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SATA III SSD benchmarks incoming
WE'D LIKE TO start off with these rather impressive benchmarks on a SATA III SSD, over at PC Perspective. Actually it’s Marvell trying to show just how powerful SATA III can be when coupled with an SSD, not that they are making any SSDs, but rather the microcontroller. Impressive numbers, even if they are just “reads” and no “writes”.
Thrusted Reviews spend some quality time with the Samsung X520 15.6-inch CULV laptop. As notebooks go, the X520 is slightly large-ish, more than you’d want your take-away laptop to be, but portable enough (<2Kg) to carry. Six-and-a-half hours of battery life is what TR came up with.
Another CULV, this time an Asus UL80Vt-A1 makes it to the pages of Legit Reviews. Unlike the above X520, the Asus machine delivers a decent battery life (albeit with an 8-cell battery) and provides even gets you some basic 3D with Geforce 210M graphics.
Tom’s Hardware has bunged together a collection of comparative benchmarks for Windows 7 and Vista. You can see for yourself the “7” advantage, not only on modern machines, but on older ones that sometimes balk under the weight of Vista.
Tech Gage has an Asus P7P55D-E Pro motherboard on the bench. It’s a higher-end version of the standard P7P55-D Pro, and equipped to operate just about any hardware you’d want to slot in it. 9 SATA HDD + eSATA, with SATA III and USB 3.0 support. Well, it’s feature-laden and just $190, you get the picture.
Xbit Labs is determining just how powerful a CPU do you need to drive a full blown 5970 rig, or just the “lighter” 5870. Plenty of benchmarks there, and some interesting numbers when you pull out all the stops on a top of the range Core i7 processor.
For $50 you can pick up a Patriot NAS Gearbox device. Just hook it up to your network, attach some USB storage and serve it up on the PCs in your house, or as an FTP server. Quite simple and effective, actually. Not speedy, but just about right for the price.
Austrian cooler specialists, Noctua, have released their NH-D14 Premium CPU cooler. It’s huge, it has one 140mm fan and another 120mm one and its design was purpose-built to avoid the RAM ‘sinks. Guru 3D took it for a spin and concluded it’s about the most powerful fan+heatsink combo out there, and costs as much as some cheap liquid cooling. µ
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I'm not sure if you actually read that article you linked to about SATA III SSD benchmarks, because the article itself stated "the SATA 6G results did not impress us" so how you got that to mean "impressive" is somewhat beyond my comprehension.
My Samsung F1 1TB SATA II hard drive does 116Mbytes/sec read, which beats that SATA III SSD drive and cost me less than 75 quid. Not a very good ad for either SSDs or SATA III really is it?
Yes, the Intel SSD does have good performance, but a) it's not SATA III (yet) and b) it's very expensive indeed (well beyond any typical home consumer budget).
The Windows 7 benchmarks compare it with Vista, which we all know is crap. We can conclude that Win7 is better than crap but not by much.
We ought to be seeing comparisons with XP. The fact that we don't convinces me that Win7 < XP.
Seriously, every time I read a Vista vs Windows 7 comparison and compare the benchmarks, I'm surprised by the author's conclusion. Really, 5% is a glaring improvement? And that was on just one set of benchmarks. As far as I saw, except boot/sleep time, they look nearly identical to me. These sites like Toms Hardware must be getting some type of kickbacks for making such outlandish claims when the evidence in front of their face does not support them.
The people in the comments section that buy into the review are amazingly ignorant.
Major overhaul of an OS=RAGE
5% improvement(debatable) on that major overhaul=LOVE and PUPPIES.
morons
If File is over Megabyte in size you can get Over Rice Paper Curtain of 300 Mb/s transfer. In Normal Range of 512 byte files clips, expect 5 Mb/s actual transfer rate. Read 'Em & Weap. Something Tells Me Its Not Time For SSD Nor SATAIII. Especially since plug in SSD Cards that do pci-e can get theREADER across @ 10X any of Marvels' numbers with ease.
drashek
oooh, all these numbers are making me so desparate to own one! (despite the compulsory fast depreciation in value)
i'll just go and sell a vital organ to fund it..