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    Intel Crosses an Unacceptable Ethical Line

    1. You can't just subtract only encoding overhead from PCIe. You need to also subtract TLP (30 bytes per packet), Flow Control, and Packet Size, which is variable and may be intentionally higher if Intel chose a smaller packet size to reduce latency at a slight cost to total IOPS. Real-world...
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    Intel Crosses an Unacceptable Ethical Line

    You mean this? As far as Optane Memory goes, you guys keep locking in on the bandwidth, and why the first iteration of the M.2 part is only x2 PCIe. You are all missing the key point and that is the latency. Low latency is what makes a PC respond to input quickly. SSDs are a good gain over...
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    AMD Ryzen and the Windows 10 Scheduler - No Silver Bullet

    That only means the core to core pings of a Ryzen quad core will beat those of an 8 core 5960X. I don't have complete figures to post here, but quad core Intel parts will also have pings on par with a single AMD CCX (quad core).
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    MSI's M.2 "Heat Shield" Claimed To Increase SSD Temperature

    I don't follow. Heat spreaders conduct heat across more area, allowing better convection of the heat away from the part as a whole since the average difference in temperature to the air increases overall. It's how passive heat sinks work. The issue with that review is that their thermocouples...
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    No AMD 300-series review samples?

    Don't you realize that accusing reviewers of being shills - especially ones like Ryan who go out of their way to be fair and unbiased even when one technology is superior to another - is simply another way of admitting you are the one with the obvious bias? I personally prefer NVidia...
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    No AMD 300-series review samples?

    They are kinda similar, but where FreeSync required panel vendors to get Adaptive Sync capable scalers working with variable refresh, NVidia had less work to do as in the mobile space - there is not usually any scaler in that display chain, so all that was needed was qualifying the panels...
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    All sounds good. Anything you can throw in I can use. I'm on 1/2" tubing so the barbs will...

    All sounds good. Anything you can throw in I can use. I'm on 1/2" tubing so the barbs will definitely work. For SLI bridges, I'd say a short (1-slot gap) and the next step up (2-slot gap) would cover me. I'll take the whole enchilada. I have $500 in my paypal account. If that's sufficient for...
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    Question on the 480's. Are both installed on the cards? In the top of the post it appears so...

    Question on the 480's. Are both installed on the cards? In the top of the post it appears so, but the last part suggests one is used and the other is new and uninstalled? Other questions: Any barbs included? If so - size? Which cards are they? Boxes included for the cards / coolers...
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    Next generation of SSDs to have a shorter lifespan?

    I'm reading this thread top down, so this may have already been addressed, but static files is not the same as static blocks. SSD's will relocate even static blocks as part of the wear leveling routines. A perfect theoretical wear leveling routine would rewrite / relocate every block of flash...
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    Intel Replies to SSD 'Slowness' Critique

    Aside from any benchmarks, the thing that started me down this path to begin with was a DeadSpace install that took over 15 minutes, where the X25 had solid access and my Plextor appeared to be just sipping off of the disc. The very same install was repeated to a 74GB raptor and was much...
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    Intel Replies to SSD 'Slowness' Critique

    We briefly had an E series drive to test, and it does fragment (by about the same ratio seen on the M drive), but it immediately snaps back, just as the M series drive does most of the time. We only had the drive for a week so we were not able to find out if it hits the 'point of no return' we...
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    Areca users: capacity expansion question

    axan, i found another crazy undocumented feature. if you're game for all out tinkering, try this: power down and move the array to 4 different ports. even try randomizing the order a bit. see if the card recognizes the raid or not. if not, here is another gem i found: I am about to...
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    Areca users: capacity expansion question

    I just *love* undocumented features. axan, you're up :). I'm curious as to exactly what happens on this one - i.e. does it do a full rebuild or not. Thanks! Al
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    Areca users: capacity expansion question

    The trick here is the added layer Areca adds: * Raid set - Volume set(s) - Partition(s) The raid set idea is what limits the overall functionality of Areca cards. It is limited by the smallest drive across the board, meaning you can't have overlapping volume sets sharing drives. It also...
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    Areca users: capacity expansion question

    I'm with you, but 'pushing the tech' purely as an exercise and feeding what we find back to Areca couldn't hurt, could it?. Judging their frequent updates of these cards, I think they share our passion and would be receptive to input from the community.
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