The Best of Computex 2014

Computex 2014, was the scene of many new products of the giant Computex ... Thats the best of Computex!

Computex Taipei, was one of the year's biggest technology trade show. Demonstrations which took place in Taiwan in the new notebooks, tablets, PCs and PC components, the first time we met with. This article describes the most prominent stars of our activities we would like to introduce to you.

America at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Anyway, he can say at Computex in Taiwan easily. Computex each year, the largest manufacturer of exciting new hardware, the scene is getting interesting concept; subject to future technology also browse through the fair chance would have.

So what is going on in Taiwan this year? Computex 2014 most prominent products in our gallery we've put together for you.

1. Asus PA328Q 

32-inch PA328Q, showed itself for the first time at Computex 2014. UAI 3840 x 2160 resolution monitor, unlike its competitors 60 frames per second can be transferred via HDMI 2.0 port. 

Asus says that the monitor developed for professional use. According to the company monitors, will be released in the fourth quarter of 2014. 

Released: 2014's fourth quarter

2. Corsair Voyager 2 

Written with an entirely new Corsair Voyager 2 external drives to the LAN or can be integrated into your network via USB or Wi-Fi access point their device for creating music and video content can provide. 

Price: 180 euros (1TB) 

Release date: June 2014 End

3. Aorus X3 / X3 Plus

Games with notebooks that name Aorus, two compact models unveiled at Computex. Aorus them X3 13.3-inch, 2560x1440 resolution for a gaming laptop. If X3 Plus is able to offer a very high resolution as 3200x1800.

 

Both devices Intel Core i7-4719HQ (2.5 GHz) is used. 8 or 16GB of DDR3 RAM, GeForce GTX 870m with equipment such as notebooks, 256 or 512GB SSD are offered with M.2. 

Price: starts from $ 2000 

Released: Probably the third quarter of 2014

4. Asus MemoPad 7/8 

MemoPad new versions 7 and 8, appeared at Computex. Both tablets with 64-bit support Intel Atom processor, while the MemoPad 8, an AC adapter and a wireless module with LTE. 8-inch model's IPS panel offers a resolution of 1920x1200 pixels and is protected by Gorilla Glass 3. 

Price: Unknown 

Release date: mid of june 2014

5.Asus Fonepad 8 

Asus, as well as a Fonepad two new MemoPad showed the 8-inch model. Fonepad 8 eponymous device, again 64-bit Intel Atom Z3560 (1.8GHz) processor is coming. Tablet with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels, 3G module also allows thanks to a phone call. The device has dual SIM slots. 

Price and release date: Unknown

6. HP Pavilion x360 

13.3-inch Pavilion this revised model x360 touch screen, can be folded completely. x360 or as a tablet to be able to use a regular notebook. 

x360, hardware and Intel Core i3, AMD A8 APU offers you the choice. 

Price: starting from 630 euro 

Release date: July 9, 2014

7. HP Slate Book 

HP, the familiar notebook series next update, the Android operating system, the notebook is also preparing to launch. Slate Book, 14 inch screen, and Android 4.3 with Tegra chipset with 4 employees notebook. More than that, is not known. 

Price: starts from $ 400 

Released: July 2014 in the United States

8. Acer Liquid Jade 

Liquid Jade, Acer's new smart mobile of himself. 5-inch HD screen with Android 4.4 phone line, 14-megapixel camera comes. The device's processor and 1GB of RAM, quad-core SoC's on MediaTek. 

Released: Probably August 2014

9. Acer Leap 

Acer Leap with a fitness band, will be released in conjunction with Liquid Jade. Smart cebizi with synchronized via bluetooth band, narrow screen can show all kinds of information. 

Price: Probably will not be sold separately 

Released: Probably the third quarter of 2014

10. Asus Ares III 

Asus, the Asus Ares III again with the world's fastest graphics card was able to produce. Couples hosting Hawaii XT graphics card on the core, 8GB of GDDR5 memory and developed exclusively by EK Water Blocks cooling system with water. 

Asus plans to produce only 500 Ares III. 

