NVIDIA Ion Blu-ray Investigation: Not a problem?
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 10, 2009 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Hey guys, late last night I published an article on Blu-ray performance with NVIDIA's Ion platform.
NVIDIA was quick to respond and they believe that the data isn't correct and want some time to re-create my environment and test the titles themselves.
In the interest of being completely accurate I've pulled the article for now until I know for sure if the Blu-ray performance results are what I found.
It's back to reviewing SSDs for me...
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TA152H - Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - link
You're clueless, really.HDDs have a lot of advantages, some of them in speed. They did an article on another website involving short-stroking hard disks, and the speed improvement was dramatic, and in many benchmarks left the SSDs in the dust. Yes, even in speed. A lot depends on the application, and what speed you're talking about. Access times will always favor the SSDs, or should, but that's only part of the equation.
Rob94hawk - Thursday, March 12, 2009 - link
I'm clueless? Time to keep up with current events. HDD's are YESTERDAYS technology:http://i.gizmodo.com/5168424/fusion+io-iodrive-duo...">http://i.gizmodo.com/5168424/fusion+io-iodrive-duo...
StormyParis - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - link
HDD are Sooooo yesterday, but SSDs are, like, Soooo fashion victim.For 80 euros, I can either get a 1 To HDD or a 30 Go SSD. Not much to hesitate about for me.
Both have advantages and drawbacks. I for one don't care about speed or power requirements (and on both counts, it seems there is no clear answer on which is better, HDDs are "good enough" for me, and any difference is minimal anyway), but care a lot about price, capacity, and reliability.
ssj4Gogeta - Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - link
[Quote]\They did an article on another website involving short-stroking hard disks, and the speed improvement was dramatic, and in many benchmarks left the SSDs in the dust.[/quote]If I remember correctly, Anand did a similar article to investigate the pauses that sometimes occur with SSD's. All the SSD's were slower than traditional HDD's in that particular case, except for Intel's, which didn't seem to be affected at all.
ssj4Gogeta - Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - link
arghhhhhhhhhhhow do I use the quote tags?? the quote button and the other editing buttons don't work.
sprockkets - Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - link
use [quote] then [/quote]see?
smn198 - Thursday, March 12, 2009 - link
[Quote] Use thenSee [/Quote]
Doesn't seem to be working!
sprockkets - Thursday, March 12, 2009 - link
Actually I tried it and I get the stupid WebMaster Error. If I don't put it in, it works.sprockkets - Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - link
Well, it should work that way...Never works right in FF in Linux it seems, at least here...
sprockkets - Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - link
wait, use <> instead of []