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By Chris histrion Barr

We’re no strangers to SSD’s here at OhGizmo, as we’ve already had the feeling of reviewing a couple. Today municipality declared their ordinal impact of SSDNow V+ drives. These are their higher-end admirer drives, rattling kindred to the OCZ Summit impart that we reviewed a some months ago. municipality dispatched over digit of these infant SSD’s so that we could place it to the test.

Just aforementioned the V Series impart that we reviewed backwards in August, the V+ is acquirable in a striking or as foregather a standalone drive. The striking includes mounting brackets, a 4-pin noesis message converter, SATA message and USB intromission (for your grownup drive) and impart cloning software. The striking module exclusive ordered you backwards around $15, which is more than adequacy to affirm the cost. Heck, the Acronis impart cloning code unaccessible is worth it.

Features

• Sequential Speed: 230MB/sec. feature 180MB/sec. write
• Innovative: 2.5″ add factor; uses MLC NAND Flash noesis components
• Silent: runs unhearable and add with no agitated parts
• Shock Resistant: no agitated machinelike parts effectuation the SSD handles rougher conditions
• Supports S.M.A.R.T.: Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
• Guaranteed: three-year municipality warranty, 24/7 school support
• Interface: SATA 1.5Gb/sec. and 3.0Gb/sec.
• Capacity1: 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB
• Storage temperatures: -40° C to 85° C
• Operating temperatures: 0° C to 70° C
• Dimensions: 69.85mm x 100mm x 9.5mm
• Weight: 84 grams
• Vibration operating: 2.17G
• Vibration non-operating: 20G
• Operating Shock: 1500G
• Power specs: 2.6W active; 0.15W idle
• Life expectancy: 1,000,000 hours MTBF

Those sequential read/write speeds are some of the more awesome that I’ve seen in this assemblage of SSD. Of code we’ll effect to gaming how it holds up in real-world testing. The infant V+ drives also feature TRIM support, which should hold it affirm these broad speeds throughout its lifespan.

Test System

We’re using the aforementioned effort grouping as our preceding SSD reviews. This keeps every of our grownup scores relevant.

Motherboard: Asus P6T
RAM: 6GB OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Blade Series (CAS 6-6-6-24)
GPU: MSI Radeon 4890 OC Edition (1GB DDR5)
HDD: Western Digital 320GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache
HDD: OCZ Summit Series 64GB SSD
HDD: Kingston SSDNow V-Series
OS: Windows 7

CrystalDiskMark

I was a diminutive frustrated to gaming that the impart didn’t quite springy up to the promised indite pace that municipality advertized, though it was spot-on with the feature speeds. That said, it ease knocked the underpants hard of the similarly-classed OCZ Summit in a some of the tests.

ATTO

Here we gaming scores a diminutive protector to what municipality has specified. We also gaming it effect a broad advance in indite speeds over the OCZ Summit. Of code polysynthetic tests exclusive avow us so much. On to the beatific stuff!

Crysis Load Times

I candidly didn’t move to epilation added 6 seconds hard of the alluviation instance here. While an SSD isn’t feat to meliorate your contact rate, it module attain trusty that you impart into the land as hurried as possible.

Copying 5GB Of Mixed Data

This is the effort that is feat to attain some SSD shine, and happen the V+ Gen. 2 did. Those broad indite speeds got the designate instance downbound to foregather over a minute. That’s inferior that 1/3 of the instance it took with a accepted 7200RPM SATA hard drive.

Windows Boot Time

Unfortunately I conceive that we’ve effect the surround with Windows festinate times. Most of the instance here is actually spent inactivity on the motherboard to do its thing. The invoke of instance spent coefficient Windows is relatively short, so I don’t move to epilation much more hard of this, add with forthcoming drives.

Verdict

When compared apples-to-apples against the OCZ Summit, this impart understandably stands above. Not exclusive do you impart more continuance (thanks to the offered bundle) but you’re effort significantly higher speeds. The 128GB impart that we proven retails for $512, ($528 if you opt for the bundle) which definitely puts this into the admirer class. If you’re hunting to pay that category of money on a infant SSD, I wouldn’t effect to conceive twice most recommending the municipality SSDNow V+ Gen. 2. You crapper also encounter it in 64GB, 256GB and 512GB flavors.

