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Samsung SSD XP941 Review: The PCIe Era Is Here
Posted by Donster on: 2014-05-16 13:45:16 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Kristian Vättö @ AnandTech
The XP941 is available only in M.2 2280 form factor. The four-digit code refers to the size of the drive in millimeters and 2280 is currently the second largest size according to the M.2 standard. Basically, the first two digits refer to the width, which per M.2 standard is always 22mm (hence the 22 in the code) and the last two digits describe the length, which in this case is 80mm. There are four possible lengths in the M.2 spec: 42mm, 60mm, 80mm and 110mm, and the purpose of different lengths is to allow manufacturers to design drives for multiple uses.
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Review: OCZ RevoDrive 350 PCIe SSD 480GB
Posted by Donster on: 2014-04-24 15:42:51 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Steven Walton @ TechSpot
Back when OCZ released the RevoDrive 3 X2 in 2011, it was the fastest SSD for desktop users we'd seen. Using PCI Express, it eliminated the SATA bottleneck that most SSDs still face today. Three years later, the RevoDrive 350 is being touted as the new ultimate storage solution for intensive workstation applications, with x8 PCIe 2.0 support and read/write speeds of 1.8/1.7GBps.
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Review: Zalman ZM-VE300 USB 3.0 External Drive Case
Posted by Donster on: 2014-04-11 16:23:16 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Written By: Joe Evans @ Legit Reviews
Zalman is probably most widely known for their cooling products but they also have quite a few other product lines that cover quite a few categories, including storage. In that realm, they have quite a useful little tool with their ZM-VE300 USB 3.0 External Drive Case. As the name implies, it can be used as an enclosure for any 2.5″ drive allowing it to connect to any USB capable computer, but that’s not all. It can host ISO images and mimic or emulate a CD/DVD drive to allow installation of software directly from the ZM-VE300 instead of off a disc which comes in super handy if your device lacks a CD/DVD drive, like recent MacBook Pros, because it works with virtually any operating system.
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Review: ADATA Premier Pro SP920 512GB SSD
Posted by Donster on: 2014-04-02 15:53:25 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Author: AkG @ Hardware Canucks
ADATA’s approach to SSD design has always taken the path less traveled. While some companies have taken the “one controller fits all” direction, AData’s portfolio is diversified but one aspect has been consistent: they’ve very much focused on offering excellent value. The Permier Pro SP920 is no different; it is available in capacities from 128GB all the way to a massive 1TB model but features dollar per GB ratios as small as fifty two cents for the cavernous 1TB model. Obviously with such reasonable asking prices the SP920 is not meant to compete against the high end Intel 730s, Corsair Neutron GTX, OCZ Vector 150 of the marketplace. Rather AData has their sites firmly set on the Intel 5 series, Crucial M500 series and other popular mainstream offerings.
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Review: Crucial M550 512GB SSD
Posted by Donster on: 2014-03-18 14:43:41 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Written By: Joe Evans @ Legit Reviews
In the face of increasingly stout competition, Crucial has again put their faith in a Marvell controller to power their latest flagship drive. Marvell hasn’t had the fastest SSD controllers in the past and was often left on the sidelines with many manufacturers favoring parts from Indilinx, Samsung, Intel and SandForce instead. However, they’ve always been dependable and we’ve seen their performance improve substantially as of late so we were extremely eager to get Crucial’s new M550 drive powered by the Marvell 88SS9187 controller on our test bench. We won’t give away all the goods in the first paragraph but suffice it to say that we were duly impressed with the results.
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Review: Intel SSD 730 Series
Posted by Donster on: 2014-02-28 16:27:38 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Geoff Gasior @ The Tech Report
Frankly, the most recent additions to Intel's desktop SSD lineup have been a little bland. They've combined the same old SandForce controller with firmware tweaks and updated NAND. A lot of drive makers follow similar recipes, making it difficult for Intel's latest creations to stand out in the crowd. The 730 Series is different, though. There's a giant skull on the case and everything.
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Review: Angelbird Adler SSD & SSD2Go PRO
Posted by Donster on: 2014-02-25 16:20:58 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Author: AkG @ Hardware Canucks
How expensive is too expensive for an SSD? That is the rather bold question Angelbird dares to ask. In a marketplace filled with samness, where terms such as “value” and “performance” make or break entire lineups, few companies are willing to have their potential customers even think the “e: word. Well, Angelbird is not most companies and their new Adler series alongside the newest revision to their SSD2Go Pro are not like most drives.
