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24 Samsung SSD RAID Array – 2 GB/sec
In a brilliant marketing move, Samsung sent 24 SSDs to a group to play with/benchmark and this is what they ended up doing with it: Building a dual, quad-core monster box With a 24-disk SSD RAID array The machine at it’s peak performance gets around 2 GB/sec (not gigaBIT, but gigaBYTE). To show off what that really means [...]
Continue reading...Lenovo Uses Samsung SSDs in ThinkPads – Safe From Performance Problems
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
I currently have a Lenovo ThinkPad T60 — I got it a little over 2 years ago and have loved it. Lenovo support, while crumby at first, really came through the other time I needed them — calling to schedule a repair on a Saturday morning in order to get my repaired laptop back to [...]
Continue reading...Intel X25-M SSDs Performance Degrades Over Time
Thursday, February 19, 2009
With the recent discovery by Anandtech that JMicron-based cheap SSDs can introduce multi-second lockup/lag in a system and that Intel’s ultra-pricey X25-M SSDs didn’t suffer from the problem, it was looking like folks that had to have an SSD and were willing to pay for it had a chance at salvation… not so fast. PC Perspective [...]
Continue reading...Not All SSDs Are Equal – Some Will Kill Your Computer’s Performance
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Not all solid state drives (SSDs) are created equal it seems. Taking a quick glance at the Newegg SSD product listings for 32GB drives, you can get an idea that there is something different between a $300 OCZ and a $600 Intel SSD. A big thanks to Patrick Norton for sending this information in — it [...]
Continue reading...SanDisk Improves SSD Write Performance 100x with ExtremeFFS
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Intel Nehalem Benchmarks: 50-100% Performance Increases
Thursday, June 5, 2008
First, thanks to Grant Gochnauer for sending this across, it’s a kick-ass preview of the upcoming (end of year most likely) Nehalem CPUs and Chipsets from Intel. Secondly let’s thank Anandtech for sneaking into the Intel expo and capping off these benchmarks for us. Quick Tips Nehalem is the upcoming CPU design from Intel at 45nm to [...]
Continue reading...Samsung Releases 256GB SSD – Only Jesus and Santa Can Afford It
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Samsung has released the world’s largest solid state drive (SSD) in the form of their new 256GB FlashSSD flagship drive. For those not in the know about the SSD craze, basically these hard drives are giant collections of flash-based memory, offering no moving parts (physically very strong, don’t need to worry about dropping it killing it) [...]
Continue reading...Seagate Plays the Douchebag Card (Stymies SSD)
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Well it happened… a few months ago it was rumored that Seagate held some IP that was essentially infringed upon by all existing solid state drive (SSD) designs. There were rumors that Seagate would pull that card just as the market was exploding in order to either kill off competition in the space or seriously [...]
Continue reading...Intel Z-P140 SSD Kicks Other SSD’s Asses
Thursday, December 20, 2007
We have covered Solid State Drives (SSDs) here a lot over the past few months, with the general consensus being that they are small in capacity but fast. Some user comments have suggested that stability and longevity of these devices just isn’t there yet however. While most of these SSDs are the size of a normal [...]
Continue reading...New Samsung SSD: 100 MB/sec Write, 120 MB/sec Read
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
FastSilicon has the scoop on Samsung announcing their new ultra-fast, ultra-low energy 64GB SSDs (Solid State Drives). We have covered SSD development quite a bit in the past, including the sometimes lack-luster performance. It’s true that in some cases the drives can perform pretty phenomenally (0.1ms seek times for example) but some of the read/write numbers [...]
Continue reading...Sandisk SSD vs Seagate HD
Friday, September 21, 2007
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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Monday, March 9, 2009
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