Iomega And Quantum Tackle Backup By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 1 August 08 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.
AMD and Nvidia Platforms Do Battle By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 18 July 08 AMD's 780G versus Nvidia's GeForce 8200. Both platforms turn integrated chipsets into hybrid graphics solutions. We look at microATX boards from ASRock to find the best all-in-one AMD platform.
Will SSDs Take Over The Enterprise? By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 18 July 08 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.
Intel P45: The New Chipset Lacks Progress By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 10 July 08 Intel's new mainstream chipset introduces support for PCI Express 2.0 and an ICH10 southbridge. But the added value compared to its predecessor, P35, turns out to be small.
Half a Terabyte On Your Notebook By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 9 July 08 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.
The SSD Power Consumption Hoax By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 27 June 08 Manufacturers tout the power savings of flash-based solid state drives compared to conventional hard drives. True? Check out our notebook battery tests.
Energy-Saving Hard Drives By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 3 June 08 Hitachi’s Deskstar P7K500 battles the Western Digital GreenPower line for the title of king of balanced performance and power consumption.
High-End Chipset Battle By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 29 May 08 We compare Intel’s X48 and Nvidia’s nForce 790i Ultra SLI enthusiast chipset features, performance, overclocking, power consumption and interface capabilities
Mobile CPU Chart Update and Forecast By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 22 May 08 After a long wait, we are able to add AMD processors to our Notebook CPU Charts and look a bit into future upcoming AMD and Intel launches.
Tom's Energy Efficiency Guide By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 19 May 08 The right components can help reduce power consumption, but how you use your computer is also important.
External RAID Storage By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 2 May 08 iSCSI and SAS storage are flexible and powerful — but expensive. We looked at two direct attached storage solution kits from Accusys and AMCC/3Ware.
You Want 4 GB RAM on Your Notebook? By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 29 April 08 It’s been proven that more RAM avoids bottlenecks and accelerates multitasking performance. What you may not know, however, is that it can increase the battery life of mobile computers.
The Gigahertz Battle: How Do Today's CPUs Stack Up? By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 26 March 07 Core 2 Duo is king, but how do other processors today compare on a clock-to-clock basis? We benchmarked comparable CPUs from AMD as well as Intel to see.