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Samsung STORY Station 3.0 Review

Samsung has launched a new USB 3.0 external hard drive, the STORY Station 3.0. The STORY Station features a 3.5" hard drive inside and a USB 3.0 interface, which is capable of speeds up to 5Gb/s… ten times faster than USB 2.0. 

Consumer

Verbatim Tuff ‘N’ Tiny USB Drive Review

USB Drives come in every shape and color imaginable, but few offer much that’s unique and productive to end users. While the Verbatim Tuff ‘N’ Tiny has a silly name, the product itself boasts several useful features like dust and water resistance, capacities up to 16GB and a package that’s smaller than two dimes. 

Western Digital Scorpio Blue 750GB
Consumer  ◇  HDD

Western Digital Scorpio Blue Review (750GB WD7500BPVT)

Western Digital’s Scorpio Blue 750GB notebook hard drive is unique in that it jams 750GB into a standard size notebook drive, leveraging two 375GB platters to get the job done. For notebook users craving more storage space, this latest version of the popular Scorpio Blue line offers 110GB more storage space than the next largest

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Western Digital VelociRaptors in RAID – SSD Alternative?

Last week Western Digital released the new 600GB VelociRaptor, which just like its predecessor, took the spot of fastest consumer hard disk drive. With the single hard drive not being able to keep up with average SSDs, we decided to take a look at multidrive performance. In this review we see how well the Western Digital

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Western Digital VelociRaptor Review (600GB WD6000HLHX)

Western Digital has released their 5th generation VelociRaptor, doubling the capacity of the previous 300GB model. The latest models come in 450GB (WD4500HLHX) and 600GB (WD6000HLHX) capacities as 2.5″ hard drives with an IcePack, allowing them to fit in a 3.5″ drive bay. Beyond increasing capacity, the new VelociRaptors promise a performance boost of 15%

Consumer

Lexar JumpDrive Retrax Review (16GB)

The Lexar JumpDrive Retrax USB thumb drive was introduced to offer an affordable, stylish, and capless thumb drive.  The USB jack can be fully retracted inside the body of the drive, protecting the connection from damage.

Consumer  ◇  SSD

Intel X25-M SSD Review (160GB)

 Intel’s X25-M SSD is the current industry standard holding the title as one of the best flash storage drives money can buy. Last year Intel made their best drive even better by decreasing the flash manufacturing process from 50nm to 34nm, substantially reducing the cost of the SSD and making the X25-M even more affordable

Consumer  ◇  HDD

Western Digital Caviar Black Review (2TB)

Western Digital’s Caviar Black hard drive series has grown to be synonymous with performance and speed in the consumer desktop space. The newest and highest capacity Caviar Black is a 3.5” 2TB 7200RPM model with 500GB platters and other Western Digital goodies like dual processors, dual actuators and technologies to optimize the drive for power

Consumer  ◇  HDD

Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 Review (500GB)

The Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 is their fifth-generation 2.5″ 7200RPM hard drive. Available in capacities ranging from 120-500GB, our review unit is the top-of-the-line 500GB version (HTS725050A9A364). The Travelstar 7K500 is widely regarded as the fastest notebook hard drive on the market; but our tests had something else to say.

Consumer  ◇  SSD

Kingston SSDNow V+ Review (SNVP325-S2)

The SSDNow V+ Series SSD (SNVP325-S2) from Kingston is their second generation prosumer, performance oriented SSD offered as a standalone drive and with an upgrade kit in capacities up to 512GB. This model supports read speeds up to 230MB/s and write speeds up to 180MB/s. With TRIM support and prices starting under $200 for a