Corsair announced new capacities available for its Force GT Series SSD today right on the heels of its recently release of new capacities for the Series 3 line as well. As a bit of refresher, we reviewed the GT 120GB here and the Series 3 120GB here where we detailed the difference in performance between the two through use of …
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With a URL like SpireCoolers.com, it’s not hard to understand that Spire are most well known for their heat sink fan combinations. However, you may have heard they make cases too. Today — despite it being a holiday, yes, I’m dedicated — I’m reviewing the Spire Savit 6005B. It’s got a snappy name and a matt black exterior with a …
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Crucial has posted a firmware update (0009) for its M4 line which can be downloaded at Crucial.Com by M4 owners. The good news is that the firmware provides significant performance increase for all capacities of the M4 SSD and Crucial has all capacities of their M4 SSD on sale now at great prices. We initially thought this to be a …
Read More »INTERIOR COMPONENTS The Runcore T50 SATA 3 mSATA 120GB SSD is assembled on a printed circuit board (pcb) which measures 51mm x 32mm x 4mm and weighs under 30 grams. The easiest way to understand how small this is has been depicted in the phot on the first page of this report. It is exactly 1/3rd the size of the …
Read More »ATTO DISK BENCHMARK VER. 2.46 ATTO Disk Benchmark is perhaps one of the oldest benchmarks going and is definitely the main staple for manufacturer performance specifications. ATTO uses RAW or compressible data and, for our benchmarks, 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. …
Read More »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. FILE BENCHMARK RANDOM TESTING EXTRAS All of the HDTune tests seem to be in order except for the ‘Sequential Outer’ result in this test above. In most other SATA …
Read More »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 …
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I have been saying for some time now that mSATA SSDs would soon find there way into each and every notebook and things are well on there way. To think that a little ingenuity could see a laptop today pushing transfer speeds above 500MB/s with a terabyte plus hard drive right beside it. This raw power in ultraportables such as …
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It is almost four years to the day that the first consumer solid state drive was making its appearance which makes todays EXCLUSIVE SATA 3 mSATA SSD review truly sweet. Runcore is timing this ‘world first’ release with the news that they are also opening shop in California to better serve North American enterprise and client needs. The Runcore T50 …
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The Cooler Master NotePal U-Stand Aluminium Laptop Cooling Stand is the next offering in the NotePal lineup. The NotePal U-Stand brings something a little different that benefits both the professional, gamer, and general user.The U-Stand has 5 different height settings for multiple ergonomic positions. It is USB powered with a 3 port USB hub attached to extend the connectivity to …
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