate as they can be and no anomalies slip through. We conduct all tests three times and, if necessary, …

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) or random data. 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 are testing with random data, not RAW …

HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.60 BENCHMARK HDTune is a great software program which covers all areas of our testing and does a great job of showing how capable this drive truly is. HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.60 FILE BENCHMARK HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.60 RANDOM TESTS HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.60 EXTRAS The battery of HDTune tests seem to show this drive as any …

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 the tests are complete. The …

Most recently, an SSD manufacturer finally did what we have been waiting for from SSD companies for quite some time.  We find it amusing that manufacturers haven’t thrown their support in SSD reliability through extended warranties long before this since SSDs have been shown to be pretty much indestructible. Other World Computing (OWC) has not only tackled this with a …

Today we are going to take an in-depth look at CacheCade, a new approach to storage systems that allows the perfect fusion of HDD capacity and SSD speed. With many large databases and enterprise users ‘caught in the middle’ with large HDD arrays, yet needing more performance from their existing infrastructure, CacheCade is a great option that allows the best …

SAN JOSE, CA. June 7, 2011: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced its 500 gigabyte per platter, one terabyte internal hard disk drive, Spinpoint M8 for use in mobile computing applications such as notebooks. Samsung’s Spinpoint M8, which consists of two 500 gigabyte platters, provides users with one terabyte storage space. …

Network storage is a concept that many people use without a second thought in corporate environments, but what about at home? In addition, a larger number of people are beginning to utilize cloud services, and most of those services include some storage capability. What if you could implement both, easily and with one device? All that and much more is …

Back when I was in high school, I got this particular memorable encouragement note in a fellowship group activity from this girl in church. “Being outspoken all the time does not necessarily make you cool”, it read. “Sometimes there is a need to shut up.” Well, for one thing, this ‘encouragement’ note did not sound very… encouraging. And secondly, in …

Over the coming months as we build up towards finally getting our hands on the Bulldozer platform, we’ll no doubt be looking at plenty of 990FX based motherboards from companies. Having already looked at what ASUS offered us in their ROG Crosshair V Formula board, today we’ll take the time to check out the GIGABYTE option. While GIGABYTE do have …

If it seems like Gigabyte is on top of the world these days, there just may be a reason why. Given exception to their industry leading motherboard selection which seems to be taking awards from all directions, their main Headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan is simply breathtaking. This Gigabyte HQ invite was definitely one of our highlights of Computex 2011. Gigabyte …

The one thing that Computex is not short of is attractive women to draw buyers in to look at the …  products? These beautiful women could be found in just about every booth and all reveled at the opportunity to have their picture taken with company products or Computex visitors. This is our choice as to the best of Computex …

One can improve the performance of small files by up to 50X which for certain types of setups can reap HUGE results. Webservers, File Servers, and OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) will benefit tremendously. There is definitely a large group of users that would be very interested in combining the positive aspects of both solutions (HDD/SSD) into one cohesive unit.  How …

After a period of time the SSD cache is going to be accessed quite frequently, and this has other advantages. Right now Cachecade is a read-only layer, so it might not be easy to understand the tremendous benefits that it has in regards to write performance on the HDD array. By freeing up the HDD from the most constantly addressed …