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Review: OCZ Vertex 460 (240GB) SSD
Posted by Donster on: 2014-01-25 11:10:46 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Kristian Vättö @ AnandTech
The Vertex 460 resembles OCZ's flagship Vector 150 a lot. In terms of hardware the only difference between the two is that the Barefoot 3 controller in the Vertex 460 is slightly lower clocked than the one in Vector 150. The Barefoot 3 in the Vector 150 runs at 397MHz while in the Vertex 460 it's clocked at 352MHz. The speed of the controller isn't proportional to the overall performance but there are scenarios (like intensive read/write workloads) where a faster controller will help.
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Review: Corsair Force LS Series 240GB SSD
Posted by Donster on: 2013-09-27 15:10:43 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Written By: Joe Evans @ Legit Reviews
There have been a number of incarnations of the Force Series drives from Corsair with the first having the SandForce 1200 series controller. Hence the name. Most have been performance focused and were the Corsair flagship drives for a time, a title currently held by their Neutron GTX line. The new Force LS Series is intended more as a budget friendly drive and changes things up with a Phison controller running the show that’s supported by Toshiba 19nm NAND. This isn’t a configuration we’ve tested before so it’ll be interesting to see how it fares.
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Review: Vantec NexStar HDD Duplicator
Posted by Donster on: 2013-09-20 15:26:43 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Written By: Joe Evans @ Legit Reviews
We’ve seen our share of hard drive docks and even a few from Vantec, but this time they have something a little different. The NexStar HDD Duplicator also does as its name implies, it can duplicate drives on a sector-by-sector basis. The beautiful part is that it can do it independently, without the need of being connected to a host PC. Therefore, no software is needed and it doesn't really care what data or OS is on the drive. This makes for a very flexible tool which may appeal more to the techie crowd than the average user since not everyone has the need for drive duplication.
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Review: Samsung 840 EVO SSD
Posted by Donster on: 2013-07-29 15:33:57 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Anand Lal Shimpi @ AnandTech
I'm continually amazed by Samsung's rise to power in the SSD space. If you compare their market dominating products today to what we were reviewing from Samsung just a few years ago you'd assume they came from a different company. The past three generations of Samsung consumer SSDs have been good, but if you focus exclusively on the past two generations (830/840) they've been really good. As with any other business in the tech industry, it turns out that a regular, predictable release cadence is a great way to build marketshare. Here we are, around 9 months after the release of the Samsung SSD 840 and we have its first successor: the 840 EVO.
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Review: SanDisk Extreme II SSD
Posted by Donster on: 2013-06-10 14:18:48 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Christopher Ryan @ Tom's Hardware
SanDisk is looking for a rise to prominence in the SSD segment with a new Marvell 88SS9187-based drive. The Extreme II packs 19 nm Toggle-mode NAND (from SanDisk, naturally), specialized firmware, and intriguing performance potential. How does it compare?
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Review: Corsair Voyager Air Wireless Mobile Drive
Posted by Donster on: 2013-06-10 13:58:57 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Written By:Brian Nyhuis @ Legit Reviews
Corsair's Voyager Air is the first wireless all-in-one mobile drive, home network attached storage, USB drive, and wireless hub. This gadget is supposed to provide easy access to media from network-enabled smart TVs, Blu-ray players, game consoles, DVRs, and streaming media boxes. Read on to see what we've found out about this drive!
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Review: StarTech UNIDOCK3U Hard Drive Dock
Posted by Donster on: 2012-08-02 15:37:00 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Written By: Joe Evans @ Legit Reviews
Have an old SATA or IDE based hard drive laying around that needs to be wiped or mined for valuable files? Maybe you have laptop and want to backup data to another hard drive but only have a internal drive on hand. If so, StarTech has just the thing for you with their USB 3.0 to SATA/IDE HDD Dock that allows the user to connect it via USB. See what we think about it in our review.
