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Corsair Force Series 3 120GB Review Update – Installing new firmware to fix a disappearing drive

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:14:16 +0000

I just wanted to provide a quick update on the Corsair Force Series 3 120GB review that was posted a few weeks back. I ended up coming home from an east coast trip and had an application that threw multiple errors. Upon trying to relaunch the application, I was met with another error that the path [...] Related posts:

Corsair Force Series 3 120GB Review and Benchmarks

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:14:52 +0000

The Corsair Force Series 3 120GB drive combines a Sandforce 2200 series controller alongside asynchronous NAND memory to provide a lot of performance at a relatively low cost. It should be noted that the earlier drives, specifically those starting with serial numbers before 1123 were recalled on June 7, 2011 due to firmware issues. Unfortunately, [...] Related posts:

Hitachi 5K3000 3TB 3.5″ Green Drive with SilentSpin Review with Benchmarks

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:14:19 +0000

After reviewing the Hitachi 5K3000 2TB SilentSpin drive earlier this year, questions have steadily trickled in around the 3TB version. One thing that was consistent in comments was a perception that the Hitachi 5K3000 3TB drive runs slower than the 2TB version. Today we look at the 3TB model’s benchmarks to see what kind of [...] Related posts:

How to Fix the 746GB Available of a 3TB Hard Drive Issue

Patrick Kennedy — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:14:14 +0000

Many users have been finding themselves with brand new Sandy Bridge motherboards and the hard drive industry’s now affordable 3TB drives only to see that the new drive only has 746GB available in even 64-bit Windows. I receive questions about why this happens on Hitachi, Western Digital, Seagate, and Samsung drives on a regular basis [...] Related posts:

Low Cost NAS Boxes and Performance over Time

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 17 May 2011 09:14:01 +0000

This weekend I got a call from a local business that produces highlight reels from video game footage. Admittedly, I am not a big gamer (my PS3 was purchased at launch and has played games for less than four hours over the years), but I did think that this would be an interesting opportunity to [...] Related posts:

Corsair Performance 3 Series P3-128 (120GB) Benchmarks and Review

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:15:13 +0000

Corsair’s Performance 3 series is a newer SATA III 6.0gbps drive that offers quite a bit of performance utilizing a Marvell controller. Marvell has been making a splash lately on SSD controllers. The Micron C300 held the performance crown for almost a year as its competitors were capped by SATA II bandwidth constraints. Today we [...] Related posts:

Hitachi 5K3000 2TB 3.5″ Green Drive with SilentSpin Review with Benchmarks

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:16:28 +0000

Hitachi’s 7K2000 drives were a favorite among users with large small business and home storage systems because the drives worked well with many RAID cards. A few drawbacks of those drives were that they were not the fastest 7,200rpm drives around, they were not the coolest running, nor the quietest. With its 3TB lineup, Hitachi [...] Related posts:

G.Skill Phoenix Pro Review 60GB Sandforce SSD

Patrick Kennedy — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:45:44 +0000

Today I am taking a look at the G.Skill Phoenix Pro 60GB Sandforce SFF-1222 based SSD. Two things that should be clarified at the outset are that the G.Skill Phoenix Pro 60GB and the ADATA S599 64GB both have the same formatted capacity (55.8GBs) and that there is no perceivable real-world difference between the drives. [...] Related posts:

LSI 9211-8i SAS 2008 8x SSD in RAID 0 Bug and Workaround Found

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:31:44 +0000

I have been doing a bit of testing recently with the LSI SAS 2008 based controllers such as the 9211-8i in RAID 0 with various SSDs. Recently I took eight 64GB ADATA S599 Sandforce based SSDs and placed them in RAID 0 on the LSI 9211-8i. I was expecting maximum transfer rates in excess of [...] Related posts:

Intel ICH10R: 660MB/s SATA Limit Fact or Fiction?

Patrick Kennedy — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:54:17 +0000

One recent contact form question was regarding the alleged 660MB/s limitation on the Intel ICH10R chipset (also known as the 82801JR I/O controller), especially in conjunction with X58 based chipsets which currently represent the big iron of Intel’s lineup until the LGA 2011 parts come out in Q3 or Q4 2011. When the ICH10R was [...] Related posts: