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• Maxtor 300 GB Hard Drive   [Review, bayreviews]
  As expected there were lots of items on sale the day after Christmas and one of them was this Maxtor 300GB hard drive. The regular retail price for this hard drive is about 200 bucks, and yesterday I purchased it for about 80 dollars after rebates. If you go to CompUSA.com and type in "Maxtor 300" you will see this drive for $79.99. But just did not want to get another... Read the full review!
   Sun, 26 Mar, 2006 | 4 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• StarTech.com PEXSATA22   [Review, overclockersonline]
  As we saw in the testing section, the StarTech.com PEXSATA22 is a very good performer as far as software RAID controllers go. The PEXSATA22 performs on par or better than all of the onboard controllers that were tested and did so using less of the CPU in most instances.
   Sun, 19 Mar, 2006 | 2 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Shattering The Half Terabyte Mark : 500 GB Hard Drive Shootout   [Roundup, GamePC]
  Now that manufacturing techniques on large-capacity (100 GB+) platters have been refined over the course of a year, every major hard drive manufacturer is pushing towards 500 GB for 2006. Not only have prices dropped on first-generation 500 GB hard drive releases to much more tolerable levels, but the two companies who've lagged behind on 500 GB hard drive releases (Maxtor and Western Digital) began shipping their 500 GB models within two weeks of each other. With renewed competition in the 7,200 RPM hard drive market and a standardized interface to work with, we decided to grab 500 GB drives from each manufacturer for a direct comparison. Let's see what these 3.5" inch half-terabyte monsters are capable of.
   Thu, 02 Mar, 2006 | 13 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Taking A Test Spin : Western Digital’s Raptor 150 GB with RAID-0   [Article, GamePC]
  Reports around the web have already shown that this new Raptor is a speed demon - however, we wanted to take it one step further. We rounded up a posse of these drives and went about testing them in a high-speed RAID-0 configuration, to see how much speed is possible from a Serial ATA hard drive configuration. Not only did we test with the fastest Serial ATA drives on the market, we also utilized the fastest RAID card on the market today as well, Areca's ARC-1220 PCI Express x8 controller, to grab every bit of performance possible from these new drives. Let's get those platters spinning and those bits flying.
   Thu, 02 Mar, 2006 | 33 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Kingston 15-in-1 Flash Memory Reader Review   [Review, legitreviews]
  The Kingston FCR-HS215/1 is the fastest flash media reader that we have seen to date and it comes at an MSRP of under $19. If you don't have a high speed memory reader give your old one away like we did and order the Kingston 15-in-1 Flash memory reader, it won't disappoint...
   Mon, 27 Feb, 2006 | 3 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Transcend 40GB StoreJet 2.5 Portable HDD Review   [Review, Bjorn3D]
  I decided a couple of months back that I needed to find a good portable solution to backup data files for when traveling or rebuilding one of my many computer systems. After looking around, I found Transcend’s StoreJet 2.5. The StoreJet is actually an aluminum USB 2.0 case for 2.5' hard drives, but Transcend also offers it with a 40GB or 80GB HDD already installed. In this review, I’m going to be looking at the 40GB StoreJet.
   Mon, 27 Feb, 2006 | 5 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Vizo Opera Media Enclosure   [Review, pro-clockers]
  For a long time now hard drive enclosures served one purpose and that was to store data from various reasons. Not only can the Vizo Opera store data but it can also play that data back on your television, just as long as it is video or audio data. Playing those family reunion movies back on your television has never been so easy.
   Thu, 23 Feb, 2006 | 8 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Seagate Momentus 5400.3 160GB 2.5" Hard Drive   [Review, viperlair]
  Performance was very good, and for a 5400RPM drive we would consider the performance excellent overall. Our 7200RPM Travelstar died during testing, but the Momentus 5400.3 was very comparable to the faster Travelstar in many of our throughput benchmarks. The Travelstar was faster in the Sysmark test and 480MB write tests, and the Momentus quicker with Windows boot and game level loading.
   Wed, 22 Feb, 2006 | 8 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Seagate 160GB 5400.3 2.5-inch Hard Drive   [Review, laptoplogic]
  Seagate has always been an innovator in disk storage, and the new 5400.3 notebook drive is the first of its kind. This new lineup introduces perpendicular recording technology to the notebook storage market. For those of you not familiar with perpendicular recording, we've prepared a little refresher course on this new technology. This is the replacement for the 5400.2 lineup, which previously went from 40GB to 120GB with 8MB cache at a 5400RPM spindle speed. There are two major things that have changed with the 5400.3's: a new maximum capacity and a new recording method. The 5400.3 series goes all the way up to 160GB with 8MB cache and 5400RPM. While not an industry first in capacity, as Fujitsu has a 160GB 4200RPM longitudinal drive (SATA only), this is the first officially released perpendicular recording 2.5" drive. Hitachi and Fujitsu have been discussing perpendicular drives for quite some time, but when we spoke to Fujitsu at CES they indicated we probably won't see Fujitsu perpendicular drives until 2007.
