Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, and WD all have two-platter terabytes spinning at 7,200 RPM. We've rounded up all four to find the sweet spot for mechanical storage. Read more...
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Last by moritzgedig at 1:15 PM on 09/03/10
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Today's solid-state drives: The value perspective
Are SSDs worth the extra scratch versus hard drives? Which one is the best value? Our scatter plots have returned to tackle the SSD value proposition. Read more...
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A short tour of Kingston's Hsinchu factory
During our stay in Taiwan earlier this month, we hopped on a bus to Kingston's Hsinchu factory, where memory modules and SD flash cards are assembled. Read more...
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Corsair's Force F120 solid-state drive
The first SandForce-based SSDs only squeezed 100GB of storage capacity from 128GB worth of flash. Corsair's Force F120 kicks that capacity up to 120GB, but not without consequences. Read more...
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Last by indeego at 11:26 AM on 06/24/10 -
Crucial's RealSSD C300 solid-state drive
Crucial's RealSSD C300 is the first SSD with a 6Gbps Serial ATA interface and ONFI 2.1 flash memory. Let's see how it compares. Read more...
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Seagate's Momentus XT hard drive
Seagate's Momentus XT swaps the Windows-only shackles of previous hybrid drives for a scheme dubbed Adaptive Memory. Can it successfully marry 500GB of mechanical storage with 4GB of flash? Read more...
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Super Talent's USB 3.0 RAIDDrive
Super Talent's USB 3.0 RAIDDrive stripes dual internal SSDs to offer 32GB of SuperSpeed connectivity in a lightweight and easily pocketable package. We run one through its paces to see what's what. Read more...
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Last by bwcbiz at 11:33 AM on 05/27/10 -
SandForce showdown: Corsair's Force F100 and OCZ's Agility 2 and Vertex 2 SSDs
An SSD's controller chip largely determines its destiny. SandForce's SF-1200 is the latest controller to hit the market, and we've taken it for a spin. Read more...
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Last by Bensam123 at 4:21 AM on 05/23/10 -
Intel's X25-V solid-state drive on its own and in RAID
SSDs are becoming cheaper to purchase. Case in point: Intel's X25-V 40GB, which is currently selling for $115. Can this value offering hang with the rest of the solid-state crowd either on its own or in a two-drive RAID 0 array? Let's find out. Read more...
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Last by LeGoulu at 5:28 AM on 06/08/10 -
A look at new SSDs from Corsair, Kingston, Plextor, and WD
SSDs are finally cheap enough to be tempting for use in high-performance desktops. The market is teeming with new entrants, too. But which one is best? We look at new drives from Corsair, Kingston, Plextor, and WD to find out. Read more...
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Last by JordanRieger at 7:52 PM on 04/22/10 -
Corsair's Flash Padlock 2 USB thumb drive
Corsair's latest USB thumb drive boasts 256-bit encryption, a PIN code locking mechanism, and a purportedly rugged enclosure. Is it all it's cracked up to be? And can it survive a trip through the washing machine? Read more...
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Last by moritzgedig at 1:32 AM on 06/22/10 -
Western Digital's VelociRaptor VR200M hard drive
Every time WD has released a new Raptor, the performance bar for desktop hard drives has been raised. But the new 600GB VelociRaptor VR200M enters a market teeming with SSDs whose split-millisecond access times blunt its previously formidable spindle speed advantage. Can the new Raptor keep up? Read more...
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Last by LoneWolf15 at 10:31 PM on 06/05/10 -
Western Digital's 6Gbps Caviar Black 1TB hard drive
Western Digital's Caviar Black 1TB is the first two-platter, 7,200-RPM drive to use the company's latest 500GB platters. The new Black is also WD's first step into 6Gbps SATA territory, so let's see how it performs in a battery of performance, noise, and power consumption tests. Read more...
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Last by WillBach at 7:51 PM on 02/21/10 -
A quick first look at USB 3.0 performance
USB 2.0 has been around for nearly a decade—an eternity in the PC world. We've taken a quick first look at its replacement, SuperSpeed USB 3.0, to see what's up with the spec and how a first implementation measures up. Read more...
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