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This post was written by Carrie Smith
The OCZ 64GB SATA II SSD is undoubtedly very expensive and won’t even be worth considering for most. However, if you do have deep pockets and want the ultimate performance from your desktop or notebook, then this drive is the way to go. Shock resistance is first rate as the drive can still operate, even when a force of 1500G is applied to it. It looks quite nice in its brushed aluminium livery but essentially this is a functional bit of kit.
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Buffalo’s LinkStation Mini may not be as fast as larger boxes sporting 3.5in hard disks (it took around one minute 30 seconds to write a 1GB file), and it may not offer quite as much RAID flexibility either. However, it does offer something that no other NAS appliance does - 1TB in a truly tiny chassis. It’s also reasonably priced, considering the amount of storage on offer, and that Buffalo has used 7,200rpm SATA notebook drives. It can sit in the palm of your hand and warrants a whole hearted Recommended.
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Freecom’s FSG-3 Storage Gateway WLAN is a compact NAS appliance offering a whole heap of features at a reasonable price. Performance is on a par with similar appliances in this price range and security has been improved over the previous model although the documentation could be a bit more helpful with many of the services. Appliance installation won’t take long as the bundled FSG Assistant locates the Gateway on the network for you. The web management interface has been redesigned and it does provide easy access to all the functions.
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The Iomega StorCenter ix2 is a network-attached storage (NAS) drive with a unique feature set. It’s the first NAS drive tested by CNET that supports Bluetooth devices and it’s also the first that doesn’t offer remote, over-the-Internet access. The Iomega StorCenter ix2 is about as compact as a NAS server can get with two internal hard drives; it’s barely larger than two 3.5-inch hard drives put together. Iomega backs the StorCenter ix2 with only a one-year warranty, which is very short for a storage device.
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Paragon’s Hard Disk Manager features improved support for solving problems with Master Boot Record (MBR) and Boot Configuration Data errors and much better support for Vista. The idea of one program which performs all your hard drive, partition and file management tasks is an appealing one. Hard Disk Manager 2009 Suite does most of this on most systems, though it can’t split an existing partition, nor work with partitions on Windows Dynamic disks. There are plenty of things it can do, though, and overall it’s good value at the price, though niggling errors remain.
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Patriot’s Warp V.2 stands out among solid-state hard drives due to being inexpensive. The only test on which it showed a benefit was the transfer speed benchmark. The Patriot delivers on its promise to access data quicker than the standard 5,400rpm Fujitsu drive, but still can’t quite keep up with the 7,200rpm Seagate Momentus, even though the difference is far from severe. In the battery drain test, the Patriot drive lasted the least amount of time, shutting off at the 86-minute mark.
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Hewlett-Packard has introduced the next generation of its Windows-based home server, which includes nearly four times the memory as the previous version and more storage capacity. The new HP MediaSmart Server comes in two models, the ex485 and ex487. The only difference in the two is in storage capacity. The ex485 comes with one 750-GB, 7200 RPM SATA hard disk drive and the ex487 with two of the same drives for a total of 1.5 TB. The first generation server, released in late 2007, had a base capacity of 500 GB.
