SSDs designed by MSI Company, which are based on the controller LSI SandForce SF-2200 will soon be announced officially. MSI company is known by producing of effective hardware components and laptop series, now they decide to show their abilities in developing new products: they are storages SSD series. Such decision by the company is not surprising, as it has certain knowledge and position on the computer market.



New SSD will have commercial codename Reflex Series and will be available in three options of 60, 120 and 240 GB.


According to preliminary information, the drives provide maximum read / write speed at 560/525 MB / s for the flagship 240GB, 550/515 MB / s for 120 GB and 525/495 MB / s for 60 GB. The claimed amount of IO with 4 KB data blocks (IOPS), respectively, will be 90,000, 90,000 and 85,000.


According to the high performance, the success of the debut SSD MSI Reflex will entirely dependent on the stability of the firmware, as SandForce (with 32nm NAND …

Introduction

Last year was pretty rich with the gamer’s monitors. On the CES 2018, conducted every year in Las Vegas, the MSI Company has announced two monitors with 27 inches curved displays which represent a new series Optix MPG — Optix MPG27C and Optix MPG27CQ. Let’s have a look at «fresh blood» in our today’s review.


Characteristics

Size/Curvaturem - 27"/1800R

Panel Type - VA

Resolution - FHD (1920x1080) (for MPG27C), WQHD (2560x1440) (for MPG27CQ)

Pixel Pitch - 0.3114(H) x 0.3114(V) (for MPG27C), 0.2331(H) x 0.2331(V) (for MPG27CQ)

Aspect Ratio - 16:9

Brightness (nits) - 250 (for MPG27C), 400 (for MPG27CQ)

Contrast Ratio/DCR - 3000:1/10000000:1 (for MPG27C), 3000:1/10000000:1 (for MPG27CQ)

Refresh Rate - 144 Hz

Response Time - 1ms (MPRT)

Video Interface - 1 x DisplayPort (1.2) - Up to 144 Hz

2 x HDMI (1.4) - Up to 120 Hz

USB Ports - 2 x USB 2.0 Type-A

1 x USB 2.0 Type-B (PC to Monitor)

Audio …

Dell is glad to announce the upcoming release of tower-like and rack-mount lineup of workstations that is characterized by the support of up to 1 TB DDR4 RAM. Dell Precision Tower 5810/7810/7910 and Dell Precision Rack 7910 house the latest Intel Xeon processors, as well as the latest professional graphics from AMD FirePro and Nvidia Quadro series. Due to this, the greenhorns are able to ensure the highest performance in various areas, starting from complex industrial computing and finishing with animation.



Tower-type workstations come with an advanced Thunderbolt 2 interface that guarantees up to 20 Gb/sec data transfer speed. In its turn, rack-mount 2-U model totally supports for visualization on the Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX hypervisor basis. It is also equipped with an Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller, ensuring a reliable remote supervision over data center even when there is limitation of access towards the equipment.


The list of advantages offered by …