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Western Digital’s Raptor line of hard drives held the performance crown among SATA drives for the last few years. Spinning at 10,000 RPM, these 3.5-inch drives sacrificed capacity in the name of performance (other hard drives spin at 5,400 or 7,200 RPM).
In the last couple years, however, the Raptor’s performance lead was marginalized by modern [...]
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Docking stations are the cool new way to connect your less frequently used SATA hard drives to your computer: just pop ‘em down into the dock the way you would a Super Nintendo game.
Last month we featured the BlacX line of docking stations, which accommodate 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drives and optionally sport features like a [...]
For all of its annoying quirks, there’s one thing about binary that we just love: the returns to scale eventually ramp up quite quickly for consumers in the base-2 world.
When we last featured a solid state disk (SSD) post, we were extolling the virtues of OCZ’s 32GB and 64GB drives. But let’s face it: even [...]
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