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    [H]ardOCP & ASUS GeForce GTX 660Ti DirectCU II Giveaway

    All I want is the right balance of power consumption and performance. I don't play many games anymore, but when I do, I want the best single-monitor experience I can get. The problem is largely a power consumption vs. performance issue -- cards with better performance use too much power (at load...
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    SATA3 SSD RAID-0 on SATA2 MOBO

    The difference between a good SATA II drive and a good SATA III drive is pretty small in terms of actually bettering the experience. Small random performance is far more important, and that's somewhere the Raptors just can't compete. I think the real question is, which SSD would you get? You...
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    Any reason why Intel 320 drives are quite higher per GB than the 520 series?

    Intel never really intended to drop the price of the 320 series. They're not discontinued, nor have they been replaced or superceded by a newer product. The 330 and 520 series are not replacements for the 320 series, as most 320s are going into larger enterprise deployments. The 320 is the only...
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    Questions regarding RAMdisk and/or SSD for accelerating HDD Performance...

    The OP could try a caching SSD/software combo. I believe NVelo's Dataplex works with XPx64. I wouldn't suggest it's anywhere near as good as using a real SSD only solution, but you get a lot of the benefit with no reinstallation necessary. With regard to the apps the OP is using, couldn't...
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    Diagnosing TRIM

    Only host activity shows up on the activity LED. The drive's background operations aren't host activity and therefore do not light the LED when they occur. Your SSD is always doing something in the background. It's never just sitting there doing nothing as it were.
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    Corsair Accelerator 30GB & 60GB Caching SSD Review @ [H]

    Z68 caching is probably the best in terms of flexibility, but if you're just adding caching to an existing setup, the myriad SSD/Dataplex caching setups are probably the easiest route and fairly cost effective too. Capturing the real performance is difficult just because of how drives are...
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    Asus P8Z77-V LE Plus with no PCIe slots working

    Try turning off PCIe 3.0 for those slots in the UEFI first.
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    Corsair Force GT 240 GB SSD Review @ [H]

    The IOmeter charts are much easier to understand now.
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    LSI RAID Controller help, 2308 chip on-board ASRock Extreme 11 motherboard is slow!

    Remember, the SAS2308 is not like the full on raid processors. The big boy RAID cards have cache and more RoC horsepower under the hood. The SAS2008 can't really do the parity calculation needed by parity RAID levels, and the cache really helps too. Running a HBA in intergrated RAID is more akin...
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    LSI RAID Controller help, 2308 chip on-board ASRock Extreme 11 motherboard is slow!

    The 9207 review the OP linked was to was done with 8 M4's in IT mode with JBOD -- ie, not with RAID0. If you run the Vertex4s in RAID0 with softraid through Windows, you'd see similar results -- that you can try easily. Just ditch the Volume (and pass through each drive individually), then go...
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    Corsair Force GT 240 GB SSD Review @ [H]

    I don't know if SB and onward even do that anymore. I thought that was an issue with ICH10R and before.
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    Corsair Force GT 240 GB SSD Review @ [H]

    Since SF doesn't have TRIM at the moment -- though it should have it again soon -- sequential writes are the best way to keep a SF in shape. SFs GC works at write-time to keep everything in shape, so if you bombard the drive with random writes and want to get performance back, sequential writes...
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    Corsair Force GT 240 GB SSD Review @ [H]

    It doesn't matter if a system drive is on one 6gbps port and the test drive is on the other Intel 6gbps port. They're not sharing BW between them, meaning if you're running both at 100% (which isn't the case with an OS drive anyway) you're not going to get lower results for one or both drives...
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    Crazy slow speeds on a WD SSD...

    I believe those WDs use the first jmicron controller... and they suck, and suck hard. Super high write amplification and terrible 4K performance are it's hallmarks. Actually now that I think about it, it could be the second jmicron -- which isn't much better. In simpler terms, the jmicrons...
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    Have a Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240GB coming...

    When you run WEI, and the storage can do more than 4MB/s in 4K reads, Windows assumes it is a SSD and turns off defrag.
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