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We have no lapscorchers in our organisation - Intel executive
The great wide Ion-der
SOME REVIEWERS THINK the Green Goblin's Ion will more than make up for the Atom's shortcomings, Legit Reviews being one of them. Ion provides decent graphics coupled with the power-cheap Atom that should enable some interesting solutions, thinks Nathan.
XBit Labs is unlocking some hidden Phenom II X3 720 secrets. That would mean the fourth core and the high power consumption that the processor has. Still, it's great on the price / performance side.
Tweak Town is looking at Patriot's third-gen Warp SSD drives. Actually, Chris thinks it's more of a 2.5 gen drive, as it doesn't bring much to the game except the rather large 256GB capacity.
If you're a security freak you can read about the Lenovo Thinkpad 128-bit AES Secure USB HD. Performance is nothing to write home about, but that's beside the point, innit?
Overclockers HQ has a Cavalry Pelican 32GB SATA and USB HDD. Yes, an SSD that you can take with you or shove in your PC (and a cheap one at that). This is just 32GB, sure, but heck... it's an SSD for less than $120.
Hexus has got hold of a new Vapor-X HD 4850 from Sapphire. The HD 4850 has been around for a while but the Vapor-X cooling gives it almost silent running and a factory overclock.
Notebook Review has a WD My Book World Edition NAS. The My Book World Edition is networkable and you can plug in additional USB storage. Jerry says it's the fastest consumer NAS he's ever tested.
The Hardware Canucks got some SSD satisfaction out of a G.Skill Titan 256GB SSD. The dual JMicron controller does some magic of its own, but isn't all it's cracked up to be. Well-priced and a fast reader, it seems.
Future Looks has a review of the Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB drive. Despite its 5400rpm rotational speed, it fends off attacks from faster predators - except when you factor in the price... $349 for an HDD is way too much wethinks.
Sanjin at Fudzilla got the Golden Sample version of the Gainward GTX 260. Golden Sample means cherry-picked and factory-overclocked. Great results but pricing might be an issue.
Extremetech reviewed the GA-EX58-UD3R, a thrifty X58-based motherboard that delivers good performance without breaking the bank. For just $220 it looks like a very affordable option for Core i7 computing.
Our favourite Hillbilly has posted a review of the S3 Chrome 540GTX graphics card. A Crysis-card it isn't, but it'll suffice if you want to bring some HD decode to your PC.
Anandtech's IT site has a thorough comparison of SSD, Enterprise SAS and SATA. As you can imagine these are five- or even six-digit storage solutions. SSDs win hands down, it seems. µ
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The recent Anandtech article proved that no ssd is worth buying other than the OCZ Vertex and Intel one's. The other's can provide good sequential transfer rates, but actually provide POORER random transfer rates than traditional hard drives. And small random writes is what keeps happening in background when you use your system. You'll see a lot of stuttering and pausing.
The problem is with the JMicron controller. You should avoid all SSD's using it. They are cheap, but they're slower than traditional hard drives except while copying large files. Even dual JMicron controller doesn't solve the problem. OCZ is the best option since it's cheaper than Intel's solution and doesn't suffer with these problems. Intel's solution is costlier, but it's also much faster.
It's a huge 31-page article, if you want you can read it here:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531
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