A look at SSD performance in Windows Vista
Our last SSD round-up caused quite a stir for using an older test system with Windows XP. We've now explored SSD performance on more current hardware with Vista x64 SP2, and you might be surprised by the results. Read more...
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A quick look at Western Digital's latest My Book NAS
While enthusiasts may be comfortable rolling their own home file servers, network-attached storage devices make more sense for mainstream users. We take WD's latest My Book NAS for a spin to see what it's like. Read more...
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Five 2.5-inch hard drives at 500GB
For about the same cost as a 32GB SSD, you can pick up a 2.5" notebook drive that offers a whopping 500GB of storage capacity. We've collected five such drives from Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, and WD to find out which is best. Read more...
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A closer look at fresh versus used SSD performance
The block rewrite penalty inherent to flash memory has interesting performance implications for SSDs. As we've discovered, some SSD controllers cope much better than others when facing well-used drives. Read more...
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A six pack of solid-state drives compared
Intel shook the SSD world when it introduced the X25-M last year. So how does the market look today? We've gathered six SSDs from Corsair, OCZ, Samsung, Super Talent, and Transcend and pitted them against the X25-M's latest firmware to find out, with interesting results. Read more...
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Seagate's Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive
Seagate's Barracuda 7200.12 hits the terabyte mark using just two 500GB platters—and it spins them at a full 7,200 RPM. Join us to see whether this combination of a high areal density and fast spindle speed makes the latest 'cuda a capable all-around performer. Read more...
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Last by indeego at 11:43 AM on 03/09/09 -
Western Digital's Caviar Green 2TB hard drive
Western Digital's latest Caviar Green is the world's first 2TB hard drive. But does it live up to the GreenPower standard of silent operation, low power consumption, and solid performance? We've run one through its paces to find out. Read more...
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A look at four X25-E Extreme SSDs in RAID
Intel's X25-E Extreme SSD is easily the fastest flash drive on the market. Heck, it's just about the quickest 32GB you can plug into a SATA port. Read on to see what happens when you hook four of them up to a hardware RAID controller in a striped array. Read more...
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Last by indeego at 3:21 PM on 05/20/09 -
ACard's ANS-9010 Serial ATA RAM disk
We haven't heard much about RAM disks since Gigabyte's i-RAM, but now ACard has one that supports up to 64GB of DDR2 memory, has dual SATA ports, and even sports a CF slot for backups. Keep reading to see how it fares against the fastest SSDs around. Read more...
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Last by blubje at 11:18 AM on 06/17/09 -
A quick look at Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda firmware update
Seagate broke the terabyte barrier with a 1.5TB version of its Barracuda 7200.11, but soon after its release, users of the drive started experiencing random freezing. A firmware update has since corrected the issue, and we've taken it for a quick spin to see if there's a performance hit. Read more...
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Last by issa2000 at 7:25 AM on 01/25/09 -
Hitachi's Deskstar E7K1000 hard drive
Hitachi has updated its terabyte Deskstar with a new model that packs 334GB per platter. The E7K1000 is optimized for enterprise, promising solid performance with low power consumption. Read on to see if it delivers. Read more...
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Last by Meadows at 3:36 PM on 01/06/09 -
Intel's X25-E Extreme solid-state drive
Intel's new X25-E Extreme SSD reads at 250MB/s, writes at 170MB/s, has near-instantaneous seek times, and may very well be the fastest drive you can plug into a standard Serial ATA port. Read on to see it blow away mechanical hard drives, other SSDs, and even our own expectations. Read more...
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Last by indeego at 8:03 PM on 04/13/09 -
Western Digital's Caviar Green hard drive
Western Digital has updated its eco-friendly Caviar Green with new 333GB platters and 32MB of cache. Keep reading to see whether these upgrades make the GreenPower terabyte faster and more power-efficient than its forebear. Read more...
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Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive
Seagate's latest Barracuda 7200.11 is the first hard drive to reach 1.5 terabytes. With 375GB platters, it should be pretty quick, too. Join us as we pit the latest capacity milestone against a collection of the fastest, highest capacity Serial ATA drives on the market. Read more...
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