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Review: Corsair Performance Series Pro SSD (256GB)
Posted by Donster on: 2012-05-14 15:30:10 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Kristian Vättö @ AnandTech
There aren't too many Marvell SSDs on the market so the Performance Pro stole my attention immediately. When testing a SandForce drive, you pretty much know what to expect. Only Intel uses in-house firmware whereas the rest use the firmware that SandForce provides. That limits differentiation a lot. When it comes to Marvell, things are a lot more open and interesting. Firmwares are often proprietary and that's why you never know what to expect. Several readers pointed out the similarity between Corsair's Performance Series Pro and Plextor's M3 & M3 Pro. Maybe all Marvell drives don't carry an in-house firmware after all? Read on to find out if that's true and see how the Performance Pro fares in our tests.
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Review: Western Digital VelociRaptor 1TB (WD1000DHTZ)
Posted by Donster on: 2012-04-18 16:08:37 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Anand Lal Shimpi @ AnandTech
There are still users who need more storage than an SSD can affordably provide, and who demand speed as well. Although photo and video editing is great on an SSD, a big enough project would have difficulty sharing a 128GB SSD with an OS, applications and other data. For those users who still need high performance storage that's more affordable than an SSD, the VelociRaptor is still worthy of consideration. There's just one problem: Moore's Law is driving the cost of SSDs down, and their capacities up. The shift to solid state storage is inevitable for most, but to remain relevant in the interim the VelociRaptor needed an update.
Today Western Digital is doing just that. This is the new VelociRaptor, available in 250GB, 500GB and 1TB capacities.
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Review: OCZ Vertex 4 SSD 256GB and 512GB
Posted by Donster on: 2012-04-05 15:03:17 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By: Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D
We review the OCZ Vertex 4 256 and 512GB SSD. Armed with a new Indilinx Everest 2 controller this SSD is advertised as one of the fastest on the block with screaming IOPs performance. Lets have a look shall we?
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Review: Intel SSD 520 Series - Cherryville Brings Reliability to SandForce
Posted by Donster on: 2012-02-08 14:51:54 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Anand Lal Shimpi @ AnandTech
Intel was rumored to be working on a SandForce based drive for several months now, but even the rumors couldn't encapsulate just how long Intel and SF has worked on this drive. According to Intel, the relationship began 1.5 years ago. Still lacking a 6Gbps controller of their own and wanting to remain competitive with the rest of the market, Intel approached SandForce about building a drive based on the (at the time) unreleased SF-2281 controller. Roughly six months later, initial testing and validation began on the drive. That's right, around the time that OCZ was previewing the first Vertex 3 Pro, Intel was just beginning its extensive validation process.
Codenamed Cherryville, Intel's SSD 520 would go through a full year of validation before Intel would sign off on the drive for release. In fact, it was some unresolved issues that cropped up during Intel's validation that pushed Cherryville back from the late 2011 release to today.
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Review: Seagate GoFlex Slim 320GB USB 3.0 Hard Drive
Posted by Donster on: 2011-04-06 16:00:44 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Written By: Nathan Kirsch @ Legit Reviews
Seagate announced the availability of its new GoFlex Slim portable hard drive this morning and we have been lucky enough to take one for a test drive! The Seagate GoFlex Slim 320GB features a 7200RPM 2.5-inch notebook hard drive that connects to your PC through the USB 3.0 interface. Read on to see how the drive performs and what you get for $99.99!
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Review: Crucial m4 256GB SSD (C400)
Posted by Donster on: 2011-03-29 17:39:13 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Stuart Davidson @ HardwareHeaven
Today we have one of Crucials new SSDs, the 256GB m4, connected to our P67 system and will be running it through a selection of real world and synthetic tests to establish how it compares to the Intel 510 series and OCZ Vertex 3. In addition to that we will also throw in the C300 and a first generation SandForce drive to see where this new model sits.
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Review: Intel SSD 320 Series 300GB Solid State Drive
Posted by Donster on: 2011-03-29 17:28:58 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Marco Chiappetta @ HotHardware
Intel officially announced the new SSD 320 Series drives yesterday, which feature proprietary Intel SSD processors paired to cutting edge 25nm NAND flash memory. This new family of drives, however, isn’t geared for ultra-high performance. While still fast, the overarching goals with the Intel SSD 320 series were increased reliability and security. In fact, despite being released after the SSD 510 series which we took a look at a few weeks back, these technically newer 320 series drives do not feature support for the faster SATA III interface. The Intel SSD 320 series drives are SATA II only.
