SATA
Rosewill RX81-MP-SC-SLV SATA External HDD Enclosure Review
Today we are looking at a very nice external HDD enclosure from Rosewill. The Rosewill enclosure has four connectivity options and offers very good performance.
The enclosure will support HDDs up to 1TB and is easy to install. The drive is compatible with Windows and Mac computers. The enclosure is made for aluminum for heat dissipation as well. Read more
Posted on Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:55:55 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
VOX V1 500GB USB and eSATA External HDD Review
Tweaktown published a review of the VOX V1 500GB USB and eSATA External HDD.
Quote from the review: "Aaah, storage. As far as I’m concerned, you can’t have enough of it. Be it in a server or on the go, you can’t really ever have too much hard drive space. Today we’re taking the time to have a look at a hard drive caddie from a company called VOX.
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Posted on Mon, 4 Aug 2008 21:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Price-breaking OCZ Core Series SATA II 2.5 SSD announced
OCZ unveiled today the OCZ Core Series SATA II 2.5" Solid State Drives (SSDs).
OCZ says that the new OCZ Core Series delivers the performance and reliability of the latest SSDs at a 50% lower price per gigabyte than other high speed offerings currently on the market.
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Posted on Tue, 1 Jul 2008 04:48:34 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Toshiba unveils 160GB 1.8 inch SATA HDD
Toshiba Corporation today announced a new line-up of 1.8" SATA hard disk drives including the industry's first drive of this type with a capacity of 160GB.
The new 160GB HDD, MK1617GSG, and the 80GB drive, MK8017GSG, will enter mass production in August.
Toshiba’s new 1.8-inch hard-drives boost interface speed to 1.5Gbps and offer a rotation speed of 5,400 rpm, faster than the current generation of Toshiba 1.8-inch HDD (MK1214GAH, parallel ATA, 120GB).
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Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:21:40 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Thermaltake BlacX SATA to USB HDD Dock Test
Tweaktown published a Thermaltake BlacX SATA to USB HDD Dock review.
Quote from the review: "Thermaltake has just come up with the ultimate enthusiast accessory; at least that is what went through my head when I first saw the press release of the new BlacX and BlacX SE. As I read the release my mind started to drift away, thinking about the two foot tall stack of SATA drives sitting in my closet and how useful it would be to just grab a drive and start transferring data to it within seconds.
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Posted on Sat, 31 May 2008 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
CF Card RAID in the size of a 2.5-inch SATA HDD from Sans Digital
Sans Digital introduces interesting Compact Flash (CF) enclosures.
The Sans Digital CompactSTOR CS1T and CompactRAID CR2T convert Compact Flash cards to a single 2.5" SATA hard drive storage device.
The CS1T houses one Compact Flash card, while the CR2T supports spanning and RAID 1 (mirroring) by housing up to two Compact Flash cards. The CR2T allows you to easily upgrade your laptop to RAID and flash storage.
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Posted on Sat, 24 May 2008 01:36:01 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
ASUS BC-1205PT SATA Blu-ray Disc Optical Drive Review
Benchmark Reviews published a test report of the ASUS BC-1205PT SATA Blu-ray Disc Optical Drive.
Quote from the review: "The HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc format war is finally over. Now that Toshiba and Mircosoft have both jumped ship on HD-DVD, for the first time in at least a dozen introduced media types Sony finally has its moment of glory with their Blu-ray Disc format.
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Posted on Wed, 21 May 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Fujitsu Offers 250GB 2.5-inch SATA Drive with Continuous Operation
Most hard drives in typical desktop and notebook computers don’t operate continuously 24-hours per day around the clock. Even if you leave your computer on all the time for the majority of that time it is sitting idle and the disk isn’t being accessed.
In an enterprise environment servers run continuously and often the times of highest disk usage are late at night when most people are not using the network. Fujitsu announced two new 2.5-inch HDD series’ today aimed at continuous use environments called the Fujitsu 2.5" MHZ2-BK 7200 RPM and the 2.5" MHZ2-BS 5400 RPM SATA series. Both lines offer capacities up to 250 GB and are rated for 24-hour continuous use with availability in July 2008. Read more
Posted on Mon, 19 May 2008 12:24:02 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Western Digital Raptor 150GB 10K SATA HDD Review
Quote from the review: "Today Artiom looks at the famed Western Digital 150GB 10,000RPM SATA hard drive.
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Posted on Sat, 17 May 2008 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
OCZ SATA-II 32GB 2.5-Inch SSD OCZSSD2-1S32G Review
Benchmark Reviews published a test of the OCZ SATA-II 32GB 2.5-Inch SSD OCZSSD2-1S32G.
Quote from the review: "OCZ allowed us to test their first Solid State Drive product, the OCZSSD64GB, and while the pricing very affordable the performance wasn't so impressive. Now just a short three months later, OCZ has returned with one of the industries very first SATA-II SSD products, the OCZSSD2.
