Archive for the ‘Storage’ Category
Samsung 840 250GB and Samsung 840 Pro 256GB vs. OCZ Agility 3 240GB
Introduction Solid State Drives (SSD’s) define a great deal of today’s computing power. For more serious computer users, conventional hard disk drives (HDD’s) are mere storage devices, if possible tucked away in a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) in the closet. The ...
Corsair Neutron GTX 240 GB
Introduction With the effects of the Thailand floods finally behind us and more manufacturers joining the SSD party, the SSD market has become quite competitive. We recently looked at two Plextor SSDs that provided an impressive amount of power, and ...
Plextor M5 Pro SSD
Introduction It was less than two weeks ago that our review of the Plextor M3 Pro was published, and already we have in our hands its successor, the Plextor M5 Pro. This new solid state drive comes packing Marvell’s latest ...
Plextor M3 Pro SSD
Introduction Plextor is not a name that you would have immediately associate with SSD manufacture – they’re probably best known to old timers as a leading manufacturer of CD/DVD drives – but they’ve been in the business a while. Unlike ...
Crucial Adrenaline – Cache SSD
Introduction The Crucial Adrenaline is Crucial’s new SSD cache system, designed to speed up your hard drive! It takes a 50GB M4 SSD and their Dataplex software and caches all of your often used files, such as the ones ...
Samsung 830 SATA III 6Gbps 128GB SSD
Introduction Samsung might be in the middle of a big smartphone patent war with Apple, but that hasn’t stopped it unveiling a new SSD built on the SATA III standard. Today I’m looking at the 830 128GB, putting it up ...
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB SSD
Introduction Another day, another review, another SSD. Here we have the Vertex 3 from OCZ, with a healthy capacity of 240GB. It comes with the latest 2200 series controller from Sandforce, support for SATA III 6GBps data transfer and some ...
Kingston HyperX 240GB SATA III SSD
Introduction SSDs are becoming more and more mainstream these days, with costs gradually coming down making them more accesible in more useful capacities, to more people. SATA III is a recent development that has seen these solid state discs almost ...
Synology DS110J NAS
Introduction While it might no longer be the smallest or cheapest NAS that Synology have available, the DS110J is still up there and you can buy it with built in storage if you so choose. It might look a little ...
Plextor PX-128M2S 128GB SSD
Introduction Who knew Plextor made SSDs? Well they do and they’re sitting pretty with a new SATA III drive. It’s part of the M2 range and is known fully as the Plextor PX-128M2S. There’s plenty of shelf life improving features ...
