Sure you may know that solid state drives are fast but as with any technology a fair bit of familiarity with a product makes you take them for granted despite the fact that they are game changing products. Shame on you. Hardware Bistro reviewed the OCZ Agility 30GB SSD and runs it through the usual […]
Storage
The good old 2.5 inch hard drive is the king of mobile storage offering, nowadays at least, a good chunk of space to store your files, oddly enough it’s still difficult to get them mounted in your run of the mill ATX case. TestSeek has a look at the Icy Dock MB882 hard drive enclosure […]
Read more Icy Dock MB882, 2.5″ drives find a home
Cramming as many desktop drives into an enclosure and slapping an ethernet port on it is the usual route when you need some easily accessible storage on your network, unfortunately getting too many drives into an enclosure tends to make things a little over sized. In comes the Synology DS409slim NAS which does its work […]
You may have thought things were good, no great even. We finally got rid of the cable nightmare that was PATA and have a much better cable and signaling system in Serial ATA, unfortunately you’re standing in the way of…
Storage drives are getting all sorts of fine tuning for the green segment. While a single hard drive might not consume the sort of power that would change things dramatically the amount of power saved across a RAID array of…
Read more Western Digital 2TB Caviar, your choice of performance or energy saving
You’d think putting together an external storage solution would be simple right? Well considering the amount of heat a hard drive throws off and the general lack of cooling most enclosures provide you might be facing some premature drive failure…
Read more Sunbeam Airbox External Hard Drive Enclosure, cool off that beastly drive
The usual formula for a network attached storage enclosure has your drives safely cradled away in an oversized metal box with a rahter large fan in the back to pull all of the heat out. Effective? Yes, but not exactly…
Read more Patriot Corza, network attached storage goes small
Being the relatively new and high priced storage solution solid state drives will get an insane amount of attention until they truly go mainstream…which may take a while since their cost per GB is still a bit up there but…
Read more Solid State Drives Rounded Up and Tested, nothings changed still fast
You know the deal by now…solid state drives are fast, much faster than the conventional rotating platters of the past, but not all of them are created equal. There are differences in the differing controllers and flash chips they use…
If you’ve taken a good hard look at most small form factor cases and systems now a days you’ll not they’re making extensive usage of products found more commonly in notebooks. What was once considered underpowered is now highly sought…
Read more Panasonic UJ-875A Slot Load DVD Drive, for those going the Slim Route
Taking your data with you wherever you go gives you a great amount of freedom, of course the danger of losing or damaging that information comes along with that freedom. How exactly do you protect your storage when you’re constantly…
Read more In Win Ammo, Portable Ruggedized Encryption Storage Enclosure
