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Memory technologies come and go…no wait we’re still stuck with the same basic volatile RAM our systems use and the flash based memory our gadgetry and solid state drives are based off of. Interestingly enough HP stumbled into a method for creating something of a hybrid that might one day improve performance. They’ve partnered up [...]
I’m all for cramming as much storage as possible into your PC but a large segment of the population can’t be bothered to pop open their desktops and it’s not like you can fit a 3.5″ hard drive into a notebook anyway so the external storage drive fits the bill quite nicely. The Seagate FreeAgent [...]
Read more Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 3TB will take an eternity to fill
Solid State Drives have been beneficial to general PC usage but bandwidth intensive tasks, such as database querying, requires a heftier set of hardware in order to work their magic even faster. Fusion-io’s PCI Express based storage cards offer an extreme amount of bandwidth and input/output operations per second, with an appropriate price tag to [...]
Read more Fusion-io ioMemory Module expands PCI Express storage
It was bound to happen sooner or later but we’re beginning to see Solid State Drives (SSD) begin the precipitous fall towards a price range where they’ll be easily adopted into PCs at large. If you’re not up on what these flash memory packed drives can do well just look around at the various examples [...]
Read more Solid State Drives start their march down the pricing ladder
The world of the solid state drive is a wild and confusing one with all manner of factors to take into account from the number of flash chips on the drive, which could cut effective bandwidth speeds should there be too few, to the flash controller and the firmware version it’s running. A tough set [...]
Read more OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSDs satiate your impatient side
Seagate today launched a new network attached storage (NAS) device for home networks called GoFlex Home, which resembles the company’s GoFlex external hard drive sitting atop a dock. Meant to plug into a wireless router, GoFlex Home — available in 1.5 TB and 2 TB capacities — provides convenient, centralized backup and file sharing for [...]
Read more Seagate Launches GoFlex Home Consumer NAS Hardware
Lian Li has just released a USB 3.0 hard drive/solid-state drive enclosure, so if you’ve been itching for a home for an external drive that will do justice to those break-neck data transfer speeds, read on… The computer casemaker’s EX-10Q, a $30, all-aluminum enclosure that supports 2.5-inch SATA I and II drives, can help snag [...]
Read more Lian Li has your USB 3.0 HDD/SDD enclosures right here
Keeping your Apple MacBook, or any computer for that matter, backed up is the best way to save yourself from an early death should your storage drive bail on you which, given the mobile nature of most Apple notebooks, is bound to happen sooner or later. Toshiba has launched its new Canvio for Mac portable [...]
Read more Toshiba Canvio for Mac extends your Apple storage space
The biggest barrier to jumping into the solid state drive owning populace is the cost of entry. Of course you could go for the less expensive models which offer a good amount of storage but abysmal performance numbers or opt for the opposite, more preferable, approach. OCZ Technology’s 50GB Vertex 2 SSD touts a very [...]
Read more OCZ Technology 50GB Vertex 2 is small on storage but big on performance
If your aren’t content with the glowing monoliths of storage that are external hard drives you might be happy to know that Hitachi GST has launched their new LifeStudio line of storage drives which promise to make the backup process easier than ever and offers up some handy “cloud” storage. The LifeStudio Mobile line keeps [...]
Read more Hitachi GST Launches LifeStudio External Hard Drive Lineup
A NAS can be an expensive investment especially for a home user looking to safe guard important information, unfortunately most models don’t have an infinite amount of expansion for more drives. The Synology DX510 NAS Volume Expansion Unit sports an extra 5 hard drive bays, totaling up to 10GB of added storage, to extend your [...]
Read more Synology DX510 NAS Volume Expansion Unit extends your storage space
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