Posts Tagged ‘SSD’

“A solid state drive (SSD) is the greatest single upgrade you can perform on a modern computer.” At least that’s what we’ve been told at one time or another. SSDs have come a very long way since their first release. They’re more reliable, larger and most importantly, their cost-per-gigabyte has come down. Today we’ll see if that modern day adage is true as we examine Patriot’s high performance Inferno SSD.

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Kingston is looking for video submissions for their contest entitled, “How Can a Kingston® SSDNow Drive Change Your Life?”

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By now, you have heard all about Solid State Drives: They are one of the most beneficial upgrades for your computer, and those who upgrade to an SSD will almost never be able to go back. So, let’s say you are convinced; you know the size you need and you’ve decided you’ll get one. Wallet in hand, you are ready to buy one, but you realize there are a lot of them. Which is the best one? Which is the best SSD in a given size class?

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John over at Madshrimps.be has put the question of optimal Raid0 stripe size in its final resting place. His article published today summarizes the results of over 1200 benchmark runs!

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There is a lot of discussion on forums about the impact of available disk space on SSD performance. A pertinent question was raised; At what point does drive utilization impact SSD performance? Running some quick tests, the results proved rather insightful.

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