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Damn, you're right! After carefully looking through endless models, I dropped the ball in my excitement at finding a USB 3.0 drive for <$20. The common theme is that you need at least 16GB for high write performance. Incidentally, I automatically look at the worst aspect of flash drive...

Scratch that, you can buy the JetFlash 700 for $20 or less. It's USB 3.0 and claims 20MB/s writes and 70MB/s reads. A no-brainer in my book.

Ddrueding, you mean the Voyager GT. The garden variety Voyager is as slow as a wet week. Comparison of 16GB flash drives Includes small and large file writes, and durability testing. You can read the notes by scrolling the table, and how they tested by jumping to the next page. Corsair...

My whole point was that I was quoting statistical data rather than anecdotal experience. People start to get superstitious about individual brands if they rely on their personal experience. On the basis of one sample, the OP will not be able to discern any difference between any of the brands...

If what you claim was true, then A/V drives would be far more likely to cause crashes. The drive doesn't ignore hard errors after multiple retries, it reports a read error!

I meant to correct this earlier. Foxit Reader 5 was released before my deadline and solves this problem. I have a possible intermittent problem when using it embedded in a browser, but I haven't researched that enough to make any further comment. It's still massively more efficient than any of...

Are you talking one at a time or embedding a bunch of jpegs in a PDF document? Which program(s) had the excessive difference between Middle and High? Just trying to get a reference point for what you need.

It's all in the OS / graphics drivers. Unfortunately, there's no sensor to tell Windows to change the orientation automatically, as one might expect in 2011. Anyone who's spent time with a smartphone realizes how moribund the Wintel nexus has made the IT industry.

Exactly, except my market summary post makes it very clear which models have narrow viewing angles. Adcadet specified wide viewing angles as one of his requirements, so I concentrated on non-TN panels. The Samsung 2333T is a cheap screen but it DOES have really good color consistency and...

$40 from NewEgg (click for manufacturer's page):

The situation hasn't improved - you're going to have to compromise on one or more of your requirements. This NEC 19" PVA gives you 5:4 aspect ratio and wide viewing angles, but it's only 1280x1024 and blows your budget at $340. But it will give you the largest text. Everything else that's even...

Has anyone here ever landed a job from having their details on LinkedIn? My profile is blank, because I believe in zero Internet visibility (not quite as bad as CougTek, but pretty close). I'm wondering if I need to change my attitude. Thanks to Facebook, my wife has made a hobby out of cyber...

It is very casual; like newsreaders, no-one wears pants when they're posting.

Yep.

I did a quick search through Greg's posts, but that just increased my confusion. Apart from the flaky CPU, it's not clear that anything else failed. Perhaps the RAM was incompatible with the new motherboard, or it was cheap enough to replace anyway? I'd agree with Stereodude - transposed to...

The limited reliability information I've found suggests that Hitachi and Samsung 2.5" drives are more reliable than Seagate and Western Digital, but that statistic could already be out of date for all anyone knows. It's probably not worth shooting for more than 500 to 750GB - all except the...

I've never seen an SLR HCA before, but I guess it's a logical progression for FC connections. Do you use RAW or TIF format on the SSDs?

Now I'm really confused. Wouldn't you just leave it set to the 1MiB offset that Windows 7 uses? Why not create the partitions with a Windows 7 install, then abort and install Windows XP?

CougTek could run faster than that.

Greg, I'm not aware of a Wireless router with more than 4 LAN ports. The norm is to provide this as separate devices, i.e. a WAP router and an 8 (or more) port gigabit switch. Why do you need to be able to easily turn wireless on and off?

Eh? Since when?

Why will it suck? Aren't you planning to align the start of each partition? NTFS will use 4kB blocks by default.

Looks like that cable is incorrectly wired. This user had exactly the same cable and it failed to work with their Perc 5/i. The same thread says the DealExtreme version works, if that's any help.

Incidentally, mains power draw at idle is well under 40W for that sort of configuration and about 45W for a typical i5. Total secondary side energy consumption is never going to even come close to 100W.

In Win BK623 with 300W 80+ PSU $64 Gigabyte GA-H61M-USB3-B3 $75 Intel G620 $78 Kingston 4GB DDR1333 $34 Crucial 64GB M4 SSD $120 Asus DVD-RW $21 TOTAL $392 I don't know if the In Win comes with an 80+ PSU in the US, it does elsewhere. It's an SFX profile, which is pretty easy to get these days...

It seems topical that NewEgg is now promoting the new AMD FM1 platform. When it's microATX and at least $20 cheaper, it might turn out to be a decent long-term platform (pure conjecture on my part).

What CougTek said. I guess Dave didn't see your comment about s1156 being legacy equipment. ;) I do like the idea of 4 cores as a minimum, but that's just not compatible with a low budget. The fact is, for most simple business software, an Intel G620/G850/G850 is going to be near as dammit...

