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Silicon Power 32GB eSATA/USB SSD | Posted on: 31/03/2009 @ 23:36

On this year’s CeBIT many leading manufacturers announced that they will present (portable) eSATA SSDs during this year as step forward when it comes to transfer speeds. Silicon Power has complete lineup of these disks for some time with capacities that range from 8 to 64GB. These models have dual interface: eSATA and USB 2.0. In our test lab arrived 32GB model that presents the golden ...

The SSD Update: Vertex Gets Faster, New Indilinx Drives and Intel/MacBook Problems Resolved | Posted on: 30/03/2009 @ 7:30

Another week, another SSD update. OCZ's Vertex drive got even faster, the first non-OCZ Indilinx drives show up and some Intel issues get resolved....

Space Shuttle Discovery Crew Begins Deorbit Preparations | Posted on: 28/03/2009 @ 13:31

Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery are set to land at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida today at 1:39PM EST. The weather conditions look favorable for the return flight home. The seven person crew on Discovery spent 13 days of their missions installing the space station's last $300 million set of solar wings which brought the station up to full power to support a six person crew ...

VIA ARTiGO A2000 Storage Computer Review | Posted on: 28/03/2009 @ 0:10

“Generally, when I think of a NAS, I think of computer which has been stripped of any input/output devices and is really little more than a hard drive on a motherboard with a network port. I liken it to a motorcycle compared to the car which is a desktop computer: only the necessities of storage, [...]

Photofast G-Monster V2 128 GByte MLC SSD | Posted on: 26/03/2009 @ 10:00

Photofast, ein Flashspeicher-Hersteller Japanischen Ursprungs, ist in unseren Breitengraden noch eher unbekannt. Mit der G-Monster V2 bringt man ein Produkt auf den Markt, das auf eine interne RAID-0 Architektur bezüglich der verwendeten JMicron Controller setzt. Hierdurch sollen Lese- sowie Schreibraten von 230 MByte/s respaktive 160 MByte/s möglich werden.

WD Scorpio Blue 500GB Notebook Hard Drive | Posted on: 25/03/2009 @ 15:40

The Western Digital Scorpio Blue series of hard drives was designed to offer high-performance, low power consumption, and cool operation. The Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB hard drive is one of the largest on the market, which makes it perfect for your storage needs. Read on to see how this 5400 RPM drive performs when LR puts it to the test.

Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB Hard Drive | Posted on: 24/03/2009 @ 21:40

Western Digital is one of the big names in hard drives, and one of their latest releases puts a much stronger emphasis on the word big. Model number WD20EADS is a 3.5" SATA 3Gbps hard drive from their "eco-friendly" Caviar Green series that sports 32MB of cache memory and an industry leading 2TB of storage capacity.

G.Skill Titan 128GB SATA SSD FM-25S2S-128GBT1 | Posted on: 23/03/2009 @ 9:30

“For the past several years, G.Skill has built a reputation for offering premium-grade products at economy-level pricing. Similar to their competition, G.Skill offers enthusiast products in several different markets. The brand name has been built on a solid history of quality system memory product lines, and not long ago they introduced the very impressive G.Skill [...]

Seagate Momentus 7200.2 200GB Notebook Hard Drive | Posted on: 22/03/2009 @ 13:30

The Seagate Momentus 7200.2, 200GB hard drive offers 7200 RPM performance, 200GB of storage capacity, and mobility in a 2.5" form factor. With a price tag under $55 this notebook hard drive is a quick and easy way to boost storage space and improve performance on older notebooks.

Prestigio Data Safe III | Posted on: 21/03/2009 @ 19:14

Attracting customers is these days very important task for any company, especially on overcrowded PC market of external hard disks. Company Prestigio managed to produce series of external storage devices under the brand Data Safe that has caught a lot of attention. This was achieved by unusual design that was inspired by art and style. New series of external hard disks, Prestigio Data Safe III, ...

Patriot Warp V3 256GB 2.5-inch Solid State Disk | Posted on: 21/03/2009 @ 4:10

Patriot evolves the Warp Series into its third generation. LetÂ’s see how fast it can go this time around.

Kingston DataTraveler 64GB | Posted on: 21/03/2009 @ 0:34

To prove or dispel the notion that high capacity drives are slow, we\\\'re going to pit the Kingston DataTraveler 64GB flash drive against a popular and fast, smaller capacity flash drive. We think you may be quite surprised with the results.

