by Rafael Hernandez on July 6, 2009
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RAID storage setups have been, in the past, a good way to bump up your system’s storage performance. Given that platter based drives were the slowest component in a computer any added speed was always welcome when doing any sort…
Read more SSD Performance Scaling aka Is RAID Worth It
by Rafael Hernandez on July 2, 2009
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Solid state drives offer a very attractive performance increase over the old platter based hard drives of the past, unfortunately getting the most out of them isn’t as simple as plugging in the drive. Given the technology’s early state you’ll…
Read more Windows Vista and SSDs, A Case Study
by Rafael Hernandez on June 27, 2009
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If you thought that solid state drives were going to replace the platter as your storage method of choice DataSlide wants you to think twice. The company has designed a method whereby the old spinning platter is replaced by a…
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by Rafael Hernandez on June 10, 2009
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PhotoFast is stepping up their solid state drive offerings with new entries into the expresscard and 3.5″ drive markets. First up their new ExpressCard/54 solid state drive offers up:The new drive comes in 32, 48, and 64GB flavors, has a…
Read more PhotoFast ExpressCard / 3.5" G-Monster SATA SSDs Announced
by Pedro Hernandez on June 9, 2009
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Are you finding that 1 TB of external storage is a paltry amount of room for your data? Then Western Digital has you covered with the anything-but-svelte My Book Studio Edition II with up to 4 TB–that’s terabytesof storage. Aimed…
Read more Western Digital Takes My Book External Drive to 4 TB
by Rafael Hernandez on June 6, 2009
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Notebooks had been lagging desktops in storage capacit for quite a while barely storing as much data as the modern road warrior needs in order to get things done. That’s no longer the case as The Tech Report has a…
Read more 500GB 2.5" Hard Drive Roundup, the Tiny Get Bigger
by Pedro Hernandez on June 4, 2009
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Why bother mimicking hard drive form factors any more? TweakTown has video of InnoDisk’s tiny 128GB solid-state drive (SSD), the nanoSSD, and it is indeed puny (that’s it on the right). From what I can gather, write speeds can…
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by Rafael Hernandez on May 28, 2009
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Solid State Drives are based around a collection of somewhat quick flash memory modules corralled by a memory controller into a storage system that can trounce any spindle based hard drive ever made.If you have any doubts to this…
Read more Windows 7 SSD Performance Analysis, It's Peppy
by Rafael Hernandez on May 22, 2009
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There was a time when a network attached storage system would cost you an arm and a leg….and a foot. On top of it all the tiny expensive box usually came bare adding to the cost of entry.Enter Acer’s Aspire…
Read more Acer Aspire easyStore, Your Next NAS?