We’ve got an Intel SSD 320 series 300GB drive on hand and have run it through a complete suite of tests to gauge its performance versus competing solid state offerings...
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Review: Corsair Performance 3 Series 128GB SSD
Posted by Donster on: 2011-03-21 14:51:20 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Written By: Joe Evans @ Legit Reviews
Corsair jumps feet first into the 6Gbps equipped SSD race with latest installment of their Performance series drives. This time, they put a Marvell controller at the heart of their Performance 3 Series. With multiple manufacturers using the Marvell controller and others using SandForce, how will these drives measure up? Read on to see.
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Review: Intel SSD 510
Posted by Donster on: 2011-03-02 15:09:08 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Anand Lal Shimpi @ AnandTech
It's been a long time coming but we finally have Intel's third generation SSD. Codenamed Elmcrest, this is not only the first 6Gbps SSD from Intel but it's also the first Intel drive to use a 3rd party controller. Why would Intel turn elsewhere for a controller design? And more importantly, how does it compare to the 2nd generation SandForce drives like the Vertex 3?
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Review: OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD
Posted by Donster on: 2011-02-25 15:38:20 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Stuart Davidson @ HardwareHeaven
Just about a year ago OCZ released their latest high performance SATA SSD, the Vertex 2 which was based on SandForce's latest controller. That drive was a huge success, surpassing the performance of its main competitor at the time, drives based on Indilinx controllers. Today we see the successor to that product launch, the Vertex 3 which runs on SandForce's latest controller and we have a 240GB sample on our test bench to find out how it compares to products currently on the market in a selection of real world and synthetic tests.
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Review: Samsung 470 Series 256GB SSD
Posted by Donster on: 2010-12-20 14:38:34 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Author: Allyn Malventano @ PC Perspective
Today we take a look at Samsung's newest offering - the 470 Series SSD. This drive sports a new controller with some very promising specs. Our storage guru goes on a seek and destroy mission to see if any weaknesses present in the older generation SSD's. Check out or full review for the scoop.
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Review: Vantec Nexstar NST-D400S3 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Dual Bay Dock
Posted by Donster on: 2010-12-16 15:10:15 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Article by: Jackie Mueller @ TweakNews
Vantec has been on a roll lately with their NexStar line of storage products, and their USB 3.0 dual bay HDD dock is no exception. What stands out with this unit is the ability to access two hard drives simultaneously - something that is handy for all types of buyers ranging from the casual home PC user to network admins who need a quick way to access data on a hard drive.
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Review: OCZ IBIS SSD
Posted by Donster on: 2010-11-15 15:57:33 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By: Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D
OCZ however introduced a new product line that is set to move and shake the ground a little more. The OCZ IBIS is a 3.5" Solid State Disk that is available in several volume sizes: 100, 160, 240, 360, 480, 720 and even a 960GB are available. The OCZ IBIS as tested today will pass 700 MB/sec in both read and write performance. It is so fast that it is nearly sickening.
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Review: Patriot Inferno 120GB Solid State Drive
Posted by Donster on: 2010-11-12 16:14:15 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Author: Bob Buskirk @ ThinkComputers
We just started working with Patriot with our review of the Xporter XT Rage 32B Flash Drive. Well today we have another storage product from them, the Inferno 120GB Solid State Drive. This solid state drive is based off the SandForce SF-1200 controller. If you have been following solid state drives over the past year you know that the SandForce controller is what everyone is using in their new drives. This drive boasts read speeds up to 285MB/s, write speeds up to 275MB/s, native TRIM support and integrated DuraClass Technology. Let’s check out the Inferno and see how it performs compared to other SandForce-based drives.
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Review: OCZ RevoDrive 120GB PCI-E Solid State Drive
Posted by Donster on: 2010-10-20 17:56:17 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By AkG @ HardwareCanucks
OCZ has been at the forefront of the SSD market for as long as we can remember. However, the current SATA interface has constrained the performance and solid state drive manufacturers have been left scrambling for alternatives. OCZ has now turned to the PCI Express interface in order to increase performance. But has their gambit paid off?
