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• Installing Windows XP RAID explained   [Guide, Hexus]
  RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks and is used for a number of reasons including improving performance and reliability of your data storage. RAID, which can be implemented through hardware, software, or a combination of the two, takes multiple physical disks and combines them into a single, virtual disk. The way in which RAID is implemented affects the benefits that RAID provides.
   Fri, 29 Jul, 2005 | 29 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Seagate 120GB Momentus 5400.2 PATA Notebook Hard Disk Pictorial Review   [Review, rojakpot]
  Till today, notebook users have to content with a single hard disk and often a small one at that. Hard disk sizes of 40GB and 60GB are not only unheard of but actually in common use! Today, we are going to take a look at the new Seagate 120GB Momentus 5400.2 PATA notebook hard disk, which not only comes with 120GB of storage space but also 8MB of cache!
   Fri, 29 Jul, 2005 | 11 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Seagate 400GB Barracuda 7200.8 SATA Hard Disk Review   [Review, rojakpot]
  Size matters when it comes to hard disks. Bigger is always better. Everyone is always looking out for the biggest hard disk in the market. Today, we are going to take a close look at one of the biggest hard disks in the market - the Seagate 400GB Barracuda 7200.8 SATA hard disk! Check out why we consider it worthy of our Reviewer's Choice Award!
   Tue, 26 Jul, 2005 | 24 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• New Storage Tech : PCIe SATA-II/300 RAID-5 from Areca and WD   [Review, GamePC]
  Areca also produces a more intriguing product, the ARC-1210, which is one of the first RAID controller cards to hit the market which utilizes a PCI Express interface. The PCIe x8 interface the card uses can provide nearly double the theoretical bandwidth (2.0 GB/s) compared to a top of the line 64-bit, 133 MHz PCI-X interface (1.06 GB/s), and over fifteen times more bandwidth compared to a typical 32-bit PCI slot (133 MB/s). While we've been promised PCI Express based peripherals (other than graphics cards) for over a year now, the Areca ARC-1210 is one of the first shipping implementations of a high-end PCIe RAID controller card. Obviously, we were curious to see how this card could perform against its PCI-X based variants. In order to really test out the cards, we decided we had to use Serial ATA-II class hard drives, so we grabbed four of the fastest SATA-II drives on the market, Western Digital's new SE16 400 GB drives. The new SE16 drives have (as the name implies) 16 MB of cache per drive, and they support the new Serial ATA-II/300 standard. We tested these disks out in a 1.6 TB RAID-0 configuration (to test raw speed) and in a 1.2 TB RAID-5 configuration (to test speed in a redundant configuration).
   Sun, 24 Jul, 2005 | 124 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• The joys of redundancy: XFX's Revo 64   [Review, Hexus]
  If you need high data rates and really don't need the hassle of downtime thanks to a dead hard drive, RAID is your answer. If you want efficient usage of disk space, you're going to need an add-in card for a decent solution. If you want to combine all that with low CPU usage and ease of use, then the XFX Revo 64 is the card for you.
   Thu, 21 Jul, 2005 | 51 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Seagate 2005 Technology Briefing   [Article, rojakpot]
  Recently, Jason went for Seagate's 2005 Technology Briefing in KL. They covered topics like FDE (Full Disk Encryption), CompactFlash hard disks, Perpendicular Recording technology and Seagate's range of new storage products! Check out Jason's report on the tech brief!
   Mon, 18 Jul, 2005 | 7 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Thecus N4100 IP Storage Appliance   [Review, Hexus]
  If you're looking for a new means of storing and protecting the vast amount of data you have somehow managed to acquire, then ask yourself whether an IP storage solution would be feasible for you. If you really need a 100% uptime, network attached storage device with access control and hotswap array rebuilds, and you don't mind the 7 hour RAID 5 build (which is only likely to be an issue once,) then the N4100 is worth considering. Just bear in mind that 900GB of protected network attached storage in a sexy black box will set you back a grand.
   Mon, 18 Jul, 2005 | 58 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Transcend JetFlash 110 1GB USB 2.0 Drive   [Review, Bjorn3d]
  Today, drives larger than 1GB are quite common. Some companies even have 4GB drives! For most people though, 1GB is more than enough for carrying around school or work documents. A couple of current trends in the USB drive market are making the drives physically smaller and making them easier to use (mostly by coming up with alternatives to the caps you see on most flash drives). Many people must have lost their drive caps in order for several companies to have developed solutions to this problem. One such company is Transcend, which released its JetFlash 110 series recently.
   Sat, 16 Jul, 2005 | 25 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Seagate 400GB Pushbutton Backup USB 2.0/FireWire HDD Review   [Review, Bjorn3d]
  One common option employed is to install and utilize a spare hard drive. In the end this is probably the most convenient option because your backup media (the spare HDD) is right at your finger tips every time you use that PC. Unfortunately, if it's installed in your PC, that solution isn't very easy to take with you when you're on the go. This is one of the reasons external solutions are so popular; they make back up and sharing easy and convenient. Flash memory and hard drives are the most common external storage types for personal use. While I can't live without my 2GB USB flash drive, it just isn't big enough to back up all my media files. But, Seagate's 400GB Pushbutton Backup USB 2.0/FireWire external hard drive easily solves that problem.
   Fri, 15 Jul, 2005 | 11 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Kingston Ultimate 1-GB SD Card Review   [Review, legitreviews]
  With Secure Digital media cards becoming more popular we are starting to see faster cards enter the market. Kingston was one of the first with a 133x SD memory card and we take it for a test spin to see how it performs during our daily grind. Read on to see if a high-speed SD card is something you need to invest in!
   Thu, 07 Jul, 2005 | 19 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• RAID-5 in 2005 - New Onboard and Add-In Solutions Compared   [Article, GamePC]
  The last time we ran a comparison article against RAID-5 solutions, we were starting to see the first inclinations of low-cost RAID-5 solutions hitting the market. The first onboard solutions with RAID-5 connectivity from Silicon Image had starting making their way onto motherboards, bringing the functionality down to an incredibly low price point. While Silicon Image's first motherboard-level RAID-5 solution were certainly inferior to a dedicated RAID-5 card with hardware processing, they got a lot of people thinking about RAID-5 who would have never considered it before. Here we are, six months later, and the RAID-5 landscape is changing dramatically once again. Many high-end motherboards hitting the market not only have RAID-5 connectivity onboard, but they are native solutions. Both nVidia's nForce4 SLI Intel Edition and Intel's own 955/945-series chipsets have the ability to process RAID-5 directly in their Southbridge controllers. Native solutions typically allow for very impressive performance, as they can bypass the PCI/PCI-X/PCIe busses completely and connect directly with the chipset. Of course, we were very curious to see how these solutions compared to the far more expensive add-in board solutions, not only in raw performance, but in terms of features and usability.
   Thu, 23 Jun, 2005 | 25 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Seagate 5GB Pocket Hard Drive Review   [Review, legitreviews]
  With the increased popularity in portable data storage, and demand for greater storage capacity, it was only a matter of time before someone introduced a hard drive that would be small enough to fit in a pocket....
   Wed, 15 Jun, 2005 | 10 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Data Transfer on the Run:High-Speed USB Flash Drives   [Roundup, TomsHardware]
  The increasing storage capacities of small, convenient Flash memory cards, combined with broad support for USB ports in most PCs, means so-called Flash drives or pen drives represent a great value. Today's Flash drives are smaller than a typical cigarette lighter and offer capacities of up to 4 GB, with 8 GB capacities on the way, and the promise of still larger drives in the future. We looked around at the current USB Flash drive product offerings on the market, and decided to put a handful of products from well-known vendors through their paces. Because we decided to focus on high-speed Flash drives, we also decided to cover only devices with 1 GB or more of storage capacity. Our thinking was that devices smaller than that could be considered short of capacity in just a few months - we generally recommend no Flash drives smaller than 256 MB these days.
