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Kingwin DockMaster USB 3.0 Hard Drive Docking Station Review @ Tweaknews | Posted on: 30/04/2010 @ 2:41

This handy offering from Kingwin showcases one of the easiest and fastest ways to access a hard drive. Just pop the drive into the dock, attach the USB cable and power cord, and turn it on.

Indylab Touch USB 2.0 500GB external hard drive | Posted on: 28/04/2010 @ 16:36

In a market that is packed to the rafters with external USB 2.0 hard disk drives and drive enclosures, how do you go about making your particular product stand out from the crowd? Korean company Indylab believe they have the answer, and today we examine the result, in the form of their Touch USB 2.0 drive.

ASUS BC-08B1ST Blu-ray | Posted on: 28/04/2010 @ 12:10

The ASUS BC-08B1ST is a powerful and energy-saving Blu-ray ROM drive capable of reading BD media at 8X. Showcasing versatility and fast speeds with various media, this ASUS ODD sounds promising. We’ll show you just about anything and everything you ever wanted to know about ODD testing and results. We may even make an ODD convert out of you by the time you’re done this review.

Corsair Force F100 SandForce SSD Review | Posted on: 26/04/2010 @ 11:51

The biggest mistake PC hardware enthusiast make with SSDs is grading them by their speed. File transfer speed is important, but only so long as the operational IOPS performance can sustain that bandwidth under load. Based on the high-performance SandForce SF-1200 SSD Processor, Corsair's Force F100 solid state drive is in an excellent position to take the entire market. In this article, Benchmark ...

TwinMOS Mobile Disk L2 32GB Flash Drive | Posted on: 26/04/2010 @ 4:01

TwinMOS are fairly synonymous in the Memory manufacturing sector since their arrival in 1998. They primarily produce flash memory and system memory products but have also branched out into PC audio, multimedia playback and GPS.

Kingston 256GB DataTraveler Flash Drive | Posted on: 22/04/2010 @ 8:33

The Kingston 256GB DataTraveler 310 USB flash drive features hardware-based encryption in a small and sleek package, offering insane storage capacity in a beautifully small and portable format. Encryption, portability, and extreme capacity don't come cheap though. Hellno. But we don't care. It's like the old Ferrari quip: If you have to ask how much it costs, then you can't afford it. Let's take ...

Mach Extreme MX-DS 100GB | Posted on: 20/04/2010 @ 22:40

With traditional hard drives becoming somewhat of a mass storage platform and SSDs taking over as the dominant boot drive, there are quite a few companies diving head first into this market to cash in on the phenomenon. However today we arn't looking at a Solid State Disk from the usual people, this one is from a new kid on the block. Mach Extreme Technology are a startup firm offering SSDs of ...

WD Green: Green is Fashionable | Posted on: 18/04/2010 @ 3:00

As the title itself says, if you’ve followed the development of IT industry at all lately, you’ve certainly noticed that “green technologies” are gaining significant popularity. The conscience of constant Earth pollution is slowly seeping into all of our minds, perhaps a few hundred years too late, but better late than never. Components made of recyclable material, lower energy ...

Kingston SSDNow V Series 30GB Boot Drive | Posted on: 15/04/2010 @ 9:09

SSDs generally remain very expensive for most users. High prices are always a stumbling block to new tech adoption, and SSDs are no different. However, there may be relief on the horizon, as the Kingston SSDNow V Series 30GB Boot Drive is a $90 SSD that looks to be fast, in the hopes that it will finally bring solid state drives into the mainstream.

Patriot Valkyrie NAS | Posted on: 13/04/2010 @ 9:11

To serve the increasing demand for data storage, a Network Attached Storage device, or NAS, may be exactly what the home user or small business might need. A NAS can offer easy of use and convenience at a reasonable cost. The Patriot Valkyrie NAS is one such device that houses two 3.5” hard drives and lives for storage. Offering pretty much everything you might need for home storage, the ...

Vantec Nexstar 3 Superspeed USB 3.0 HDD Enclosure Review @ Tweaknews | Posted on: 13/04/2010 @ 8:16

After taking Vantec's NexStar 3 USB 3.0 external HDD enclosure for a test run, I'm left completely sold. There's no way I'd want to go back to using a USB 2.0 enclosure for file storage if I can avoid it. The increase in speed is incredible, and the best part is that there's no learning curve - if you know how to use any USB device (and who doesn't these days), you already know how to use USB 3.0.

OCZ Solid 2 | Posted on: 10/04/2010 @ 21:16

World Exclusive: One lives in interesting times: An old Chinese proverb that this reviewer uses on occasion. Indeed, as far as Solid state drives are concerned we are heading for those aforementioned times. Memory manufacturers are clambering all over each other in their eagerness to gain our attention and our hard-earned cash. However, this is for our benefit as competition is good for all of ...