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Western Digital Passport Mobile Hard Disk Drive with 250GB Storage Capacity

[ 09/05/07 | by Aleksey Meyev]

We would like to introduce to you a new external hard disk drive from Western Digital built on 2.5-inch HDD and featuring the today’s largest storage capacity for a solution of this kind. It supports USB interface and offers unprecedented performance – a significant step forward compared with its 120GB predecessors we reviewed before.

Ultra-Small Hard Disk Drives: Does It Make Sense?

[ 08/29/07 | by Aleksey Meyev]

Hard disk drives built on 1-inch platters and USB flash drives. Same size, same storage capacity, same functionality. But similar technologies very rarely can exist side by side: competition inevitably eliminates one of them. Which one has better chances today? Let’s find out from our new article!

Mission "Defragmentation". Part 2: PerfectDisk

[ 08/09/07 | by Aleksey Meyev]

This time we are going to check out defragmentation using one of the third-party software applications. We are going to compare the hard disk drives in PerfectDisk 8.0 from Raxco Software. We will also look at how the per-platter data density and the size of the cache-buffer affect the defragmentation efficiency.

SanDisk Extreme IV Compact Flash Card and New Card-Readers

[ 07/30/07 | by Aleksey Meyev]

SanDisk Extreme IV flash card is guaranteed to deliver superb performance compared to the previous series cards in virtually every parameter. But you should be aware that the card can only give you its best when you insert it into an appropriate reader. Find out more about the best SanDisk card-readers in our new article.

Way to the Top: Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 HDD Review

[ 07/12/07 | by Sergey Romanov]

We would like to introduce to you the world’s first hard disk drive featuring 1TB storage capacity and a 32MB cache buffer. It also boasts second-generation perpendicular recording technology and thermal fly-height control technology. Are you curious to find out more about this solution from Hitachi and its performance compared to the entire lineup of predecessors? Then read our review!

Fujitsu Handy Drive 120GB Portable Storage Solution Review

[ 07/05/07 | by Aleksey Meyev]

Today we are going to introduce to you one of compact, but capacious external storage devices from Fujitsu – the new 120GB Handy Drive designed in 2.5-inch form-factor and offering 4,200rpm HDD spindle rotation speed. We are going to compare its performance against that of the solutions from Transcend and Western Digital.