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SEARCH RESULT: Storage
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We are seeing
the SSD market mature quickly from the performance, pricing, and capacity
viewpoints. Just over a year ago, the first generation SSD drives had average
capacities in the 16GB range with read/write performance around 45/25 MB/s. Pricing
for these drives was around the $100 per-GB range and most suppliers explicitly
stated the drives were meant for industrial, military, medical, o... |
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Western Digital officially announced the 300GB based VelociRaptor
a couple of weeks ago as the successor to the Raptor family. We provided a preview
of the drive and came away impressed with its performance although our review
sample was suffering from early firmware problems and other maladies.
Western Digital responded to our concerns quickly and provided
us with a new drive.&n... |
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The original Western Digital Raptor was launched as the WD360GD in March of 2003 with an enterprise
level 10,000 RPM spindle speed, SATA
interface, 8MB buffer, 5.2 millisecond read seek time, and a single-platter
design featuring 36GB of storage. While it shined in single-user performance,
the drive did not fare well against its SCSI-based competitors in the
enterprise server market. Limited ... |
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Western Digital's emphasis
on recent product releases has been the consumer oriented GreenPower
family of products.
That all changed last month with the release of the Caviar SE16 320GB drives featuring
their new 320GB per-platter technology. We previewed
this drive and came away impressed by its excellent thermals, power management,
and acoustics but depressed by performance that was not an... |
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Western Digital has been quiet on the performance front the past several months as they have placed an emphasis on their GreenPower family of products that we recently reviewed. However, they have been busily working on a new line-up of Caviar SE16 drives that feature their new 320GB per-platter technology. This type of areal density places WD in direct competi... |
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A Lesson in User Failure: Investigating the Serial ATA Connector
Something you learn quickly in this industry is that working as a technology journalist does not make you immune to computer problems or the laws of physics that can be at the root of them. Just by doing our work we tend to break things now and then; overclocked processors become keychains, overheated video cards become surgica... |
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Introduction
RAID, while initially overused in desktop
configurations, has found a more stable home among knowledgeable users over the
past year. Where "RAID 0" became a buzzword equaling "high performance"
some years ago, the trend has recently shifted towards people researching their
decisions and acting accordingly. These informed consumers have begun to notice
that indeed, not all RAID i... |
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When it comes to performance-oriented solutions in the SSD market, you need look no further than MTRON. Considering they have only been around for two years, this is an impressive feat. MTRON is focusing their engineering efforts entirely on Solid State Drives (SSD). We recently looked at the MTRON MSD-S25032 32GB 2.5" product which advertised maximum read speeds of 100 MB/sec, write speeds of 80 ... |
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Introduction
When one manufacturer
has a breakthrough in hard drive capacity, the other manufacturers rush to make
sure their product line contains at least one entry at the new capacity level. However,
it can sometimes take a while for actual product to arrive after these announcements,
so it can be difficult to buy the particular drive that a consumer wants. Fortunately,
the distribution c... |
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Ultra Products is a well-known name that hardware enthusiasts have looked to for years. While their product line is very broad, including everything from mouse pads to MP3 players, their cases and power supplies are arguably their most popular offerings. There is also a strong emphasis on cooling in the design of these products.
Cooling and noise have both become more of an issue in recent year... |
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Introduction
As the price/performance ratio of solid state memory continues to improve, so does the list of companies looking to find new uses for devices built around the technology. While some of the implementations of the technology have been obvious (memory for small portable devices like cameras and phones, for example), some of the other uses for solid state memory are only now becoming... |
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Introduction
Transcend has long been a player in the memory and storage arenas, both through the manufacture of hardware under their own brand name as well as OEM services for several other companies. Founded in 1989, the company has had a recent period of accelerated sales growth due to increased demand for its products, particularly in the flash memory segment (SD cards). As their success has... |
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Introduction
ICY DOCK's line of products has continued to expand over the years. While they have always kept pace with market trends and interface configurations, their current generation of external enclosures has been of particular interest to the AnandTech labs. The ICY DOCK MB664US-1S is the latest such product to grace our labs, and we'll put it through the paces in this review.
As has ... |
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Introduction
The majority of home users have experienced the agony of at least one hard drive failure in their lives. Power users often experience bottlenecks caused by their hard drives when they try and accomplish I/O-intensive tasks. Every IT person who has been in industry for any length of time has dealt with multiple hard drive failures. In short, hard drives have long caused the majority... |
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We recently provided a brief overview of the MTRON 32GB SSD provided by DV
Nation and found its performance on the desktop to be very robust in most tests. In fact, it competed very well against the Western Digital Raptor 150GB drive in the application benchmarks and just annihilated it in the FutureMark PCMark05 benchmarks. Besides the MTRON's excellent performance and excessive costs, we also d... |
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MTRON is a fairly new player in the storage market. In fact, the company was founded less than two years ago in South Korea. They have been on the fast track since with major funding being provided by Hyundai IT Ltd. and Digital First Co., Ltd. They have steered clear of mechanical drive designs and instead have focused their efforts entirely on Solid State Drives (SSD). We have been keeping track... |
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The Hard Drive Wars
Western Digital owns the second largest portion of the hard drive market, trailing only Seagate in terms of total number of drives shipped. The company accounts for roughly 21.5% of global hard drive sales, which puts it a long way from either taking the lead from Seagate (34.6%) or losing its seat to third-place Hitachi, which is at 17.2%. These numbers have remained fairly... |
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GMG Inc. has been providing a variety of drive enclosures since 2000. Galaxy Metal Gear Box provides several external drive enclosure designs with an emphasis on USB 2.0, Firewire (IEEE 1394), and SATA interface technologies. They are utilizing their enclosure expertise to expand their product portfolio and are now offering Digital Media gateway products.
We will be taking a look at the 5202 ... |
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ICY DOCK has been around for over 12 years now and although they are not a household name, if you have shopped for drive enclosures there is a good chance you have noticed them. In fact, drive enclosures is their one and only business. They specialize in providing a complete lineup of internal and external drive enclosures utilizing various interface technologies. It should not be surprising th... |
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Samsung introduced the SpinPoint T166 series last fall after the P120 series had success in the market as a low cost alternative to similar offerings from Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi, and Western Digital. While the P120 series was certainly a bargain in terms of cost, the drive series did not receive much press coverage nor did Samsung actively promote the product in the same manner you see from thei... |
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