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Review: HP EX900 500GB M.2. SSD - Intensely Fast With the new SM2263XT controller
Okay, try to understand this, incredibly fast, yet cheap. The HP EX900 500GB M.2. SSD that we review today has a new Silicon Motion (SM2263XT) controller. I certainly did not think that in the year 2018 I would be recommending a DRAMless SSD, but the EX900 hits a very nice sweet spot, so yes, I can.
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Review: be quiet! Dark Rock 4 - 04/10/2018 01:03 PM
We test and review the be quiet! Dark Rock 4 CPU Cooler. Armed with totally black looks and a very silent fan, the new Dark Rock 4 might be able to impress you. It offers 200 Watts of cooling power, e...
Review: be quiet! Dark Rock PRO 4 - 04/10/2018 01:00 PM
We review another be quiet! Dark Rock series cooler, this round the PRO 4. Again with totally black looks the flagship cooler comes with two radiators, two fans and takes up that cooling performance t...
Review: ASUS ROG STRIX B360-F Gaming - 04/10/2018 07:02 AM
We tested the H370, now we look at the nearly identical B360 model of the ASUS ROG STRIX B360-F Gaming. We'll again pair it with a six-core Core i7 8700K processor. Yes, this is the Coffee Lake platf...
Review: HP EX920 1 TB M.2. SSD - Super fast TLC perf with the new SM2262 controller - 04/06/2018 09:26 AM
HP has released an ultra-fast new M.2. SSD, the new EX920 series, the rather properly volume sized 1024 GB (1 TB) model which we will review is fast and furious with a rated sequential read speed up t...
Review: MSI B360 Gaming Pro Carbon motherboard - 04/05/2018 08:36 AM
We have another B360 motherboard up for review, MSI is in da house with their B360 Gaming Pro Carbon. Again a very price friendly motherboard that can house a fast 6-core Coffee Lake processor. With a...
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#5537135 Posted on: 04/12/2018 06:10 PM
Silicon Motion again... HP doesn't have money to buy something better?
Silicon Motion again... HP doesn't have money to buy something better?
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#5537249 Posted on: 04/13/2018 01:44 AM
Say Hello to my little cache !
http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/primo-cache/index.html
Also, I can assign as much RAM as I want with it, instead of the fixed "512MB" or whatever this Silicon Motion tech offers.
To be honest I don't even think that AS SSD or any other disk benchmark is capable of measuring the real speed of a RAM cache.
And no, it's not snake oil at all, everything is insanely fast, and the more I use the system the faster it gets, as the cache learns better which stuff to keep in memory.
When using this, which SSD you use becomes completely irrelevant, could be just as well a basic SATA one. The capacity becomes more important, and to be honest I'm starting to find 500GB ssd a bit limiting in 2018, will probably get upgraded to a 2TB one sometime this year.
The downside is that RAM is quite expensive today. I was lucky to buy my 64GB when it was half the price of today, before the price boom.
Say Hello to my little cache !
http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/primo-cache/index.html
Also, I can assign as much RAM as I want with it, instead of the fixed "512MB" or whatever this Silicon Motion tech offers.
To be honest I don't even think that AS SSD or any other disk benchmark is capable of measuring the real speed of a RAM cache.
And no, it's not snake oil at all, everything is insanely fast, and the more I use the system the faster it gets, as the cache learns better which stuff to keep in memory.
When using this, which SSD you use becomes completely irrelevant, could be just as well a basic SATA one. The capacity becomes more important, and to be honest I'm starting to find 500GB ssd a bit limiting in 2018, will probably get upgraded to a 2TB one sometime this year.
The downside is that RAM is quite expensive today. I was lucky to buy my 64GB when it was half the price of today, before the price boom.
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#5537270 Posted on: 04/13/2018 05:22 AM
Say Hello to my little cache !
http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/primo-cache/index.html
Also, I can assign as much RAM as I want with it, instead of the fixed "512MB" or whatever this Silicon Motion tech offers.
To be honest I don't even think that AS SSD or any other disk benchmark is capable of measuring the real speed of a RAM cache.
And no, it's not snake oil at all, everything is insanely fast, and the more I use the system the faster it gets, as the cache learns better which stuff to keep in memory.
When using this, which SSD you use becomes completely irrelevant, could be just as well a basic SATA one. The capacity becomes more important, and to be honest I'm starting to find 500GB ssd a bit limiting in 2018, will probably get upgraded to a 2TB one sometime this year.
The downside is that RAM is quite expensive today. I was lucky to buy my 64GB when it was half the price of today, before the price boom.
Nice find. Here's mine on my 950 PRO 256GB(have yet to move to the 960 EVO):
Say Hello to my little cache !
http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/primo-cache/index.html
Also, I can assign as much RAM as I want with it, instead of the fixed "512MB" or whatever this Silicon Motion tech offers.
To be honest I don't even think that AS SSD or any other disk benchmark is capable of measuring the real speed of a RAM cache.
And no, it's not snake oil at all, everything is insanely fast, and the more I use the system the faster it gets, as the cache learns better which stuff to keep in memory.
When using this, which SSD you use becomes completely irrelevant, could be just as well a basic SATA one. The capacity becomes more important, and to be honest I'm starting to find 500GB ssd a bit limiting in 2018, will probably get upgraded to a 2TB one sometime this year.
The downside is that RAM is quite expensive today. I was lucky to buy my 64GB when it was half the price of today, before the price boom.
Nice find. Here's mine on my 950 PRO 256GB(have yet to move to the 960 EVO):
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#5537279 Posted on: 04/13/2018 07:17 AM
Tell us noobs,what's wrong with it
looks like performance is ok...
Silicon Motion again... HP doesn't have money to buy something better?
Tell us noobs,what's wrong with it
looks like performance is ok...
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Just for comparison here's my 960 EVO 500GB after I installed W10 PRO and transferred a few files(~10GB).