The Solid State Drive upgrade is one of the best performance improvements you could make to a PC but it’s not exactly cost-effective especially when you have to balance between performance and storage sizes in order to stay in budget. Intel’s 320 Series 120GB SSD offers ample space for your operating system and a number […]
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Apple’s MacBook Air is one of the sleekest and thinnest ultraportable notebooks on the market, unfortunately that slim profile doesn’t exactly allow for room to expand its storage capabilities so you’ll have to rely on some unconventional methods… at least for an Apple user. The OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express is a Solid State Drive […]
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Despite the fact that we live in an age where the bulk of our information and data storage needs comes from the Internet PC case manufacturers insist on piling on more and more optical drive bays which serve no purpose, to most people, other than taking up space. Enter the Icy Dock B994SP-4S Quad HDD Cage […]
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Getting the best out of your storage system means steering clear of on-board solutions and going with an add-on card that lets you harness the power of a much speedier interface. The LSI MegaRAID 9265-8i supports Serial Attached SCSI setups and 6Gb/s SATA drives in very handy RAID configurations across a nice and wide PCI […]
If you don’t know of the tremendous speed benefits a solid state drive can bring to your PC you’ve probably been living under a rock. While the first generation of drives showed impressive capabilities the latest round of drives being shipped are tearing up the performance charts spearheaded by the Intel 510 series of SSDs […]
The bulk of solid state drives tend to go for a small form factor because their internal guts don’t take up much room at all but there’s a small inconvenience when it comes time to mount one in a desktop computer which means using adapter bays and other unsightly gadgets. The OCZ Technology Vertex 2 […]
The problem with some computing gear is that its “go fast” moments tend to happen under favorable conditions or when cache lets it do its thing much quicker which, unfortunately, isn’t always possible. The Samsung 470 Series Solid State Drives are built for speed and, interestingly, keep their composure even in situations where other SSDs […]
Solid State Drives can’t be judged by their pretty box art nor can you expect any sort of reference design to base expectations on so digging into the details is about the only way to know which models are worth it. The new G.Skill Phoenix Pro SSDs come out of nowhere and perch themselves at […]
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A slow PC can usually be attributed to a weak storage system that can’t pump data out fast enough for today’s top-end processors and graphics cards…interestingly two technologies can solve that without having you crack open your PC. The Kingston HyperX Max 3.0 128GB USB 3 SSD drive crams a solid state drive and USB […]
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People’s performance needs vary greatly so while someone might need the fastest, and most expensive, video cards or processors you might need fast storage to speed up your particular applications. The OCZ RevoDrive X2 PCI-Express SSD cobbles together 4 separate flash controllers and addresses them in a RAID 0 configuration packed into a PCI Express […]
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Network storage comes in a dizzying array of flavors all of which come with a hefty price tag if you want something that will accept your information in a timely fashion…or at least that used to be the case. The Synology Disk Station DS211 supports a pair of hard drives, which is the right size […]
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