The same studies are done when evaluating generations of Intel, AMD, Maxtor, WD, Samsung and others. THG was seeing if the latest generation of SanDisk CF drives were truely faster and provided shutterbugs like me a real added value in our D-SLR cameras & other CF devices. If you consider a read speed increase of 52% and a write speed increase of over 16% vs. the earlier generation, THAT IS a serious speed increase.
Again, you'll see the same thing when looking at new generations of any product. Reviews will compare it to the previous generation to see how it fares.
If you disagree, provide a constructive and fair suggestion of what THG should do to make it a better article. Complaining without a sincere way to improve it doesn't help change anything.
Well let's look at what you pointed out... first, not true. When comparing processors or hard drives, Toms Hardware normally puts up charts that compare the new item from a manufacturer to current models from all sorts of manufacturers:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/21/samsung_adds_capacity_to_fast_and_quiet_t133_series/page6.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/08/02/thg_tuning_test/page6.html#games
So no, with other products they actually provide USEFUL numbers. Now you say these numbers are useful, because there is a 52% increase? Well, that is if you believed that the previous generation was the fastest. What if there is another product from another manufacturer that was 60% faster, and this new model is actually 8% slower than a model from another manufacturer? You don't know because you don't have any real numbers for the competition. That makes the numbers that they provided virtually useless.
Whoopie, the product from this manufacturer is faster than their old product... but is it faster than the competition? Who knows.
That is the summation of this article, and I am sorry, but that is nothing more than a press release. I did give useful criticism, I said compare it to OTHER products. And that is what I am still saying. Do like they do with processors and hard drives and motherboards and other products.
Toms used to do that all the time, you would be hard-pressed to find fluff pieces like this. In the last 3 years, especially, but even to some degree for the two before that, Toms has started posting 'articles' that are nothing more than fluff. I just point that out when they do because this kind of garbage reporting is the kind of trash that you could probably find on MSNBC from that neophyte Gary Krakow... actually no, they may provide more information, and that is sad.