Harddrive prices 2-3 fold higher than normal, time for SSD?

Storage

Published on Wednesday, 02 November 2011 09:38 Written by Anton Karmehed

Harddrive prices have gone up fast over the last few weeks and are up to 2-3 times higher than earlier this fall, a number that can get even worse. The heavy floods in Thailand have put factories under water, which is confirmed by pictures from WD's plants.

A-DATA “my Flash” Fingerprint Disk

Storage

Published on Sunday, 02 July 2006 19:57 Written by Anton Karmehed

A-DATA has gone step further when developing a USB memory with good security. Or what would you say about an integrated fingerprint reader? We decided to take a closer look at the memory in our latest review.

SATA-roundup - 160 GB

Storage

Published on Friday, 16 July 2004 20:08 Written by Linus Laurin

We'll begin this harddrive review just as we did the last one, we've been inactive in covering the storage section for some time now, but now comes the time to change that....

WD Raptor vs WD Caviar & Seagate Barracuda

Storage

Published on Tuesday, 02 September 2003 18:30 Written by Martin Nordén

First off, we have Western Digital's new Raptor with a rotation speed of a whopping 10 000 revolutions per minute, hinting about good access times. Its competitors are Western Digital's and Seagate's mainstream harddrives, namely 120 GB models with 8 MB cache. Both Seagate's Barracuda and Western's Raptor are equipped with SATA; the new harddrive interface whose popularity increases quite fast on the market.

Server with IDE-RAID1

Storage

Published on Sunday, 29 June 2003 23:49 Written by Mårten Johansson

It is Friday afternoon and it is almost four o'clock. The birds are singing outside the window, the melted snow is pouring down the gutter and everyone walks around feeling the spring in the air. It is soon weekend and you have planned a romantic trip to a secret location with hotel and luxury together with the girl you fancy. Only a few minutes left and then something happens that was not supposed to happen...

Western Digital WD2000JB

Storage

Published on Monday, 17 February 2003 18:16 Written by Anton Nilsson, Christopher Zell

Today we are proud to present our review of Western Digital's latest flagship harddrive in the desktop sector. A company like Western Digital is hardly in need of presentation. The harddrive, having received the nickname "Drivezilla", is quite a heavyweight, being able to store 200 GB. And the extensive storing capacity is not all, the drive is also equipped with impressive 8 MB of cache memory since this is a representative of the more exclusive "Special Edition"-model.