The number of different formats available in DVD drives can be confusing to anyone in the market for one. The list is much longer, but to address a few of the common formats, we have DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM ,DVD+R DL and DVD±RW. Wow! This list of common formats is long enough, no [...]
Archive for Category: "Storage"
OCZ Secure Duo 2GB SD Card
There are tons of digital gadgets these days, and many of them require an SD card (or other flash memory) for storage. Every company has some initiative that they’re going to create some proprietary form factor, but this ends up hurting the consumer. We have over 10 different flash memory standards, and each of these [...]
SanDisk 1GB miniSD Memory Card
SanDisk has been a manufacturer of flash cards and portable media for many years. They produce flash memory in every form factor, the latest being mini-SD. There are currently many different form factors, and have reduced in size over the years. They have become pretty standardized, as 6-in-1 and even 8-in-1 card readers are widely [...]
Vantec External IDE to USB Adapter
Adding additional storage to your computer has never been so easy. Whether you have run out of available IDE ports or simply want to add hot-swap capabilities to a hard drive, the Vantec IDE-USB Adapter does the job. By conveting the IDE interface of hard drives to USB, the IDE-USB Adapter allows you to add [...]
Verbatim Store’n'Go 2GB U3 Smart Drive
Portable apps are all the rage these days! For about the same price as a regular USB key, you can get a smart drive that support U3 or Ceedo application technologies. You can download pre-packaged all-inclusive programs to your smart memory stick, and run them on any modern PC: without the need to install the [...]
Verbatim Store’n'Go 4GB USB HDD
It’s hard to imaging a portable device today without some sort of flash memory. They are ubiquitous among technology consumers, and enthusiasts use them to transport files between home and work. Now “portable apps” are starting to emerge, whereas you can run an all-inclusive program from a flash device on any PC. All the configuration [...]
Vantec NexStar 3: Firewire and USB HDD Enclosure
So when Vantec asked us to review some goodies we said yes obviously, so I got a nice big box filled with goodies, now lets check some of that out shal we. First up for review is the Vantec NexStar3 external 3.5” harddrive enclosure, now I already have an external enclosure but I wondered what [...]
VIZO SHE-250 Shuttle 2.5-inch Hard Drive Enclosure
Ah, the pleasure of mobility. I used to carry around a handful of 3.5″ floppies in the 90’s. Weren’t those the days? Now I can transport much larger files and transfer them much faster using an external hard drive—or an internal one mounted in an enclosure. Features Sleek and Slim design Portable, flexible and convenient [...]
Vantec EX-Swap 2 Hot-Swap Hard Drive Bays
Removeable hard drive racks offer users a convenient way to move lots of data around. The emergence of Serial ATA now allows users to hot-swap hard drives like SCSI. Finding a quality hard drive rack can be quite a task, however. The drive enclosure should support cooling the drive, should be lockable, and should be [...]
Athena Power SNT-2312B2 External HDD Enclosure
In today’s world, people need to carry their data with them wherever they go. Memory sticks and USB drives are fine for small files, but transporting large amounts of data from work to home is impractical. An external portable hard drive can be just the thing to lug alot of data between home and the [...]
Maxtor DiamondMax 200GB Hard Drive
Everyone has their own opinion on hardware these days. Hard drives have been one of the few components that most people have brand loyalty to for years and years. I have owned Western Digital and Samsung hard drives, but I had larger storage needs and needed a little more space. I decided to try a [...]
Asus Extreme N6600GT – SLI Part 2
As a continuation on our evaluation of the nForce4-SLI hardware that Asus sent us for review, we are going to take a closer look at Asus’ SLI compatible Extreme N6600GT series of video cards. This is Part 2 of a three part suite of articles. Part 1 took a look at the Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe [...]
Plextor PX-504A DVD-ROM Drive
This is the second optical drive that I have reviewed, the first was a Plextor PlexWriter 40/12/40A which I was very impressed by. DVD burners have become very popular recently with all of the major companies coming out with their own. This particular drive uses a DVD+RW format which was designed by the DVD+RW Alliance [...]
Plextor PX-708A DVD Drive
Multifunction DVD writers are now taking the main stage when it comes to optical drives. Multifunction DVD drives are able to write on both + and – media which makes them very useful. Not only do multifunction DVD writers do both DVD formats but they also burn CD-R and CD-RW making them that much more [...]
256MB Verbatim Store ‘n’ Go USB Drive
Verbatim was kind enough to send over one of their 256MB Store ‘n’ Go USB 2.0 drives for me to review. I recently did a review on a USB 2.0 Pen Drive which was really good, much better than USB 1.1 that’s for sure. USB drives are such a great thing to have because they [...]
256MB USB 2.0 Pen Drive
In August of 2002 I reviewed my first USB flash disk which was a USB 1.1 128MB Ur-Disk. Before I did my first review on the product back then I thought to myself, “What can I actually use this thing for?” Little did I know I would soon be using it on a daily basis. [...]
PlexWriter CD-RW 40/12/40A
Plextor has always been known to make really great CDRW drives and today I take a look at their PlexWriter 40/12/40A. The PlexWriter drive features a black CD-holder tray which has found to reduce C1 error rates. They have optimized the PCB circuits near the power supply to help decrease noise and provide clean power [...]
Cool Drive 4002 Cooling Enclosure
With hard drives getting faster and faster, the heat is increasing. If you have ever run your computer and then touched your hard drive it can be very hot. Whenever computer components are exposed to heat they break down faster. This hard drive cooler is one solution; it’s called the Cool Drive 4002 and is [...]
Galaxy Aluminum Hard Drive Cooler
Most hard drives these days get very hot, most of the time when you touch them they almost burn. There are many different kinds of coolers on the market, this is one of the more simpler and cheaper ones, simple and cheap don’t always mean poor performance though, I think you will be surprised. [...]
Ur-Disk 128MB Mini USB HDD
Floppy drives are now a thing of the past or at least should be, but we still need to transfer data don’t we? CDR media is a popular alternative to floppy drives because it can hold a lot of data, and with CD burners being so fast now a days only takes minutes to burn [...]
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