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Crucial's RealSSD C300 solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 11:36 PM on June 13, 2010 Crucial's RealSSD C300 is the first SSD with a 6Gbps Serial ATA interface and ONFI 2.1 flash memory. Let's see how it compares. Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	56
Seagate's Momentus XT hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 3:38 PM on June 1, 2010 Seagate's Momentus XT swaps the Windows-only shackles of previous hybrid drives for a scheme dubbed Adaptive Memory. Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Mobile computing	52
Super Talent's USB 3.0 RAIDDrive by Geoff Gasior — 11:51 PM on May 25, 2010 Super Talent's USB 3.0 RAIDDrive stripes dual internal SSDs to offer 32GB of SuperSpeed connectivity in a lightweight and easily pocketable package. We run... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	34
Settling in the Great Green North by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:15 PM on May 20, 2010 One of our loyal readers recently asked why I haven't talked more about... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	100
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
Where have all the good computer desks gone? by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:27 PM on March 23, 2010 As you may or may not know, depending on whether you listened to our last podcast all the way through, I've moved to beautiful... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	147
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
Introducing the TR job board by Adam Eiberger — 8:04 PM on January 14, 2010 We may not be big enough (yet) to have an HR department and multiple positions available. However, The Tech Report does have a sizable enough... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous The Tech Report	56
Avatar: Take two by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:41 PM on December 23, 2009 A good number of you read my first impressions blog post about James Cameron's Avatar, in which I praised the visuals and cinematography but... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	143
Avatar: First impressions by Cyril Kowaliski — 1:55 PM on December 16, 2009 Last night, I went to see the Avatar premiere. James Cameron's massively hyped CG epic came out in Europe a couple of days ahead of... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous	196
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
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

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Continuing a long history of innovation, AMD announced today that they were the first to reach a critical CPU power envelope threshold. AMD CEO, Rory...

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