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| |  Affiliate Reviews: Hard Drives, Hard Drive Cooling and Cables
Evercool H.D.D Air Condition
 | Quote: |  | | |  | Originally Posted by Overclockers Online |  | | | | | | | | |
The Evercool HDAC is a very straight forward hard drive cooler that mounts in an open 5.25" drive bay. The aluminum body is solid and does a good job drawing heat out of the hard drive and the turbine fan performs very well and nearly silent at lower RPMs. In a tightly packed case or one with no front fans, this hard drive cooler can really help keep the hard drive with all your precious data nice and cool. This will extend the life of the drive and help prevent an early failure.
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XFX's Revo64 Serial ATA RAID card | | Quote: | | | | | | Originally Posted by The Tech Report | | | | | | | | | |
SUPPORT FOR MULTI-DRIVE arrays in core-logic chipsets has made RAID more accessible to enthusiasts and mainstream users alike. Of course, high-end motherboards have supported RAID for a while, but these days it's difficult to find even a mid-range mobo that doesn't support multi-drive arrays. Heck, RAID can even be found on budget motherboards costing well under $100. And there are plenty of RAID add-in cards, too.
The market may be brimming with multi-drive goodness, but that doesn't mean that there isn't room for something new. You see, most affordable RAID solutions, be they add-in cards or motherboard implementations, are software-based solutions and lack dedicated onboard memory. Most stick to supporting a mix of RAID levels 0, 1, 10/0+1, and 5, as well. We haven't seen much in the way of RAID 3 or hardware acceleration, and that's where XFX's new Revo64 comes in. Based on technology from Netcell, the Revo64 combines byte-level striping with hardware-accelerated parity calculations and onboard memory to provide a potentially potent mix of performance and fault tolerance with as few as three hard drives. What's more, the Revo works its magic without requiring drivers, giving the card instant compatibility with newer versions of both Windows and Linux.
At first glance, the Revo64 looks too good to be true, especially considering its affordable street price. Does it live up to the hype? Join us as we explore the technology behind XFX's Revo64 and take an in-depth look at its performance.
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| | | | | | | Silverstone SST-CP01 SATA II Drive Cable | | Quote: | | | | | | Originally Posted by DreamWare Computers | | | | | | | | | |
Today is the first of our upcoming reviews that will be focusing on some of the products in the accessories/fan lines from Silverstone. In this review I'll be taking at look at the SST-CP01 Serial ATA II cable.
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| | | | | | | Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD4000KD 400GB SATA Hard Drive | | Quote: | | | | | | Originally Posted by PCSTATS | | | | | | | | | |
PCSTATS has already seen what the Western Digital Raptor brings to the table, and now we'll take one of the largest hard drives on the market for a spin. Meet Western Digital's 400GB Caviar SE16 hard drive, model number: WD4000KD. Be sure to check out the Experts Tips on how to ensure the best possible performance from the Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD4000KD hard drive, a little later in the review. The Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD4000KD supports the 150MB/s Serial ATA I standard, and sports a mammoth 16MB onboard cache buffer.
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| | | | | | | Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB SATA 3 Gb/s Hard Drive | | Quote: | | | | | | Originally Posted by Bigbruin | | | | | | | | | |
Taking a look at the burst results honestly made me say "WOW"! The Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 not only outscored the RAID 0 array of SATA 1.5 Gb/s drives, but it also blew away the Hitachi SATA 3 Gb/s 500GB drive by over 20 MB/s. Taking a look at the other results from this benchmark show that all of the drives are just about equal, and that the burst is the only place a major advantage will be had.
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