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Anvil’s Storage Utilities: Comprehensive Benchmark Tool Aimed At SSDs

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With the ever-decreasing prices of the SSD (Solid State Drive), everybody’s been thinking of getting their hands on one. If you have recently shelled out on an SSD, and want to check its read/write speed, then give Anvil’s Storage Utilities a try. It’s a storage benchmark tool for monitoring the performance of both SSDs and HDDs. The application is designed to perform various sequential read and write tests on the drive, and provide the results for overall drive  performance. The portable application houses a plethora of  tweaks and settings, a user-friendly interface and an integrated system monitoring tool which provides complete system information about your computer. Details to follow after the break. Read More

SimpleWiFi Adds A Slim WiFi Toggle & IP Address To iPhone Notification Center

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For all the SBSettings users, many of the tweaks available in the Cydia store are useless or redundant. You want to toggle off Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or your data connection? SBSettings can do that. You want to view your iDevice’s IP address or other network info? Just swipe across your phone’s status bar. However, this doesn’t mean that a tweak that performs one of these tasks is completely worthless. There are certain scenarios when SBSettings cannot come to your rescue. What if you are using an app in full screen mode? SBSettings can’t be launched there. Notification Center, on the other hand, is truly universal and can be launched from anywhere in iOS. This is what makes SimpleWiFi a useful tweak. It is basically a Notification Center widget that provides its users with a toggle for Wi-Fi, and displays the current network’s name along with your iPhone’s IP address. Read More

Disable Unnecessary Write Access To Extend Lifetime Of Your SSD Drive

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One of the reasons why many laptop users opt-in for SSD hard drives, is that SSDs consume relatively less power than other traditional storage disks. If you aren’t familiar with SSD drive, it is quite different from storage mediums whose read and write processes depend on spinning of disk and R/W headers; Solid State Drives save data on micro-chips, and therefore, provide quicker access and higher data reliability. However, one of the downside is the short lifetime of the SSD drive in comparison to traditional HDD. One of the ways to increase the lifetime of your SSD drive is to disable unnecessary write access. Read on to find out how. Read More

Benchmark Read / Write Speed And 4K-64 Thread Of SSD Drive

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Contrasting to conventional hard disk drives, SSDs (Solid State Drives) demand a whole different set of tools to check the health status and read and write capability. This is primarily because SSD storing mechanism differs from other storage mediums, as data is saved on microchips and not on magnetic disks. Since data read/write operations are not based on spinning of disk platters, you need a dedicated read/write benchmark tool to test and evaluate the overall data read and write speed of your Solid State Drive. AS SSD Benchmark is such an application which puts SSD drive through both read and write speed tests. It presents 4 types of tests which can be conducted either in one go or you can choose against which parameter to evaluate read/write disk speed. It can perform read and write operation sequentially, read and write 4K size block, check 4k-64 Thread reading and writing speed, while an option to count Acc.time is also provided. Read More

Tweak To Optimize SSD Drive [Windows]

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Solid State Drive(SSD) is the new technology that is slowly starting to go mainstream. It is much faster and has longer life when compared with the traditional hard disk. Even though it is said to last much longer than HDD, the first and second generation SSD drives can sometime give serious problems. Read More