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Cardiff's The Arcade Vaults to open in November

Gaming, eating, co-working, and boozing.

22-10-18 // 11:31a.m.

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Valve delays Artifact beta to November

Will open just nine days before launch.

22-10-18 // 11:10a.m.

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Lenovo launches charitable foundation

Offers 'Love-on mini-grants.'

22-10-18 // 10:56a.m.

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Review Intel Core i9-9900K Review (Coffee Lake Refresh) Review

Intel adds two cores to its mainstream flagship but is it worth the cash?

19-10-18 // 2:00p.m.

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A-Data launches SATA 6Gb/sec SSDs

A-Data has launched its latest SSD range, featuring a Marvell-based SATA 6Gb/sec controller.

20-12-10 // 10:07a.m.

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Intel updates SSD toolkit

Intel has released a new version of its SSD Toolkit with performance-enhancing features.

13-9-10 // 10:39a.m.

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Mac SSD performance and TRIM in OSX

TRIM is vital to ensuring SSDs maintain performance over time - but does OS X support it?

1-7-10 // 8:23a.m.

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Kingston claims Intel kept TRIM to itself

Kingston explains its SSD naming and why it offered no TRIM on its 40GB SSDs.

10-6-10 // 3:53p.m.

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Intel release TRIM for RAID

Intel has released the latest version of its Rapid Storage Driver, which brings TRIM support to SSDs in a RAID array - although not, for some reason, RAID 5.

23-3-10 // 2:34p.m.

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Kingston won't provide firmware updates for recent SSDs

16-3-10 // 10:21a.m.

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Review G.Skill Falcon 2 128GB SSD Review

G.Skill has taken a new version of the Indilinx Barefoot drive controller and paired it with Intel 32nm NAND flash to make the Falcon 2. Boasting claimed speeds of 220/110MB/s read/write, we've found its performance is surprising!

15-3-10 // 10:43a.m.

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Hardware Podcast 10 - All Praise the Capital of Hardwareland

1-3-10 // 12:20p.m.

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Review Why You Need TRIM For Your SSD

SSDs promise blazing fast access times and data transfer speeds - but many SSDs suffer from horrendous performance degradation over time. The answer is TRIM: we take a look at SSD performance to find out why the latest, TRIM-enabled drive firmwares are crucial updates.

4-2-10 // 8:29a.m.

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When three storms collide

17-8-09 // 3:53p.m.

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Review G.Skill Falcon 128GB SSD Review

The SSD market has been really hotting up lately, and today we're looking at another contender in the form of the G.Skill Falcon. Sporting the same drive architecture as the OCZ Vertex while costing a lot less, is this the SSD you're upgrade's been waiting for?

24-6-09 // 11:38a.m.

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