SATA 6G 6.0 Gb/s Performance Preview - Seagate XT Drive Tested
Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-29 15:31:21 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Author: Ryan Shrout @ Hot Hardware
SATA 6G technology is being paraded around by motherboard manufacturers as one of the main reasons to upgrade your motherboard in the coming months but do the advantages really make the upgrade worthwhile? And how do these current SATA 6G implementations actually work? We look at the ASUS P7P55D Premium and an early sample of a Seagate SATA 6.0 Gb/s hard drive to see how the hype stands up.
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Intel X-25M G2 SSD "TRIM" Firmware Pulled Due to Data Corruption Problems
Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-28 14:19:42 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Data corruption once again strikes Intel's SSDs
By Brandon Hill @ DailyTech
It seems as though Intel just can't catch a break with its new X-25M G2 solid state drives (SSDs). Shortly after launching the drives in late July, Intel had to suspend shipments of the drives due to a data corruption problem. A firmware update was issued to correct the problem for drives that managed to make it to customers.
Since that time, those that did want to purchase one of the new G2 drives have been having a hard time finding the drives in stock. Companies like Newegg are low on stock of the 80GB model and Amazon shows a 1-2 month wait period for the drives.
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Review: Intel X25-M 'G2' SSD TRIM Edition
Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-26 16:10:17 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Today Intel announced on the release of a Intel Solid-State Drive (SSD) Toolbox which includes the SSD Optimizer application and a new firmware for the 34nm NAND-equipped X25-M models.
To see the performance of Intel's SSDs with the new firmware check out the articles posted at the links provided below.
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Review: Seagate FreeAgent DockStar NAS Device
Posted by Donster on: 2009-10-23 16:07:30 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Daniel A. Begun @ HotHardware
Network-attached storage (NAS) devices come in all shapes and sizes; some even come without hard drives--with the intention that the users will add the drives themselves. There is even a relatively new category of NAS devices that don't have any internal drives at all, and instead use USB-attached drives as their storage source. Now a big name in the storage business, Seagate, has jumped onto this bandwagon and released its own USB drive-based NAS device, the Seagate FreeAgent DockStar.
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Review: OCZ Agility EX SSD 60GB (SLC)
Posted by Donster on: 2009-09-25 16:54:29 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Allan Campbell @ DriverHeaven
OCZ have just released their latest Agility EX drive which differs from anything we have reviewed in the past because it is the first SLC based SSD drive aimed at a price point to target the mass enthusiast market. While Single Level cell (SLC) and Multi Level Cell (MLC) are similar in design, MLC flash costs considerably less to produce and allow for higher storage density. The benefits with SLC flash drives are that they provide faster write performance and greater reliability
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Review: OCZ Agility SSD 120GB
Posted by Donster on: 2009-08-06 16:35:18 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Hilbert Hagedoorn @ GURU3D
The OCZ Agility series SSD is an accumulation of all the latest breakthroughs in SSD technology, including controller design, spiffy read/write speeds, and 64MB of onboard cache, yet with this series, at a somewhat better price. See, by doing so OCZ shaves another 20 to 25% off the sales price.
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*DO NOT* set a BIOS HDD password on your X25-M G2
Posted by Donster on: 2009-07-27 15:56:52 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Source: PC Perspective
***Public Service Announcement***
Intel has informed me of a bug in the X25-M G2 shipping firmware (02G2). This bug is specific to setting a hard drive password in your BIOS. If you have set a BIOS HDD password, then subsequently change or disable that password, the SSD may become inoperable. Intel is correcting the issue in firmware and will be posting a fix shortly. In summary:
DO NOT set a BIOS HDD password on an X25-M G2. If you already have, DO NOT CHANGE OR DISABLE the BIOS HDD password. It will be safe to do either of the above once the X25-M G2 is flashed to a newer firmware to be released by Intel shortly. Firmware, when available, can be reached by this not-yet-live link.
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Review: Seagate Replica PC Backup System
Posted by Donster on: 2009-06-25 15:37:37 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Michael Brown @ Digital Trends
Hard drive failure is inevitable, and if you’re not backing up your PC on a regular basis, you’re running the risk of losing all the music, digital photos, documents, and everything else that’s stored on it. It’s a fact. It’s also a fact that most of us don’t back up our hard drives because it’s a royal pain. Who has the time? Besides, when was the last time your hard drive actually failed?
Stop making excuses though, pick up a Seagate Replica, and enjoy the peace of mind that comes with knowing your data is protected.