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Review: WD Caviar Green 3TB Hard Drive
Posted by Donster on: 2010-10-19 15:19:51 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Mathew Miranda @ HotHardware
Today, Western Digital announces the world's highest density hard drive, as they reach the 3TB mark with their newest, 5th generation Caviar Green product. To go along with its massive storage capacity, the Caviar Green 3TB serves up a super-sized combination of reduced power consumption, lower operating temperature, and a quieter working environment. Read on to find out how well it performs and if it deserves to be on your upgrade list.
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Review: Thermaltake BlacX 5G USB 3.0 Dock
Posted by Donster on: 2010-10-01 17:04:44 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Article by: Jackie Mueller @ TweakNews
If you're currently using a USB 2.0 dock to access drives externally, Thermaltake's BlacX 5G is a great reason to upgrade to a faster USB 3.0 dock. You'll save a lot of time transferring files and still have the ability to use the dock on just about any modern PC or laptop, thanks to the backward compatibility of USB.
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OCZ IBIS HSDL Solid State Drive Preview
Posted by Donster on: 2010-09-29 16:14:06 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Dave Altavilla @ HotHardware
As we've noted more than once here before, as NAND Flash technologies evolve, SATA will go the way of the dino. It's not going to happen over night but like its old, spinning hard drive counterpart, the writing is on the wall. The market needs new higher speed interfaces with lower overhead and more direct attachment to native system interfaces. OCZ has been trying its hand at developing PCI Express-based SSDs in an effort to address this requirement. They've been rolling out all new products like their Revo Drive that we looked at recently and the new device we'll be looking at here today. The new OCZ IBIS SSD utilizes a proprietary serial interface that the company has coined "HSDL" for High Speed Data Link and it offers up to 20Gb/sec peak bandwidth over an industry standard SAS connector, which is over three times that of next gen 6Gbps SATA technology. Journey on for all the details and a performance profile of a prototype we've been testing here in the lab.
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Review: Patriot Inferno 100GB SSD
Posted by Donster on: 2010-08-20 16:20:47 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Reviewed by Jake Mete @ PureOC
Over the last year or so we've looked at many Solid State Drives that feature various technologies, controllers specifically, in the attempt to boost speed and performance. Some have been successful, some have not. The popular Indilinx-based SSDs have proven very adept and shown impressive results, though there have been some growing pains along the way.
But the new SandForce drives offer killer performance, even leaving the Indilinx drives in the dust. Normally such performance boosts come with a very hefty premium, but that's not happening for the most part, but especially with the Patriot Inferno 100GB. We have a drive here that is crazy fast and a pretty good deal when you look at the competition.
So, just how fast is this Inferno? Let's find out.
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Review: ASUS DRW-24B1ST SATA DVD-RW Drive
Posted by Donster on: 2010-08-19 16:50:37 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Review by: Jackie Mueller @ Tweak News
A lot has evolved in the world of computers over the past few years, but one hardware component hasn't gone through too many major changes – the DVD-RW drive. It's not something most of us give a lot of thought to when building a new rig because they are cheap and the majority of them work as advertised. But what if you want something better than that? After all, it doesn't make much sense to buy a no-name optical drive along with a bunch of mid or high-end computer hardware. It's worth it to first do some research and shop around because things like noise, burn quality, and overall reliability are important factors to consider. That's where reviews like this come in.
Today I'll be checking out the DRW-24B1ST DVD-RW drive from ASUS. ASUS is known for making quality hardware, but is that also true of their optical drives? Let's find out.
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Review: SilverStone HDDBOOST Turbo Storage Device
Posted by Donster on: 2010-07-30 16:37:11 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Written By: Austin Hamann @ Legit Reviews
The SilverStone HDDBOOST gives any hard drive the boot times of a SSD without sacrificing hard drive capacity, write wear on the SSD or the complications of having to change file paths when you would run programs off a secondary hard drive. The HDDBOOST is a great improvement over any mechanical drive and offers limitless options for drive combinations, all for just $49.99!
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Review: Three External (And Fast) USB 3.0 Drives Compared
Posted by Donster on: 2010-07-22 15:56:50 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos @ Tom's Hardware
The first USB 3.0-based external hard drives aim at eliminating the USB 2.0 bottleneck (that hovered around 30 MB/s) with enough bandwidth to outperform the fastest mechanical disks. A-Data, Buffalo, and WD do battle for maximum performance.
