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Intel's 335 Series SSD reviewed by Geoff Gasior — 10:30 AM on October 29, 2012 The next generation of NAND has arrived. Intel's new 335 Series sports 20-nm flash, and we've run it through our test suite to... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	64
AMD's FX-8350 processor reviewed by Scott Wasson — 11:00 PM on October 22, 2012 The next revision of AMD's top-of-the-line desktop CPU has arrived. Can it carve out a place for itself in a very difficult competitive environment?... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	307
Review: Corsair's Neutron and Neutron GTX solid-state drives by Geoff Gasior — 11:03 AM on October 11, 2012 Corsair's Neutron SSDs are the first ones to use a new controller from Link_A_Media Devices. We test the standard and GTX versions of... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	37
AMD's A10-5800K and A8-5600K 'Trinity' APUs reviewed by Scott Wasson — 11:32 PM on October 3, 2012 AMD's second-generation desktop APU has arrived, raising the question: What the heck's an APU? Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	213
A quick look at Thunderbolt on the PC by Geoff Gasior — 3:10 PM on June 4, 2012 Thunderbolt has finally arrived on the PC. Motherboards with Thunderbolt ports are selling online and Ivy Bridge notebooks are primed to feature the technology.... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Displays Mobile computing	83
Review: Intel's Core i7-3770K 'Ivy Bridge' processor by Scott Wasson — 11:18 AM on April 23, 2012 We've deployed some innovative testing methods to go inside the second with Intel's latest desktop processor, the Ivy Bridge-based Core i7-3770K. Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	213
Western Digital's VelociRaptor 1TB hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 7:00 AM on April 16, 2012 Is there any hope for high-performance mechanical drives? We test WD's latest 10k-RPM VelociRaptor 1TB against a diverse array of competitors to find out. Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	161
OCZ's Vertex 4 solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 8:00 AM on April 4, 2012 Just a few months after its Indilinx Everest controller debuted in the OCZ Octane, a second-generation Everest chip has taken root in the Vertex 4... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	61
OCZ's RevoDrive 3 X2 240GB solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 4:48 PM on March 26, 2012 Using virtualization voodoo, the RevoDrive 3 X2 combines four SandForce-based SSDs on a single PCIe card purportedly capable of transfer rates up to 1500MB/s. ... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	61
OCZ's Octane 128GB solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 10:19 AM on February 16, 2012 We were impressed by OCZ's Indilinx-powered Octane SSD when we reviewed the 512GB version last year. Now, we have the 128GB model in-house to... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	42
Intel's 520 Series solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 10:00 AM on February 6, 2012 Intel's newest solid-state drive pairs a SandForce controller with custom firmware and 25-nm NAND. We've tested the 60 and 240GB models to see... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	83
Samsung's 830 Series solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 5:40 PM on February 2, 2012 Samsung's new 830 Series SSD has a triple-core controller, a vast array of Toggle DDR NAND, and a download code for Batman: Arkham City. ... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	61
SSD performance scaling across the spectrum by Geoff Gasior — 8:09 PM on February 1, 2012 An SSD's capacity can have a big impact on its overall performance. We've tested a collection of different drive models in a range of... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	89
OCZ's Octane 512GB solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 4:18 PM on November 30, 2011 OCZ bought SSD controller maker Indilinx earlier this year, and the first product of that acquisition is now out. Join us for a look... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	41
Seagate's Momentus XT 750GB hybrid hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 12:26 AM on November 29, 2011 Seagate has upgraded its Momentus XT hybrid drive with more storage capacity and a bigger, faster flash cache. We dig deeper to see how... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Mobile computing	69
Intel's Core i7-3960X processor by Scott Wasson — 2:01 AM on November 14, 2011 The new Extreme version of Sandy Bridge doubles up on nearly all of the resources included in the original quad-core variants. The result? ... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs	182
Life in the lab with Noctua's CPU coolers by Geoff Gasior — 10:51 PM on October 26, 2011 We rarely review CPU coolers here at TR, but we've spent a few months working with a trio of Noctua designs that are really quite... Type: Feature article Tags: CPUs Cooling	64
SSD scaling outside the sweet spot by Geoff Gasior — 10:32 PM on October 19, 2011 Fresh from rounding up a collection of the latest 120-128GB solid-state drives, we've turned our attention to a pack of 240-300GB models to see... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	44

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Jeff Kampman

Our storage bench has not been patched for either vulnerability, so it's not that. Like we noted, we're working with Samsung to explore what's going o...

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techguy

That's great news! Way to go AMD. Congrats to all those that worked hard to turn... +20

Jeff Kampman

Give us some credit, please—we simply wouldn't bench drives with such a glarin... +16

danny e.

price is still too high. Should be down to 200 per TB by now. $850 for 2TB is ri... +11

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