James Russell Lowell: "Light is the symbol of truth"


Nowadays backlighting is a very popular thing in the world of computers. You can already see it on motherboards, video cards, and even on RAM, and on CPU coolers and more. But if often manufacturers simply hang a fan with a backlight on the radiator, then LEPA went the other way, and in the new cooler of the company, NEOillusion, the heatsink itself is highlighted.

 

On the side faces of the radiator are installed LED strips, and, which is not quite usual, complete with a cooler is a remote control. Through the console, the colors, brightness and backlight modes are switched. And yes, the RGB backlight.

 

From a technical point of view, LEPA NEOillusion does not stand out as anything special. Four U-shaped heat pipes (6 mm diameter), technology of direct contact, and not big sizes, which ensures compatibility with most motherboards. It can dissipate 200 watts of heat.

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The galaxy of SSD developers multiplies like a house on fire. There is nothing to wonder about this fact as practically all established and developing companies, that specialize in drives design, consider themselves in duty bound to produce, at least, a single model of SSD. Adata company decided not to watch the progress in the sidelines and introduces its S511 model on the basis of SandForce SF-2281 controller. This is not the first model of this manufacturer, but it’s, undoubtedly, distinguished by high-end performance showings. SSDs on SandForce platforms of the new generation enrapture not only average customers but IT specialists as well.



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Adata S511 has got a typical to such class of products design: black casing with chamfered angles, a couple of stickers with a serial number and other specifications. The customer will get the SSD together with other accessories, including the fixing carrier-adapter of 3.5’’ dimension type, and a kit of screws for the …

Transcend representatives has recently announced the launch of their new product 2.5-inch PSD520 SSD-drive. According to the company’s concept, PSD520 are destined to secure high performance showings as well as prolonged reliability. Such specifications were achieved due to the implementation of flash microchips with single-layer cell memory location (SLC). Those microchips are able to sustain up to a dozen times more rewriting cycles as compared with multi-layer cell microchips.



SLC microchips have an improved system of defects recovery which enables more efficient operation of the correction system. Moreover, SLC is distinguished by the lesser correlation of defects number per rewriting cycles; such peculiarity allows the correction system to identify the problem and to execute the recovery much faster. As a result, PSD520 drive manifests promising showings in start-up time, as well as the advanced system sensitivity and high data transfer rate which approximates up to 102 …