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How To Maximize Hard Drive Life  | Quote: |  | | |  | Originally Posted by The TechZone |  | | | | | | | | |
If I asked you the question: which part of your computer is the most fragile, what would you say? What if I asked: which part is most important to you? Often, the answer to both of these questions is your Hard Drive. We'll show you how to maximize its life.
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| |  | |  | | Western Digital's Raptor X hard drive | | Quote: | | | | | | Originally Posted by techreport | | | | | | | | | |
ALTHOUGH WESTERN DIGITAL'S 10K-RPM Raptor Serial ATA hard drives were originally intended for enterprise-class workstations and servers, enthusiasts were quick to employ them in personal desktop systems and gaming rigs. Marketing types tend to freak out when enthusiasts show such blatant disregard for artificial product segmentation, but Western Digital took it in stride. In fact, the company has even cooked up something special for the enthusiast community with the latest Raptor refresh.
We've been waiting for that refresh for a couple of years now, and Western Digital finally tipped its hand in January when it announced the Raptor WD1500. The drive retains the Raptor's 10K-RPM spindle speed and Serial ATA interface, but adds a beefier cache, larger total capacity, and support for Native Command Queuing. Just days later, Western Digital pulled back the curtains on the Raptor X, a version of the WD1500 with a window on the drive's internals. That's right: a hard drive window.
The Raptor X shares the WD1500's updated internals, and apart from the better view, it's identical to its enterprise-class counterpart. But how does it perform? We've cornered one in our labs and subjected it to an exhaustive set of synthetic and application tests to find out.
Full Story at techreport
| | | | | | | WD Raptor 150GB | | Quote: | | | | | | Originally Posted by TrustedReviews | | | | | | | | | |
Western Digital first released its Raptor in 2003 and this was significant in a number of ways. For a start it was its first SATA hard drive. However WD did something far more interesting than taking one of its Caviar drives and simply nailing on a SATA interface. Instead, it built a drive with a 10,000rpm spindle speed offering a superior data transfer speed than conventional 7,200rpm ATA100 drives thanks to lower rotational latency.
Full Story at TrustedReviews
| | | | | | | Vizo Luxon HDD Enclosure | | Quote: | | | | | | Originally Posted by Red&Blackness Mods | | | | | | | | | |
Up for review today is the Luxon External HDD Enclosure from Vizo. Featuring USB2.0 and SATA transfers, plug n' play interactivity and stylish looks, the Luxon seems to be a fairly good choice if you're in the market for an external HDD enclosure. Read on about my experience with this product and see if it's the right one for you.
Full Story at Red&Blackness Mods
| | | | | | | OCZ Technology Rally USB 2.0 Flash Drive | | Quote: | | | | | | Originally Posted by Laptop Gamers | | | | | | | | | |
Every laptop gamers needs a USB flash drive. And there is no faster USB flash drive than the OCZ Technology Rally. If you're looking for the fastest flash drive money can buy, the OCZ Rally is it. How does the Rally get it amazing speed? With Dual Channel technology. OCZ Technology is among the first memory makers to use dual channel in a flash drive. The result is a flash drive that leaves the competition sucking dusk
Full Story at Laptop Gamers
| | | | | | | OCZ Rally 512MB USB Drive | | Quote: | | | | | | Originally Posted by ThinkComputers.org | | | | | | | | | |
When you are choosing components for your PC speed is always a factor, whether it’s a hard drive or video card. When choosing a flash drive it’s no different. You want something that is fast, especially if you are using it to transport large files. Today we have a flash drive that is very fast and leaves competitors in the dust thanks to the implementation of Dual Channel technology. What drive am I talking about? The OCZ Rally drive of course! Today we will be looking at the 512 MB version.
Full Story at ThinkComputers.org
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