Taking EZ DUB for a test spin
Subject: Storage | April 6, 2006 - 04:06 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Techware Labs tries out the newest drive from Lite-On, the EZ-DUB. Essentially it is postioned to be the easiest way to copy a CD or DVD, simply put a disk in the external drive, press a button ... wait ... remove disk and replace with blank disk ... wait again, and you are done.
Introduction and Theory
Gigabyte showed off a low-cost solid state storage device at Computex last year and we finally take it for a test spin. See if this device can make all your storage dreams come true!
8GB of storage for your favorite shutterbug
Subject: Storage | April 3, 2006 - 02:45 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Futurelooks reviews an 8 gigabyte compact flash compatible photo storage micro hard drive from Seagate Technologies. This card would seem to be the current record holder for biggest commercially available flash card, and there is no way you could fill it in just one sitting. If you know someone with 4 or 5 small flash cards for their camera, then you may know what to get them the next time they deserve a present.
"Sitting in a beautiful brand new plastic blister package was an 8 gigabyte compact flash
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Seagate provides you with some space
Subject: Storage | March 30, 2006 - 02:39 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Seagate NL35 comes in 3 sizes, 250, 400 and 500GBs. XYZ Computing grabbed the 400GB SATA version and took it for a spin. As the drive was designed for enterprise applications, it makes perfect sense as a storage drive, the MTBF is 1 million hours and an error recovery control.
If you are more interested in speed than size, then check out Ryan's review of the WD Raptor X 150GB SATA drive.
Introduction and Specifications
Western Digital's Raptor line of SATA hard drives has been the darling of the enthusiast storage community for quite some time. Their latest iteration brings twice the storage capacity and faster transfer speeds -- what else do you want?
Balancing a stack of data on a spinning platter
Subject: Storage | March 28, 2006 - 12:09 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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BTX Form Factor explores the upcoming hard drive technology, perpendicular storage. By keeping the magnetic particles used for storage standing vertically instead of lying them on the surface, much greater storage density can be reached. This requires a new manufacturing process that they briefly touch on as well.
"Hard Disk Drives store all our most valuable data, our contacts, email, family photos and the
like, but increasingly space is getting cramped in drives...
Heavy duty disk storage on the go
Subject: Storage | March 24, 2006 - 02:40 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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TECHGAGE looks at the biggest and fastest 2.5 HDD from Seagate, the Momentus 5400.3 160GB. Living out of a laptop is becoming more common, and this drive looks to address almost any storage need, without forcing you to carry around external drives in your bag.
If you demand to be mobile and still have the hard drive space you need, then you should look at
the Seagate Momentus 5400.3.
Plextor tries out NAS for size
Subject: Storage | March 16, 2006 - 01:08 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Plextor 250GB Network Attached Storage device is based around a 250GB Hitachi RoHS drive which features a 7,200 rpm spindle speed and an 8MB cache, more than enough for the 100BaseT interface (ie. Cat5e). Read the full review at Ben's Custom Cases to learn about all the tricks the included software can do, from easy backups to running an FTP server.
"Curiosity has been known to kill a cat, and one day it may just get me.
Intel's Robson aims to speed up harddrives
Subject: Storage | March 13, 2006 - 02:51 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Extremetech is sharing some info they have gathered about Intel's upcoming chipset add-on, Robson. It will be a flash based "intelligent" prefetcher, and will attempt to store some of the required data between the HDD and the CPU, in an attempt to reduce latency.
"Intel proposes that the flash memory cache should be located on the motherboard. It's unclear
whether it should be permanently installed or could be another type of memory socket.
Going on a RAID
Subject: Storage | March 8, 2006 - 02:21 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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If you have never set up a RAID, for whatever reason, Bjorn3D has posted the first article (of 3) for you. No longer do you have to spend $1000's on HDDs, or find a RAID controller card to set one up. Once you have mastered the basics, you may be amazed how easy it is.
"The use of RAID, a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, up until a few years ago was pretty much
limited to servers and high end workstations; this was primarily due to the cost of the controller
and the accompanying hard drives.
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