A quick look at Kanguru's e-Flash eSATA/USB thumb drive
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 a look at Kanguru's hybrid e-Flash drive to see if it's a worthwhile upgrade over standard USB thumb drives. Read more...
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Western Digital's Caviar Black 2TB hard drive
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 64MB cache, too. Let's see what she can do. Read more...
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Last by flip-mode at 8:11 AM on 11/07/09 -
Seagate's Barracuda LP 2TB hard drive
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 take a closer look at how this 5,900-RPM 'cuda compares with its Caviar rival. Read more...
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Last by Freon at 2:59 PM on 10/16/09 -
A quick look at In Win's Ammo encrypted hard drive enclosure
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 idea, and the implementation is really quite slick. Read more...
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Last by Ikon at 8:10 AM on 08/28/09 -
Intel's second-generation X25-M solid-state drive
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 promise of TRIM support for Windows 7. We've tested the gen-two drive against its peers, and the results speak for themselves. Read more...
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Last by Drifter639 at 7:34 AM on 10/31/09 -
A storage performance retrospective
Over the years, our storage test rig has run through 70 desktop and notebook hard drives, SSDs, and exotic RAM disks. We've compiled all our test data for a massive retrospective that explores storage capacity and performance scaling over nearly the last half-decade. Read more...
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Last by obarthelemy at 10:05 PM on 07/22/09 -
Toward a more rational backup strategy
Like many of us, my history of backup management is shameful, littered with poorly labeled DVD-Rs, manual file copies, and a minimum of forethought. Yet with relative ease, I was recently able to build a much more rational backup scheme that is, by and large, automated in software. Read more...
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Last by CaliScrub at 4:08 PM on 07/10/09 -
Kingston's SSDNow 80GB upgrade kit
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 a solid-state drive. Does it work? And is the switch worth it in a laptop and desktop? Read more...
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Last by pmonti80 at 1:24 AM on 07/08/09 -
A look at SSD performance in Windows Vista
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 hardware with Vista x64 SP2, and you might be surprised by the results. Read more...
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Last by Zappy at 9:15 AM on 07/20/09 -
A quick look at Western Digital's latest My Book NAS
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 Book NAS for a spin to see what it's like. Read more...
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Last by Snake at 10:20 PM on 07/20/09 -
Five 2.5-inch hard drives at 500GB
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. We've collected five such drives from Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, and WD to find out which is best. Read more...
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Last by YeuEmMaiMai at 10:26 PM on 06/13/09 -
A closer look at fresh versus used SSD performance
The block rewrite penalty inherent to flash memory has interesting performance implications for SSDs. As we've discovered, some SSD controllers cope much better than others when facing well-used drives. Read more...
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Last by tfp at 10:35 PM on 06/03/09 -
A six pack of solid-state drives compared
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, OCZ, Samsung, Super Talent, and Transcend and pitted them against the X25-M's latest firmware to find out, with interesting results. Read more...
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Last by DrDillyBar at 1:54 AM on 05/30/09 -
Seagate's Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive
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 see whether this combination of a high areal density and fast spindle speed makes the latest 'cuda a capable all-around performer. Read more...
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