The SpacePilot Pro: A Different Mighty Mouse

David — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:25:50 +0000

This is the mouse that all other computer mice look up to and hope one day that they will be as great as it is. Its not surprising that this amazing little piece of technology comes from Logitech, or rather one of its subsidiaries, 3Dconnexion. The SpacePilot Pro was designed around the idea that designers and engineers who work in 3-dimensional spaces could use such a fantastic mouse in their respective fields, but surely those aren’t the only demographics reached by this marvelous piece of technology.

features a built-in LCD screen that can display e-mail and other messages and many other types of visual information. The real object of this mouse is to enable engineers and designers to have all their commands at their fingertips, literally. The knob in the center of the mouse can twirl and twist in pretty much any way you can think of. This functionality was meant to allow movement in 3-dimensional spaces so that you can pan, zoom, and rotate without slowing down at all. Coming from both a Architect’s and an Engineer’s point- of-view, I can only say that this little mouse may change the way I get work done all together.

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Intel X25-M G2 SSD RAID Benchmarksymakergroup

David — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:16:56 +0000

I though this was a great post and was worth sharing , a couple of the guys over at Newegg got there hands on a pair of X25-M and squared them off against a 150GB WD Velociraptor. Hardly a fair match-up ..but the number are impressive non the less, although the number that I’m the most excited about is the seek times.

Detailed Test Results

	\|\|\|	WD Velociraptor 150GB (zero point)	\| \| \|	Intel X25-M G2 (single) 80GB	\| \| \|	Intel X25-M G2 (RAID 0) 160GB (80GB x2)

CMM 2.2 Test 1		MB/s		MB/s		MB/s
Sequential Read		128.5		246.5		381.0
Sequential Write		127.5		91.0		166.2
Random Read 512KB		58.7		200.7		237.2
Random Write 512KB		88.3		91.2		165.5
Random Read 4KB		1.03		20.6		19.74
Random Write 4KB		2.96		45.42		44.1
CMM 2.2 Test 2
Sequential Read		131.2		251.2		400.4
Sequential Write		128.2		91.1		163.0
Random Read 512KB		58.5		202.6		245.2
Random Write 512KB		87.1		89.5		162.4
Random Read 4KB		1.05		20.82		20.75
Random Write 4KB		2.95		46.78		49.17
CMM 2.2 Test 3
Sequential Read		125.7		250.7		397.3
Sequential Write		122.9		89.9		165.9
Random Read 512KB		59.6		202.5		241.8
Random Write 512KB		85.2		91.4		160.7
Random Read 4KB		1.05		21.58		19.96
Random Write 4KB		2.98		50.19		44.55
***
CMM 2.2 averages
Sequential Read		128.5		249.5 (+94.1%)		392.9 (+205.9%)
Sequential Write		126.2		90.7 (-28.1%)		165.0 (+30.8%)
Random Read 512KB		58.9		201.9 (+242.7%)		241.4 (+309.6%)
Random Write 512KB		86.8		90.7 (+4.4%)		162.9 (+87.5%)
Random Read 4KB		1.0		21.0 (+1912.4%)		20.2 (+1830.7%)
Random Write 4KB		3.0		47.5 (+1501.4%)		45.9 (+1450.1%)
***
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Datamarck
Read Speed (MB/s)		97.2		211.9 (+118.03%)
Seek Time (ms)		7.2		0.2 (+3500%)

Best scores are bolded. Percentages shown are value comparisons to the zero-point WD Velociraptor scores.

Now if the prices would just come down a bit…