Price: Probably around $ 1500

11. DDR4 RAM Adata XPG-Z1 

Computex, was the scene of the first DDR4 memory. The new memory module, X99 chipset (Haswell-E) can be used in anaktart. An exact date for the next Extreme processor is not yet determined. 

Released: 2014

12. Intel Devil's Canyon 

Intel at Computex next to the new Haswell has already introduced two new processors. Core i7-4790 and Core i5-4690, with open multiplier and the overclocking enthusiasts are targeting these properties. Both processors will be released in June. 

Price: $ 250 (Core i5-4690), $ 350 (Core i7-4790) 

Released: Probably the middle of June 2014

13.Asus Transformer Book V 

5-in-1 concept is very interesting, the Asus Transformer Book V, being a Windows notebooks and tablets, as well as Great Android can also assume a laptop and notebook. It does not stop there, thanks to smart mobile accessories mobile also offers you a Great Android. When you insert the phone into the back of the tablet, the screen is projected on the screen of the tablet. Dock, up to 1TB storage unit can contain. 

12.5 inch Intel Core processor inside the device, has 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. 5-inch smart mobile working with Intel processor and 2GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage space, comes with Android 4.4 operating system.

14. Asus RT-AC3200 

Asus has shown at Computex Asus RT-AC3200 new router, a full six antennas and three antenna module (Tri-Band) are coming up with. According to Asus router, 3.200 megabits per second of data transfer can do so. 

Release date and price: Unknown

World Cup Official Phone Xperia Z2!

5mm first 2.5inch Hard Disk

Western Digital slim2.5 the world's first ultra-inch, 5 mm hybrid hard drives and solid state drives (SSHD) announced it has started to ship. Ultra-thin portable devices and drivers for the high-performance of these products is the first in a family of innovative mechanical design and solid state hybrid drive technology.

Western Digital's thinnest devices where space is limited and the computer environment designed to be integrated into the world's first ultra-slim2.5-inch, 5 mm hybrid hard drives and solid state drives (SSHD) announced it has started to ship. This slim 500 GB storage capacity and a range of solid-state hybrid drive technology that enables high-performance models, system designers of capacity, physical size helps to establish a balance between performance and easier.



To move to a new level of portability of devices WD, and the WD Black 5 mm drivers designed the new WD Blue. The aim of the new built-in storage capacity of the drives increases, the smaller slots takılabilmekti devices. Also, the device portatifse how thin and the hard disk from user-supplied voltage, the higher the probability of infection.





Ultra Slim Form Factor - Compact connector 5 mm height chassis design allows the system designers to be able to move more freely. This ultra-slim form factor, can reduce up to 36 percent of the weight compared to the standard 9.5 mm drive.

Best in Class Acoustics and Shock - WD's best-in-class acoustics, noise-reducing technologies in the drive using active or idle. WD Blue and WD Black 5 mm, respectively, 400 W and 1000 W-enabled drives, offers a unique working and nonworking shock specifications.

Edge Card Technology - WD hard disk space to increase the mechanical oscillation and shock in order to ensure the performance of the connector and circuit board design, miniaturization technology used in mobile phones.

Card Edge Connector - WD Blue 5 mm in a small form factor hard disks are also new for the first time uses the SFF-8784 connector edge. SFF-8784 connector SATA interface connector through the new server I / O bus to take power and its interfaces.

StableTrac ™ - The motor shaft, reducing vibration and delivery trays from the system by compensating the deviation from the track during read and write operations consistently secured at both ends to ensure high performance.

Activator Activator is a two-stage Two-Stage-Last-tech enterprise, there are traces of data on the positional accuracy improves both activator. Using conventional electromagnetic actuator principles of the primary actuator provides coarse displacement. Positioning the head using piezoelectric activator secondary motion is fine-tuned to a higher degree of sensitivity.

The SSD DC S3500 Review: Intel's 6 Gb/s Controller And 20 nm NAND

As enterprise SSDs become more specialized and application-focused, Intel is hoping its SSD DC S3500 will strike a chord with customers looking for excellent read performance on a budget. We compare this drive to other notable contenders in its class.

