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3 SanDisk 8GB Extreme III Compact Flash Card or Extreme III SDHC Card $20

    From Dealsea Adorama has SanDisk Memory Cards on sale. Buy 3 of each product for $90 - $70 rebate (Exp 1/17) = $20 with free shipping. [Comments] SanDisk 8 GB Extreme III Compact Flash Card (SDCFX3008GA31) SanDisk 8 GB, Extreme III SDHC Card (SDSDRX38192A21) Editor’s Note: That’s a pretty damn smokin deal, SanDisk was doing a blow-out a few months ago and I [...]

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SanDisk Improves SSD Write Performance 100x with ExtremeFFS

Grant Gochnauer just sent in a link to an announcement that SanDisk has improved random disk writes on SSDs by a factor of 100x. This improvement is a direct result of SanDisk utilizing it’s new ExtremeFFS file system. The core design elements of ExtremeFFS that make this improvement possible are: Page-based algorithm: Customized for popular operating systems [...]

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Sandisk SSD vs Seagate HD

Grant Gochnauer sent along another cool benchmarking article showing how the Sandisk 32GB SSD (solid state drive) stacks up against a Seagate 160GB HD in a laptop. The bottom lines are: Read-speed is impressive and very consistent Write-speed is surprisingly disappointing Seek-speed and load times are insanely high (programs “instantly” load, Windows boots 9secs faster) Price is ridiculous for SSD [...]

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