Storage

by Rafael Hernandez on May 19, 2009 · 0 comments

Since the advent of external USB storage devices, it’s been extremely easy to add storage to your computer without all of the popping open your case and cramming in the hard drive nonsense.Western Digital’s My Book Essential Edition 1TB USB…

Read more Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 2.0 1TB External USB Hard Drive Review (WD10000H1U-00/10EAVS)

by Rafael Hernandez on May 18, 2009 · 0 comments

If you were avoiding the initial batch of solid state drives we can’t blame you, they were expensive and unprovent technologies despite the promise of insane performance and durability. Thankfully there’s more competition, which has lead to lower prices, and…

Read more Solid State Drives, Fast and Slightly More Affordable

by Rafael Hernandez on May 13, 2009 · 0 comments

There was a time when every single component in a notebook computer was a generation or so behind what could be found on desktop computers, nowadays you’ll find feature parity in almost every category outside of the latest and greatest…

Read more Notebook SSD Upgrades, Are They Viable?

by Rafael Hernandez on May 12, 2009 · 0 comments

Solid state drives are quite speedy at what they do regularly trouncing spindle based hard drives of old quite easily much to the joy of PC enthusiasts everywhere. There are some things that it can’t do however and that is…

Read more Acard ANS-9010 RAMdisk Versus OCZ Vertex 30GB SSD, Plain Not Fair

by Pedro Hernandez on May 9, 2009 · 0 comments

As solid state drives (SSDs) appear in more notebooks and PCs in the coming years, Microsoft wants to make certain that Windows 7 is not only on speaking terms with the storage technology, but that the OS provides an optimized…

Read more Windows 7 Plays Nice with SSDs

by Rafael Hernandez on April 28, 2009 · 0 comments

The USB flash key has taken the place of the floppy drive as a ubiquitous storage medium that quickly gets outclassed by newer storage options…but at least it’s by other USB keys right? Real World Labs has a look at…

Read more USB Flash Drive Roundup, 'Cause You Can Never Have Enough

by Rafael Hernandez on April 27, 2009 · 0 comments

Cramming all of your information and easily accessing it over your network can be quite troublesome. You could go the dedicated computer server route but that would mean a large case, an operating system to support, and a RAID card…

Read more Thecus N7700 NAS, For Your Networked Storage Needs

by Rafael Hernandez on April 24, 2009 · 0 comments

Devastating floods, earthquakes, zombie apocalypse, all perfect examples why you should have a flash drive suited to survive life’s harshest events. Corsair’s Flash Survivor has its own milled aluminum casing that’s water-resistant to 200 meters not to mention the…

Read more Corsair Flash Survivor, It'll Probably Outlast You

by Rafael Hernandez on April 22, 2009 · 0 comments

There you were, pining for your very own solid state drive, hoping against hope that their pricing would fall to a reasonable enough level. With time comes more competition so the day you have your very own SSD might be…

Read more Kingston SSDNow 80GB, The Floodgates Open

by Rafael Hernandez on April 22, 2009 · 0 comments

There comes a time when your system, or server’s, on-board storage solutions aren’t cutting it, and if you’re bound by the speed of your storage system that time is very evident once you load up your target applications.PC Perspective has…

Read more PC Perspective On The HighPoint RocketRaid 4310 SAS/SATA RAID Controller

by Rafael Hernandez on April 12, 2009 · 0 comments

The solid-state drive has a ton of benefits that users are clamoring for namely insanely high speeds, much improved reliability when it comes to bumping them around, and lower power usag. Unfortunately they’ve been on the pricier end of the…

Read more OCZ Vertex 120GB, The SSD Gets Cheaper