It's hot at Vostok too - relatively speaking. I confess I didn't realize such harsh conditions existed on this planet. If you read through the linked Wikipedia entry, you'll find out what humans have to deal with there. Lake Vostok is another surprise - straight out of Jules Verne's imaginary...

The sample videos looks reminiscent of Quake. To my uneducated eye, anyway.

As a follow-up, Corsair Force 3 vs Corsair Force GT. As an aside, the Anvil benchmark tool looks interesting. Cost is a deal-breaker with many of these SSDs. And rather than yet more Sandforce models, I'd prefer something stable that I don't need to upgrade in situ. But the better ones do...

At the risk of seeming glib, I suggest you try Casper 7.0 (30 day trial). It creates a fully bootable clone of your C drive, which you can then keep updated by just copying the partition alone (and not the boot sector/partition table/Windows system partition). By definition, the backup will...

Asus is taking the safer, more conservative option. They support a lot more configurability - including overclocking - than Intel, so it makes sense to load CMOS defaults. It used to be an option on some BIOS upgrade tools. Bozo, as I'm sure you've found, you should be able to just toggle that...

What on Earth is it doing that it can't see native Intel SATA ports? AFAIK, they are no different to what has been around for some time on H67 and P67 chipsets. Have you tried different software? What is the intended result, just a mirror image?

Wow, I didn't read the OP properly at all. I really need to restrict helpful comments to the right side of midnight. Sorry. :(

No, the interface is shared with SATA. If it doesn't work, you can count on the controller being a dud. Sorry. What aspect of software RAID-5 performance was lacking? Writes are most likely to be a problem because the algorithms usually default to Write-Through, which kills throughput in this...

Perhaps you could do something like this? Courtesy of www.modified-cars.info

As long as the drive has LOTS of free space and hasn't received too many writes, you should be able to get within 10-20% of other people's scores - bearing in mind that the SATA controller and driver has a significant impact. AS SSD does confirm partition alignment and I think the version of...

Although it might fit, it would be awfully close to the lid, vent or not. It is after all, a low profile case - about 95mm thick in fact. I guess it would be fine if your aim is silent computing - and it fits. Where do they measure that heatsink from, the top of the CPU or the motherboard surface?

Guilty as charged, guv'nor. I was planning to use a single 80mm fan next to the CPU - either blowing or sucking depending on how the case was mounted. But there's tons of holes in the case and frankly, the stock CPU fan seemed to create enough case throughflow (it has a vent with optional...

The second review is of the slimline ML03. I've used several of them and like them a lot. Everything is laid out cleanly and it's fairly easy to work on. The 2 steel rods make the case quite strong, it's definitely a SilverStone. ;) My intention was to mount them on their side and rely on...

Here's a mini-review on two of the SilverStone cases. Firstly, I have to take back what I said about the GD-06 being a great design. Although it's impressive what they've managed to pack into such a short depth case, I found it an absolute nightmare to work on. Just as a reminder, they've...

Seriously? I thought you used to fill your weekends with it?

Atto will give you some confirmation that sequential I/O is okay, although I wouldn't put any stock in individual numbers. As Stereodude says, too much write I/O benchmarking will slow your drive, so I'd use a smaller file size and not run it too often. MS SQLIO gives you tighter control over...

Faster than what? Windows on a spinning disk or Windows and user data on the SSD? Should definitely be way faster than the former, starting with boot times. Here's the results of a demo I gave someone on a more or less fresh Windows install on a i5 2400 with 8GB RAM. BIOS POST: 15 secs...

Just for you, I tried a 1TB model with the micro USB cable I use for my phone, and it worked perfectly (I was able to open a zip file and look at an image).

It's a standard USB 3.0 Micro B connector. Although I've read it's not supposed to be compatible, it looks like it's designed to accept a USB 2.0 Micro B plug into part of the socket (confirmed by the pinout).

I forgot to mention that the 80MB/s result may have been limited by network speed, i.e. the source was on a server rather than on the host PC. And yes, I'm rather pleased about the network speed as well. :)

To me, the real point in USB 3.0 is a fast powered interface for portable data storage. eSATA works fine if you have an external power source, but let's face it, most people (including me) couldn't be bothered to carry around a power brick. To be genuinely useful, the interface needs to provide...

Tape is a terrible idea when you want to avoid hassles, which is the premise on which ddrueding has built his infrastructure, i.e. he's flying solo. The drives are open, not closed. That in itself is a problem waiting to happen. Tapes are vulnerable to heat, humidity, dust and (to some extent)...

Found this interesting: Tennessee Fair Wine Laws. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, and I know we have our own restrictions on liquor sales in my state, but come on, I thought America was supposed to be a free country? I take particular umbrage at the legislated monopolies - how...