Four and twenty SSDs RAIDed in a pie

YESTERDAY WE mentioned that OCZ Z-Drive review on IT Review. Well, one of our fans - not Drashek - pointed us towards the Geekologie page where there's a video of Samsung's marketing team RAIDing 24 SSD drives... Samsung gets points for an utterly amateur video with some nice touches.

XBit Labs is measuring just which platform, Core 2 Quad or Core i7, perform better under the Geforce GTX 285 and 295. The Core i7 shows its stuff when the GPU isn't the limitation.

WD's 2TB Caviar Green HDD was the first 2TB unit to reach the market. Allyn at PC Perps is taking a look at it and seems quite impressed with its noise levels (or lack thereof).

A couple of days ago, our collective brains fizzled and we called Tom Clancy's HAWX an FPS, it's not an FPS, of course, it's a flight sim. Doh. Guru of 3D is running all the cards in the lab on the game.

A bit of LN2 artistry is going on at OCaholic, as one of the team builds his own CAM machine with some serious overclocking potential.

Connecting PCs over the power grid seems to be a bit easier these days. Thrusting Reviews is testing the Comtrend PowerGrid 902 Powerline Ethernet Adapter. These come in pairs, are cheap and do the essential.

The Widescreen Gaming Forum is showing off the Matrox TripleHead2Go in action. Playing games at 5040x1050 becomes a reality, a freaky one at that, but very real.

Silent PC Review is testing the Asus HD 4870 Matrix, their top range HD 4870 with 1GB of RAM and the custom lightweight cooler. Fans are noisy at any speed, unfortunately, says Lawrence.

Legion Hardware has a new HTPC case from ThermalTake, the SD100 Mini. It is, of course, a Mini-ITX enclosure. Contrary to HTPC/mini-ITX cases, it doesn't cost an arm and a leg. It might be a good option for those on a budget.

Asrock's AOD790GX/128M AM2+ mobo is on test at Benchmark Reviews. The 790GX gives it some headroom for tweaking, and considering it's a cheap board in the first place, that's even more value.

ExtremeTech reviews a bunch of BD drives. Despite that sounding oh not-so-exciting, if you look at the benchmark numbers, you'll see just how demanding these things can be and how a low CPU utilization rate will pay off.

Well, Sapphire continues to churn out its own designs of ATI cards, including this Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 4870 at Fudzilla. Sanjin finds it performs more or less identical to its reference brethren. Ho-hum.

Hexus has come up with some 3x2GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-2000 kit for the wealthy Core i7 owners. Retailing at £300, you're paying a premium for a little edge, we guess. µ