Western Digital has both announced and started shipping their 5th generation Caviar Green hard drive. Of course the major highlight this time around is the monster 3TB capacity, a first for internal 3.5" hard drives. WD accomplishes this feat by leveraging Advanced Format and four 750GB platters. In addition to the 3TB model (WD30EZRSDTL) there’s
When building a media PC, selecting the proper optical drive is crucial. To that end we’ve been working with LiteOn’s newest high definition optical drive, the Blu-ray capable IHBS112. This drive has the ability to read and write Blu-ray discs as well as your typical DVD and CD media. This model is currently listed as
Mechanical hard drives may not be big performance breadwinners anymore, but in notebooks they’re still the order of the day. Unless you’re buying a big 17” mobile workstation or desktop replacement, your notebook is liable to be stuck with a single drive bay. So you’re left with a choice: cheap and effective, or high performance
The Icy Dock MB994SP-4S allows you to fit up to 4TB additional storage in your desktop. In just one 5.25″ device bay it fits four 2.5” hard drives or SSDs, including 15mm height SAS and SATA drives.
SandForce solid state drives seem to be the hotness in the market right now, and why wouldn’t they be? The SandForce controllers are popular pieces of technology for a reason: their design allows for dispensing with drive cache, and they perform awfully fast. It’s no surprise many manufacturers have produced drives based on SandForce hardware,
The Spinpoint F4 features a single 320GB capacity model, but that’s 320GB on a single drive platter. That platter spins at 7200 RPM and feeds 16MB of drive cache. By using a single platter and a single drive head, the SpinPoint F4 benefits from both a greater platter density and a reduced number of moving
The 2TB Seagate Barracuda LP brings us to the end of our review series covering the latest high-capacity/low-power drives–a series that has also featured looks at the latest Western Digital Caviar Green and Samsung Spinpoint offerings competing in this space.
Lite-On recently sent us their latest internal DVD writer, the iHAS524. While we normally don’t get too jazzed up about DVD burners, this one has a unique twist, LabelTag. LabelTag works with any standard optical storage disc to burn data and create a label in the same session – very interesting and much neater than a
The Lexar Echo ZE backup drive is a miniature thumb drive meant to be a “plug-and-stay” backup solution – it stays in your USB drive and backs up files while you work (or play). Available in 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB models, the Echo ZE comes with Lexar Echo backup software that provides encryption of backed
SanDisk makes a family of microSDHC cards, ideal for mobile phones and other small electronics, in capacities of 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB. As those smartphone owners of something other than the iPhone consider replacing the generally paltry storage card included with the phone, we investigate SanDisk’s 16GB microSDHC card to see if it’s a
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