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A Quartet Of 500 GB HDDs Under $60Feb 23, 2009 - in Reviews
Which is the best mainstream hard drive? Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital sent us their latest 500 GB SATA drives for this shootout and we measure their performance, temperature, and power requirements.
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System Builder Marathon: Performance & ValueFeb 12, 2009 - in Reviews
Using your feedback from months past, we’ve built, overclocked, and tested three systems with vastly different budgets. Now it's time to compare our efforts using cost, performance, and power as our benchmarks.
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System Builder Marathon: $1,250 Mid-Range PCFeb 10, 2009 - in Reviews
This month, we build an Intel Core 2 Quad-based system to compare to the previous months' similarly priced Core i7 and Core 2 Duo PCs. Which of the three offers the best bang for the buck?
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Tom's Intl. $750 Cheap Computing ChallengeJan 22, 2009 - in Reviews
Given $750, we embarked on a mission to build the most efficient, best-performing PC we possibly could. Then, the French, German, and Italian offices did the same, trying to beat our results with their own components. Meet our contender.
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Scorpio Blue: Big Notebook HDDs Go MainstreamJan 6, 2009 - in Reviews
While two other 500 GB mobile hard drives have been available for a while, WD is the first to release this capacity in a model using the standard 9.5 mm height with two platters.
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System Builder Marathon: $1,250 Mid-Range PCDec 30, 2008 - in Reviews
We see how far $1,250 gets us when building a new Core i7-based system, and how it compares to last month’s similarly priced Core 2 Duo machine.
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WD's 2nd Gen GP: More Speed, Less PowerDec 3, 2008 - in Reviews
Usually, green hardware means you're giving up performance in order to cut back on power consumption. But Western Digital's second-generation Green Power drive changes all of that.
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System Builder Marathon: $1,250 Enthusiast PCNov 27, 2008 - in Reviews
On this, the second day of our System Builder Marathon, Don turns down the price tag of his mid-range build looking for a sweet spot just above the $1,000 marker. Let's see what sort of hardware he found for it!
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Tom’s Winter 2008 Hard Drive GuideNov 24, 2008 - in Reviews
Flash-based drives take the performance segment by storm, but the good old hard drive still provides the best bang for the buck as capacities reach 1.5 terabytes. We scanned all the available offerings and found the best drives for winter 2008.
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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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Three High-End Gaming Systems ComparedOct 9, 2008 - in Reviews
Gaming enthusiasts always look for an edge, but that edge usually comes at a cost--time or money. We compare three systems from HP, Falcon NW, and Vigor aimed at gamers with more money than time.
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Western Digital Caviar Goes Green – Faster, More EfficientOct 2, 2008 - in News
HTPC and Quiet PC users are always fighting the battle towards the Ultimate Quiet and the Lower Power consumption system.
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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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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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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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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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WD Upgrades Desktop Hard Drive To 320 GB Per Platter CapacityMar 19, 2008 - in News
Lake Forest (CA) - Western Digital's mainstream desktop hard drives are getting a bump in capacity, as the manufacturer is upgrading its 2-platter 500 GB model to a 640 GB version.
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Verbatim Releases Sleek-looking Mobile Hard DrivesFeb 15, 2008 - in News
Given the fact that the market for mobile hard drives grew by 90% in Europe, and US sales is doubling on a year-to-year basis, it seems that market for external hard drives is the place to be.
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Samsung Ships 320 GB 2.5" Hard DriveDec 20, 2007 - in News
Samsung rolled out a new version of its Spinpoint 2.5" hard drive series. The new drive is the second drive in the market to offer a capacity of 320 GB in this form factor.
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WD rolls out networked hard drivesFeb 21, 2007 - in News
Growing video and music collections are slowly opening a few business opportunity for hard drive manufacturers: Shared storage devices allow consumers to access their digital content via an Internet connection from anywhere in the world: WD joins the bandwagon with a 1 TB new network storage solution for consumers.
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Western Digital intros its first perpendicular hard driveSep 13, 2006 - in News
Western Digital (WD) has caught up with other hard drive manufacturers such as Seagate, Toshiba and Hitachi and is offering its first hard drive that uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR). The new 2.5" Scorpio drive stores up to 160 GB. Competitor Toshiba announced a reduced-size 1.8" PMR drive.
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Costco selling 400 GB hard drives for $100Aug 28, 2006 - in News
Just when you thought hard drive prices couldn't get any lower, certain Costco stores are selling 400 GB internal hard drives for $99.97. The Western Digital 7200 RPM drives have been available for a few weeks and the price thankfully doesn't include any coupon or rebate hassles. At this price, we purchased several drives to outfit everyone in the office.
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A photonic 'lab-on-a-chip'Aug 8, 2006 - in News
Georgia Tech researchers have shrunk an optical device called wavelength demultipler (WD) by combining into one crystal three unique properties of photonics crystals.
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Western Digital shipping "My Book" book-shaped external drivesMar 8, 2006 - in News
Cashing in on new consumer demand for high-capacity, portable storage, Western Digital is now shipping its "My Book" line of external drives that look like, you guessed it, books.
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WD intros 120 GB portable Passport hard driveFeb 6, 2006 - in News
Western Digital (WD) today announced a 120 GB version of its portable "Passport" hard drive series.
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Western Digital increases capacity of Raptor drive to 150 GBJan 3, 2006 - in News
Western Digital (WD) today announced that it has doubled the size of its Raptor harddrive. Already considered to be the best performing SATA device available today, the manufacturer enhanced the drive with I/O performance improvements through native command queuing (NCQ).
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WD ships 400 GByte SATA desktop harddrivesJul 22, 2005 - in News
Western Digital (WD) announced availability of its 400 GByte Caviar SE16 harddrive for desktop computers.
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Touring Western Digital's harddrive fabJul 12, 2005 - in News
With the dual-core CPUs and graphics cards hogging up the headlines, it's easy to forget about our trusty magnetic friends, the harddrives. Making these devices is serious business, requiring serious quality control, which is what we found out when we visited the Western Digital Hard Drive factory in Navanakorn, Thailand. Join us on our tour and watch the video we brought home.
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Western Digital and LSI Logic explain and promote SATA II harddrivesMay 25, 2005 - in News
Disk drive maker Western Digital Corp (Lake Forest, California) and disk controller chip and adapter manufacturer LSI Logic Corp (Norcross, Georgia) have taken to the road to help system builders and resellers transition to the latest hard disk standard, Serial Advanced Technology Attachment II or SATA II. While marketing is always a goal of such efforts, the two companies are placing a heavy emphasis on technical information in their presentations.
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Harddisk prices spinning higherMay 21, 2005 - in News
In the first quarter, prices for hard disk drives from various manufacturers increased, reversing a recent trend.
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