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Seagate External 200GB Hard Disk Drive Review

[ 12/20/04 | by Andrey Kuznetcov]

We would like to introduce to you a complete new external solution from Seagate. So far there have been only products from Maxtor and WD, and now Seagate enters the competition. Find out now how attractive the newcomer looks against the rivals’ background!

Talon ZL 4-150 SATA Controller from Pacific Digital

[ 12/16/04 | by Alexander Yuriev]

We would like to introduce to you a new SerialATA controller from Pacific Digital. It supports four Serial ATA-150 devices and allows uniting them into arrays of the following types: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1 and RAID10. Tagged Command Queuing: is it good or bad? Find out more about all this in our new review!

Seagate Momentus 5400.2 2.5” Hard Disk Drive Review

[ 12/09/04 | by Andrey Kuznetcov]

We would like to introduce to you a 100GB 2.5-inch HDD from Seagate. This time we had only a pre-production sample at hand, bit it also revealed very interesting results. Check out our new review for more details now!

Seagate ST1 1-Inch Hard Disk Drive Review

[ 12/07/04 | by Andrey Kuznetcov]

Today we would like to introduce to you a new one-inch hard disk drive from Seagate supporting CompactFlash interface. Based on the regular HDD architecture (featuring platters and heads), this product proved very fast, very reliable and robust against external physical vibrations and shock. And the most important is that it offers outstanding storage capacity at a very affordable price.

Mega Roundup 4: 16 Hard Disk Drives with 200GB+ Storage Capacity

[ 12/02/04 | by Alexey Volkov]

Concluding the series of our Mega Roundups we would like to offer you an extensive testing of 16 hard disk drives with the storage capacity of 200GB and more. Here we will take a closer look at the solutions from Hitachi, Maxtor, Seagate and Western Digital.

Integrated Chipset Serial ATA RAID Controllers Roundup

[ 11/29/04 | by Andrey Kuznetcov]

We would like to take a closer look at the performance of four Serial ATA controllers integrated into the South Bridges of the three well-known core logic developers: Intel, VIA and SiS. We will find out how greatly the performance of a RAID array may be affected by the controller integrated into the chipset your mainboard is based on.

External 250GB HDD from Maxtor: OneTouch II E01G250 Review

[ 11/23/04 | by Andrey Kuznetcov]

Following the market success of the OneTouch family of external hard disk drives, Maxtor has introduced the second generation of such products. To help users who are shopping for a large-capacity and yet portable storage device, we are going to test one model of the OneTouch II series and share the results with you.

Hitachi Deskstar 7K250: Vancouver 3 HDD Review

[ 11/19/04 | by Sergey Romanov]

Today we would like to introduce to you a new third generation of IBM/Hitachi Vancouver hard disk drives. We will test and review the entire HDD family including the models with storage capacity of 250GB, 200GB, 160GB, 120GB, 80GB, 60GB and 40GB, featuring 8MB or 2MB buffer and supporting two types of interface: SATA and PATA. Find out more about these new Deskstar solutions from our detailed review!

Two DVD Drives from LG and Samsung

[ 11/15/04 | by Andrey Kuznetcov]

This mini-duel between the two Korean giants, Samsung and LG should be really interesting for you, if you are planning to replace your current CD-Rom drive with something newer and better but don’t want or can’t afford a DVD-recorder.

Two Gigabyte DVD Burners Review

[ 11/09/04 | by Vasily Melnik]

We have already tested a lot of mainboards and VGA cards from Gigabyte, but it is the first time we actually are going to take a really close look at the optical drives from this manufacturer. Please meet two DVD burners offering excellent burning quality and pretty high speeds. Read more on our detailed review!

New SATA Hard Disk Drives from Western Digital RAID Edition Family

[ 11/08/04 | by Andrey Kuznetcov]

We would like to introduce to you a new SATA hard disk drive family from Western Digital. We will test the top model from the family with 250GB storage capacity to see if it turned out more attractive and efficient than the predecessors in a single drive mode as well as in RAID 0 arrays.

LiteOn SOHW-1213S Dual DVD±RW Recorder Review

[ 10/08/04 | by Vasily Melnik]

Today we would like to introduce to you a new DVD drive from LiteOn capable of burning DVDs at 12x speed. This is a well-done device that provides an opportunity to estimate the quality of the written discs and has good technical parameters. More benchmarks are available in our new review!

ASUS SCB-2408-D Combo Drive Review

[ 10/06/04 | by Andrey Kuznetcov]

We would like to introduce a new combo-drive from ASUS: SCB-2408-D. It is a small, low-weight solution, supporting two interfaces, ability to work with DVD media of the two competing formats, and being very efficient at processing C2 errors. Curious to find out more? Read our review!

A-DATA i-Drive USB 2.0 Disk + PC Camera Review

[ 10/04/04 | by Andrey Kuznetcov]

A very interesting solution combining the features of a storage drive and a digital camera has just left our testlab. On the road a compact and easy to use solution like that may be irreplaceable. Read more about the highs a lows of it in our detailed article!

WD Raptor 2 HDD: It Still Keeps Spinning!

[ 10/02/04 | by Nikita Nikolaichev]

This article is a continuation to our review of the HDD from Western Digital aka WD740GD Raptor 2. We are going to find out why this great product failed to demonstrate proper functioning of the Ultra150/CQ technology on all previously available controller cards. Moreover, we will discover the real benefits of this technology, such as up to 30% performance increase. Read about it now!