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17 May, 2009

Intel X25-M rules on Ubuntu 9.04

Posted by: admin In: Hardware| Linux

I finally got tired of waiting for the prices to drop further so I bought me a little from-me-to-me present, the Intel X25-M SSD. Ubuntu 9.04 already boots pretty fast, but with this drive it’s amazing! As you can read from the chart belove it takes around 10 seconds to get to the login screen. [...]

Jeg hadde heller ikke bekymret meg stort om penger hvis alle i landet med en tv var tvunget til å betale meg nesten tre tusen kroner i året!
http://e24.no/medier-og-reklame/article3079677.ece

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17 Feb, 2009

The OCZ SSD syndrome

Posted by: admin In: Hardware

It’s a shame that all the OCZ disks are haunted by what I like to call the “OCZ SSD syndrome” which is a ridiculous low number of write operations per second. The first disk to be plagued by this problem was the OCZ Core disk. Today I read a review of their Apex model and [...]

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Finally!
Since the first time I heard about this revolutionizing new hard drive technology I’ve been longing for the day these would become accessible for normal people. It’s been a long wait, but today my OCZ Sata2 SSD disk finally arrived.
I’m normally a patient kind of guy, but when the lady standing before me in the [...]