Slowly but surely, solid-state-drives are making their entrance into mainstream acceptance. For sometime, higher-end laptops from Apple, Sony, HP, etc. have offered optional SSD hard disks as replacements for mechanical drives, which, due to moving parts, are significantly slower than solid-state storage for random and sequential reading (as well as random writing) speed. More consumers are taking notice of SSD because their benefits are readily apparent: much faster operating system and application boot up times and quicker general response from computers. Unfortunately, the biggest hurdle of SSD (in addition to first generation drives that had terrible Jmicron controllers) has remained its small capacity and high price. While drives are becoming more affordable and bigger, 60-64Gb disks are still in the $150+ range. People like myself have waited for the ideal solution, and with Corsair’s budget Nova series, I think that I have found it. More »

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Tanks are awesome. From the hulking military vehicles to the massive physical specimens that we root for in our favor sport, tanks rock. There are tank classes in MMORPGs. The word tank is just synonomous with great physical strength and almost superhuman endurance which is why it’s the perfect word to describe an ioSafe Solo Hard Drive. More »

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Somewhere, I’ve got files from the first computer I ever brought for myself on a few CD-RW discs. At this point I’m pretty sure they’ve been rendered unreadable due to time’s cruel march. CDs and DVDs just like cassette tapes and floppy disks before them degrade over time if not stored properly. I’ve since moved all my old data onto my new comp and am currently shopping around for an external hard drive to call my own, but this new product from Utah-based startup Millenniata might be another option. More »

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The tireless folks over at German tech site Halbleiter have compiled a rather exhaustive and infinitely useful benchmark comparisons of almost every major line of USB flash drives available around the world - sitting atop the heap is the Euro-exclusive PowerRAM SafeStick 3.0 (read speed) and the Transcend JetFlash (write). More »

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