We should all be very well versed by now on just how fast solid state drives are compared to their spindle based ancestors, but how fast are they when compared to each other? Controller chips and flash memory modules differ…
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Crucial is widely known for their desktop and notebook memory products but the company isn’t content with simply storing your data on some volatile memory, oh no they’ve expanded to the solid state drive space in order to offer speedy…
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Getting some form of storage attached to your network, which is conveniently called Network Attached Storage, allows you to easily backup your files and share them with any other computer on your network. Getting that done in the past meant…
Read more Synology Disk Station DS409slim, DIY Network Attached Storage on the Cheap
Progress, it’s a good thing.In this case it’s a great thing as Kingston has announced that they’ve launched their new SSDNow V+ series of solid state drives. 64, 128, and 256GB drives are in their product plans with the 64GB…
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You have to feel some form of pity for the marketing types, the guys that decide what to call products and, eventually how to market them. There are only so many ways you can desribe something as worth purchasing. What…
Western Digital has announced that they’ve begun shipping their new lineup of WD Scorpio Blue 2.5" SATA hard drives. What makes them so special? Well they’re offering 750GB and 1TB storage sizes in a surprisingly small form factor which should…
Read more Western Digital Launches 1TB Notebook Hard Drive, Storage Abounds
Solid state drives are the current best path to improved PC performance. Its speed is great enough that it’ll cut down on application load time and make memory to disk swapping all the more bearable, unfortunately they cost about as…
Intel’s solid state drives have been some of the fastest consumer drives available although their pricing meant they were a bit of a reach for most people. The company has been working on that fact and has launched their new…
SATA 6.0 Gb/s storage controllers from Marvel have been having something of a hard time keeping themselves stable so the introduction of 600MB/s SATA ports on motherboards, specifically the major Intel P55 launch over the coming months, appears to be…
Read more SATA 6G Launch Delays, SSD Insanity Restrained a Little Longer
External hard drives are handy but most lack networking smarts. Hitachi wants to change that amid a flood of new product releases with the company’s clever SimpleTech SimpleNET adapter. Simply plug one or a pair of USB hard drives in…
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