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CDRLabs finishes up the week with a review of Plextor's new 256GB M3S series SSD, the PX-256M3S. Powered by Plextor's True Speed technology, the M3S series uses high quality components like Marvell's server-grade 88SS9174 controller chip and Toshiba's 24nm Toggle NAND flash to deliver up to 525MB/s read and 445MB/s write speeds. The M3S also features exclusive firmware with Instant Restore, Global Wear Leveling, and Bad Block Management to maintain original performance levels, even after ...

One of my co-workers pointed this issue out to me. After 5000 hours of usage, Crucial's M4 SSDs make a system BSOD and restart. A firmware update is on the way that fixes this.

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State ... td-p/76392

We are aware of an issue that is currently affecting a small number of users whereby their m4 causes their system to require a restart. This issue occurs after approximately 5,000 hours ...

Just got an email from Lite-On IT, asking us to remove KProbe and LtnSSD. I will probably remove LtnSSD as its an internal tool but KProbe? Seriously?

January 4, 2012
LITE-ON IT CORPORATION
14th F, 392 Ruey Kuang Road,
Neihu, Taipei 114,
Taiwan, R.O.C.
Tel: +886-2-8798-2886 Fax: +886-2-8798-2822

Via Email

Demand Letter
Dear Sir/Madame,

Please be kindly advised that we, Lite-On IT Corporation. are requesting immediate resolutions of exhibition for downloading of our own FA ...

Newegg has got the ASUS BW-12B1ST on sale for $89.99. There's also a $40 mail in rebate, that drops the price down to $49.99. Shipping isn't free but its only $2.99.

ASUS Black 12X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 12X DVD-RAM 8X BD-ROM 8MB Cache SATA Blu-ray Burner BW-12B1ST/BLK/G/AS

Rebate: http://images10.newegg.com/uploadfilesf ... 11jy59.pdf

Rebate expires 12/28/11 (today) so order NOW

Dear Ian,
Just wanted to thank you for a forum that has been a source of valuable information and resources and ideas and ...
Thank you for all the ways you have added to what keeps my interest in technology and access to change and improvement in the pursuit of excellence in technology (changeable, flawed, magnificent...)
Happy Holidays and New Year to you and all the members of our forum
Best,
Richard

CDRLabs kicks off the week with a review of Patriot's 240GB Pyro SE solid state drive. This new and improved version of the Pyro is powered by the same SandForce SF-2281 controller and shares many of the same features including a SATA 6Gb/s interface and native TRIM support. However, instead of asynchronous NAND, the Pyro SE is equipped with 25nm synchronous MLC NAND to deliver up to 550MB/s read and 520 MB/s write speeds as ...

If you're looking to buy a new hard drive, you might want to do it now. Both Western Digital and Seagate will shortening the warranties on their hard drives come the new year.

From The Register:

Western Digital is cutting the distribution warranty period for Caviar Blue, Caviar Green and Scorpio Blue drives from three to two years.

Channel partners have been sent a letter from SelectWD explaining this, which says Caviar Black and Scorpio ...

Newegg has a couple of good deals on optical drives...

LITE-ON DVD Burner- iHAS124-04 for $18.

Sony Optiarc Blu-ray Writer - BD-5300S for $75 using PROMO code EMCJHJA29

Both have free shipping.

If those Blu-Ray drives ever get down to $30, I'll get one. :-^

Looks like Ian forgot to post this in forum or maybe I´m to blind to see ;)

http://www.cdrlabs.com/Reviews/lg-bh12l ... riter.html



Nice review, again :D


Looks like another solid drive from LG, but still the old not-nice-features.The riplock is still a bigprob for those who like to read Video-media.

What u think about BD-scans ...

Please can you help me? When I open my SONIC Digitalmedia Plus v7 programme, I see at the bottom, Destination Selection the words "No Driver Detected".
Is this because I had a new DVD RW DRIVE put in via my insurance? I have xp windows ,Home edition sp2.I am not well up on computers, how do I get the drivers from the internet, step by step instructions may be needed please.
Thankyou ,SeahorseS.