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Seagate Barracuda 36ES2 Hard Disk Drive Review

[ 03/20/02 | by FastSite]

Barracuda 36ES2 features very fast mechanics, a rather dense platter, excellent linear read graph, andfast and smart interface. One more distinctive feature of this HDD is its noiselessness. The solutionis targeted for computers that work with video and "heavy" applications or low-end servers.

Western Digital 1200JB HDD Review

[ 02/27/02 | by FastSite]

We reviewed a HDD from Western Digital representing a new trend in the field of IDE storage solutions.This "Special Edition" product boasts an 8MB cache-buffer, which allows it to compete on equal terms notonly with the fastest IDE hard drives, but also with SCSI drives featuring 7,200rpm (and even higher)spindle rotation speed. Find out more about this revolution!

High-End IDE RAID Controllers Roundup. Part 2

[ 02/14/02 | by FastSite]

In this article we will compare all the currently available IDE RAID 5 controllers on all RAID levelssupported. They are the new Adaptec 2400A, 3ware 7810 and Promise SuperTrak SX6000, and the alreadyreviewed Promise SuperTrak100, Adaptec AAA-UDMA and 3ware 6400. Learn more about the whole bunch ofadvanced features and enjoy an exciting competition in our roundup!

Promise SuperTrak SX6000 IDE RAID Controller Review

[ 02/14/02 | by FastSite]

Promise SX6000 controller proves pretty fast in our tests and managed to outperform its predecessor -SuperTrak100 controller in all sorts of configurations and in all patterns. Another advantage of our herois perfect price-to-IDE ratio. 6 channels of only one Promise SX6000 controller allow creating twofault-tolerant arrays (RAID 3 and RAID 5) or three RAID 1 arrays.

3ware 7810 IDE RAID Controller Review

[ 02/14/02 | by FastSite]

The beautiful performance and functionality are certainly not the only cool peculiarities of this product.Provided with a very useful chassis for three mobile racks, this controller boasts 8 IDE channels, which meansthat you can connect up to 8 hard disk drives to it. Have you ever tried anything like that? Make sure you don'tmiss it!

Adaptec 2400A IDE RAID Controller Review

[ 02/14/02 | by FastSite]

This IDE RAID controller appeared very fast in server patterns and proved a really reliable solution in our tests.Besides, it offers you a brilliant opportunity to increase its cache buffer capacity up to 128MB. Besides, we willfind out how the stripe-block size and the cache-buffer capacity can influence the performance of a contemporary IDERAID controller like that.

IBM Deskstar 120GXP HDD Review

[ 02/08/02 | by FastSite]

We reviewed a new really long-awaited IBM HDD: DeskStar 120GXP with 80GB storage capacity and7,200rpm spindle rotation speed. Our tests showed that this HDD was really worth waiting for:unbelievably fast in WinBench tests and an indisputable leader in Intel IOMeter (in case of higherworkload). See our review for more encouraging discoveries!

Hard Disk Drives in 2001: Annual Overview

[ 01/30/02 | by FastSite]

Last year the storage market lived through a great lot of exciting events. We could watch someproducts become a success and some - a total disappointment, we saw great projects being plannedand the last hopes being ruined. In this overview we will try to get a bird's eye view of the peopleand events in the storage market in 2001.

Hyundai Cutie External HDD Review

[ 01/18/02 | by FastSite]

We reviewed a very interesting and practical external hard disk drive from Hyundai aka HyundaiCutie. This 20GB baby with the insights by IBM and 4,200rpm spindle rotation speed was tested inall possible interfaces including USB 1.1, UDMA66 and the newest USB 2.0. This is a really coolthing to check!

Western Digital Protege 400EB HDD Review

[ 01/14/02 | by FastSite]

We reviewed one of the latest Western Digital hard disk drives with 5,400rpm spindle rotationspeed and 40GB storage capacity. Although this HDD is positioned for the Value desktop systems,it sometimes manages to outperform even its elder mainstream brother with 7,200rpm rotation speed.

ATA/133 Controllers Comparison

[ 01/11/02 | by FastSite]

We compared the performance of three today's ATA/133 controllers available. Namely, we took a closerlook at Promise Ultra133, HighPoint HPT372 integrated into the mainboard and the M1535D+ South Bridgeof ALi MAGiK 1 chipset. Find out which one is the best so far!