Solid state drives (SDD’s) have come a long way for being an experiment as a non mechanical driver for storage of digital data in the early 1980’s. And now with the refinement of the silicone dies and also the storage procedures makes it possible to have a ultra fast drive with the same characteristics as [...]
USB storage devices have been used in everyday lives. To the humble removable device storage to save all of those files and documents quickly to one computer to another, to the more important role of being a ghost back up file in most enterprise computers and server an inexpensive way to keep a piece of [...]
OCZ have recently unleashed the Vertex Turbo range of Solid State Drives which build on the phenomenally fast Vertex series, The original drive was reviewed like the majority of our reviews ‘out-of-the-box’ but newer firmware has since been released which increases performance even further and as such we are awaiting the latest firmware update for [...]
Storage formats is a single affair in most situations, the humble hard-drive have survived the storage changes from the floppy, zip files and the DVD formats have been replaced and revised. But in the dawn of the introduction of mass storage of the solid being the next competition of storage formats that can reach up [...]
Hard-drives and also solid state drives are the only two forms of storage available to the consumer and also the general state of the computing industry. With the floppy disks magnetic tapes and zip cards are all gone, with only the formats like HDD and SDD are able in the range in prizes to the [...]
Recently we have taken a look at our HDD section and found that our previous roundup of 1-terabyte models is almost 1 year old. It is an eternity by the standards of the IT industry. Of course, we have been busy writing reviews of 750GB drives and 640GB drives but the pause is rather too [...]
With the show case of the new wave of SDD (solid state drives) with their ability of having an almost non-existent latency timings being able to go down as 0.1ns in the Intel X25 SDD drive because of no mechanical devices present in the SDD giving it a near fast timing. And also the ability [...]
The Green Power line’s prodigiously low power consumption is achieved by dialing back spindle speeds, but that sacrifices performance, and it ultimately cost WD the title of fastest terabyte on the block. Somewhat surprisingly, Western Digital was apparently in no hurry spinning a terabyte up to full speed. Indeed, the new Caviar Black 1TB is [...]
So if you like the feature that SDD have given for the past so three to six months well with Intel really in the dominance for processor and storage performance, with the X-25 SDD drive going to a great 120MB of normal read speeds but with some reason a slowish 70MB/s write speed, with an [...]
So storage is your no. 1 priority in building your own rig, so we appreciate that you have an interest of whatever you save in a large terabyte of space, but for most users it is the storage of anything that comes in and out of the computer and also hold most of the vital [...]