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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 …

Despite the high prices of certain internal hardware like Graphics cards, mobos and CPUs, one of the biggest purchases youll ever make as a hardware enthusiast or gamer is your display. The monitor, the device you use to view all the content your internals pump out; its important. Today Im reviewing one from BenQ, their 23?  XL2410T LED monitor with …

Fractal Design Inc., a leading manufacturer of cases, power supplies, and cooling products for desktop computers, announces the highly anticipated availability of its products in the US. Newegg will be the first US reseller to offer Fractal Designs award winning Define R3 and Define XL Silent PC Cases. The Define Series family of cases delivers unparalleled value to the US …

Right on the heels of our amazing news regarding Intels upcoming release of the Intel ‘SandForce Driven’ SSD, capable of parallel 500MB/s transfer speeds,  The SSD Review is hosting the largest site giveaway we have seen yet on the Internet!! Its no trick!!!  On April 1/2011, we are going to draw from all eligible ballots and some lucky winner is …

The fastest graphics card in the world.. Thats what AMD says about their dual-GPU beast of a card, the HD 6990 that releases today. Will it ring true? With two of their top-of-the-line Cayman GPUs on board, its hard to think it wouldnt. Theyre not individually the fastest GPUs in the world, but can they reign supreme as a team. …

We have a chassis today designed for the enthusiast that combines noise dampening features with expandability and storage. The Whisper silent full tower chassis from NZXT is improving upon the success of the NZXT HU-001 chassis. Featured in a large E-ATX full tower, the Whisper can support up to nine hard drives and a total of six 5.25? bays with …

The Thermaltake V9 BlacX Gaming Case is sleek black inside and out, and comes loaded with features you would expect from a top of the line case. More than that, the Thermaltake V9 BlacX also packs in a Dual Bay HDD Docking Station right on the top of the case that is SATA III capable and easily fits 2.5 and …

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Gone are the days of monochromatic screens, polyphonic ring tones and battery lives measured in days not hours! As smart phones have developed (particularly since the introduction of the iPhone) screens have become larger, brighter and higher in resolution, connectivity is “always on” and multimedia (be it music, movies or photos) is a minimum requirement. All this technology is wonderful …

AS SSD BENCHMARK V.1.6 As much as AS SSD will show you the amazing numbers, alot has to be said of the PCIe interface which eliminates any bottlenecks of SATA 2 and even SATA 3.  Without this, we simply couldn’t pull up numbers any where near 3GB/s write as seen here. AS SSD is run in cache and there is …

This is the bread and butter of RAID testing today and it is something that I am particularly proud of.  As intimidating as it may seem, the eight OWC Mercury Pro Extreme RE (RAID Enhanced) SSDs loaned to The SSD Review by Other World Computing were more than up to the task of seeing how far we could push the …

Today we are testing the new Areca 1880ix-12 RAID controller. This is Areca’ premier SATA 3 internal RAID offering and signifies a great leap forward for a company known to cater to the enthusiast crowd. With the speed and power of SSDs reinventing mainstream storage, RAID card manufacturers have been under tremendous pressure to deliver a product that can handle …

We believe that our choice of performance benchmarks are pretty impressive and have to concede that we had a hard time getting benchmarks to run outside of cache numbers. Some tests are simply impossible to run without disk caching.  That is really the beauty of the Areca though and one thing that many are very fast to point out! “Thats …

WIN7 EXPERIENCE INDEX The Win7 Experience Index (WEI) represents Microsoft’s method of rating computer systems and, more specific to our usage, provides a storage evaluation through a graduated rating system up to 7.9 on pc components and the system as a whole. This benchmark is built into Windows and anyone can use it by simply typing: Go to Win Orb/All …

Iometer 2008.08.18 (Read Transfer) For the enthusiast crowd and enterprise, I have included IOMeter which allows for configurable cache sizes.  We have set the test file to 8gb, so you are seeing the results basically without cache leverage. The first is sequential bandwidth (1898 mb/s) tested with a 64mb file and 128 queue depth. The second is the 4k random …