All signs point to the slow demise of traditional magnetic, physically driven hard drives. The reason is that SSDs are incredibly fast, quiet, and power efficient. The only things that are barriers right now are cost and capacity. But the capacities are edging up and the cost is slowly going down. […]
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The HP MV2020 is a good bet for a NAS box. After our flop with the Linksys NAS200, it’s a nice find. In case you have no context for NAS, let me explain. NAS is network area storage. It gives you a simple way to have storage across the network. […]
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As consumer digital media explodes, we are seeing continued forays into the storage and backup market. Enter Linksys’ Nas200 storage appliance. This little nifty box is a pretty nice box that can satisfy basic storage requirements for most people. Except, well, it’s performance sucks.
You’ve probably heard some of these acronyms thrown around. Oh, and the IT world seems to run on acronyms. It’s enough to drive anyone crazy. All these acronyms have to do with hard drives. They describe the way that a hard drive connects to your computer’s motherboard. That’s a broad […]
Egads, that’s a whole lot of data to cram onto a 2.5 inch drive. The drive will not be available until May of this year. Here are the product highlights:
Not to be outdone by, er, itself, Samsung announced a 128GB of its solid state drive (SSD) at the 2008 CES in Las Vegas. The announcement propels SSD as a very viable alternative to standard hard drives - one of the biggest fault components on a computer.
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And now, reviews are starting to come out about laptops utilizing solid state drives. It’s a dream come true. Afterall, hard drives are probably the most unreliable part of a computer because of its moving parts. They are also loud and inefficient. But now solid state drives are starting to make […]
The explosive nature of digital media has pushed our storage to the limits. As such, we are becoming more and more dependent on safeguarding and sharing this digital content. And hence, the desire to do this blog. When it comes to easily accesssing and sharing content, storage mediums haven’t been very helpful. […]
Nestled into the behemoth drive package details is a nice, new feature. Today, Iomega announced that it will start shipping what it calls “Never Down.”
Well, I was pleasantly surprised to see a company come up with this kind of idea. Sentry Safe has come up with a fire and water proof housing for the Maxtor One Touch drive. The product is an all in one package. You don’t have to add the Maxtor drive after the […]
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