Storage

by Rafael Hernandez on May 24, 2009 · 0 comments

Dual use devices are wonderful things as they usually solve two problems at once but the idea of turning your portable hard drive into storage for your massive digital multimedia library is a somewhat strange turn of events.Futurelooks delves into…

Read more Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD, Your Portable Harddrive Is Now A Media Serving Juggernaut

by Rafael Hernandez on May 22, 2009 · 0 comments

There was a time when a network attached storage system would cost you an arm and a leg….and a foot. On top of it all the tiny expensive box usually came bare adding to the cost of entry.Enter Acer’s Aspire…

Read more Acer Aspire easyStore, Your Next NAS?

by Rafael Hernandez on May 18, 2009 · 0 comments

If you were avoiding the initial batch of solid state drives we can’t blame you, they were expensive and unprovent technologies despite the promise of insane performance and durability. Thankfully there’s more competition, which has lead to lower prices, and…

Read more Solid State Drives, Fast and Slightly More Affordable

by Rafael Hernandez on May 13, 2009 · 0 comments

There was a time when every single component in a notebook computer was a generation or so behind what could be found on desktop computers, nowadays you’ll find feature parity in almost every category outside of the latest and greatest…

Read more Notebook SSD Upgrades, Are They Viable?

by Rafael Hernandez on May 12, 2009 · 0 comments

Solid state drives are quite speedy at what they do regularly trouncing spindle based hard drives of old quite easily much to the joy of PC enthusiasts everywhere. There are some things that it can’t do however and that is…

Read more Acard ANS-9010 RAMdisk Versus OCZ Vertex 30GB SSD, Plain Not Fair

by Pedro Hernandez on May 9, 2009 · 0 comments

As solid state drives (SSDs) appear in more notebooks and PCs in the coming years, Microsoft wants to make certain that Windows 7 is not only on speaking terms with the storage technology, but that the OS provides an optimized…

Read more Windows 7 Plays Nice with SSDs

by Rafael Hernandez on April 22, 2009 · 0 comments

There you were, pining for your very own solid state drive, hoping against hope that their pricing would fall to a reasonable enough level. With time comes more competition so the day you have your very own SSD might be…

Read more Kingston SSDNow 80GB, The Floodgates Open

by Pedro Hernandez on March 24, 2009 · 0 comments

Microsoft’s nifty network-attached storage server for home use is getting an update today. Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 lets owners squeeze a little more functionality out of their centralized data repository, particularly in the media streaming category. The updates…

Read more Windows Home Server Goes Stream Happy with Power Pack 2

by Rafael Hernandez on March 12, 2009 · 0 comments

While the promises of speedy solid state drives have been long promised there has been very little movement in bringing those devices to market leaving the consumer to cobble together primitive RAID setups to bring about such performance. Fusion-io’s ioDrive…

Read more Fusion-io Builds A SSD So Speedy Your Server Wants One Posthaste

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