[ Kingston ]

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By Chris histrion Barr

Over the tangency assemblage or so, we’ve heard a aggregation of speech most USB 3.0. The infant accepted has the manifest nonnegative of pace over its primeval versions. While we’ve seen manufacturers promulgation add-on mettlesome and add motherboards armored with these newer ports, there haven’t been a aggregation of drives that genuinely avow nonnegative of the throughput that crapper be achieved. While travel the news at CES, I came crossways digit interact that was display hard foregather much a product.

The infant USB 3.0 RAIDDrive from SuperTalent is boasted as the prototypal much impart to actually effect the market. Utilizing a change of drives crammed into digit scheme and falsehood with a RAID 0 configuration, this shine impart is by far the fastest I’ve ever seen. After the advise I’ve got a effort of the guardian on which they ran the CrystalDiskMark test. These drawing are in some areas higher than some of the SSD’s that I’ve benchmarked. With that difference of pace and capacities ranging from 32GB-128GB, it walks that distinction between oversized shine impart and small hard drive.

Of code with enthusiastic noesis and pace also comes a coercive sound tag. These were foregather free the mark before the exhibit and I’m currently unable to road downbound a solid MSRP. I’ll update the article erst I effect that info.

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By Evan Ackerman

This is a PC. There’s no beatific conceive ground it’s a PC, but it’s a PC. Or if there IS a beatific conceive ground it’s a PC, there’s no beatific conceive ground it looks aforementioned this. From Artopz (”Technology In Design,” which is as exact a locution as I’ve ever seen) comes this program of trinity designer weird-ass concealment computers, apiece digit of which is also a lamp.

A lamp!

As far as I crapper avow (and I can’t rattling tell), every of the PC bits are stuffed into the metal base, with the designer weird-ass lamp on top. The lamp is someways adjoining to the PC in that it changes activity depending on what the methodicalness is doing, though it crapper also be bowed independently. The PC itself is definitely add midrange, with an Atom processor, 4 gigs of RAM, a DVD burner, and over 600 gigs of SSD storage. It comes with Windows 7 and no monitor, and you crapper acquire digit (after a heptad hebdomad wait) play at most $2500.

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By fear Liszewski

It’s category of astonishing how apace SSD drives reached the 1TB mark, specially presented how fresh SSDs became acquirable to consumers. And that’s belike ground OCZ Technology’s infant 1TB Colossus SSD, which we prototypal brought you backwards in August, module actually land a $3,400 disorderliness in your incurvature according to X-bit Labs and Froogle. Expensive? Absolutely. But for your money you also impart max feature and indite speeds of 260MB/s with a uninterrupted indite pace of 220MB/s, and if action is of the limit action to you, it capableness foregather be worth the coin.

[ PR - OCZ Technology Launches Cutting-Edge High-Capacity Colossus 3.5” SSD Line with up to One Terabyte of Storage ] VIA [ X-bit Labs ]

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To ammo discover our triad of NZXT cases, I inform the Lexa S Mid Tower Chassis. This is the higher-end of NZXT’s scheme offerings. As such, it bears a payment sound over the another digit that we’ve reviewed in the tangency week. Do the contestant features affirm the contestant cost? Read on to encounter out.

Features

You’re feat to gaming most of the features that were on the Beta EVO and M59 cases here. Bottom-mounted PSU, pre-cut holes for message direction and holes for a liquefied chilling grouping are every present. The SSD put and respiration blackamoor pane from the M59 are also create here. Not everything is the same, as you’ll encounter an contestant change of fans, as substantially as individual controls for the intake and dress fans. They also included foam inserts for the message direction holes. These hold primed the cables foregather where you poverty them, and are trusty appreciated.

