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by Rafael Hernandez on March 30, 2009 · 0 comments

The solid state drive market is beginning to see a slew of new products and with it being a relatively new market the first goes at the technology will likely encounter a few bugs to be worked out.Intel and OCZ…

Read more State Of The SSD, Intel And OCZ Get The Firmwares Out

by Rafael Hernandez on March 9, 2009 · 0 comments

The marketing types should keep the tech geeks locked safely away in their offices when it comes time to demonstrating their product’s capabilities, then again it does make for a show that other geek types will appreciate. Samsung’s SSD unit…

Read more Samsung SSD Awesomeness, Or A Really Cheesey Tech Demo

by Rafael Hernandez on January 30, 2009 · 0 comments

The solid state disk’s days as a niche product held back by tiny storage sizes may soon be over. G.Skill’s TITAN 256GB SSD drive pushes the storage and speed envelope while keeping prices at a reasonable enough level where it…

Read more G.Skill TITAN 256GB SSD, Tempting Isn't It

by Rafael Hernandez on October 21, 2008 · 0 comments

The storage race continues! Seagate, being somewhat knowledgeable in the making of hard drives, has managed to squeeze in quite a bit of storage capacity into a 3.5″ SATA drive with its Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB HD. If you’re in need…

Read more Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB Reviewed, Storage…Lots Of It

by Rafael Hernandez on July 24, 2007 · 0 comments

the Inquirer writes of Seagate’s plans to phase out the IDE interface on its top of the line drives over the next few months leaving SATA and SAS as the favored interfaces. They’re sure to keep support going for IDE…

Read more Seagate Gives IDE the Boot

by Rafael Hernandez on July 27, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at 320GB hard drives from Western Digital and Seagate. The Seagate is primed and ready with its fancy perpendicular recording but the good old brute force approach (more platters) employed by WD keeps the competition tight….

Read more WD and Seagate 320GB Hard Drive Comparison

by Rafael Hernandez on June 16, 2006 · 0 comments

TrustedReviews has a look at the massive storage potential of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB hard drive. Its one of the largest drives available thanks to its perpendicular data storage method. A good performer and plenty of capacity for your…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 18, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a review of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB hard drive. The storage capacity the perpendicular recording will allow is mind-blowing with this being an early example and we can only expect much larger sizes in the future. A…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 14, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at four S-ATA capable 2.5″ drives. That sized harddrive is usually found in notebook PCs and the like where any improvement in driver performance is welcomed. A good outing for one of the slower…

Read more 2.5" S-ATA HD Comparison

by Rafael Hernandez on January 30, 2006 · 0 comments

Big Bruin has a look at the 160GB version of the Seagate Momentus drive. Notebook storage has lagged a bit recently but the company’s latest drive line has managed to squeeze more data on platters by going perpendicular. There isn’t…

Read more Seagate Momentus 160GB 2.5" Drive Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on January 27, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Seagate 7200.9 160GB hard drive. It’s not that big of a storage device but it does feature a high data density which could translate to increased performance. A good batch of numbers from this…

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