August 11, 2011
Kingston's HyperX brand is synonymous with high performance which is why they've placed that badge prominently on their newest SSD. So when we received their newest and first HyperX SSD, we were very curious to see how it stacked up against o…
Tags: Kingston HyperX, ssd, Storage
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March 9, 2011
Intel really kicked the SSD world in high gear when they released their X-25 series of drives last year. Their performance was the benchmark that all other drives were measured against for quite some time. Many have wondered what Intel would bring to…
Tags: HDD / SSD drives, Intel, ssd, Storage
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March 6, 2011
Hitachi and Western Digital have been shipping 7200 RPM 3TB drives for several months now, but if you’re a Seagate fan, your horse has finally entered the race. The new 3TB Barracuda XT has started showing up for sale at various online retailers, and…
Tags: capacity, hardware, HDD / SSD drives, News Worthy, Seagate, seagate barracuda, Storage
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March 6, 2011
Remember when the hard drive industry tried to convince us they would never be able to pump out hard drives bigger than 100GB? Well according to Samsung the platter density war is still alive and well, and a new breakthrough has allowed them to hit 1TB…
Tags: areal density, hardware, HDD / SSD drives, innovation, News Worthy, samsung, Storage
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February 9, 2011
Plextor has come out with a new solid state drive line the company says is “currently one of fastest SSDs available in the market.” A bold claim, one that’s backed up by marrying the new M2 series SSDs with a Marvell 88SS9174 controller. By doing so, t…
Tags: build a pc, hardware, m2, plextor, SATA 6Gb/s, solid state drive, ssd, Storage
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February 8, 2011
Sans Digital, a provider of high capacity, multi-functional advanced storage solutions, introduced (PDF) a new series of 64-bit based NAS products on Monday. This represents the company’s first foray into 64-bit NAS boxes, whereas previous iterations w…
Tags: 32-bit, 64-bit, External Storage, hardware, nas, NAS Box, network attached storage, sans digital, server, Storage
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February 7, 2011
RunCore may not be a household name but they sure know how to make a quality SSD. We put their SandForce SF-1200 based 120GB Pro V drive through our battery of tests to see just how it fared against others we have tested. Have they managed to eke out…
Tags: 120GB, flash memory, RunCore Pro, solid state drive, ssd, Storage
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February 3, 2011
Cram six SandForce SF-1500 controllers in a RAID 0 array with 384GB of SLC NAND and one high-end RAID controller on one device and what do you have? A $11,500 MSRP solid state drive that blazes up to 240k IOPs and calls your SSD a sissy. Yeah, its li…
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