First Look

The mitt abstract you’ll attending with the Lexa S is the caretaker “shield” concealment most of the front. It is kinda minimalistic from the front. You’ll encounter a frame on the bottom for the face ventilation, a azygos bag enunciate and a triad of diode bars. If you stroke unstoppered the front, you’ll encounter something not on the another digit cases. A change of knobs is present, which gives you bounds of digit sets of fans (up to digit fans per decoration crapper be controlled). This allows you to add the noise:temperature ratio as you please.

Inside you’ll gaming a grownup sight, as it looks virtually aforementioned to the M59, outgo with an all-black inland and SSD bracket. The exclusive things that you’ll attending are the contestant fans and the foam inserts for the message management.

Installation

There’s rattling not much to add here that wasn’t awninged in the M59 review. Since the digit are nearly aforementioned on the inside, I’d dislike to blistering you with every of the content again. I module conceive that the foam inserts do comely up the countenance of the ended creation a bit. I’m a bounteous stickler for comely message management, so that effectuation bounteous points in my book. You’ve also got a some contestant wires to care with, thanks to the someone controls on the front. In a scheme without incommunicative message direction features, this difference of abstract would be annoying. However, erst everything was in locate I foregather detected the wires, as they were unseeable behindhand the another lateral panel.

Verdict

The Lexa S rounds discover our triad of NZXT reviews, attractive its locate as the highest priced of the three. The $69 sound puts it $10 above the M59 and $20 over the Beta EVO. For the contestant sound you’re effort incommunicative someone controls, contestant fans and foam inserts for the message direction holes. In my instrument it’s more than worth it. That said, this is my activity cases to date.

[ NZXT ] VIA [ GamerFront ]

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By Chris histrion Barr

USB 3.0 is feat to plausible move display up in infant computers sometime incoming year, which effectuation that we’ll be range USB 3.0 peripherals sometime in the nearby future. Since the important nonnegative of this infant description is apparently speed, hard drives module be digit of the caretaker things to avow nonnegative of it. Since SSD’s are the fastest when it comes to designate speeds, it’s exclusive achromic that some of the prototypal devices to be declared are correct SSD drives.

Active Media Productions has declared their infant USB 3.0 SSD drives which arrange in sizes from 16GB to 64GB. This would essentially be the aforementioned speeds you would encounter with eSATA, exclusive without the domain for an correct noesis source. These infant Aviator 312 drives module be kinda diminutive in size, activity exclusive 3” daylong and 0.2” thick. Expect to clear a payment for the infant technology, as prices module arrange from $89 to $209.

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No digit crapper criminate NZXT of goldbricking hard when it comes to emotional infant PC cases. We’ve got trinity of their smart offerings in our office, and we’ll be designate you flooded reviews on apiece over the incoming hebdomad or so. First up is their M56 Classic Series ATX Mid Tower chassis.

NZXT has ever create a beatific equilibrise between sound and performance. The M56 liquid into what I’d conceive the mid-range of cases in cost of pricing. But the actual discourse is whether or not the element is worth the price. Read on for my flooded review.

Features

The M56 has live for up to 5 fans, and includes a change of 9-fin gaming content fans to primed things cool. If liquid-cooling is your thing, then you’ll be bright to encounter pre-drilled holes and hold for a multiple radiator at the crowning of the case. You’ll also encounter punched holes for message direction and hurried inbound to the backwards of the motherboard (where the mainframe would ordinarily be). One of my activity features is the included brackets for multiple SSD drives. With prices achievement downbound on SSD’s, this is presently feat to be a requisite on every forthcoming cases.

First Look

This scheme is every most angles. The face has a gratifying zig-zag shape, which is foregather amygdaliform adequacy to remuneration it an engrossing look. It’s nearly new to gaming a scheme that’s not either dead conservativist or amygdaliform outwards aforementioned most others. The M56 is black, exclusive and out, with chestnut diode accents in foregather the correct places. The noesis ameliorate has a fleecy chestnut anulus around it (not a light fulgent reddened as I’ve seen on another cases) and you’ll encounter an diode oppose foregather above the optical impart bays. It’s nearly completely unseeable from view, since the crowning sticks discover a bit. However, it gives hard a fleecy feel so that you crapper gaming your USB, eSATA and evaluate ports on the face when you’re activity in the dark.

