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  1. davecason

    Please Add Password Cracking to GPU Bench

    Anandtech has a real opportunity to help business users pick the best possible hardware for cracking passwords. Business and Cyber Security users often leverage hardware solutions to determine the passwords for office documents and malware-related archives. Adding OpenCL-type password cracking...
  2. davecason

    Self-encrypting SSD's

    Kingston just released a Sandforce-based drive that has built-in encryption. I would love to see some serious benchmarking on such a drive... Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6PTLFG43UA NewEgg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139920 Samsung also has a...
  3. davecason

    Google Safe Browsing is Detecting Malware on Articles

    Probably an embedded advertisement is at fault: Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer! The website at www.anandtech.com appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that hosts malware can infect...
  4. davecason

    Mini PCIe SATA I, II, III drive reviews

    My Dell M6500 Laptop allows me to run RAID 5 if I use a Mini PCIe third drive like these: http://www.supertalent.com/products/ssd_category_detail.php?type=Netbook I would like to see some reviews on the speeds of these drives and comparison of full height vs. half height and different SATA...
  5. davecason

    Acard ANS-9010 Review vs non-volatile SSD's

    I picked up an Acard ANS-9010 and a 9012. They are both pretty neat. Here is a quick ANS-9010 vs iRam comparison: http://www.wideopenwest.com/~dcason6634/Acard.html If anyone is interested in a contact at Acard/2SAN so they can buy their own, please post a reply. The ANS-9010 is...
  6. davecason

    Supermicro H8DCE does not like the gigabyte iRam

    Here is my situation: I have an nForce Pro 4 motherboard, the Supermicro H8DCE. http://www.supermicro.com/Aplu...teron/nForce/H8DCE.cfm I have a pair of Gigabyte gc-Ramdisks with 4GB of RAM each. When I plug these directly into the motherboard, the system boots slowly and does not...
  7. davecason

    Review Request: More extensive RAM-driven solid-state drive review

    I would like to see a head-to-head comparison of the following: * Hyperos hyperdrive IV * Gigabyte iRam (gc-ramdisk) v 1.3 or box (box is available on eBay from Hong Kong) * Acard ANS-9010 (if you can find one) * Any high-end software RAM drive on a system with tons of ram. Something like...
  8. davecason

    Effective Testing for Multiprocessor Systems

    I had an idea and I wanted to throw it out to the group to get feedback. VMWare separates virtual machine processors onto separate physical or hyperthreaded processors when more than one virtual machine is running (http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/intro_vmspec_ws.html). Wouldn't it make...
  9. davecason

    Athlon 64 FX-53 with socket 940 Pins vs. Opteron 150

    Does anyone know of any difference between an Athlon 64 FX-53 (socket 940) and an Opteron Model 150? I saw both products listed on the Anandtech Price Finder feed (which is very nice, BTW) as being carried by NewEgg, but I don?t see any difference in product specifications. The price...
  10. davecason

    Western Digital WD200BB 10% Failure Rate

    I purchased about 30 Western Digital Hard Drives about two months ago for my office and I've already had three go bad on me. Fortunately, the systems I had them in had S.M.A.R.T services on the motherboards and alerted me to the problem. After checking them out in those systems with the...