SSD versus Enterprise SAS and SATA disks | Posted on: 20/03/2009 @ 8:10

We compare RAID configurations of up to 16 SATA drives, up to eight SAS drives, and up to eight Intel X25-E SLC SSDs in different situations and try to find out which configuration makes the most sense for different enterprise applications. OLTP in particular has our attention: are the expensive SLC SSD drives capable of outperforming SAS RAID...

Western Digital Caviar Green 2.0TB (WD20EADS) SATA Hard Drive Review | Posted on: 20/03/2009 @ 7:30

Fusion-io SSD faster than Linford with the trots. | Posted on: 20/03/2009 @ 7:00

Solid state drives have always looked like being the answer to a lot of prayers. The latency time they offer is head and shoulders above that which a SCSI drive, for example, could attain, also the read time for the same reasons, is so much better. So the next part of the jigsaw is to [...]

Discovery Docks With Space Station To Begin Its Mission | Posted on: 18/03/2009 @ 12:40

NASA gave word yesterday that the Space Shuttle Discovery successfully docked with the International Space Station at 5:20PM EDT on Tuesday. The Shuttle is delivering the final truss segment for the ISS and a pair of solar array. The Shuttle is also providing a new crew member to take up residence aboard the growing outpost.At 6:09PM, the Shuttle and Station crews opened the hatches and greeted ...

The SSD Anthology: Understanding SSDs and New Drives from OCZ | Posted on: 18/03/2009 @ 9:20

The SSD market appears to have changed a lot. Drives are cheaper, newer controllers are everywhere and there are more questions than answers as to how these SSDs perform and which ones are worth buying. In the follow-up to last year's Intel X25-M Review, this article will hopefully catch you up to speed on everything from why SSDs get slower over time to how...

Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green | Posted on: 17/03/2009 @ 15:10

The march of ever larger hard drive capacities takes a big step forward with Western Digital's massive 2TB Caviar Green. With four enormous 500GB platters boasting more storage than any other 3.5" drive, we find out how this colossus of hard disk drives performs.

Icy Dock MB881US-1S-1 External Hard Drive Docking Station Reviews @ Tweaknews | Posted on: 17/03/2009 @ 1:53

The stand in particular turned out to be more rugged than I initially thought it would be. Despite that though, a drive mounted on the dock can still shimmy around pretty easily with the slightest touch. Because of this, it is probably best suited for an environment where it\'s not likely to be disturbed.

Shuttle Discovery Launch Successfully, Finally! | Posted on: 16/03/2009 @ 13:40

After months of delays, Space Shuttle Discovery finally lifted off on Sunday to send its crew of seven into Orbit and then on to the International Space Station. The Shuttle launched from Cape Canaveral on Sunday at 7:43PM EDT just as the sun was getting ready to set. The clear skies allowed the Shuttle to be seen for several minutes.The launch was given delay after delay due to an engine issue ...

File-System Benchmarks On The Intel X25-E SSD | Posted on: 16/03/2009 @ 12:10

Late last month we looked at the Intel X25-E Extreme SSD on Linux. We ran this high-performance solid-state drive within a System76 Serval Notebook and compared its performance to a Seagate Momentus 7200.2 SATA HDD. During that testing we were just using the default EXT3 file-system, but now we have taken the Intel X25-E SSD for another spin as we looked at its performance when using the ...

G.Skill Titan 128GB SATA SSD FM-25S2S-128GBT1 | Posted on: 16/03/2009 @ 0:39

For the past several years, G.Skill has built a reputation for offering premium-grade products at economy-level pricing. Similar to their competition, G.Skill offers enthusiast products in several different markets. The brand name has been built on a solid history of quality system memory product lines, and not long ago they introduced the very impressive G.Skill FM-25S2S-64GB SATA-II MLC SSD. ...

OCZ Apex 120 GByte MLC SSD | Posted on: 14/03/2009 @ 19:40

Mit der Apex stellt OCZ eine SSD basierend auf einer internen RAID 0 Architektur vor. Dabei werden zwei JMicron JMF 602 B Controller der neusten Generation verwendet, die zusammen frühre Probleme bezüglich "Stottern" des Systems beheben sollen und desweiterne Transferraten von 230 MByte/s lesen respektive 160 MByte/s schreibend ermöglichen sollen.

Pioneer DVR-216DBK 20x Dual Layer SATA DVD Re-Writer Review | Posted on: 10/03/2009 @ 15:04

As most of you know, the highest speed DVD±R media available to the consumer market is 16 speed, so Pioneer must be doing something special with their 20x DVD±R Re-Writer. According to Pioneer, if using 16x media, you should be able to see up to 25 per cent extra read and write speed.