   Tue, 21 Feb, 2006 | 5 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Data-Tec D350 3.5-inch eSATA External HDD Enclosure   [Article, hardwarezone]
  Designed to house 3.5-inch SATA hard drives, the external enclosure from Data-Tec will help you achieve a highly cost effective means of high capacity portable storage.
   Mon, 20 Feb, 2006 | 4 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Rosewill RX30-U2FA External HDD Enclosure   [Review, siliconpopculture]
  Rosewill enters the crowded external enclosure market with a stylish and well-designed fanless aluminum Hard Disk Drive enclosure with USB 2.0 and Firewire IEEE1394a interfaces.
   Thu, 16 Feb, 2006 | 24 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Data Recovery Guide - How Hard Drives Fail   [Article, thetechzone]
  The world of data recovery is a big mystery for most consumers and even some IT professionals. This is largely because hard drives themselves are complex devices and their technological specifics are not generally well known. Data recovery companies thrive on their customers' lack of information and often get away with charging obscene rates for any recovery, regardless of complexity.
   Tue, 14 Feb, 2006 | 4 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ExBoot 2.5-inch One Touch Portable HDD   [Article, hardwarezone]
  The Exboot EXB-0121 is one of the smallest portable HDD enclosures around, making it a perfect portable solution with data recovery for frequent travelers.
   Tue, 14 Feb, 2006 | 1 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Toshiba 512MB TransMemory Review   [Review, rojakpot]
  Unbeknownst to many, Toshiba actually makes flash memory drives! Renown worldwide for their high quality laptops and appliances, will their TransMemory drives reflect the same high standards? Read on and find out!
   Mon, 13 Feb, 2006 | 3 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• WD1500AD Raptor X-Tends Performance Lead   [Review, tomshardware]
  Almost three years ago, Western Digital's WD360 Raptor drive first saw the light of day, and was greeted with cautious optimism. It was meant to be a cost effective alternative for expensive SCSI enterprise-class hard drives, but would it succeed? WD's gamble paid off, but the majority of Raptor drives made their way into high-performance desktop PCs rather than into server systems. The new top model offers 150 GB, a good amount of extra performance and officially targets high-end enthusiasts. It is pretty obvious that the Raptor-X is a great drive, but is it great enough to become a "must-have"?
   Tue, 07 Feb, 2006 | 15 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• OCZ Rally Flash Drive Review   [Review, casemodgod]
  OCZ has taken the flash drive market by storm and has kicked up the speed to “Over Drive”! No more waiting to transfer files to slow and out of date drives or writing a CD to take a file from one PC to another.
   Sat, 28 Jan, 2006 | 1 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Seagate Outlines the Future of Storage   [Article, hardwarezone]
  Hardware Zone had the golden opportunity to chat with James M. Chirico, Jr., the Senior VP of Global Operations at Seagate. We discussed the future of hard drives and talked about Seagate's plans to dominate more than 97% of the storage market space.
   Sat, 28 Jan, 2006 | 7 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Ultra Portable Disk Enclosures   [Review, Hexus]
  When the capacity of a flash drive just isn't enough, you can purchase an external drive enclosure and use a drive with a bog-standard interface within it, all thanks to nifty IDE to USB/Firewire bridging chips, or the not-yet-as-popular eSATA interface. There are numerous flavours of drive enclosure on the market now. Some are NAS wannabes, others cheap as chips 3.5" disk enclosures, and then some slightly more specialist offerings. Today we're taking a look at two enclosures from Ultra. One is a 3.5" enclosure with USB and Firewire - one which would go up well against the Icy Box, which we reviewed some time ago. The second is a slimmer model for 2.5" laptop drives with just a USB interface.
   Sat, 28 Jan, 2006 | 7 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Western Digital Raptor X HDD   [Article, legitreviews]
  While at CES 2006 we got a chance to see the the revolutionary WD Raptor X SATA hard drive, the first ever drive with a view. Offspring of the immensely popular WD Raptor, fastest SATA drive on the planet, WD Raptor X focuses a large, crystal-clear lens on the drive to let you see into the inner workings and witness the drive in action.
   Sat, 28 Jan, 2006 | 3 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD - Bigger, Faster, Stronger   [Review, hothardware]
  The second coming of the Raptor (yes it was near god-like to some), marked a welcomed increase in capacity to 74GB, with a pair of 36GB platters inside. The drive retained the bridge chip for its SATA interface, but updated firmware along with quieter operational acoustics and overall better performance, just offered more of a good thing. Plugging a pair of Raptor WD740s into a RAID 0 array was becoming commonplace in many Gaming Rigs and high-end Workstations. Regardless, the insatiable need for more storage capacity marches on, along with the need-for-speed; it almost goes without saying. With huge capacity drives like Hitachi's 7K500 entering the market, as well as new advances in 3GBps SATA interfaces speeds and other technologies like NCQ (native command queuing), Western Digital had to answer the call. Their answer? The new Raptor WD1500 series, which we'll be evaluating today.
   Tue, 24 Jan, 2006 | 15 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail