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Hitachi Brings 400GB to Desktops with the Deskstar 7K400
Recently, Hitachi announced the latest in their Deskstar line of hard drives, the 7K400 - a 400GB desktop hard drive that was designed to offer high capacity as well as the highest performance levels of any desktop Hitachi drive. We started covering desktop hard drives around the time of Hitachi's announcement, and thus, they were one of the first on our list to pursue for review samples. Not too much later and we were sitting on over a terabyte of storage in the form of Deskstar 7K400 drives. Sun, 11 Jul, 2004 | 35 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Kingwin 3.5" & 5.25" Portable USB Enclosures [Review, Overclockercafe]
Both units are sold individually but each come with an installation manual, Driver disk (for Win98 and Mac users), a pair of drive enclosure stands, approximately six feet of USB extension line to reach your computer as well as power cables. The power cables needs to be plugged directly into the wall. The 3.5" device's power line is a bit over four feet while the 5.25" device's line is in two segments totaling about eleven feet. Below are the 3.5" enclosure and 5.25" drive enclosure kits respectively. Sun, 11 Jul, 2004 | 49 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Western Digital's Raptors in RAID-0: Are two drives better than one? [Article, AnandTech]
Parallelism has been a topic of interest within the PC technology industry ever since its inception. The basic principle of computing is to accomplish incredibly large and complicated tasks through the completion of smaller individual tasks, which in some cases, can be executed concurrently to maximize performance. We've seen examples of exploiting parallelism in computing with technologies such as multiprocessor systems, Hyper Threading and, of course, the long-missed Voodoo2 SLI. Fri, 02 Jul, 2004 | 65 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
XIMETA NetDisk 80GB Review [Review, nextgenelectronics]
The XIMETA NetDisk with an external Hard Disk Drive that can be connected directly to either your computer or your Local Area Network using an Ethernet cable OR directly to your computer using a USB cable. Overall, the XIMETA NetDisk is a very useful product that's priced perfectly for all levels of buyers. Sun, 20 Jun, 2004 | 145 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Chipset Serial ATA and RAID performance comparison [Roundup, TechReport]
OVER THE PAST YEAR, Serial ATA RAID has become one of the most popular checkbox features for core logic chipsets. The latest offerings from Intel, NVIDIA, SiS, and VIA all support Serial ATA RAID, but there can be a world of difference between feature support and real-world performance. To find out which chipset offers the best single-drive, RAID 0, and RAID 1 performance with Serial ATA drives, I've spent the last month running Intel's ICH5R, NVIDIA's nForce3 250Gb, SiS's SiS964, and VIA's VT8237 through a punishing gauntlet of disk subsystem and application tests. The results of this benchathon are enlightening, to say the least. Thu, 27 May, 2004 | 181 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Escalade Evolution : AMCC’s 3Ware 9500S4-LP RAID Controller [Review, GamePC]
In the last three years, we've seen RAID functionality migrate from the high-end workstation / server space all the way down to the consumer level. While it was once thought that no home PC user would ever want or need RAID, nowadays it's nearly impossible to find a new consumer-level motherboard without some sort of RAID functionality. Intel, VIA, nVidia, and SiS are all now shipping "free" basic RAID abilities in their chipsets now, and since their RAID logic is integrated with the core chipset components, they have an inherent performance advantage over traditional RAID controllers, which must be accessed through the PCI bus. Thu, 27 May, 2004 | 45 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
D-Link DSM-604H 40GB Network Hard Drive Review [Review, nextgenelectronics]
The DSM-604H 40GB Network Hard Drive is a highly useful and extremely innovative product that networking gurus will have on their "must buy" lists, for both the home and office. Great performance to go along with a very easy installation process - a definite Editor's Choice award winner. Mon, 24 May, 2004 | 108 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
32Mb USB Bar [Review, TheTechZone]
It's time to face the truth. The floppy disk is dead. In its place, the USB pen drive: many more times the capacity, much smaller, far stronger. A modern motherboard can even boot from it, so ALL of a techies DOS based diagnostics can finally fit onto one easy to modify data store. Tue, 04 May, 2004 | 31 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Fujitsu MHT2060AH SA, HighPoint RocketRAID 1640 and Level5 RAID [Review, LostCircuits]
Hard disc space is becoming cheaper and cheaper, at the same time, drive capacity increases. Likewise, we are living in the era of the XPC, that is, small form factors are taking over and with them comes the additional restriction in space, meaning that room to fit two HDDs is already an exception. On the other hand, HDDs are just undergoing the transition form the standard 3.5" form factor to the smaller 2.5" drive size, hitherto only found within notebooks. Notebood drives are notedly slow, but who says that the restrictions are in the form factor? Thu, 29 Apr, 2004 | 168 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Snap Appliance Snap Server 1100 Review [Review, BigBruin]