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Review: Sans Digital TowerRAID TR4UT-B Hardware RAID Enclosure
Posted by Donster on: 2010-07-19 16:40:08 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Author: Björn Endre @ Bjorn3D
The Sans Digital TowerRAID TR4UT-B is a Hardware RAID enclosure that supports eSATA 6 GB/s and even comes with a separate eSATA 6 GB/s host adapter card. We've tested the enclosure with various RAID-settings to see if the extra bandwidth is really needed or just a gimmick.
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Review: Rosewill RX358 USB 3.0 Enclosure
Posted by Donster on: 2010-06-18 16:47:27 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Reviewed by Jake Mete @ PureOC
The Rosewill RX358 USB 3.0 is an external drive enclosure that utilizes the speed of the latest technology in an extremely easy to use hot swap setup to serve all your backup and storage needs. And to show you what a massive difference that USB 3.0 makes, we'll be using a very fast Solid State Drive to show you not only how close USB comes to SATA II, but also how USB 2.0 is left behind in the dust.
Follow along with us as we take a close look at the Rosewill RX358 USB 3.0 enclosure and see for yourself just how fast an external drive can be.
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Review: G.Skill Phoenix 100GB SSD
Posted by Donster on: 2010-06-16 17:23:46 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By: Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D
Ever since a year or two every now and then this relatively small company G.Skill rears it's head and bam .. show a really impressive product, always at a sharp price compared to the competition. We love their DDR memory products, we liked their SSD range and recently G.Skill added yet another SSD into the product line. it is called the Phoenix SSD and it is armed with that much discussed SandForce1200 based controller.
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USB 3.0 & the Corsair Voyager GTR: A Match Made in Heaven?
Posted by Donster on: 2010-06-14 15:39:21 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Michael "SKYMTL" Hoenig @ HardwareCanucks
When we first tested Corsair’s Voyager GTR, we found it to be limited by the USB 2.0 interface. This didn’t stop it from becoming the fastest flash drive we have ever tested but the nagging question persisted: what happens if you plug this USB 2.0 drive into a next-generation USB 3.0 interface? In this testing update, we find out.
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Review: 5-Way SSD Round-Up: Sandforce vs. JMicron
Posted by Donster on: 2010-05-25 17:14:01 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
SandForce and JMicron Based Drives From OCZ, OWC, Patriot and Corsair -- One of These Drives Is Not Like the Others...
By Marco Chiappetta @ Hot Hardware
Despite the rapid pace of advancement in the SSD space, innovation doesn't seem to be slowing. With that in mind, we've pulled together a quintet of the newest drives to hit the market, based on recently released controller designs from SandForce and long-time player JMicron, the SF1200 and JM612, respectively. We've got drives from OCZ, OWC, Corsair, and Patriot Memory on tap, but before we dig into the products themselves, let's take some time to talk about the controllers at the heart of the drives. It is, after all, the SSD's controller that determines much of how a drive will behave and perform in the real-world...
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Review: Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Drive Edition
Posted by Donster on: 2010-05-24 17:41:32 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Seagate today announced the release of the Momentus XT drive, the world’s fastest 2.5-inch laptop PC hard drive, combining SSD-like performance with the massive capacity and much lower cost of HDDs. Take a look at the Seagate Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid drive by clicking the links listed below.
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Review: Definitive 2TB HD Roundup
Posted by Donster on: 2010-04-16 16:16:11 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Daniel A. Begun @ HotHardware
In this roundup we take a look at a total of nine 3.5-inch, SATA, 2TB hard drives, from Samsung, Seagate, and Western Digital. We had originally hoped to also include the 2TB HDD offerings from Hitachi as well, but Hitachi declined to participate in the roundup. During testing we also received the latest 1TB WD Caviar Black HDD from Western Digital as well, and decided to also include it here for comparative purposes. Lastly, our testbed had a 120GB OCZ Vertex Turbo Series SATA II 2.5" SSD installed in it that we used as the source drive for our file-transfer tests--we also ran our benchmark tests on the SSD as a comparison point. We discuss the SSD's performance when relevant, but we're not including it in any of our performance charts, as it's significantly faster performance results in too much disparity in the charts (imagine one long bar, while all of the rest are short). When testing was finally completed for this story, we had run six separate sets of benchmarks on 11 different drives. With multiple runs of each test, that's a lot of testing! By our estimates, we ran over a total of 250 tests...
