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The best SSD reviews I've seen are done by hardware.fr (and English translation at behardware.com). Richard Hart's articles for tomshardware are also good. Tweaktown is middle-of-the-pack, at most.
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As a misguided and inaccurate reviewer, he has very little room to talk, which is what I pointed out earlier.

And giving my opinion on reviews in a thread about reviews is certainly not trolling....

Whine, whine, whine. Who was it who first started criticizing review sites in this thread?

I would expect nothing better from tweaktown. No doubt it will be even worse with your own trace based tests. Constant disimprovement is par for your course.

Anyone still using PCMark Vantage instead of PCMark 7 is on shakey ground to make such criticism. PCMark 7 is not a great test itself, but it is significantly more realistic and accurate for most...

Each lane of PCIe is bidirectional (i.e., you can read and write at the same time without either affecting the other), but I will quote the specifications for a single direction.

PCIe 2.0: 5 GHz...

I was going to answer, but I realized that it is quite off topic for a thread about ASU. I suggest you start another thread.

Anything is better than OCZ when it comes to quality. OCZ has a long history of selling low quality SSDs with gimmicks to make them look good in reviews. Definitely avoid OCZ products.

Sandforce...

The 128GB Plextor M5P is now available on newegg.com. The 256GB and 512GB are not yet on newegg.

qft

Agreed. Also, his sequential read and 4K-64 random write look low. Here is mine:

http://i.imgur.com/sb9Tx.png

I suggest you try to calm down and think clearly. Also, Parted Magic should be able to secure erase any SSD. If you cannot boot it, then it is hardly the SSD's fault.

I have a 256GB Plextor M3P...

Negligible difference. He is saying if you are doing something important, don't use OCZ consumer SSDs.

Basically, OCZ's consumer SSDs are crap and even OCZ's rep does not recommend you use them for anything important!

I've seen lots of weird results on the Vertex 4. Even just looking at AS-SSD results with fw1.5 that are posted on the internet, it seems that the sequential read speed can vary from low 400MB/s up...

It is good to know that you are testing the M5P. behardware's SSD test results are always interesting to see, especially the tests where you fill the SSDs with data and stress them before measuring...

Right. It appears to have Micron flash and the 9174 controller. Probably the M5S.

Hmm, did you have a CPU-intensive background task (like 1 thread of Prime95) running during that AS-SSD? The 4K results look like what I see when C-states are in effect (which can be counteracted by...

I just did. I presented facts with clear supporting evidence to you so you could correct your mistake. Instead of accusing me of trolling and saying that the issue is pointless, any decent reviewer...

You "guess" I am correct? Now we see why you have been printing reviews for years with incorrect and misleading information. When presented with facts and clear evidence, you "guess". And then you...

tweaktown has been making erroneous claims like this for multiple SSD mounts for months or years now.

In reality, it is IMPOSSIBLE to make a purely mechanical 2.5" to 3.5" adapter bracket,...

Since I don't have an M5P, I cannot run ASU on it. That is what tweaktown should do. I already said that. Also, you seem to have missed the point. Yes, running ASU under one set of conditions is not...

If you look at Plextor, Samsung, or Crucial specs, they tend to match up pretty well to what you can measure yourself with AS-SSD or ASU. If you look at the specs for Sandforce SSDs, you have to be...

Wrong. The ASU and AS-SSD numbers do tell you something. They tell you what will be the sequential read and write speeds, 4K read and write speeds, etc. when they are measured with a 1GB test file of...

The Plextor M5Pro just showed up on Plextor's website:

http://www.goplextor.com/asia/index.php/ssd/m5-pro

I love the comparison charts. "E Brand, E series (SF)" I'm not sure which of the...