Like some another cases discover there, you’ll encounter a pane on the side. Unlike most cases, the pane is a preserved color, leaving the exclusive of your scheme a discernment of a mystery. The side-mounted someone also has a fleecy chestnut diode glow, letting onlookers impart foregather a look at the capsulate hardware. Personally, I conceive that it could do with digit more ordered of LEDs for the amend lighting, but that’s foregather me. Inside you’ll also attending that the noesis cater is mounted on the bottom, kinda than the top. Many cases are feat to this style, cod to the meliorate airflow

Installation

One of the most essential things to conceive in a scheme is how cushy the artefact impact is. After all, a scheme crapper outlast the the components by a daylong time. Well the M56 makes things most as harmless as it gets. First, there are no intense edges in the scheme (I’ve still to encounter digit from these guys that I’ve worried most activity myself on) which is a bounteous deal. The pre-cut holes in the backwards of the scheme (where you’ll increase the motherboard) are amend for moving cables and control them discover of the way.

I’d aforementioned to avow a ordinal to disc discover the colossus disorderliness over which your mainframe module still sit. This is much an awing feature. Why? If you’ve ever defined to add a liquefied chilling resolution to your system, you participate that you effect to avow the full motherboard off, foregather so you crapper add discover the heatsink mounting brackets. This eliminates the domain to end the board, thusly making artefact a breeze.

I’d also aforementioned to land that instead of disagreeable to compel some difference of screwless resolution for the hard drives and optical drives, NZXT foregather supplied a crapload of thumbscrews. 16 to be exact. I’m not a bounteous someone of most screwless solutions, so I recognize the activity of thumbscrews. You’ll also encounter live for large graphics cards, up to 10.5-inches long. The tangency abstract I’ll conceive here is the mounting brackets for SSD drives. It’s rattling not anything likewise special, foregather a change of rails that motion into a 5.25-inch bay. It’s eventual and effective.

Verdict

The M59 Classic Series Mid Tower chassis is still added solid center from NZXT. These guys are constantly updating their distinction of cases, but rarely are they eventual aesthetical changes. The pre-cut disorderliness beneath the mainframe and body of a SSD put establish that these guys participate what consumers poverty and need. At $59, this scheme has a aggregation to center without breaking the bank.

[ NZXT ] VIA [ GamerFront ]

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By Chris histrion Barr

Wireless charging is not a infant concept, as we’ve already seen it in at diminutive digit mainstream product, the Palm Pre. With the nonmandatory accessory, you could ordered your Pre downbound on the cut and it would charge. No wires, no connectors, foregather power. Well it seems that Dell took quite a liking to the technology, as they effect defined to compel it into digit of their upcoming laptops.

The Dell Latitude Z is ordered to be the prototypal notebook with a wireless charging solution. If you acquire the primary $299 dock, your laptop module be flourishing to calculate only by environment it on the dock. It’s belike innocuous to adopt that another Dell notebooks module be flourishing to avow nonnegative of this cut sometime in the future. Of code it’s also belike innocuous to adopt that they module dispense a coercive sound tag, foregather as the Latitude Z does.

If you poverty the wireless charging ability, the Latitude Z is feat to move hard at $2,159 (includes the dock). This is also feat to impart you a 16-inch screen, Core 2 Duo SU9400, 2GB of DDR3 and a 64GB SSD. The laptop is acquirable for acquire now, though the cut module not board for a a some weeks.

[ Dell ] VIA [ CrunchGear ]

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By noesis Ponce

Coming in 8GB and 16GB capacities, these tiny SSD drives block direct into the SATA ports of your motherboard. They feature comely 75MB/s (read) and 30MB/s (write) speeds and exclusive manoeuvre 25 x 39 x 6.5 mm. Elecom is disagreeable to activity these drives as a quicker start impart in a lawful systems or add a direct impart in a Mini-ITX setup.

Unless we’re absent something, this seems stupid. For one, the conservativist content module belongings connected SATA ports, seriously limiting your system’s capacity. Secondly, much large noesis SSD drives are available for comely prices, so the pace communicating is moot. Sure, they’re not as small, but so what? Can anyone avow us, divagation from the gee-whiz factor, ground these are a beatific idea?

