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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 15th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Got A Slow SSD? Try FlashFire To Speed Things Up

If you are like me you like to test new software and hardware. This can sometimes be a curse as it can mean to buy hardware that has not been overly optimized yet so that the computer system suffers thanks to the user’s “I want to have it now” syndrome. This happened when I wanted [...]

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Categories: software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 15th, 2009
  • Comments: 8

Optimize Slow Solid State Drives

Solid State Drives are build into many computer systems these days. They are build into netbooks for example, are offered by web hosts to run in dedicated servers or purchased by tech enthusiasts. SSD are basically a new generation of hard drives which will eventually replace the existing ones that are build into the majority [...]

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Categories: Hardware

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 7th, 2009
  • Comments: None

OCZ Z-Drive

One of the latest hardware trends seems to be Solid State Drive (SSD) Raids. We already mentioned the 24 monster SSD Raid video that was uploaded to Youtube as part of Samsungs campaign to promote their SSD drives. This is obviously nothing that end users will ever user as it is hardly affordable and practical. [...]

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Categories: Hardware

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 10th, 2009
  • Comments: 11

Samsung 24 SSD Raid Viral Marketing

How do you buzz on the Internet? One of the most successful ways is a viral marketing campaign. Samsung thought of a great way of promoting their new 256GB MLC Solid State Drives. They decided to create an uber-geeky computer system powered by 24 of their SSDs in Raid mode and show of the video [...]

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Categories: Cool, Entertainment, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 27th, 2009
  • Comments: 10

OCZ Vertex Series 120GB SSD

While I’m overall pretty happy with the purchase of the OCZ Core Series II SATA Solid State Drive some disadvantages do come to light every now and then. This happens in situations where many small blocks are written on the Solid State Drive leading to an unresponsive system for a few seconds. This thankfully does [...]

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Categories: Hardware

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 7th, 2009
  • Comments: 8

Samsung SS805 SSD

Solid State Drives (SSDs) have many advantages over conventional hard drives like their faster access time, lower power consumption and silence while running. The read speed of SSD drives can be compared to those fast 15,000-rpm state of the art hard drives.
The only real downside of SSDs was their rather low write speed which [...]

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Categories: Hardware

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 26th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Solid State Drives Test Results

I ordered and added the OCZ 64 Gigabyte Core Series Sata II Solid State Drive to my computer and have been playing around with it for some time now. This Solid State Drive has some serious advantages over conventional hard drives. The boot speed is faster and you also notice that some applications load up [...]

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Categories: Hardware

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