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IN WIN Ammo 2.5 inch SATA HDD Enclosure with RFID - Full Video Review
Posted by Donster on: 2009-06-10 16:41:32 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Author: Cameron Wilmot @ TweakTown
In our first ever full video review, today we take a close look at IN WIN's Ammo 2.5 inch external SATA HDD enclosure, which comes with RFID hardware data security. Watch the video via the link below for the full review.
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Review: Windows 7 Hard Drive and SSD Performance Analyzed
Posted by Donster on: 2009-05-28 15:27:27 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Chris Connolly @ HotHardware
Windows 7 is undoubtedly the most exciting new operating system to come out of Microsoft within the past decade--and with good reason. The user interface is superb, gone are many of the oddball Vista quirks, and the operating system is light and snappy, marking a massive 180 degree shift away from the heaviness and bloat of Vista. Despite the fact that it's based on many of the same core Vista elements, Windows 7 is a different beast, and should be looked at in a fresh new light.
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Burned, Dropped, Drowned: HDD Recovery In Pictures
Posted by Donster on: 2009-05-11 14:40:33 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Chris Angelini @ Tom's Hardware
On June 12, 2008, Cedar Rapids School District Print Shop was given four short hours to prepare for the impending flood of water heading in their direction. With the deadline looming, shop supervisor Robin Rieke was instructed to “put anything of value on top of furniture that was at least three feet off the floor and evacuate everyone from the building.” For extra safety, she placed all the shop’s computers on surfaces five feet and above.
Surely you can already guess what happens next.
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Review: New Desktop Hard Drives - Speed Or Capacity?
Posted by Donster on: 2009-04-21 14:59:04 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
New HDDs With 500 GB Per Platter (500 GB To 2 TB)
By Patrick Schmid & Achim Roos @ THG
Today we're testing and dissecting Samsung’s Spinpoint F2, Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.12, and WD’s 2 TB Caviar Green. They all hold 500 GB of data per platter, but the similarities stop there. Which one works best for you?
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Article: Accelerate Your Hard Drive By Short Stroking
Posted by Donster on: 2009-03-06 15:55:32 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Patrick Schmid & Achim Roos @ THG
Do you think that flash SSDs will take over the enterprise HDD segment soon? Not so fast! We looked at how hard drive I/O performance can be improved by shortening mechanical activity, via a process called “short stroking.”
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Review: Sunnytek ST-2320 S/UESR Two Bay Hard Drive Enclosure
Posted by Donster on: 2009-02-25 15:07:15 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Article by: Nathan Glentworth @ Tweaknews
With storage being so cheap and accessible these days, more and more companies are releasing portable enclosures. Tweaknews has reviewed several hard drive enclosures from manufacturers well known in the enthusiast community, but today's review item comes from a company called Sunnytek. You may not have heard of them, but they specialize in storage products ranging from mobile racks to backplanes to external storage units. The latter is what I have on my desk for review – specifically the ST-2320 S/UESR dual-bay enclosure. It can accommodate two SATA hard drives and several different configurations including RAID 0/1 and JBOD. You have your choice of using USB 2.0 or the faster eSATA interface as well. Let's take a closer look and see what other features it offers.
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Throw Your Hard Drive Away - Google's Gdrive Arriving in 2009
Posted by Donster on: 2009-01-20 15:39:25 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Christian Zibreg @ TG Daily
Google Drive, or Gdrive as it is better known, has to be the most anticipated Google product so far. When it arrives, Gdrive will likely cause a major paradigm shift in how we use computers and bring Google one step closer to dethroning Windows on your desktop.
The service has the potential to eclipse even Gmail, Google's second best-known product after their google.com search engine. That said, it's no wonder users have been ripe with anticipation for years - yes, that's how long the rumors have persisted. Gdrive is basically online storage where Google servers have enough capacity to hold the entire contents of your hard drive. It will likely also come with enough brains to do cool tricks now with bigger things down the road - like booting your computer from online drive to load the Google operating system.
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Review: Kingwin EZ-Dock Hard Drive Dock
Posted by Donster on: 2008-12-11 16:19:59 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Written By: Diceman @ Virtual-Hideout
We've reviewed a ton of Kingwin Products here at VH over the years and we've generally been satisfied with all their products. Today I have for you one of their new products called the EZ-Dock Hard Drive Dock. It's a data backup product that's extremely easy to use by simply sticking a hard drive in it's top (vertically) and powering up. No more with unscrewing a bunch of screws to get to the hard drive and worrying about hard drive cooling because it's stuck inside some enclosure. With the EZ-Dock, the hard drive is flapping in the breeze and always ready to snatch up and go at a moments notice.