This may come as a surprise to enthusiasts focused on cutting-edge consumer drives, but the 3 Gb/ss Intel SSD 320 family is still incredibly popular in the enterprise. Even though it's only two years old, though, the architecture's performance has not aged gracefully. A quick rundown of its four-corner specifications tells a sad story:

• Sequential Reads: 270 MB/s
• Sequential Writes: 200 MB/s
• Random Reads (100% Span): 39,500 IOPS
• Random Writes (100% Span): 400 IOPS

Wait, what? Yeah, you read that correctly. Four hundred IOPS for 4 KB random writes across all LBAs at a queue depth of 32. So why in the world are IT professionals not only buying these drives still, but buying them in the thousands of units? The answer isn't as straightforward. Even though the 320's performance isn't particularly impressive, the series covers the rest of its bases fairly well. Once Intel worked out its firmware issues, the SSD 320s became solid and reliable workhorses, and we've heard many anecdotal stories from large corporations about their reliability.

The SSD 320s clearly suffered an unfortunate identity disorder, too. Was it an enterprise drive or something intended for consumers? It had power loss protection and full-disk encryption, so it must be business-class hardware, right? At the same time, it replaced the X25-M, so surely it was intended for enthusiasts. In reality, it was a bit of both. You just had to do some reading in order to figure that out.

Intel spent the last two years trying to sort out its product channels. It's telling a clearer story now than even a year ago. And now enterprise customers are getting a true replacement for the SSD 320s in its SSD DC S3500. There is no confusing the issue on this one; it's business-oriented through and through. The DC stands for data center, so it sort of has to be.

The SSD DC S3500 is targeted mainly at read-intensive and mixed-workload applications. Anything more write-heavy is kicked up to the SSD DC S3700 (Intel SSD DC S3700 Review: Benchmarking Consistency). A few short months ago, when a big business wanted storage for the sort of role the S3500 is designed to fill, they were limited to consumer drives. However, since the start of the year, we've seen Seagate launch the 600 Pro (Seagate 600 Pro-Series 200 GB SSD Review: For The Enterprise) and Samsung introduce its 843. Along with the SSD DC S3500, we see those drives nosing out the desktop-oriented SSDs from enterprise rotation. 

Intel's latest entry comes with all of the bells and whistles expected from a pricier enterprise drive. You get end-to-end data protection, power loss protection, 256-bit AES encryption, ECC memory, a 2 million hour MTBF, and a five-year warranty. It's good to see Intel integrate all of that reliability-boosting technology, considering this is still an entry-level offering wish pricing not much higher than the desktop-class stuff we typically review.

Most SSD manufacturers give you a handful of options when it comes to configuring solid-state storage. With Intel, that's an understatement. In the 7 mm, 2.5" form factor, you can pick between 80, 120, 160, 240, 300, 480, 600, and 800 GB capacities. In the 5 mm, 1.8" form factor, there are 80, 240, 400, and 800 GB models. This wide range of choices lets Intel target applications ranging from industrial embedded to data centers to blade servers.

Unlike many enterprise SSD manufacturers, Intel always discloses pricing information up-front. While we don't have MSRPs for every capacity point, we do know that the 480 GB model we're reviewing should run around $579. At ~$1.20/GB, Intel is quite competitive next to the other read-focused enterprise SSDs. When you take into account the warranty and reliability-focused features, you might even be tempted to snag one for your next desktop build. Before we go down that path, though, let's look at the specs.

Intel SSD DC S3500 Line-Up
User Capacity (GB)	80	120	160	240	300	480	600	800
Interface	2.5"  6 Gb/s SATA
Sequential Read (MB/s)	340	445	475	500	500	500	500	500
Sequential Write (MB/s)	100	135	175	260	315	380	410	450
4K Random Read (IOPS)	70,000	75,000
4K Random Write (IOPS)	7,000	4,600	7,500		9,000	11,000		11,500
Power Consumption (Active)	1.8 W	2.0 W	2.3 W	2.9 W	3.5 W	4.3 W	4.5 W	5 W
Power Consumption (Idle)	0.6 W
Write Endurance (TBW)	45	70	100	140	170	275	330	450

Inside Intel's SSD DC S3500

If you've already read Intel SSD DC S3700 Review: Benchmarking Consistency, then you might want to skip ahead. The SSD DC S3500 and S3700 don't just share a few similarities; they share almost every single component. Starting on the exterior, they employ the same aluminum enclosure, right down to the part number.  Can you tell which is which?

