Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Sylvia Else Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: G.Skill's new PCIe SSD cracks Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:29:47 +1100 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net I0n9Yaha+PKJ7xR+ZZpFOAaJDS6/KWr3SPeTDzmrU1DC3R6e/S Cancel-Lock: sha1:FQUUgmS2FJ1DZ0HzgmBYQhAhxeE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:5447 On 26/10/2014 12:31 AM, Rich wrote: > Sylvia Else wrote: >> On 25/10/2014 1:07 PM, Rich wrote: >>> http://www.pcgamer.com/gskills-new-pcie-ssd-cracks-19000-mbs-read-speeds/ >>> >>> PCIe SSDs are getting so big they can almost be mistaken for graphics >>> cards. Take for instance this honking G.Skill Phoenix Blade Series 480GB >>> PCIe SSD. G.Skill boasts its latest over-the-top piece of flash storage >>> will deliver sequential read and write speeds up to 2,000 MB/s. >>> >>> Of course, when you break down that down to continuous speeds, the 480GB >>> SSD will write at about 1,050 Mb/s and read at around 1,900 MB/s. Still, >>> that's still double the write speed found on a fast SATA SSD like the >>> Samsung 840 EVO, which boasts sustained read and write speeds of 515 >>> MB/s and 503 MB/s, respectively. >>> >>> ... >>> >> Should mitigate the effects of software bloat for a while. > > Don't worry, microsoft is hard at work adding bloat to Windows 10 SP1 > to consume all the space, and 237% of the bandwidth, this card > provides. > Glad to hear that there's a plan. I'd hate to think that this sort of thing happens through incompetence and indifference. Sylvia.