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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

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

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

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

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

Intel's next-gen solid-state drives have been rumored for some time, and now they're official. Rather awkwardly dubbed the X25-M on 34nm, the new...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

By bundling an Intel X25-M with accessories like an external USB enclosure, adapter rails, and cloning software, Kingston purports to simplify the transition to...

Type: Feature article Tags: Storage

Our last SSD round-up caused quite a stir for using an older test system with Windows XP. We've now explored SSD performance on more current...

Type: Feature article Tags: Storage

While enthusiasts may be comfortable rolling their own home file servers, network-attached storage devices make more sense for mainstream users. We take WD's latest My...

Type: Feature article Tags: Storage

COMPUTEX — Solid-state drive makers usually confine themselves to the 2.5" form factor, since those drives can slip comfortably into netbooks, notebooks, or full-fledged desktops....

Type: News story Tags: Storage

COMPUTEX — In Win's Computex booth caught our eye because of the strong military theme and the decommissioned assault rifles lying around. (More on that...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

For about the same cost as a 32GB SSD, you can pick up a 2.5" notebook drive that offers a whopping 500GB of storage capacity....

Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Mobile computing

COMPUTEX — Can you play Far Cry 2 on an eight-megapixel display with a current-gen graphics card? You can, as we found out today at...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Motherboards Storage

Intel shook the SSD world when it introduced the X25-M last year. So how does the market look today? We've gathered six SSDs from Corsair,...

Type: Feature article Tags: Storage

You don't have to be Apple to sell a sleek, compact, and easy-to-use automated backup device. Seagate has taken a page from the Mac maker's...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

Looks like Fusion-io won't be the only one with mind-blowingly fast PCI Express solid-state drives anymore soon. Super Talent has announced the RAIDDrive,...

Type: News story Tags: Storage

Seagate's Barracuda 7200.12 hits the terabyte mark using just two 500GB platters—and it spins them at a full 7,200 RPM. Join us to...

Type: Feature article Tags: Storage

We haven't heard much about RAM disks since Gigabyte's i-RAM, but now ACard has one that supports up to 64GB of DDR2 memory, has dual...

Type: Feature article Tags: Storage Servers Workstations