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OCZ set out to put a slightly different angle on the Vertex 3 by creating a MaxIOPS version with increased IOPS for ‘applications that require a higher aggregate workload and increased throughput’ and, through our testing we have shown that they have done just that.  Through benchmark software, we have demonstrated that there is as much as 3 times the …

The search for fast, cheap, reliable and large capacity Hard Disk Drives seems to be never ending. Enter Samsung with their new EcoGreen 54EG 2TB Series of hard drives and we get a fresh look at something newer, faster, quieter and requiring less power than other hard drives in todays fast moving world of storage. With contenders such as Seagate, …

This is the Test Bench and a quick click will display it close up.  As you may have guessed, it truly is no ordinary Test Bench and I have dedicated more hours creating this build than than I care to admit to get it where it is today. Our main focal point in this report will be an array of …

MBR LIMITATIONS In order to ensure that our review went smoothly, their needed to be consideration as to what partitions would serve our tests best as this was definitely not a standard-issue configuration.  This was first discovered when we examined the inherent limitation of the MBR disk partitioning system which is the standard used for the vast majority of drives …

ATTO DISK BENCHMARK V.2.46 ATTO Disk Benchmark is the quickest and simplest method to determine transfer speeds and utilizes the same test methodology as manufacturers in arriving at performance results.  It simply measures raw sequential transfer speeds for both read and write access at various transfer sizes, producing a very easily understood result. This benchmark is by far the industry …

CRYSTAL DISKMARK 3.0.1 Crystal Diskmark is a very flexible benchmark that shows the speed of the drives at various file sizes. All of the smaller file sizes are measured in random access, a key weak point of many types of Hard Disk Drives. With this benchmark we can see the great scaling from the single drive compared to the raid …

WIN7 EXPERIENCE INDEX The Win7 Experience Index (WEI) represents Microsofts 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 …

Every now and then it is refreshing to see a company that believes that rushing into the dog race of technological advance might not be as business smart as simply understanding customer needs. This is definitely the case with Patriot and their new Torqx 2 SSD that not only remains to be a SATA 2.0 drive, but also, is definitely …

PATRIOT TORQX 2 INTERIOR COMPONENTS The Patriot Torqx 2 is controlled by the Phison PS3105-35-1 controller and the PCB has 8 modules of 16GB 32nm Toshiba NAND flash memory for a total of 128GB of RAW data storage.  Once formatted, the total capacity available to the user is 119GB.  To assist with the drives performance, there is also a Hynix …

ATTO DISK BENCHMARK 2.46 ATTO Disk Benchmark is perhaps one of the oldest benchmarks going and is definitely the main staple for manufacturer performance specifications.  For our testing, 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.  Manufacturers prefer this method of testing as it …

HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 “ BENCHMARK HDTune Pro is a great software program that lets us have a look at all aspects of testing through several separate tests: The maximum speed of 253MB/s is a decent result and as we spoke of previously, the acces time of 0.4ms is a bit longer than normal. HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.6 “ FILE …

This paragraph will be the ‘meat and gravy’ of this review simply because most want to know what this SSD will do for them. We can approach it from the angle that the SSD will last longer, not crash and lose all data at its end life, is lighter, cooler, uses less power which guarantees longer battery life, is more durable …

What a day!!!  Its been a long haul to get this confirmation but today we started our day with confirmation that we are heading to Computex Taipei and will be skeleton crew here from 29May to 6 Jun 2011. That was just the start as we also received a few SSD samples in the mail for review to include the  …

For a long time we’ve been looking for a high quality NAS server to compete on the market with the same speed and abilities as the QNAP and Thecus products. What we’ve needed to find is a “QNAP-lite” product that allows users to store their data redundantly, allow for high speed file transfers and still use the DLNA protocol to …

Lucid (formerly LucidLogix) appeared on the enthusiast horizon with their “Hydra” technology, which purported to enable vendor-agnostic multi-GPU systems. Users would be able to combine the performance of different video cards from different vendors, rather than being constrained to the cards required by ATI CrossFireX or NVIDIA SLI. Hydra didn’t work as well as had been hoped, but the introduction …