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  1. 02-05-2009, 08:08 AM #76
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    Mine was posted at OCF on the 31st:

    http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=594189

    It isn't in the review, but I ordered some Fujitsu 15K RPM SAS drives that I'll be comparing the ACARD to as well. Testing will start tonight, actually.

    Folks, RAID-0 isn't a magical thing that will double all performance. It's going to matter when you're doing lots of large, sequential I/O but not much of anything otherwise. For real-world usage like boot drives and program loads, RAID-0 will probably even slow you down versus a single drive.
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  2. 02-16-2009, 08:29 AM #77
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    Any word on who ever won the second 9010 + eSATA enclosure? We must be a bit past the extended evaluation day by now.
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    So everybody got their unit apart from me despite being sent a email just before christmas saying I'd be getting some to test, thats great. If I had some kind of notification then fine, as I didn't, this company now = blacklisted in my books.

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  4. 02-16-2009, 11:01 AM #79
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    Quote Originally Posted by Serra View Post
    Any word on who ever won the second 9010 + eSATA enclosure? We must be a bit past the extended evaluation day by now.
    Evaluation period was extended due to the delayed deliveries, as far as I remember.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chosen. View Post
    Evaluation period was extended due to the delayed deliveries, as far as I remember.
    Well he said it would be extended accordingly with the review period. The review period was extended until the end of January, and the original evaluation period was going to be 10 days... so... should be ~Feb 10 or so...
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    Ket, if you're still interested in reviewing the product (though probably too late for review), I could ship you my unit now that my review is done. I'd want it back of course, but you'd still get to play with it that way.
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    I received my 9010B for a press review last week. Corsair kindly loaned me 8GB of DDR2 for the review, it is in the queue of products to be reviewed. Will link to the review when it is complete.
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    So still no word on a winner? Has anyone sent an e-mail to Jason to inquire?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Serra View Post
    So still no word on a winner? Has anyone sent an e-mail to Jason to inquire?
    I did about a week and a half ago, at which point I was informed that half the reviews had been read, and that it would take about another week.

    Personally I'm not too worried, it'd be nice to win something of course, but that's out of my hands now.
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  12. 04-27-2009, 04:07 AM #87
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    Rather disappointing that Acard canceled the competition without warning... or at least that is what appears that have happened.
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