write speeds

Shingled Magnetic Recording drives have a bad name, and rightly so if you need to write continuously for more than a couple of minutes, because the firmware just can't cope and frequently grinds to a halt for a few seconds. As someone who always buys NAS HDD's for their longevity and durability...

So here's the story: I have a 500GB 970 Evo Plus NVMe, about 40% full on the motherboard as a C:\ system drive. Works as quick as the board/CPU/RAM (ASUS 970 gaming aura, FX8350, 16GB) will let it. It's only PCIe 2. It's still quite quick. 1.4GB/s read, 1.1 write (seq) from Crystal Mark Also...

I see a RAID 5 option in the disk manager in my Windows 10 pro 64bit os but it's greyed out , but I also see if could do a Parity RAID in storage space which it will allow me to do. So I'm curious why RAID 5 is greyed out and is there an advantage to getting RAID 5 to work vs Parity, which I...

Hello all, I purchased this flash drive from Amazon am I'm happy with its performance (for the price): Link Removed The manufacturer claims read speeds up to 190MB/s and write speeds up to 55MB/s. These benckmarks were conducted at USB 3.0 speeds and, FYI, my OS is on an SSD: Link Removed...

Hello all, Ever wonder why your new SSD doesn't meet your benckmarking expectations when using tools like AS SSD and/or Crystal Disk Mark? Well, there are two reasons why this might happen. First and foremost, those programs' benchmarking algorithms are not clearly defined (eg, understood) and...

Have you ever heard the terms, head crash or stiction? Better yet, have you ever experienced either of them? These terms are just two of the unhappy occurrences associated with mechanical disks. What if disks didn't spin? What if there were a way to create rewriteable storage in such a way that...

Back in early May of this year, Mushkin Enhanced released a new line of SSD named "Callisto" after one of Jupiter's moons, to go along with their earlier IO series. The following review is from OverclockersClub.com: May 24, 2010 Introduction: Mushkin has been a very well known and...

March 2, 2010 Corsair releases its fastest USB Flash Drive. Flash Voyager GTR family of USB Flash Drives. Its maxium read speed will be up to 34 MB/sec. and write speeds of up to 28 MB/sec.. The gizmo will offer the best features of a USB flash drive and the performance of an external hard...

In Vista these two worked as expected but once in W7, they've been acting up since. Since using W7, looking in Nero 9 InfoTool showed the first drive - Read Speed 48x and Write Speed 16x while the second drive showed up as Read Speed 12x and Write Speed N/A. I've flashed them both to the latest...

This is my first post. Thank you in advance for your help. I'm an xp vet and want to be a win 7 expert. Using: windows 7 evaluation copy build 7100 Amd athlon 64 x2 dual core 5000+ 2.61 ghz 2 gb ram lite-on DVD writer Memorex dvd+r I had no problems using this combo with xp, but I've only...

I used to burn disks at slow write speeds because people told me it worked better. I also used to have a lot of failures. Then I read this sticky thread at Club CDFreaks that advises against slow burn speeds. Since I started using "ImgBurn" and burning everything at "Automatic Write Speed" I...

So Ive got a bday coming up and am lucky enough to have a 60GB Apex series solid state drive in the mail. I dont have a problem with it yet. Was looking for some feedback on someone who is running one of these 1st gen drives with Windows 7 x64. I understand XP do not mix well with these and they...