Articles tagged with "drive"

Western Digital VelociRaptor 1TB 2.5? Hard Drive Review

Just before the dawn of the SSD, each and every system relied on hard drives for their storage and if you wanted that bit more from your drive, Western Digital’s Raptor drives were the way to go with their 10,000RPM spindle speeds and extremely fast seek and access time to go with. As soon as [...]

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Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB Solid State Drive Review

Following our recent look at Corsair’s new Neutron SSD, based on the LAMD LM87800 controller, we were very impressed with how the newcomer performed when marked against the equivalent SandForce driven drives and more so how it looks to shake up the SSD market. As a one up on the Neutron, the Neutron GTX is set to [...]

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Corsair Neutron 240GB Solid State Drive Review

As you may or may not know, the vast majority of SSDs on the market utilise the SandForce SF-2281 controller and whilst this controller has certainly made its mark by dominating the market, it like most things does have its downsides. Earlier in the year we saw Corsair announce the new Neutron series of SSDs [...]

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Akasa Integral S 3.5? External USB3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure Review

External storage as we all know is a quick and cost effective solution to boosting the storage capacity of any system, especially small form factor systems, games consoles and laptops. On the market there is a whole array of solutions available from the likes of Akasa, Icy Dock and Silverstone, to name but a few. [...]

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Nvidia releases drive update for Linux

Nvidia and Linux haven’t always been the most friendly and cooperative bunch but its nice to see Nvidia recognise that it does need non-Windows/Mac users. Nvidia 304.37 drivers bring a massive bunch of updates specifically targeted at Linux-kernel based operating systems in 32bit and 64bit variants as well as monolithic-kernel based operating systems like Solaris [...]

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Western Digital introduce 2TB 2.5? hard drive

Currently the only large capacity and widely available 2.5″ drives available on the market are 1.5TB hard drives. Now Western Digital is looking to move things forward by offering 2TB hard drives in the 2.5″ form factor. Under the “WD Green” branding, Western Digital’s lowest performance series, the new WD20NPVT drive brings to the table a [...]

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OCZ Vertex 4 128GB Solid State Drive Review

When we look back at the performance that we have seen from OCZ’s solid state drives in the past, such as the Vertex 3 and the Vertex 3 Max IOPS, we have been highly impressed by their pure performance that they have on tap, as well as their quality components and the all so impressive [...]

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Super Talent Unveils Another Addition to its USB 3.0 Flash Drive Family

Super Talent Technology announced yet another addition to its rapidly growing USB 3.0 Flash drive family. The new USB 3.0 Express ST2 series bears it’s creativity in an affordable high capacity 2 channel USB 3.0 drive. The ST2 Series is the perfect addition to Super Talent’s growing family of USB 3.0 products. Now with an [...]

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RunCore Develops Self-Destructive Solid-State Drive

RunCore, a supplier of solid-state drives, this week unveiled InVincible solid-state drive, which is the world’s first and only SSD that features physical self destruction feature. Besides typical elimination of all data through overwriting, the InVincible SSD can completely destroy the data by physically destroying memory and other chips inside the drive by burning chips [...]

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Deal of the Day – Mushkin Chronos 60GB 2.5? SATA-III Solid State Hard Drive

Today’s deal of the day is an absolute bargain, 60GB SSD for under £50! with the Chronos SATA III SSD giving you all the performance boost you need without hurting your bank balance. Introducing Chronos™, the latest SSD from the originators of superior computing. The SATA III protocol provides 6Gbps of bandwidth and up to 90,000 [...]

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