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Posted on Wed, 14 May 2008 00:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Satan, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton among favorite Source Code Search Terms
Source Code Search engine Krugle released some fun statistics one what developers search in Java source code. It is not all j2me, hadoop and swing. For some reason developers also search for celebs, like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
Satan is apparently way more popular than the scandal celebrities mentioned above.
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Posted on Sun, 4 May 2008 23:18:01 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
MTRON PRO 32GB 2.5 inch SATA SSD Review
Tweaktown published a review of the MTRON PRO 32GB 2.5” SATA SSD.
Quote from the review: "I recently took the MTRON MOBI 3.5 inch desktop SSD for a test drive and found the performance of the latest SSDs to be breathtaking, but costly. At this time, SSD for the desktop feels like a long way away due to high costs, but there is one market that is adopting the technology at a rapid rate.
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Posted on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Sharkoon SATA QuickPort PRO HDD Docking Station
Sharkoon introduces the SATA QuickPort PRO hard-drive docking station.
In case you are too lazy to mount your SATA hard-drives inside your PC case the Sharkoon SATA QuickPort PRO is for you.
The Sharkoon SATA QuickPort PRO is providing direct and simple access to uninstalled hard drives and also includes a front mounted 2-port USB hub and a SD/SDHC/MMC/MS memory card reader.
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Posted on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
MTRON MOBI 64GB SATA Solid State Disk Review
Tweaktown published a review about the MTRON MOBI 64GB SATA Solid State Disk.
Quote from the SSD Review: "Several years ago in a thread posted within a storage section of a popular forum, I learned of the fabled RAM Drive. This was several years before the GIGABYTE product of the same name, back when using memory as a storage device was more of a fable, or story of myth. At the time, no one had ever actually seen a RAM Drive, or at least not anyone tooling around in forums. This wasn’t because they didn’t exist, it is just that they cost more than a Honda Civic.
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Posted on Wed, 9 Apr 2008 22:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
QNAP TS-409 Pro 4-Drive SATA Gigabit NAS Review
Benchmark Reviews tested the QNAP TS-409 Pro 4-Drive SATA Gigabit NAS.
Quote from the review: "Times are a little tough right now for many small business owners, so any product that offers to save them money while still performing every function they require is sure to interest many of them. The task of providing an affordable product, that cuts overhead yet still performs up to par is not any easy undertaking. Most small businesses today have at least some level of data storage needs.
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Posted on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Samsung 64GB SATA II SSD
Samsung is the first company in the industry to sample 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64GB solid state drives (SSD) with a SATA (Serial ATA) II/native SATA interface.
The 64GB SATA II SSD sports a sequential write speed of 100Megabyte per second (MBps) and sequential read speed of 120MBps. Samsung aims the FlashSSD drive towards notebook PCs, corporate servers, and other high-performance storage applications.
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Posted on Mon, 5 Nov 2007 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Seagate Momentus ST9160823ASG 7200.2 160GB SATA Notebook Hard Drive Review
Today we are looking at the Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160GB notebook hard drive. This drive is as fast as notebook hard drives get right now and has good storage space for your music and files.
Installing the drive into my MacBook was easy and the drive performed very well in benchmarks and real world use. If you want to get more storage space and more performance from your notebook, the Momentus 160GB HDD is a great choice. Read more
Posted on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:53:04 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
LG GSA-H62N SATA Dual Layer DVD-Writer Review
PCStats reviewed the LG GSA-H62N SATA Dual Layer DVD-Writer.
Quote from the review: "Serial ATA optical drives are now readily available, and the timing couldn't be better as motherboards are quickly loosing the last vestiges of the IDE connector. Parallel IDE has been on the outs forever, but optical drives have only recently adopted SATA to replace it. For the longest time Plextor was the only optical drive manufacturer that offered SATA DVD and CD-ROM drives.
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Posted on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
VIZO Uranus URA-350SA eSATA and USB Hard Drive Enclosure Review
Future Looks reviews the VIZO Uranus URA-350SA eSATA and USB Hard Drive Enclosure.
Quote from the review: "Got a Spare hard drive laying around? No more room in that crammed-full case? Look no further, VIZO has come up with yet another option for those spare hard drives!
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Posted on Tue, 7 Aug 2007 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
PQI Announces 256GB 2.5in SATA SSD
PQI has announced a whopping 256GB SSD based on a 2.5” form factor using a SATA interface. The SSD is said to transfer data at a mere 60 mb/s, but hopefully the lower seek times and power requirements will make up for that.
There is no official price released for the drive at this time, but if you consider that the PQI 32GB SSD goes for a price of $1500, you can get an idea of the cost likely associated with the 256GB version. Read more
Posted on Wed, 30 May 2007 18:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Seagate 500GB eSATA External Hard Drive Review
External hard drives are great for portable storage needs, but often you have to trade speed for that portability. Seagate has an external drive that is as close as you will get to internal drive speeds that uses the eSATA interface.
The subject of this review is the Seagate eSATA 500GB External Hard Drive. Seagate includes a PCI eSATA card for users who don’t have an on-board eSATA part and the required cable. Read more
Posted on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:31:43 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
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