Storage The Crucial M500 struggled to be competitive performance wise after only a few months of being on the market. This meant that even though the M500 was only introduced about a year ago Crucial needed to give it's SSDs an update. With the introduction of the M550 this much needed update is finally here.
Last Update: 04/28/2014
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Storage The world of flash drives continues to change and, for the most part, many features we might like to see still aren’t present in today’s solutions. Simple software security that allows a secure folder to store sensitive data, apart from the normal storage area where we can throw daily data, comes to mind right away. And what about lifespan? Even today we wonder just how long our flash drive will really last and what type of performance drop we might see along the way. And then there is the issue of speed….
Last Update: 05/06/2014
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Storage It’s been awhile since we’ve had an ADATA product on our bench and today we’ll be looking at the ADATA Premiere Pro SP920 512GB SSD that is powered by the Marvell 88SS9189 controller that we’ve seen on a few drives now and know to be very effective. The performance numbers depend heavily on the drive capacity but the 512GB version we received is rated for 560MB/s reads and 500MB/s writes with IOPS numbers reaching 98K/88K for reads/writes. Read on to see how it performs!
Last Update: 05/12/2014
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Storage Today we look at the hardware encrypted Kingfast Secure USB flash drive. Read on as Tyler gives us the full details on this new device.
Last Update: 05/19/2014
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Storage Last night while i was discussing the future of hard disk drives with my cousin it just occurred to us that just roughly 5 years ago storage capacities at around the 3.2GB mark were considered as quite large and not everyone could afford even just that. Fast forward to today and things have changed in an massive degree due to the advancement of technology and the continuous price drops since most people own at least a single 2TB (2000GB) drive while others even use several 4TB (4000GB) drives to cover their needs. Of course ultra-high capacities like the second example are primarily useful for people who obviously have huge storage needs (namely professionals) and so casual users are not really included. However for people who do have huge storage needs even 4TB HDDs are not nearly enough to cover those needs and so the recent appearance of 6TB HDDs is without doubt great news. Today we will be taking a look at 3 of the latest Enterprise Capacity 3.5 v4 6TB SATA III hard disk drives by Seagate in both single and RAID0 tests.
Last Update: 05/26/2014
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Storage The ADATA XPG SDXC makes its way through the labs. Read on as Tyler explores the performance of this UHS I U3 storage solution and if you should buy it.
Last Update: 06/12/2014
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Storage Our RAID champion makes another appearance, and this time we've got six 480GB Intel 730K SSD's to max out our Lynx Point chipset. Let's take a look now.
Last Update: 06/23/2014
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Storage Aujourd'hui, nous testons tout simplement le plus beau des SSD PCI Express, le M6E Black Edition de Plextor. Un SSD qui, en plus d'être superbe, exploite une technologie lui permettant d'afficher 770 Mo/sec en lecture et 580 Mo/sec en écriture... A découvrir sans plus attendre en CowcotColor.
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Storage Thecus has come up with something new in the world of NAS with three models that are supplied with Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials. These NAS are described by Thecus as the ‘World’s first Windows Essential NAS’.
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Storage SATA III based solid state drives (SSDs) may have reached the maximum supported read & write numbers most enthusiasts and gamers look for when out in the market for one but durability and sustained performance are the two most important aspects for professionals and enterprise users (probably even more important than maximum read & write speeds). Unfortunately ever since we made the SNIA IOMeter tests part of our testing methodology we've seen that not many models can produce good sustained performance numbers and so this might just be the next thing for them to focus on. However OCZ with their ARC 100 SSD model which we tested a few months back proved that they've already started to focus on that area (most likely thanks to their merge with Toshiba) and today we're taking their top of the line SATA III SSD model the Vector 180 480GB for a spin to see just how better it is compared to the ARC 100 and of course it's immediate competition.
Last Update: 06/22/2015
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