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We take a dive into the latest OS offering from QNAP: QTS 4.0.2 and its new features including Photo Station, Music Station and File Station.
Every now and again I get the chance to have a product a little ahead of every other reviewer in the world and in some cases, I’ve been able to claim the worlds first review as well. There is however one drive that I’m sure many reviewers are waiting to get their hands on, and thanks to Kingston I’ve been able to get a hands on world, exclusive look at the HyperX Predator 1TB USB3.0 flash drive.
A few months ago I had a look at the DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 G3 64GB, which features a build and design that is fairly similar to that of the 1TB drive that I have to play with today, however this is of course a little more special with its HyperX branding and of course the mammoth 1TB capacity.
As opposed to most flash drives that we’ve seen from Kingston, the HyperX Predator 1TB is far more worthy of the typical plastic packaging that is pretty much the standard. Instead, this drive comes in a rather sleek looking metal tin with a fitted foam interior that holds both the drive and the accessories that come with it. Alongside the mammoth 1TB drive, we find a keyring for attaching the drive to a set of keys or hand-cuffs; as after all you really don’t want to be letting this drive out of your sight too soon as I felt whilst I had it in my possession. The other accessory we get is a short USB extension cable which for many users will be a well used accessory due to the fact that the drive is a little wider than a typical USB drive.
The Intel Developer Forum is next month and on the agenda is a workshop on SSD Overclocking with a new prototype Intel SSD! We were expecting to learn all about that next month, but it appears that Intel wanted to get some community feedback before IDF and they are showing off SSD Overclocking right now at PAX Prime. Read on to find out more!
The Micron P420m, announced earlier this summer, is a half-height, half-length (HHHL) PCIe storage device that augments Micron’s PCIe enterprise storage line. The P420m has a lot to live up to. If you remember back to last October, we reviewed the Micron P320h and came away thoroughly impressed. Massive amounts of speed, endurance and parallelism were at our disposal. With the P420m, Micron is at it again, but this time they brought MLC NAND to the table instead of the bulletproof SLC NAND they used in the P320h.
The SSD market as many people know it is inundated with drives that have one of LSI's SandForce SF-2281 controllers at their heart and whilst this is not a bad thing - given that they have proven reliability and some of the best performance to be had, they are not without their faults.
SSD owners today, use their drives for a multitude of tasks and breaking these tasks down to the way the drives see the data, we have two data types; compressible and incompressible. SandForce based drives typically use lossless data compression to minimise the write cycles to the flash in order to prolong its life span, however not all data sets can be compressed in this way and consequently when these controllers meet this type of data, the write speeds consequently slow down as the data takes more time to process.
SanDisk's Extreme series of drives as we have here today, are now on to their second generation and following the success of the original Extreme that was based around the SF-2281 controller, SanDisk want to take the performance up a notch to give this drive a huge selling point against every other drive out there. To do this, the SandForce controller had to be laid to rest as the way it handles incompressible data was not going to be right for an 'extreme' drive. As a result, Marvell has been brought in with its top end controller and this teamed with SanDisk's own 19nm Toggle NAND MLC flash and a 256MB cache is what is set to give this drive the grunt it needs to push it to the top of the SSD performance charts.
Technic3D hat die OCZ Vertex 450 SSD im Test. Die Vertex 450 SSD Serie nutzt einen Barefoot 3 Controller zusammen mit 20nm NAND. Wie sich das 256 GB Modell im Test schlägt, zeigt der nachstehende Artikel.
To my knowledge there are currently 4 types of consumers in the PC market, people who care not about cost just as long they can fulfill their needs (professionals and enthusiasts mostly), people who allow cost to be the decisive factor when choosing a device, people who only care about the specifications of a product and finally there are those who are looking to hit the sweet spot between performance and cost (price/performance ratio) or what i like to call the best value for their hard earned money. Roughly two weeks ago we had the latest and fastest 2.5" 9.5mm hard disk drive by HGST on our test bed the Travelstar 7K1000 (1TB SATA III). Now the Travelstar 7K1000 just may be the fastest 2.5" 9.5mm SATA III HDD out there as we speak but it has one small flaw, it only comes at 1TB capacity which although not bad on its own it's really not enough not when there are 1.5-2TB models in the market. Of course HGST is well aware of that so 5 months ago they announced the availability of the Travelstar 5K1500 a 2.5" 9.5mm drive with a capacity of 1.5TB and naturally we just had to check it out as we did.
Mit der Synology DiskStation DS214 testen wir den Nachfolger der DS213. Das NAS-System setzt auf einen neuen Dual-Core-SoC von Marvell und eine werkzeuglose Festplattenmontage.
Late last year I had a look at one of the latest flash drives to roll off the Mach Xtreme production line, featuring 16GB of SLC NAND within its slim read body and a suitably reasonable price tag to go along with it. Now, nearly a year on, I’m going to be taking a look at the 32GB SKU of the same MX-ES SLC drive that I looked at last year.
As a brief re-run over the history of Mach Xtreme, they are one of the leading storage manufacturers for flash products and over the last couple of years, they have been focussing on the MX-ES line of drives with its SLC NAND design.For a few people out there, SLC is common knowledge, but for those that do not know, this refers to the build up of the NAND flash, in this case with a Single Level Cell in instead of a Multi Level Cell design that we typically see in flash drives. Over the MLC design, SLC does not suffer from the same high wear rates and at the same time offers up a better write performance. The downside of this is that SLC NAND takes up a greater space over the much denser MLC and also the production costs are also higher.
As we’ve seen before, the MX-ES drive comes attached to a card with a plastic cover. The front side of the card is packed with information of the drive, including its five year warranty, SLC flash design and that it is ‘optimised’ for Asus motherboards – although the latter we showed to be inconclusive last time round with our testing.
The Sandisk Ultra Plus 256GB and Extreme II 240GB both made an excellent impression. The Ultra Plus 256GB is the cheapest 256 GB SSD we've tested. While it's not a stand-out in terms of performance, it performs well enough overall, and it's also very energy efficient. It offers a lot of value for your money, so we can definitely recommend the Ultra Plus 256GB if you're looking for an affordable upgrade for your laptop.
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