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Review: iStarUSA xAGE-902 Dual HDD Docking Station
Posted by Donster on: 2008-11-20 16:07:44 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Author: erocker @ techPowerUp!
iStarUSA has a new dock to add to their large stable of HDD docks, rackmount chassis, and other enclosures. The xAGE-902 Dual HDD Docking Station features a dual HDD design and no-nonsense looks. Look and see why iStarUSA's latest offering may be your next HDD docking solution.
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Review: A Tale Of Two VelociRaptors
Posted by Donster on: 2008-11-12 16:25:53 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Author: Adrian Wong @ Tech ARP
The Western Digital VelociRaptor is an amazingly fast hard disk drive. Targeted at the blade server and enthusiast markets, this Serial ATA hard disk drive not only delivers incredibly fast seek times and throughput, it also does it in a compact 2.5" form factor.
Western Digital offers three versions of the VelociRaptor - BLFS, HLFS and GLFS. The BLFS is the compact form of the VelociRaptor, designed to fit 2.5" mounts. However, it will not fit into notebook drive bays because it's much thicker than 2.5" hard disk drives.
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Hands-on With The Fusion-io SSD, 13 World of Warcraft Windows in 36 Seconds
Posted by Donster on: 2008-10-06 16:20:57 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Humphrey Cheung @ TG Daily
We finally got some hands on time with the Fusion-io solid state drive and it definitely doesn’t disappoint. This PCI Express card contains 160 gigabytes and up of insanely fast flash memory and will turn your computer into a monstrous photo and video editing beast. But beyond work, this card will do wonders for World of Warcraft multi-boxers as we were able to load up thirteen instances of WoW in just 36 seconds. Talk about controlling a small army from a single computer and flash card.
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Review: ICY DOCK Internal SATA HDD Enclosure with LCD Display
Posted by Donster on: 2008-10-06 16:09:19 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Author: Richard Bradford @ Bjorn3D
ICY DOCK introduces a quick and easy way to manage external hard drives with the MB672SKGF-B Internal SATA HDD Enclosure. With an LCD screen, built-in temperature monitoring and a locking door, ICY DOCK brings an affordable and secure hot-swap solution to the table. Join us as we take a closer look to determine if the MB672SKGF-B deserves a spot inside your computer case.
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Review: VIDEO – Intel's New Solid State Drive
Posted by Donster on: 2008-09-25 16:13:30 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Author: Kyle Bennett @ HardOCP
A lot of smart people have said a lot of smart things about Intel's new 80GB Solid State Drive recently sampled to the media. But some of the basic questions I had on my mind were left unchecked, like, “Is it really faster, or is that just what HDTach tells you on a graph?” We get out the stop watch and a 5-disk RAID array and go to town.
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Hard Drive Versus Thermite
Posted by Donster on: 2008-09-17 16:00:00 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Source: HARDOCP
Hack-a-Day has come up with a rather impressive way of destroying the data on your old hard drive….use Thermite! This video is a compilation of smaller videos and still pictures of hard drives being melted, hit the link for the full article and lots of pictures. WARNING!!! DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME KIDDIES!
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Review: Intel X25-M Solid State Drive
Posted by Donster on: 2008-09-08 16:42:28 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Intel announced today the launch of its Intel X18-M and X25-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives (SSDs). Click on the links below and check out what the reviewers have to say about Intel's latest offerings.
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Review: Thermaltake Vi-On SATA/USB2.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure
Posted by Donster on: 2008-09-05 15:04:36 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
Article by: Jackie Mueller @ TweakNews
With storage becoming cheaper as time goes on, there's a good chance that one might find themselves with an extra internal hard drive lying around. When the need for portable storage arises it's easy enough to just buy an external hard drive, but a cheaper option would be to give the internal HDD a new home and turn it into a mobile storage device. This can be accomplished by using an enclosure such as Thermaltake's Vi-On which will be the focus of today's review. With anti-vibration features and an active SMART cooling fan, it aims to provide a quiet, cool housing for any internal 3.5” SATA HDD. I've got a spare drive ready to go, so let's get it installed and see how this product performs.
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Review: Four-Way SSD Round-Up, OCZ, Super Talent, Mtron
Posted by Donster on: 2008-09-04 15:13:53 in category: Drives & Storage News [ Print ]
By Dave Altavilla @ Hot Hardware
On the following pages, we thought we'd level-set the features, performance and pricing landscape for you with respect to the current state of SSDs. In the coming weeks you'll see a major release from Intel for their new SSD offering as well, so we'll be sure to return to this equation again in the near future. For now, we have a look at four different SSD offerings, two from OCZ, one from Mtron and another from Super Talent. Is a Solid State Disk in your future? We'll try to help you answer that question in this full performance evaluation and showcase.
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