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Review: Western Digital VelociRaptor 600GB
Posted by Donster on: 2010-04-06 15:27:12 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Western Digital announced today that it is now shipping it's new WD VelociRaptor® hard drives, the next generation of its 10,000 RPM SATA family of hard drives. Available in 450GB and 600GB capacities at $299 and $329, respectively, the new VR200M (600GB) keeps the formula mostly unchanged but sees a performance boost thanks to increasing platter density. Today we check out the reviews featuring the new VR200M (600GB). Find out more at the links provided below.
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Review: Corsair Force Series F100 100GB SSD Featuring the SandForce 1200
Posted by Donster on: 2010-03-23 16:10:27 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Author: Chris Ramseyer @ TweakTown
We have all known that Corsair was planning a flagship product around the SandForce SF-1200 for a few weeks now. The press release has already been issued and the buzz already started. What we haven’t known is how the consumer controller was going to perform or if it was even comparable to the enterprise SF-1500 products we have already seen. At the time of writing no one has really commented on the performance of the new upper to high end consumer drive that when merged with existing product lines will force the Indilinx Barefoot products into budget to mainstream SSD category. The SF-1200 was designed to displace the Barefoot from its price category and at a time when Indilinx made it possible to produce lower cost drives.
We can talk more about price comparisons after we see some performance numbers, that way we can better gauge the situation and available options for consumers. Let’s take a look at the specifications and see what the Corsair Force Series is all about.
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Review: Intel's X25-V & Kingston's 30GB SSDNow V Series: Battle of the $125 SSDs
Posted by Donster on: 2010-03-19 16:28:52 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Author: Anand Lal Shimpi @ AnandTech
Today’s comparison takes place exclusively at $125 and is between Intel and Kingston. Former bedmates, the two now have equally compelling entry-level SSD offerings. Find out which one is worth your money!
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New Hard Drives May Force XP Users to Upgrade to 7
Posted by Donster on: 2010-03-10 16:17:55 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Hard drive evolution could hit Microsoft XP users
By Mark Ward, BBC News
Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years.
By early 2011 all hard drives will use an "advanced format" that changes how they go about saving the data people store on them.
The move to the advanced format will make it easier for hard drive makers to produce bigger drives that use less power and are more reliable.
However, it might mean problems for Windows XP users who swap an old drive for one using the changed format.
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Review: Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD Edition
Posted by Donster on: 2010-03-03 16:02:10 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Western Digital today announced the company's first consumer-oriented solid state drive (SSD) with the new WD SiliconEdge™ 2.5-inch SSD family. WD SiliconEdge Blue™ SSDs offer fast read/write speeds and high SSD capacities, making them an ideal storage solution for read-intensive applications requiring high performance and plug-and-play compatibility. We've gathered together a few reviews of this new product, and you can view them via the links provided below.
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Review: ASUS TS Mini Windows Home Server
Posted by Donster on: 2010-02-19 16:05:45 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Author: Alan Lu @ Bit-Tech
With GBs of video and audio, and more than one PC per house, home networking is becoming increasingly common. So common that Microsoft thinks you need a server in your cloakroom - we look at the first Asus Windows Home Server to see if it delivers networking Nirvana.
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Review: ASUS BC-08B1ST Blu-ray Combo Drive
Posted by Donster on: 2010-02-18 15:47:46 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Author: Bob Buskirk @ ThinkComputers
When it comes to choosing an optical drive sometimes it can be hard. A lot of people just choose the cheapest drive, but that is not always the best route. Today we will be looking at a new combo drive from ASUS that allows for Blu-ray playback and DVD/CD burning. It also has some really cool features like being able to encrypt your burnt discs with 128-bit encryption, True Theater High Definition which boosts DVD playback quality and Optimal Tuning Strategy which will perform a test before really burning a disc to generate an optimal burning strategy for the best burning quality. Let’s see if the BC-08B1ST Blu-ray Combo Drive is right for you.
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