AMD and Seagate discuss the new 6Gbps SATA Standard | Posted on: 10/03/2009 @ 10:29

AMD and Seagate are teaming up today in New Orleans to demonstrate the next-generation Serial ATA specification. The new specification, SATA 6Gbps, will offer twice the disk-to-host bandwidth of the existing 3Gbps Serial ATA standard. Besides the improvement in bandwidth, SATA 6Gbps offers full backwards compatibility with the earlier...

Seagate and AMD Shows Off 6Gb/sec SATA Hard Drives | Posted on: 10/03/2009 @ 10:29

Today at the Everything Channel Xchange Conference AMD and Seagate demonstrated the first SATA hard drives to operate at 6 Gbps. SATA drives today usually operate at either 1.5Gb/sec or 3Gb/sec. The new 6Gb/sec interface doubles the speed of the latter and also offers backwards compatibility with 1.5 and 3.0 SATA interfaces - allowing for seamless integration into existing technology already in ...

Hard Drive Click of Death Explanation and Live Demonstration | Posted on: 08/03/2009 @ 18:32

“Many of us have experienced the dreaded “Click of Death” that immediately tell us that our hard drive is dead or dying. What does the click of death look like? What causes it? Can I fix it by freezing my hard drive or giving it a whack? See a live demonstration of the click of [...]

Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB | Posted on: 08/03/2009 @ 18:31

While we've looked at plenty of SSDs recently, there's still place in the market for an ultra-fast mechanical drive.Today we're looking at Western Digital's 10,000RPM 300GB VelociRaptor and finding out if it's a clever girl or facing extinction in the face of the new crop of SSDs.

Eagle Tech Consus I-Series & iNeo | Posted on: 07/03/2009 @ 1:40

In today’s information world the transformation of data is such a large and integrated part of our lives. From work to home to school, or just about anywhere else, moving a large database of files can be painful if you’re not properly equipped. An external hard drive is one such way to ease that pain, an inexpensive and handy device that can save many frustrations. Today we will ...

Western Digital Unveils 8TB ShareSpace Storage System | Posted on: 04/03/2009 @ 18:42

Western Digital (WD) today announced its latest WD ShareSpace network storage system which now offers 8TB (terabytes) of storage, up to 30 percent faster speed, and DLNA media streaming capabilities. Also bundled with the ShareSpace system is WD Anywhere Backup software which automatically and continuously protects your data from every PC and Mac on the network.To speed up both backup and ...

Qt 4.5 Released, Qt Extended Discontinued | Posted on: 04/03/2009 @ 18:40

The Norwegians at Qt Software (formerly known as Trolltech, which was bought out by Nokia) have released version 4.5 of the Qt Toolkit. This major update brings performance improvements, the introduction of the Qt Creator program, an improved WebKit rendering engine, Netscape plug-in API support, a new Javascript engine, and a horde of other improvements. Qt Creator 1.0 was released in ...

Icy Dock MB561US-4S Quad Bay External Hard Drive Enclosure @ Tweaknews | Posted on: 04/03/2009 @ 9:07

Icy Dock has done a fine job with this enclosure. With four bays, a removable 80mm cooling fan, and USB and eSATA interfaces, it will meet the needs of just about anyone looking for a high capacity external storage solution. On top of all that it has a modern, stylish design that looks great sitting on a desk.

SanDisk 16GB Mobile Ultra microSDHC Card Review | Posted on: 02/03/2009 @ 12:05

The 16GB SanDisk Mobile Ultra microSDHC was designed from the ground up to work with newer mobile phone models that support higher capacity cards. With a Class 4 speed rating this 16GB microSDHC is one of the fastest cards on the market today. If you like to store music or watch movies on your phone read on to see if this card is right for you.

Sunbeamtech Hard Drive Docking Station Review | Posted on: 02/03/2009 @ 12:05

Convenience of Function is the term I give any good product that does its damned job without a whole bunch of crap work involved. Install these drivers while plugging in this and then rub the top counter-clockwise whilst singing the Star Spangled Banner. You know the usual nonsense that comes with most electronics. My review today is on a product that is an excellent example of convenience of ...

MTRON PRO 7500 32GB 2.5-inch SLC Solid State Disk | Posted on: 02/03/2009 @ 12:04

MTRON is back with another SLC based SSD. Is SLC still the fastest, or has MLC closed the gap? LetÂ’s take a look and see.