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Intel SSD 520 Review: Taking Back The High-End With SandForce If you thought that Intel had conceded the high-end SSD market to its competition, you were wrong. The company's new SSD 520 centers on SandForce's SF-2281 controller, incorporates top-bin IMFT NAND, and is protected by a five-year warranty. In Pictures: 16 Of The PC Industry's Most Epic Failures We've endured a great many annoyances in the 16 years since Tom's Hardware first appeared online. What follows is a list of 16 of them. Although it's by no means all-inclusive, it represents one seasoned reviewer's worst experiences in technology. Presented By: Live From AMD's Financial Analyst Day We've been waiting on AMD's Financial Analyst Day for more information on how the company plans to approach new and current businesses moving forward. Ahead of the big event, AMD pre-briefed us on the news. OpenCL In Action: Post-Processing Apps, Accelerated We've been bugging AMD for years now, literally: show us what GPU-accelerated software can do. Finally, the company is ready to put us in touch with ISVs in nine different segments to demonstrate how its hardware can benefit optimized applications. Upgrade Advice: Does Your Fast SSD Really Need SATA 6Gb/s? Are you mulling the potential benefit of an SSD upgrade on a system without 6 Gb/s SATA connectivity? We run the benchmarks on several different solid-state storage architectures in order to determine how much performance you give up on an older machine. AMD Radeon HD 7950 Review: Up Against GeForce GTX 580 Is the Radeon HD 7970's $550 asking price too high? AMD now has a less expensive derivative based on the same GCN architecture. At its default clock rates, it's fast enough to outrun Nvidia's GeForce GTX 580 in many benchmarks. And it overclocks like mad. Presented By: The Increasing Cost of Data Breaches    The average cost of a data breach is $7.2 million per event, or roughly $214 per compromised record. A breach puts a strain on every department in an organization. Learn how these costs can be easily avoided by maintaining valid SSL Certificates. www.symantec.com Ads by Pheedo Picking A Sub-$200 Gaming CPU: FX, An APU, Or A Pentium? We really like to hunt down great values in the processor space. Since our last round-up of affordable CPUs, AMD released its Llano-based APUs and Bulldozer-based FX family. Also, Intel introduced a handful of Sandy Bridge-based Pentium chips. What Does One Petabyte Of Storage (And $500K) Look Like? We're big fans of big technology, and with more than 1 PB of capacity, Aberdeen's Petarack is sure something to marvel at. We take a look inside and figure out what it takes to deploy 1 000 terabytes of space in an enterprise environment, reliably.