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As we've noted in the past, when enthusiasts see a fast SSD, one of their first questions is always "how fast are two of them in a RAID 0 array?" Of course, we've wondered about that ourselves and so has Jon Coulter over at Real World Labs. Jon recently put two Neutron GTX SSDs through his RAID 0 review test gauntlet, and they really shined while picking up the vaunted Real World Performance award.

Here are a couple of quotes from the article:

"A pair of these drives has approximately 10X the performance of a single Neutron with writes below 4K and reads below 8K...Sometimes RAID 0 can do amazing things 10X the low end performance is simply astounding.

The GTX has the most consistent and even performance of any drive I’ve ever tested no matter how much it’s hammered it always gives you consistent performance which is what we like to see."

Here's a small teaser, a blistering ATTO score. But, you'll need to go read the entire review at RW Labs to get the rest of the information.

Normally I use my blog posts to help educate people about our products or how to use them, but today I'm going tell you how Team Corsair is going to help sick kids by gaming for 24 hours straight!

The Corsair Accelerator Series SSD cache drive software has been updated. The newest version now includes support for caching a secondary HDD.  You can download the newest version of the Dataplex software, version 1.2.0.1 from NVELO.

The Neutron Series GTX and Neutron Series SSDs are making a big splash, being the first solid-state drives on the consumer market to use the Link-A-Media LAMD SSD flash processing unit (FPU) or SSD controller. Both are garnering awards at review sites around the globe. Many of the top review sites on the planet have reviewed one or both Neutron Series drives and the results are stellar. We have compiled a few of them here from Legit Reviews, Real World Labs, [H]ARDOCP, TweakTown, Anandtech, and KitGuru.

The Vengeance® M90 Performance MMO and RTS Laser Gaming Mouse is a great piece of hardware which can help you automate repetitive tasks and take your gaming to a whole new level! But first you need to know how to take advantage of all those extra buttons and the first step to doing that is making profiles. I'm here today to show you how to do just that in a few simple steps! After reading this you'll be on your way to a whole new way of getting things done. =)

Congratulations on your new Corsair Vengeance gaming peripheral! Now that you've got it out of the package the first thing you'll want to do is download and install the latest firmware and software and I'm here to show you how. It's easy to do, and everything you need can be found on the product page for your Vengeance mouse, keyboard, or headset on Corsair.com. I promise you'll find this to be a painless process, that ensures you're up to date with the latest features and bug fixes.

The Apricorn EZ GIG IV software included with the Force Series™ 3 Notebook Upgrade Kit SSDs, or NUK, is extremely easy to use. It allows the user to create a backup or extra software disk and also to create a bootable USB flash drive from the Windows application.

Having the software on a bootable USB flash drive makes it much more portable. Also, many systems these days do not have an optical drive such as netbooks.

When people talk about computer power supplies, there are a lot of terms that get thrown around that we here at Corsair realize that not everyone understands. Unlike a CPU or GPU, a power supply doesn't have clock speeds. A PSU doesn't have 4MB vs. 8MB of L3 cache. A power supply doesn't have 2GB vs. 4GB of GDDR memory. So what number does everyone know when they look at a power supply box? The wattage. But, truth be told, the actual capability of one power supply can't be explained by wattage alone. One 600W power supply may not be the same as another 600W.

First, let's talk about what this "wattage" number on the box and power supply label is. The wattage of a power supply is an indication of how much DC power the power supply can put out. But a power supply only puts out as much DC power as demanded of it by the computer. And depending on what you're doing with that computer, that number can vary a great deal. Even though you have a 600W power supply, the power supply may only be putting out 300W, or even as little as 1 watt if it's just sitting in standby.

Here's the rub: that maximum wattage number comes with a number of conditions. A number of conditions that aren't always laid out on the retail box somewhere. And, as a consumer, you don't know what these conditions are unless a power supply is properly reviewed and exposed as the fraud, for the lack of a better word, that it may be.

Corsair fully discloses that the GS600 is rated at 600W, continuous, at 40°C.

I was recently at QUAKECON 2012 in Dallas and while I was there I noticed a lot of people playing a new MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) called SMITE. So I decided to get my very own Beta Key and give it a try. Gameplay in SMITE is challenging, fast paced, and a lot of fun!  I also found that, while they’ve done a great job laying out the keyboard, your gameplay can be greatly enhanced with the creation of a few simple macros.  The perfect venue to show off some of the capabilities of the Vengeance M90 Laser Gaming Mouse!  ;-)

One of the best parts about my job at Corsair is pushing our DDR3 memory to its limits. As you may have seen in the past I set the DRAM Frequency World Record and recently pushed our new Dominator Platinum memory to 3000MHz at Computex 2012. Not everybody can overclock to 3000MHz so let’s take a look at what the 2133MHz, 2400MHz, and 2666MHz Dominator Platinum kits can achieve.