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Patriot PEF32GSUSB Supersonic 32GB USB 3.0 flash drive
Patriot PEF32GSUSB Supersonic 32GB USB 3.0 flash drive
Price: £55.20

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Fastest USB drive I've ever encountered, 3 Oct 2011
This is an amazing drive. Don't be put off by its slightly uninspiring physical appearance - it's easily the fastest USB drive I've ever used.

I read a couple of reviews of this drive before purchasing, which said it has read speeds of around 100 MB/s and write speeds of 70 MB/s. I tested this claim with a disk benchmarking program called Atto, and the results showed that the drive really is that fast. This is just phenomenal for a USB drive - even a USB 3 drive, many of which average around 30 MB/s read & write times. Patriot's "Quad Channel technology" is clearly not just a gimmick. The drive's also faster than many USB 2 drives when plugged into a USB 2 port. Copying a 3.5GB file from my SSD to this drive over USB 3 took about 30 seconds.

Patriot are onto a winner here. Highly recommend this drive.
Comment Comment (1) | Permalink | Most recent comment: Jun 4, 2012 3:18 PM BST


Spartacus: Blood And Sand Season 1 [DVD] [2010]
Spartacus: Blood And Sand Season 1 [DVD] [2010]
Dvd ~ Andy Whitfield
Price: £13.08

20 of 74 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Utter cr*p, 28 April 2011
What a total waste of time. This series consists of little more than gratuitous lashings of violence (which rapidly become meaningless), diabolical acting and softcore porn, the entirety of which has been swallowed by a computer garduate and then vomited up again dripping in bad CGI. Oh, and it has a heavily 'stylised' look - oooh.

One star, and only because I can't give it none. Unclever, offensive garbage. Don't waste your money or your time.
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Meet Joe Black [DVD] [1999]
Meet Joe Black [DVD] [1999]
Dvd ~ Brad Pitt
Price: £4.75

6 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A superb film, 8 Jan 2004
This review is from: Meet Joe Black [DVD] [1999] (DVD)
Meet Joe Black is a superb piece of film-making. Poised and patient, it is beautifully crafted, and the love (and years of development) that went into making it are apparent from the outset. I'm glad the editor didn't succumb to pressure or popularity and cut this film down - it's well worth the two hours and fifty minutes running time and all scenes are captivating.

Hopkins, Pitt and Forlani are all excellent; the budding relationship between the latter two is played to perfection. Poignant and well-observed, with the right balance of humour versus sadness, the film captures its protagonists' plights perfectly.

The film is backed up with a truly wonderful score which runs throughout, reinforcing key sequences with powerful yet subtle themes, which upon first hearing don't move in the ways which you expect, yet which, by the end of the film, feel reassuringly familiar. It is a beautiful score which works seamlessly with the drama on-screen.

I cannot recommend this film enough. Those who have rated it with a single star either don't know what they're talking about or haven't watched it properly. I don't see how anyone could dislike what is so obviously an outstanding piece of cinema.



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