Sequential Read Performance Our first test of sequential read performance uses short bursts of 128MB, issued as 128kB operations with no queuing. The test averages performance across eight bursts for a total of 1GB of data transferred from a drive containing 16GB of data. Between each burst the drive is given enough idle time to keep the overall duty cycle at 20%.
The burst sequential read speeds of the 860 PROs are good but not record setting, and the differences between the SATA drives are all dwarfed by the performance of the NVMe drive. Read More...
Speaker Evaluation The speaker situation on the Pixel 3a and 3a XL is quite different from that of previous Pixel iterations. In particular the new phone differs in that the bottom speaker is no longer a front-facing unit, but rather a more regular bottom-firing design.
Furthermore while the earpiece does serve as a stereo unit, it acts more like a tweeter while the main speaker takes care of lower frequencies. Read More...
Celebrity feuds make plenty of headlines, but two names that fans probably didn't expect to appear together turned out to be Spencer Pratt and Lisa Kudrow. Though the Friends star is arguably more beloved than the financially troubled former reality star, Pratt made headlines when he publicly criticized Lisa Kudrow. It's not the first time Spencer Pratt has voiced his opinion on another celebrity, though last time it was one of his former co-stars that he drew into the spotlight. Read More...