While taking up considerably less space than a shoebox, this little device seamlessly allows users to add additional storage to any network in less than five minutes. Today we review the Snap Appliance 80GB Snap Server 1100. This compact NAS (network attached storage) device has many great features including: 5 minute installation, a compact web and ftp server, or simply a network share. Most importantly it works in a network mixed with Windows, Netware, UNIX, Linux, and Macintosh machines. Fri, 16 Apr, 2004 | 49 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
512MB Kingston Data Traveler 2.0 [Review, 2cpu]
Who remember the real glory days of the floppy disk? Do you remember the time when your friend just got a copy of Duke Nukem 3d and he wanted desparately to frag you over your 14.4 modems? If you reacted like I did, you probably dug into your desk drawer, whipped out about thirty floppy disks and headed on over. Then you spent the better part of the afternoon just trying to span the installation directory across your thirty disks with pkzip. What an arduous task, right? These days, we don't have to deal with this kind of pain any longer due to the availability of affordable (see: dirt cheap) CDRW drives. Mon, 15 Mar, 2004 | 122 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Promise FastTrak S150 SX4 Review [Review, somacon]
This article reviews the Promise FastTrak S150 SX4 SATA RAID controller card. It briefly covers the technologies of SATA and RAID. Installation with Windows XP is explained, followed by a set of benchmarks comparing a RAID-5 array against single drives. Wed, 14 Jan, 2004 | 496 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Micro Solutions Backpack 120 GB HD [Review, Bjorn3d]
With the large amount of data that we have today comprising of spreadsheets, images, videos and music having a easy way of transporting them from one computer to another is a must. We’ve taken a look at a solution to this problem: the Micro Solutions Backpack 120 GB HD. Mon, 22 Dec, 2003 | 38 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Bytecc ME-350U2 3.5” Aluminum External Enclosure [Review, Monster-Hardware]
External hard drives are great and useful products. The ability to move data from place to place without the need for cracking the case open is a great advantage. Today we check the Bytecc ME-350U2 3.5” Aluminum Mobile External Enclosure. I want to thank Bytecc for allowing us to review this product. Mon, 08 Dec, 2003 | 446 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 250GB (SATA) [Review, HardwareZone]
Hitachi is probably the last major hard disk manufacturer to join the 80GB/platter arena with the new Deskstar 7K250 series of hard disk drives. In this entirely new line-up, Hitachi has introduced up to 11 new hard disk drives based on their new 80GB/platter technology - with drives for both legacy parallel ATA (PATA) and the newly introduced Serial ATA (SATA) interface. Up to seven drives will be segmented for parallel ATA applications while another four will be introduced for high-end desktops that use the faster SATA interface. Out of the seven PATA drives, you'll find four of them with only 2MB cache (targeting the budget consumers) with capacities ranging from 40GB to 160GB. Another three models for the PATA interface (and SATA) with capacities from 120GB to 250GB will be introduced with a larger 8MB cache - specifically for the performance seekers. Tue, 02 Dec, 2003 | 280 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Crucial Gizmo 256 MB Flash Drive [Review, Bjorn3d]
We at Bjorn3D have looked at several USB flash drives in the past. These devices are becoming so popular that any real computer geek probably has one to transport music, data, and images around. Sat, 22 Nov, 2003 | 52 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Eumax Metal Gear Box 3.5-inch USB 2.0 & SATA Aluminum HDD Enclosure [Review, Bjorn3d]
Want an easy way to quickly back up important files? Want to keep this storage separate from your main PC? Have an extra hard drive laying around? If you answered yes to all (or any) of these questions, then an external hard drive enclosure might be a logical solution for you. Sat, 22 Nov, 2003 | 343 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
MSI Mega Stick 1 - The Mini Wonder [Review, AnandTech]
Meanwhile, there are other innovative products that take what already is and improves on it. MSI is a great example of this with their Mega Stick 1. MSI has taken a USB flash drive and turned it into a fully functional, on-the-go solution: FM tuner, FM recorder, voice recorder, MP3 player, and of course, a storage device. This may not seem like much at first, but we found out otherwise once we put it through the paces… Sat, 22 Nov, 2003 | 536 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
Ximeta Netdisk (80 GB) Review [Review, BigBruin]
External storage devices come in numerous shapes and sizes, but in general they are all accessible by either USB, Firewire, or both. The Ximeta Netdisk is the first device to offer connectivity to your computer via USB 2.0, as well as connectivity to an entire network via an Ethernet connection. The NetDisk is currently the only offering from this corporate youngster, which describes itself as “a data storage solution company focusing on the growing trend toward networked information storage, in which storage systems are linked on a network via Ethernet.” Sat, 22 Nov, 2003 | 133 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
7200rpm Hard Disk Drives Roundup: Major League [Roundup, XbitLabs]
We will test 5 world’s largest hard disk drives with 7,200rpm spindle rotation speed and 250GB storage capacity. We will look at two models from Maxtor and two models from Western Digital supporting ATA and the latest Serial ATA interfaces, as well as at one model from Hitachi with ATA interface, which appeared a real monster, I should say. New testbed, new testing approach, you will love this article! Sat, 15 Nov, 2003 | 324 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail
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