Storage
Sabrent's lineup of internal and external SSDs is popular among enthusiasts. The primary reason is the company's tendency to be among the first to market with products based on the latest controllers, while also delivering an excellent value proposition. The company has a long-standing relationship with Phison and adopts its controllers for many of their products. The company's 2 GBps-class portable SSD - the Rocket nano V2 - is based on Phison's U18 native controller. Read on for a detailed look at the Rocket nano V2 External SSD, including an analysis of its performance consistency, power consumption, and thermal profile.
Infrant Technologies’ ReadyNAS NV: Enterprise Features, Desktop Footprint
With personal storage becoming even more important nowadays, many smaller companies are producing solutions for the mainstream home and small office user to archive their most precious data. Take...
14 by Purav Sanghani on 3/17/2006Western Digital WD1500ADFD: King Raptor
Our first look at Western Digital's third-generation Raptor.
52 by Gary Key on 2/8/2006Ricoh EncryptEase: CD-R Password Protection Made Easy
Ricoh's EncryptEase media allows password protection and compression on a normal 650MB CD-R with no extra software. Take a look at how it works.
19 by Purav Sanghani on 2/7/2006Seagate 7200.9 160GB: The Highest Platter Density to Date!
Before Seagate jumps in to manufacturing drives using the perpendicular magnetic recording, it takes a stab at boosting current platter densities. Take a look at their 7200.9 model with...
24 by Purav Sanghani on 1/31/2006Flash Media: 1GB CompactFlash Roundup
With digital photography, personal audio, and personal digital assistants in full force these days, we look at one type of flash media to accompany these devices for added storage...
24 by Purav Sanghani on 12/23/2005Hitachi vs. Western Digital vs. Seagate: A Battle of the Mammoths
We promised a 3-way comparison between Hitachi’s 500GB 7K500, Western Digital’s 400GB WD4000YR, and Seagate’s 7200.9 500GB drive and we keep to our promises. Take a look at how...
46 by Purav Sanghani on 12/2/2005AXIOMTEK ExBoot 80GB External Storage
AXIOMTEK, a 15-year-old storage solution company, takes on the desktop market of storage devices with their ExBoot line of 3.5" external hard drives.
7 by Purav Sanghani on 11/10/2005Sony DRU-810A: New Chipset, New Performance
After looking at the last few Sony drives at our labs, the above average performance of the DRU-810A was pleasantly unexpected!
18 by Purav Sanghani on 10/28/2005Seagate 7200.9 500GB: Mouthwatering Benchmarks
After the October 10, 2005 announcement of the new 7200.9 line from Seagate, we have our hands on the 500GB SATA model and ran it through our desktop drive benchmarks.
46 by Purav Sanghani on 10/24/2005Introducing Seagate's 7200.9: The New Generation
Seagate officially introduces the long awaited 7200.9 series of hard disk drives, including their 500GB competition to Hitachi. Take a peek at Seagate's latest offerings!
72 by Purav Sanghani on 10/10/2005Seagate 120GB External Storage
Seagate has a line of external drives meant for personal desktop uses. We take the 120GB version of their storage-only device and run it through our external storage tests.
14 by Purav Sanghani on 9/29/2005Pioneer DVR-110D: Dual Layer Double Time!
Pioneer keeps up with the DVDR market with the DVR-110D and its updated dual layer write speeds.
20 by Purav Sanghani on 9/15/2005AcomData E5 320GB External Desktop Storage: Slap on another
Why should we limit ourselves to internal storage devices when the same high capacities can be had in a portable case? AcomData has squeezed 320GB of hard disk space...
19 by Purav Sanghani on 8/27/2005Plextor PX-740A
We take a look at the inner workings and performance of Plextor's newest dual layer DVD writer.
30 by Purav Sanghani on 8/2/2005Gigabyte's i-RAM: Affordable Solid State Storage
After seeing it at Computex, we were intrigued. And now, we've had a week to play with Gigabyte's new i-RAM. How does 4GB of solid state storage fare...
134 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/25/2005High Density Storage Technologies; Pixie Dust and Perpendicular Recording
With current hard disk capacities inching toward their ceiling, R&D teams from the big name manufacturers have come up with a new technologies to write data to the platter...
13 by Purav Sanghani & Kristopher Kubicki on 7/19/2005Summer 2005 16x DVDR Roundup
The new generation of 16x DVDR drives are here, now with -R DL write capabilities and updated DVD+/-RW write capabilities. Take a look at how 6 drives perform.
54 by Purav Sanghani on 7/12/2005SATA II to the Power of 3.0Gb/sec: Three Drives Reviewed
The SATA International Organization's 3.0Gbps updates finally show up in retail drives; see how they perform in our benchmark filled review of offerings from Hitachi, Samsung, and Western Digital.
52 by Purav Sanghani on 6/25/2005What's in a name? SATA II Misconceptions
Should you be worried that your next SATA hard drive might not feature the data rates or features you had anticipated? The SATA Organization attempts to clairify some...
17 by Kristopher Kubicki on 6/20/2005Seagate Barracuda 7200.8: 400GBs with NCQ
Seagate brings on its 400GB 7200.8 Barracuda mammoth with Native Command Queuing a year after Hitachi's 7K400 and Maxtor's MaXLine III with NCQ. Take a look at how the...
44 by Purav Sanghani on 4/20/2005
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