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Faster external drives arriving--slowly

Faster external drives arriving--slowlygood stuffAlready have one and it's fast. It came with a bracket to connect the drive to an internal sata port. It's a hell of a lot faster than usb and it has it's own power so it doesn't draw power from my pc's powerunit. That was...

Tags: NCQ, USB 2.0, eSATA, FireWire

Discussion threads 2006-12-19

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Western Digital debuts 2TB, 7200RPM enterprise-class hard drives

Western Digital on Tuesday announced that it is now shipping 2TB, 7200RPM enterprise-class desktop hard drives with WD's 500 gigabytes-per-platter technology. The company's family of Caviar Black drives (pictured, below) is intended for gaming, high-performance desktop systems and workstations; while the 2TB WD...

Tags: Hard Drive, Performance, Positioning, High-performance, Western Digital Corp., Branding, Leadership, Performance Management, Processors, Marketing, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-01

Corsair launches 64GB, 128GB 'performance' SSDs; 220MB/sec read, write

Corsair on Thursday announced 64GB and 128GB editions of its Performance Series solid state drive family, touting high read and write speeds for less capacity and cost. The Corsair P128 delivers the same 220MB/sec read speeds and 200MB/sec write speeds as its higher...

Tags: Performance, Solid State Disk, Speed, Corsair P128, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-25

BIOS settings demystified

BIOS settings demystifiedVery good info - thanks!One thing I found which maybe everyone else already knew, and I don't know if it is common to all BIOS versions or just the ASUS KV8 that I have, but under the Advanced tab, there's a Legacy USB support option - having it...

Tags: BIOS, BIOS Settings

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Build the biggest bang per dollar PCs: June 2007 Edition

It's Father's day coming up and what better way to put a smile on Dad's face than a new computer.  The timing couldn't be better with the arrival of the newest 3-Series motherboards from Intel and the somewhat new 690G AMD motherboards which I reviewed yesterday so it's time to build a new PC...

Tags: Vista, Storage, Servers, Processors, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Energy efficiency, Desktop, Consumer electronics, AMD

Blog posts 2007-06-13

Can you build a decent PC on a budget of $500?

Can you build a decent PC on a budget of $500?I notice you don't add in a price for the OSNewegg has XP Home and Vista Basic for $90, though I'm sure you could shop around and save $10 or so. But adding a cost for any OS (even a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Desktops, DVD, Newegg.com, PC, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., DVD-ROM, server, power supply, Ubuntu, Sabayon

Discussion threads 2007-05-29

2.5 TERABYTE hot-swap storage for $730!

I still remember the first hard drive I ever bought. The year was 1992 and I had my friend drive me 70 miles in to the silicon valley for the deal of the month in hard drives. The prize at the end of that grueling drive without air...

Tags: Storage, Servers, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Desktop

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Disk drive price change

Disk drive price changeAre we still using SCSI drives?I've moved onto SATA drives myself. Are people still using SCSI, if so why?Reading Cringley now eh?He does come up with some doozies - but he always explains himself well. This "hard drive" proposal is basically SyQuest v3, but it sure sounds...

Tags: US3, disk drive, Nothing, SCSI, Serial ATA, disk, processor

Discussion threads 2006-11-02

Windows Promise FastTrak TX2300 (tm) Controller 1.0.30.39 (Windows)

Windows Promise FastTrak TX2300 tm Controller: FEATURES: Serial ATA 3Gb/s Ports for support of up to 2 drives. RAID 0/1 and JBOD. PCI 32-Bit / 66 MHz. Native Command Queuing NCQ. SATA Tagged Command Queuing TCQ. Large LBA support for drives above 137GB. Disk Activity LED Headers. Combine with the...

Tags: Promise Technology, Serial ATA, Microsoft Windows, RAID, Operating Systems, Storage, Hardware, Software

Software downloads 2005-04-14

Windows Promise SATA300 TX4/TX2/779 (tm) IDE Controller 1.00.0.31 (Windows)

Windows Promise SATA300 TX4/TX2/779 tm IDE Controller: 4 Serial ATA 3Gb/s Ports for support of up to 4 drives. Native Command Queuing NCQ. SATA Tagged Command Queuing TCQ. Large LBA support for drives above 137GB. Supports Serial ATAPI devices. Disk Activity LED Headers. Flexible future-proof upgrade for users with motherboards...

Tags: IDE, Promise Technology, Serial ATA, Microsoft Windows, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Storage, Hardware, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2005-04-11