   Tue, 31 May, 2005 | 12 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Soyo BayOne XP 9-In-1 Multi-Card Reader Review   [Review, rojakpot]
  Card readers have not only been very popular, they have also become something of a necessity in a world of multiple flash media standards. Today, PsYkHoTiK takes a look at the Soyo BayOne XP multi-card reader. Let's see what this internal 9-in-1 multi-card reader can do!
   Thu, 12 May, 2005 | 27 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Serial ATA - technology backgrounder   [Article, Hexus]
  ...the rationale for retaining Pata will disappear as Sata DVD and CD drives become the norm. That’s still far from being the case but Sata DVD writers are now available – Plextor’s PX-712SA was one of the first. So using Sata optical writers and readers now is a good way of ensuring these components can be reused in future.
   Thu, 03 Mar, 2005 | 67 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• NCQ Drives Compared : Maxtor DM10 vs. Seagate 7200.8   [Review, GamePC]  
  Today at GamePC, we'll be looking at the two most prominent NCQ-enabled hard drives on the market today, Maxtor's DiamondMax 10 and Seagate's Barracuda 7200.8 on both Intel's 925XE and nVidia's nForce4 SLI NCQ-enabled chipsets. This will not only show us which drive is the faster of the two, but which NCQ-enabled SATA controller is the most efficient for running these drives.
   Sun, 13 Feb, 2005 | 918 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Seagate 100GB Portable External HDD   [Review, Bjorn3d]
  On the go? Always away from home or the office? Looking for a way to take a big chunk of data along with you wherever you may roam? With the arrival of USB portable drives in sizes all the way up to several GB of data, the desire to go portable with all of your data is fast becoming the norm. Enter Seagate's portable external USB 2.0 100GB HDD ready to help you out with every storage need you may encounter while on the move.
   Sun, 13 Feb, 2005 | 65 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Akasa Integral 3.5in External HDD Enclosure Review   [Review, mikhailtech]
  Akasa went with a minimalist approach when designing their Integral series of enclosures. There are three parts to the entire case: the main aluminum shell, an acrylic front panel, and a sliding acrylic back panel. On each side is a clear plastic strip with indentations to refract light coming from rear-mounted LEDs, in effect creating a lighted strip. The rear has a USB2.0 connection, a power plug, and an on/off switch. There are also a few vent holes present. Notice that no fans are present. Many 3.5" cases use 40mm fans to cool down the drives inside them. I assume Akasa decided against any fans in order to allow for a quieter and much smaller enclosure; how this impacts heat output is something we'll see in our thermal test.
   Sat, 05 Feb, 2005 | 121 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Corsair Flash Voyager USB 2.0 Drive   [Review, Bjorn3d]
  With this, they introduced their Flash Memory Family. This consists of the Compact Flash Memory Cards, SD Multi Media Cards and the Flash Voyager line of USB drives. Today, I am going to be looking at the Flash Voyager line. I actually have a 128MB version and a 512MB version of the drive. Interestingly enough after talking to Corsair, they do not perform the same. It seems that the bigger the drive, the better the throughput performance gets. You will see that shortly in the tests I did.
   Tue, 18 Jan, 2005 | 38 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Seagate 5GB Pocket Hard Drive   [Review, Bjorn3d]
  When you need highly portable storage, you probably immediately consider USB flash drives and maybe 2.5' USB-powered portable hard drives. Well, Seagate has another product that you might want to consider if you need an affordable 2.5GB or 5.0GB device, and that product is the USB 2.0 Pocket Hard Drive. While it is not as small as a USB flash drive, it is extremely portable and convenient thanks to its retractable USB cable.
   Tue, 18 Jan, 2005 | 32 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail