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Flash drives get a fight from disks

I used - and loved - a Windows flash disk notebook for 5 years. The flash drive doubled my battery life and gave me a better sleep mode better than any I've had since - PC or Mac. I've been excited to see flash drives moving into the notebook mainstream....

Tags: Notebook, Disk, Seagate Momentus, Performance, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., USB Flash Drive, Bottom Line, Seagate Technology LLC, RPM, GB Mtron, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-09-11

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Time to ditch the optical drive, once and for all

Once heralded as the second coming of data storage, the sun has finally set on the optical drive as an effective vehicle for data storage and delivery. Optical drives are simply too small and too slow to be practical. Single layer discs hold 4.7GB while double layer discs can hold...

Tags: Hard Drive, Apple Macintosh, Disk, Storage, Optical Drive, MCE, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Maingear debuts eX-L 18, 'world's most powerful laptop'; dual GeForce, triple HD, $3-6K

High-performance computer builders Maingear on Thursday announced its eX-L 18 desktop replacement laptop, 'the world's most powerful' notebook, according to the company. The system features dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M GPUs (1080p HD resolution, of course), Intel Core 2 mobile processors and dual-channel...

Tags: Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Intel Core 2 Duo, 1080p, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Maingear, eX-L 18, Serial ATA, Processors, Storage, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-24

Patriot Warp V.2

Intel recently plunged into the solid-state drive market and sent storage industry hype through the roof with its ground-up design. After our own tests confirmed its speed, we wondered whether the results were indicative of SSDs across the board or simply a testament to Intel's hard work and ingenuity. The...

Tags: Patriot Warp V.2, Intel Corp., hard drive, SSD

Product reviews 2008-11-18

Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB)

Intel's X-25M solid-state hard drive represents a major leap forward for the solid-state drive category. While we've heard about the benefits of solid-state hard drives for years--faster access and boot times, improved battery life--Intel's drive raises expectations for the category as a whole. You will most definitely have to...

Tags: Intel Corp., Intel X-25M, SSD, hard drive

Product reviews 2008-10-08

Can Seagate steer hybrid-drive market?

Can Seagate steer hybrid-drive market?Yet another pointless gimick.I was reading an article somewhere possibly on zdnet that compared the Seagate Momentus drive in question with a 32 gig SSD and a 7200 rpm standard HDD, the Momentus 5400 benchmarks were mediocre at best and it was even resoundingly hammered by...

Tags: Backups, Seagate Technology LLC, hard drive

Discussion threads 2007-10-08

March of the notebook hard drives

March of the notebook hard drivesFive more choices, 160 to 250GBOther 2.5-inch, 9.5mm-thin SATA drives that offer capacity, speed, or both:Hitachi TravelStar 5K160: 160GB, 5400rpm, available since August 2006, now only about $120. I use one in my daughter's MacBook.Seagate Momentus ST9160821AS: 160GB, 5400rpm, available since September 2006 Fujitsu MHW2...

Tags: Notebooks, Hitachi Travelstar, notebook hard drive, notebook, hard drive

Discussion threads 2007-05-23

March of the notebook hard drives

I've always complained about the fact that notebook hard drives are the only technology that don't seem to keep up with Moore's Law, but that appears to be changing. A rash of recent 2.5-inch hard drive announcements shows promise that the trend of small, slow notebook drives could be changing...

Tags: MacBook Pro, MacBook, Hard drive

Blog posts 2007-05-22

Sony's lame response to PS3 backward-compatibility critics

Sony's lame response to PS3 backward-compatibility criticsSony is KaputSony is paying for all its unpunish illegal activities (especialy the infection of millions of compunter with Virus/Root Kit). Sony is a has been. it was a great hardware company, not it is just a common crook. PS3 is a total flop....

Tags: Game players, Games, Blu-ray, Sony PlayStation Portable, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii

Discussion threads 2007-02-28

Seagate Innovation About to Deliver a Windows Vista-Ready Hybrid Drive

Hybrid hard drive technology, pairing a cache of NonVolatile NV memory with traditional hard drive technology, offers significant power efficiency, speed and extreme durability benefits, especially for notebook computers and mobile devices. The Microsoft Windows Vista operating system is the first operating system to fully enable the benefits of hybrid...

Tags: Innovation, Hard Drive, Seagate Technology Inc., SEAGATE Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2006-09-01

MacBook Pro requires new accessories

If you're in the market for a MacBook Pro to replace a PowerBook, you need to remember that Apple's new professional notebook requires a whole new set of accessories. If you have any PC Cards (i.e. EVDO cards or flash memory readers) you'll need to replace them because the...

Tags: Apple PowerBook, MBP RAM

Blog posts 2006-01-18

Photo: Seagate's mighty Momentus drive

The perpendicular recording technique in this 2.5-inch drive means a notebook could pack 160GB of storage.

Tags: Seagate Technology LLC, notebook, photograph, storage, technique

Image galleries 2006-01-17

Photo: Seagate's mighty Momentus drive

The perpendicular recording technique in this 2.5-inch drive means a notebook could pack 160GB of storage.

Tags: Seagate Technology LLC, notebook, photograph, storage, technique

Image galleries 2006-01-17