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Maxtor DiamondMax plus 9. Next, please

Written by Alois Kuefer. Posted in Drives

Introduction Still, the share of S-ATA hard drives on the market is very low, but should change to the end of the year clearly this. Until it is but so far, many will buy the ‘normal’ P-ATA hard drives. We have a model of Maxtor in the test this time. The Maxtor DiamondMax specifically plus 9 with 120 GB capacity and 8 MB cache. After the testing of the Hitachi hard drives we were of course on this also with 8 MB cache-equipped...

Sharkoon SATA QuickPort USB 3.0. thanks to the Turbo UAS driver?

Written by Steffi Loewe. Posted in Drives

Introduction Beginning of may in a test we have the dock Sharkoon QuickPort taken duo USB 3.0 scrutinized and investigated is how much the theoretically up to 5 GB / s bandwidth of USB 3.0 in practice available. Although the performance represented significant progress compared to USB 2.0, on a SATA or eSATA connection she not handed approach but still. Now over a half a year has passed and alongside new drivers for the USB 3.0 controllers...

SSDs from Germany. extrememory XLR8 M and XLR8 plus

Written by Marcell Koch. Posted in Drives

Introduction In our last two articles we took 2 (test) and the Corsair force (test) two SSDs on the basis of the SandForce controller under the microscope with the OCZ vertex, to represent, inter alia, the performance with two different capacities. Both SSDs use the high IOPS firmware, which is designed to provide a higher performance for random writes with small files. The current article should now serve extrememory introduce two models...

SSDs 2009. What are the advantages in everyday life?

Written by Sophia Traugott. Posted in Drives

Introduction How to measure the performance of a hard disk actually? Very simple: Access times and transfer rates with different file sizes determine use benchmarks such as ATTO, Crystal DiskMark or also PCMark Vantage and the inclined readers know, that’s a SSD faster can write 20 MB / s than the other. Oh wait, this is again only for sequential operations with a certain file size… STOP! In this article will concern in...

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