And they said I'd never see these kind of disk transfer speeds under normal* use! Here's a screenshot of Process Explorer telling me I'm pulling about 150MB/sec each way to/from the SSD in my dev machine:


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So, my VM server is unstable again. Some twiddling in the BIOS has gotten it running again, but one DIMM is definitely bad (as evidenced by trying it in another system). I was just prepared to bin it, but Corsair apparently give all their RAM a lifetime warranty - so I figure, what the hell, I'll give it a go. And I've decided I like Corsair's tech ( Read more... )

I just found that scan.co.uk recieved stock of Intels new 80GB MLC 'G2' drives today. Reviews show performance to be staggering, in everything apart from sustained writes (notably, the drive thrashes everything at random writes), so I'm really keen to get one for my desktop, where I'll get really tangible performance gains. I'm hoping that common ( Read more... )