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News Archive for Monday June 14, 2010 Goto Current News Page
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| 240GB Mercury Extreme Pro SSD in testing |
I recently received a review loaner 240GB Mercury Extreme Pro SSD and am currently using it in a Mac Pro. (I may also try it in my early 09 MBP.) As noted in earlier reviews of these sandforce-based SSDs, performance of course is excellent. (Kona2 Disk sweep showed appx 230MB/sec read and writes in bay2 of a Mac Pro, some other tests showing appx 250MB/sec R/W - a bit less than the rated max but still impressive.)
I intend to 'beat on it' for a couple weeks as reliability is paramount to me. (A bit gun-shy after owning a Barefoot-based SSD last year and going through several firmware updates to fix various issues.) I don't expect that sort of experience with this SSD but want to use it heavily before posting a review. These SSDs are famous for holding their performance over time as well.
It had been more than 6 months since I'd used an SSD and had forgotten what a difference these make - as some others have mentioned it's like having a new machine.... apps literally pop open.
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| Updates to Portal, Half-Life 2 series, Team Fortress 2 |
"Updates to Portal, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Fixed crash when local sound cache files were corrupt
Hide cursor when playing movies in game"
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"Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Fixed client crash when rendering model panels
Fixed client crash when rendering text strings
Fixed client crash in the main menu
Fixed server crash related to bots and health kits"
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