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This Week's Hot News: Oct. Week 4Nov 1, 2008 - in Picture Story
Did you miss this week's news? Not to worry! We wrap-up the hottest headlines with brief recaps of seven of the stories you won't want to miss.
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Benchmarking With Intel's NAS ToolkitOct 23, 2008 - in Reviews
We've been publishing our networked storage stories using Intel's NAS Performance tool kit as our primary benchmark. But before we went any further, we thought we'd introduce the software package and its individual components.
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External Storage: Terabyte Drives ComparedOct 19, 2008 - in Reviews
These external hard drives are all designed to offer 1 TB of storage, but the bundles, performance, and power consumption reveal significant differentiators. A clear winner emerges.
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Last Week's Hot News: Oct. Week 2Oct 10, 2008 - in Picture Story
Missed this week's hot news? Check them out here in this weekend's roundup!
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Last Week's Hot News: Oct. Week 1Oct 3, 2008 - in Picture Story
Missed the week of news and reviews? Check out this weekend's roundup of the top stories of the week!
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Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda: Bigger And Better?Oct 2, 2008 - in Reviews
Seagate is the first hard drive vendor to offer a 1.5 TB drive in the 3.5” form factor. Meanwhile, WD sent us its RAID Edition 3 (RE3) drive. We tell you which is the best HDD choice today.
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Maxtor's Shared Storage Does NAS At HomeSep 24, 2008 - in Reviews
What do you do with all the data you collect at home? Network attached storage is the solution. We test Maxtor's Shared Storage II and find that it is also suitable for use in small businesses.
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1,000 GB: Three Samsung TB DrivesSep 23, 2008 - in Reviews
Storage vendors split the desktop hard drive market into performance, mainstream, and energy-efficient products. We looked at Samsung’s Spinpoint F, the RAID version and the EcoGreen F to discover how a 1,000 GB drive differs from another.
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NAS In Your Home: Vox's BlackBoxSep 18, 2008 - in Reviews
Once upon a time, NAS was too costly for your home. But new devices with only two hard drive slots make networked storage more affordable than ever. We take a closer look at one of these: the Vox BlackBox NAS.
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1TB Evolves: New Drives, More SpeedSep 12, 2008 - in Reviews
Hitachi and Western Digital saw the need to improve their terabyte hard drive offerings. Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K1000.B and WD’s Caviar Black 1 TB are both faster than their predecessors thanks to some serious optimizations.
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USB Thumb Drive Vs. Hard DriveSep 11, 2008 - in Reviews
We compared a tiny 8 GB Super Talent USB thumb drive to a 10-year old IBM hard drive of the same size in an interesting thought experiment. Does the hard drive stand a chance against Super Talent’s storage midget?
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Two Hard Drive Coolers ComparedSep 9, 2008 - in Reviews
The Vigor iSurf II Hard Drive Cooler battles Sytrin's HD Cooler to see which works better. Both take similar approaches to cooling your HDD. They both work, but which is worth the price?
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Intel's X25-M Solid State Drive ReviewedSep 8, 2008 - in Reviews
Intel jumps into the flash SSD market with the new mainstream 80 GB X25-M 2.5” flash drive, based on a smart controller. This SSD utilizes 10-channel MLC flash memory and it’s a real performance screamer.
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A Look Into The Hard Drive's FutureSep 3, 2008 - in Reviews
What will the hard drive be like in the coming years? We looked at all the manufacturers, products and market segments, and visited a Hitachi technology seminar to look at how the firm intends to reach an amazing 50 TB capacity by the next decade.
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Next-Gen 7,200 RPM Notebook Hard DrivesAug 28, 2008 - in Reviews
Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital send their latest high-performance notebook drives into battle, fighting for the ultimate balance between performance and efficiency.
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SAS Storage: High-Performance Hard DrivesAug 26, 2008 - in Reviews
While people keep looking at flash SSDs, a lot has been going on in the hard drive space as well. The new enterprise drives by Hitachi and Seagate offer throughput that remains unmatched by flash-based models.
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Kanguru's Secure USB Memory StickAug 21, 2008 - in Reviews
USB drives can be critical when it comes to data security for companies. The Defender from Kanguru only saves data in encrypted form, and enables the remote deletion of content over the Internet in case of theft.
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14-Way SSD Hard Drive RoundupAug 17, 2008 - in Reviews
Having found a number of SSDs that don’t deliver on their efficiency promises, we decided to put 14 different drives to the test. Here is the latest roundup - dominated by a single product.
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Comparing External RAID HousingsAug 14, 2008 - in Reviews
For as much as we love Blu-ray, it's totally unsuited for full hard drive backups. Well, what could be easier than saving your data by simply copying the contents of an internal drive to an external one?
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Convenience Storage By Buffalo And ToshibaAug 11, 2008 - in Reviews
The latest external 2.5” drives by Buffalo and Toshiba come with easy-to-use backup software, but they lack features. More interesting is their capacities of 500 GB and 320 GB.
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Quick Look: Gigabyte 790GX MotherboardAug 8, 2008 - in Picture Story
A picture story of Gigabyte's 790GX offering.
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Iomega And Quantum Tackle BackupAug 1, 2008 - in Reviews
Are you in danger of catastrophic data loss? We look at feature-rich hard disk backup solutions aimed at small businesses from Iomega and Quantum.
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Will SSDs Take Over The Enterprise?Jul 17, 2008 - in Reviews
What can flash SSDs do for high-end enterprise storage? To find out, we compared eight state-of-the-art Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 drives with eight MemoRight flash SSDs in RAID setups.
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SMB RAID for $49: Ciprico VST ProJul 16, 2008 - in Reviews
Remember RAIDCore? The flexible storage architecture is now available as a software package that transforms many motherboard SATA controllers into top-notch RAID solutions. And you can plug in a hardware controller to add ports later on.
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Flash SSD Update: More Results, AnswersJul 13, 2008 - in Reviews
Acknowledging that our initial article on the efficiency of Flash SSDs was based on an inaccurate test procedure for battery runtime, we looked at more SSDs and HDDs. Our conclusion, however, was not far off, as Flash SSDs can do much better.
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Half a Terabyte On Your NotebookJul 8, 2008 - in Reviews
The capacity gap between 2.5" notebook drives and 3.5" hard disk drives is closing. We look at the latest 500GB drives from Hitachi and Samsung, which unfortunately fail to impress.
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The SSD Power Consumption HoaxJun 26, 2008 - in Reviews
Manufacturers tout the power savings of flash-based solid state drives compared to conventional hard drives. True? Check out our notebook battery tests.
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Energy-Saving Hard DrivesJun 3, 2008 - in Reviews
Hitachi’s Deskstar P7K500 battles the Western Digital GreenPower line for the title of king of balanced performance and power consumption.
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Comparative Component ChartsJun 2, 2008 - in Reviews
Our new component charts may not be perfect (we're working on that), but they're still full of useful information. Click here for our quick access guide.
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First Look: VIA OpenBook Mini-NotebookMay 27, 2008 - in Picture Story
You can't buy the OpenBook mini-notebook computer directly from VIA, but some of its features, like WiMax capability, may set your heart thumping.