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Western Digital's Scorpio Black 750GB notebook hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 3:16 PM on January 20, 2011 When we rounded up 7,200-RPM notebook drives last month, Western Digital's Scorpio Black 500GB was our clear favorite. Today, we explore whether a... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Mobile computing	25
Samsung's 470 Series solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 12:14 AM on December 13, 2010 Samsung's latest 470 Series SSD has a new controller, dual cache chips, and a fresh kind of flash dubbed Toggle DDR NAND. We take it... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	42
WD's TV Live Hub media box by Matt Trinca — 3:17 PM on December 9, 2010 WD's TV Live Hub media player has a terabyte of network-attached storage and works with just about any media file under the sun. We... Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia Storage Personal tech	38
Notebook hard drives square off at 7,200 RPM by Geoff Gasior — 5:22 PM on December 2, 2010 SSDs may be the new hotness, but 7,200-RPM notebook drives are a more realistic option for most laptop users. We round up four of... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Mobile computing	34
Asus' Xonar DG and Xense sound cards by Geoff Gasior — 11:22 PM on November 21, 2010 Do you really need a discrete sound card? Simple question, and we've taken a look at Asus' new Xonar Xense and DG sound cards to... Type: Feature article Tags: Motherboards Multimedia	217
StarTech's USB 3.0 docking station by Geoff Gasior — 12:00 AM on November 1, 2010 External hard drive docking stations are the perfect accessory for PC enthusiasts. We test USB 3.0-powered one from StarTech to see if it's any... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	40
Western Digital's Caviar Green 3TB hard drive by Geoff Gasior — 2:46 PM on October 28, 2010 WD's 3TB Caviar Green is the first internal hard drive to breach the 2.19TB barrier. We probe its performance, noise levels, power consumption, and... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	61
Corsair's HS1 gaming headset by Cyril Kowaliski — 11:54 AM on October 1, 2010 Corsair has ventured into uncharted waters with its HS1 gaming headset. Is the HS1 worth the $100 asking price, and does it handle music... Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia	21
7,200-RPM terabytes from Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, and WD face off by Geoff Gasior — 10:04 PM on July 27, 2010 Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, and WD all have two-platter terabytes spinning at 7,200 RPM. We've rounded up all four to find the sweet spot... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	77
Today's solid-state drives: The value perspective by Geoff Gasior — 5:16 PM on July 6, 2010 Are SSDs worth the extra scratch versus hard drives? Which one is the best value? Our scatter plots have returned to tackle the Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	56
A short tour of Kingston's Hsinchu factory by Cyril Kowaliski — 12:59 AM on June 22, 2010 During our stay in Taiwan earlier this month, we hopped on a bus to Kingston's Hsinchu factory, where memory modules and SD flash cards Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Memory	19
Corsair's Force F120 solid-state drive by Geoff Gasior — 12:55 PM on June 21, 2010 The first SandForce-based SSDs only squeezed 100GB of storage capacity from 128GB worth of flash. Corsair's Force F120 kicks that capacity up to 120GB,... Type: Feature article Tags: Storage	10
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
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 quick look at Psyko's 5.1 PC Gaming Headset by Geoff Gasior — 11:00 AM on April 22, 2010 Psyko's 5.1 surround-sound headphones promise to envelope gamers in a perfect room filled with accurate positional audio. But can fancy waveguides really trump a proper... Type: Feature article Tags: Multimedia	57

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