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SandForce showdown: Corsair's Force F100 and OCZ's Agility 2 and Vertex 2 SSDs by Geoff Gasior — 11:29 PM on May 17, 2010 An SSD's controller chip largely determines its destiny. SandForce's SF-1200 is the latest controller to hit the market, and we've taken it for a... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	58
Intel's X25-V solid-state drive on its own and in RAID by Geoff Gasior — 11:48 PM on May 10, 2010 SSDs are becoming cheaper to purchase. Case in point: Intel's X25-V 40GB, which is currently selling for $115. Can this value offering hang with the... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	56
A look at new SSDs from Corsair, Kingston, Plextor, and WD by Geoff Gasior — 9:24 PM on April 14, 2010 SSDs are finally cheap enough to be tempting for use in high-performance desktops. The market is teeming with new entrants, too. But which one is... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	90
Corsair's Flash Padlock 2 USB thumb drive by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:10 AM on April 6, 2010 Corsair's latest USB thumb drive boasts 256-bit encryption, a PIN code locking mechanism, and a purportedly rugged enclosure. Is it all it's cracked up to... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	22
Western Digital's VelociRaptor VR200M hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 7:00 AM on April 6, 2010 Every time WD has released a new Raptor, the performance bar for desktop hard drives has been raised. But the new 600GB VelociRaptor VR200M enters... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations	132
New Intel RST drivers hit performance scaling ceiling by Geoff Gasior — 12:11 PM on March 29, 2010 I was quite excited when Intel released its latest storage controller drivers last week. We knew these drivers were coming, and I'd been... Type: Blog post Tags: Storage	30
Western Digital's 6Gbps Caviar Black 1TB hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 11:49 PM on February 17, 2010 Western Digital's Caviar Black 1TB is the first two-platter, 7,200-RPM drive to use the company's latest 500GB platters. The new Black is also WD's first... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	85
What do you want to see in our new storage test suite? by Geoff Gasior — 3:12 PM on February 10, 2010 The number of new hard drives, SSDs, and other interesting storage devices due out this year is staggering. Heck, even what's coming in just... Type: Blog post Tags: Storage	81
On the potential of HTML5 by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:01 PM on February 5, 2010 By now, many of you must have looked at, or at least heard of, the experimental, HTML5 version of YouTube. And if you read... Type: Blog post Tags: Internet Software	31
A quick first look at USB 3.0 performance by Geoff Gasior — 8:45 PM on December 6, 2009 USB 2.0 has been around for nearly a decade—an eternity in the PC world. We've taken a quick first look at its replacement, SuperSpeed USB... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	117
The pool wants you! by Mike Uchima — 9:52 AM on November 25, 2009 As Chicago said back in 1970, does anybody really know what time it is?... Type: Blog post Tags: Internet Linux-Unix Networking	39
Seagate's Barracuda XT hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 11:38 AM on November 24, 2009 Seagate's Barracuda XT is the first hard drive to support the third-generation Serial ATA 6Gbps standard. We've taken a closer look at the 'cuda,... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	64
A quick look at Kanguru's e-Flash eSATA/USB thumb drive by Geoff Gasior — 4:08 PM on October 29, 2009 A new hybrid eSATA/USB connector nicely marries the two standards to provide external storage devices with plenty of bandwidth and adequate power. We take... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	38
Western Digital's Caviar Black 2TB hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 9:02 PM on October 26, 2009 Western Digital's Caviar Black 2TB finally spins the company's 500GB platters up to 7,200 RPM. The drive has a fancy dual-stage actuator and a beefy... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	70
Seagate's Barracuda LP 2TB hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 11:22 AM on October 14, 2009 Western Digital's Caviar Green line popularized power-efficient hard drives, and now Seagate has joined the party with a Barracuda LP that packs two terabytes. We... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	56
It's a mad, mad Internet by Adam Eiberger — 11:04 AM on September 4, 2009 A relative recently created OddNod.com, which showcases unique social media profiles. My favorite is a Facebook group called "The Bertrand Russell group for... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Internet	13
A quick look at In Win's Ammo encrypted hard drive enclosure by Geoff Gasior — 9:23 AM on August 25, 2009 External hard drive enclosures are a dime a dozen, but In Win's Ammo brings something new to the table: RFID-authenticated AES encryption. It's a novel... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	21
Intel's second-generation X25-M solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 11:40 PM on July 26, 2009 Intel has updated its X25-M SSDs with new 34nm flash chips, tweaks to reduce latency and speed random write performance, much lower prices, and the... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	100

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