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Thanks to some generous trade agreements between the US and Australia, if you are importing into the States from Australia for personal use then no import duties apply. If importing for commercial reasons (i.e. for resale), then the duty-free limit is up to $2,500USD. We've exported a lot of...

To clarify: It's been possible to boot the Plextor M6e PCIe 2.0 x2 SSD in any motherboard with an open x4 slot for some time, as it has it's own bios and comes with a standard PCIe adapter. Albeit the performance isn't that much more than SATA 6G. Up until now it wasn't possible to boot the...

Excellent article! A practical application of the 1500MB/s limit Kristian is talking about in the above anandtech article is also illustrated in this review from barefeats.com. Note how when just 4-lanes of PCIe 2.0 is available, that the 2x XP941's in RAID saturate the interface at about...

I didn't know that. Could you link to the review where he made that discovery? I couldn't see that reference in the two reviews I found. The maximum transfer rates I've seen quoted so far is 770MB/s on the single drive, unless you are talking about two drives striped in a RAID setup? Sorry...

A lot of people talk about the LSI Sandforce SF3700 SSDs with great enthusiasm, but I think it will be a while before we see this technology available at a consumer accessible price. Recent benchmark results which are about to be published will show that a PCIe 2.0 socket with 4-lanes of...

M.2 is an interface standard that supports being connected to both the SATA bus and/or PCIe interface, using up to 4 lanes. It's when the M.2 socket is wired to the PCIe bus that performance exceeding the usual SATA speeds is possible. Sadly though, very manufacturers are yet to embrace this...