Storage

by Rafael Hernandez on April 9, 2012 · 0 comments

The Corsair Force Series GT 180GB SSD has a lot of things going for it. At 180GB of storage space it provides a healthy amount of room for your operating system, swap file, and a number of applications which you want to load near instantaneously. There’s its rated 555 MB/s read and 525 MB/s write speeds […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 6, 2012 · 0 comments

Synology’s Diskstation DS212 NAS slots into an interesting point when you consider many network attached storage solutions come in at a higher price and are geared towards the small office crowd. The Diskstation DS212 keeps things reasonable by limiting itself to two hard drives, which you must supply yourself of course, but supplies two USB 3.0 […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 12, 2011 · 0 comments

The Patriot Pyro SE solid state drive sounds like some high end storage device that is ridiculously overpriced and out of reach but, interestingly, it can be had for quite a bit less than you’d imagine yet still put out impressive numbers. The drive comes in three sizes with the middle of the pack 120GB […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 11, 2011 · 0 comments

At some point you’re going to get tired of loading up hard drives in your PC and keeping your machines on just so you can share data over your network something like the QNAP TS-419P II network attached storage plugs into your network and allows you to load up four hard drives in a number of […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 27, 2011 · 0 comments

The Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB 5400RPM hard drive is a peppy little number for the notebook toting people out there. It’s not the speed demon that a solid state drive is but its storage density and small platter size means it can speed through most normal mobile workloads while offering plenty of space for both […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 8, 2011 · 0 comments

The Kingston USB 3.0 Media Reader makes you realize how much time you’ve wasted transferring those tens of thousands of images you’ve taken over the years. The reader accepts the usual CompactFlash, Secure Digital, microSD, and Memory Stick cards where its super fast interface makes a huge difference in read and write speeds should you have […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 19, 2011 · 0 comments

It’s going to be difficult to compare the relative performance of any product without having them on hand and that can get cost prohibitive very quickly if you’re dealing with Solid State Drives so be glad sites like ITShootOut takes the reigns on this sort of endeavor. They’ve taken a look at the G.Skill Phoenix […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 8, 2011 · 0 comments

Cards like the Areca ARC-1882i come into play when you have a huge need for healthy dosages of storage bandwidth. Of course in order to thoroughly test a solution you can just throw a laughable spindle based hard drive at it, you’re going to have to give it some juice to the tune of seven solid […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 31, 2011 · 0 comments

Count the OCZ Technology RevoDrive 3 X2 PCI-E 480GB SSD as something that’s out of reach for most people’s PC building budget… which doesn’t stop us from dreaming now does it? What you’re looking at is a fine selection of flash memory chips being accessed by a pair of SandForce memory controllers that work together to […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 4, 2011 · 0 comments

The current crop of solid state drives that are hitting the market have a hard time capturing people’s attention given the fact that most every model is capable of impressive speeds and they’re all at some sort of feature parity. Patriot’s Pyro 120GB SSD goes with the memorable naming scheme conjuring images of people with […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 10, 2011 · 0 comments

A new interface is all well and good but it seems like the market is flooded with USB3 flash drives that are high capacity which means a high price tag to go along with it. The Centon Rush 3.0 8GB USB3 Flash Drive is the smallest capacity available in the Rush range but it can muster […]

Read more Centon Rush 3.0 8GB USB3 Flash Drive brings speed in small sizes