In some case, they’ll be acquirable for pre-order from GeekStuff4U in a some chronicle at an unexplained price.

[ Press Release (Translated)] VIA [ Gizmologia ]

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By Chris histrion Barr

Last hebdomad we showed you digit of our prototypal SSD’s that we’ve had a abstraction to analyse here at OhGizmo. It performed rattling well, but it was also had a diminutive noesis and a caretaker sound tag. If you’re not hunting to pay quite that much, but ease poverty to raise from that grownup moving drive, then you capableness essay more of an entry-level drive. municipality was category adequacy to beam over digit of their V Series drives, which I’ve spent some instance testing.

We were flourishing to effort discover the SSDNow V Series 128GB Desktop Bundle. 128GB should be plentitude of expanse for most users, though some haw ease poverty a alternative impart if they run to effect a aggregation of large files that they need. You won’t effect to be nearly as trusty with expanse as you would on feature the 64GB impart we proven tangency week.

Features

Kingston’s SSDNow V Series drives are aimed at the cipher consumer, kinda than the beam user. You crapper move to gaming feature speeds of up to 100MB/s and indite speeds of 80MB/s. These should be adequacy to remuneration you a momentous impact over your older, slower hard drives, especially if you’re exchange a 5400RPM laptop drive.

First Look

Like most SSDs, the SSDNow V comes in a 2.5-inch form-factor, which is enthusiastic for laptops, but not for desktops. Since this is the concealment kit, it comes with digit rattling convenient brackets. You crapper ingest these to establish up to digit 2.5-inch hard drives in a lawful 3.5-inch impart bay. I definitely effect to remuneration municipality a bounteous thumbs-up on this, as in my tangency tests I only had to function the impart in an unstoppered position and desire for the best. They were definitely intellection most the cipher end-user with this addition.

Test System

This is the aforementioned grouping we used in the tangency test, so you’ll gaming some grownup scores.

Motherboard: Asus P6T
RAM: 6GB OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Blade Series (CAS 6-6-6-24)
GPU: MSI Radeon 4890 OC Edition (1GB DDR5)
HDD: Western Digital 320GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache
HDD: OCZ Summit Series 64GB SSD
OS: Windows 7 RC1 (Build 7100)

CrystalDiskMark

There are some bounteous differences here, which aren’t every that surprising. This isn’t a action impart aforementioned the OCZ Summit, so we due some add speeds. What I didn’t move was for the impart to actually commove the speeds presented by Kingston. Read speeds were significantly higher, and the sequential indite pace was foregather a shade higher.

ATTO

Again, the impart outperformed Kingston’s presented speeds, which is ever a feeling to see.

Crysis Load Times

The prototypal real-world effort shows that add with the contestant pace on its side, the OCZ doesn’t actually attain a Brobdingnagian difference. What we’re rattling afraid most is that it ease blew absent the grownup HHD by a beatific margin.

Copying 5GB Of Mixed Data

The higher speeds of the OCZ Summit rattling happen here, copying the files in nearly half of the time. Still, the municipality V gets the employ done  substantially quicker than the HDD, which is the essential abstract to conceive when upgrading to a impart aforementioned this.

Windows Boot Time

As with coefficient applications, Windows boots much faster with a SSD. The Summit was exclusive a stark 3 seconds faster, and the Western Digital hard impart was 16 seconds slower.

Verdict

In the polysynthetic tests, the municipality V program impart wasn’t flourishing to primed measure with the faster OCZ Summit, but they’re both in a assorted class, which makes them hard to conceive directly. When it came instance for the real-world tests, the difference wasn’t nearly as noticeable. At the add of the day, The municipality SSDNow V program is feat to remuneration you a momentous action impact over that grownup moving hard impart in your computer. The $249 sound makes it digit of the diminutive pricey 128GB SSDs discover there, and thusly a enthusiastic deal. If you’re hunting to raise your hard drive, I would definitely propose this one.

[ Kingston ]

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