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

Crucial currently wears the fastest consumer SSD crown, as seen in our recent review of the 256GB C300. Thanks to the SATA 6Gb/s interface and Marvell controller, Crucial’s SSDs manage spectacular speeds. 256GB SSDs aren’t for everyone though, Crucial has wisely expanded their capacity offerings to include 128GB and 64GB versions of the C300. In this

With the price of SSDs being driven lower and lower, one question keeps coming up; how well will two SSDs perform in RAID 0? After reviewing both the 160GB Intel X25-M and 40GB X25-V a few months ago, we decided to see how well they performed in RAID 0. On one side we try to

The Icy Dock MB991IK-B is a tray load rack that supports 2.5″ drives and fits in a standard 3.5″ drive bay. The principle is pretty simple, to give users an easy way to swap out 2.5″ drives in a convenient tray system, rather than having to open up the PC case to trade them out.