Intel SSD DC S3700 (left), Intel SSD DC S3500 (right)

As with the S3700, we see two through-hole 35 V 47 uF capacitors notched into the edges of the PCB.

On the inside, we see three black, plastic stand-offs covering each of the screw holes. It's easy to observe that the PCB is identical to the one found on Intel's SSD DC S3700. Even the reference designators on the silk screen match. Both SSD DC S3000 families utilize the same PC29AS21CA0 controller, too. This Intel-developed, eight-channel, 6 Gb/s processors performed well in our S3700 review, exhibiting excellent consistency.

Next, we take note of two DDR3-1600 DRAM packages from Micron (MT41K512M8RA-125). Each FBGA module hosts 512 MB of memory, totaling 1 GB of cache on the SSD.

Up until now, the only difference between both drive families was the DRAM they use for cache. But with the SSD DC S3500, Intel is replacing the 25 nm HET-MLC found in the S3700 with 20 nm MLC. This is what gives Intel the ability to hit lower price points with its SSD DC S3500. And as we'll see shortly, it's also the reason why write endurance is so much lower.

As with the SSD DC S3700, some capacities of the S3500 have an odd assortment of NAND packages. The 480 GB version we have in the lab leverages fourteen 32 GB modules, one 64 GB module, and one 16 GB module. That adds up to 528 GB, yielding 9% over-provisioning. And that's substantially less than the SSD DC S3700 at ~22%.

Test Setup, Benchmarks, And Methodology

Test Hardware
Processor	Intel Core i7-3960X (Sandy Bridge-E), 32 nm, 3.3 GHz, LGA 2011, 15 MB Shared L3, Turbo Boost Enabled
Motherboard	Intel DX79SI, X79 Express
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws Z-Series (4 x 4 GB) DDR3-1600 @ DDR3-1600, 1.5 V
System Drive	Intel SSD 320 160 GB SATA 3Gb/s
Tested Drives	Intel SSD DC S3500, 480 GB
Graphics	AMD FirePro V4800 1 GB
Power Supply	OCZ ModXStream Pro 700 W
System Software and Drivers
Operating System	Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
DirectX	DirectX 11
Driver	Graphics: ATI 8.883
Benchmark Suite
Iometer v1.1.0	4 Workers, 4 KB Random: LBA=Full, Span Varying Queue Depths
ATTO	v2.4.7, 2 GB, QD=4
Custom	C++, 8 MB Sequential, QD=4

Enterprise Testing: Iometer Workloads	Read	Write	512 Bytes	1 KB	2 KB	4 KB	8 KB	16 KB	32 KB	64 KB	128 KB	512 KB
Database	67%	100%	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	100%	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
File Server	80%	100%	10%	5%	5%	60%	2%	4%	4%	10%	n/a	n/a
Web Server	100%	100%	22%	15%	8%	23%	15%	2%	6%	7%	1%	1%

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), a working group made up of SSD, flash, and controller vendors, has a testing procedure that attempts to control as many of the variables inherent to SSDs as possible. SNIA’s Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification (SSS PTS) is a great resource for enterprise SSD testing. The procedure does not define what tests should be run, but rather the way in which they are run. This workflow is broken down into four parts:

1. Purge: Purging puts the drive at a known starting point. For SSDs, this normally means Secure Erase.
2. Workload-Independent Preconditioning: A prescribed workload that is unrelated to the test workload.
3. Workload-Based Preconditioning: The actual test workload (4 KB random, 128 KB sequential, and so on), which pushes the drive towards a steady state.
4. Steady State: The point at which the drive’s performance is no longer changing for the variable being tracked.

These steps are critical when testing SSDs. It’s incredibly easy to not fully condition the drive and still observe out-of-box behavior, which may lead one to think that it’s steady-state. These steps are also important when going between random and sequential writes.

For all performance tests in this review, the SSS PTS was followed to ensure accurate and repeatable results.

All tests employ random data, when available. Intel's SSD DC S3500 does not perform any data compression prior to writing, so there is no difference in performance-based data patterns.