Devoted to hardware, servers, networks, connectivity, fiber, routers, switches, etc.

Tweaktown puts two Western Digital Caviar RE2 hard disk drives in RAID0 mode (stripe mode) and tries to tweak them for a showdown. The 100GB up to 500GB drives come with a five year warranty and 16MB cache each.

Performance, as you can expect is near exceptional although the drive on its own struggles at times. The drive is compared to the Seagate 7200.9 in single and RAID0 mode as well.

The TDK people are a hardworking bunch of people and they've proven that at the recent 8th Data Storage Expo in Japan . They are churning out a protptype 100GB Blu-ray disc and even a 25GB Blu-Ray Disc that burns... Continue Reading

One more reason which will stop you from diving head on in the Vista World – your pockets. Looks like users will need to spend some extra cash to get Vista OS installed on the notebooks. To run the OS... Continue Reading

Hitachi Data Systems has introduced a new Content  Archiving Platform (CAP) which is used for archiving structured and unstructured data on disk and doesn't need to use content-addressed storage (CAS) technology like Centera. Hitachi claims that this is better option... Continue Reading

Sony Electronics Asia Pacific has just launched the first single-layer 25GB Blu-ray Disc media which will be available in Singapore by June 2006. The company will also launch a 50GB Blu Ray Disc soon and these drives are perfect for... Continue Reading

Linksys plans to unveil a new USB external hard drive networking device which will let users make their own personal server later in the year. Thanks to the Linksys radical development, one will no longer need big bucks in... Continue Reading

Another new ground breaking technology showed recently by PQI is the 64GB NAND Flash 2.5" Disks which was developed in conjunction with Samsung by using their NAND flash memory chips. As expected, the new 64GB IDE and 64GB SATA... Continue Reading

Seagate Technology has unveiled two new cost effective, data encrypting 2.5-inch notebook PC hard drives, the Momentus 5400 PSD and the Momentus 5400.2 FDE. Both the hard drives are truly unique and not on increases battery life but also enhances... Continue Reading

Hammer Storage, a division of Bell Microproducts, Inc. has started shipping the Hammer Z-Series, a new network storage solution for small and mid size businesses. By adding the Z-SAN(TM) Storage-over-IP (SoIP) technology to the Hammer(TM), this gives birth to the... Continue Reading

Another announcement made by Seagate Technology which stunned the industry experts is the launch of the new Savvio 10K.2, Seagate's second-generation 2.5-inch enterprise class disc drive. This new drive is not an ordinary piece of equipment and in fact is... Continue Reading

Seagate means business and in recent times have launched some really impressive products and solution for enterprise systems. Now the company has launched the new Seagate Barracuda ES, the world's largest capacity enterprise drive which promises performance and reliability, all... Continue Reading

Toshiba Corporation is generating a lot of buzz by showcasing its new and groundbreaking 2.5-inch hard disk drive (HDD)which sports the innovative perpendicular magnetic recording technology. The new HDD by Toshiba is in fact of the industry's largest(a) 200GB capacity... Continue Reading

Another company to be bitten by the Blu-ray bug is BenQ. The company made its plans to launch a Blu-ray Disc drive later this year public. This next generation optical drive will be will be able to write as well... Continue Reading

Symantec Corp recently launched the world’s first and only standardized integrated solution across a varied set of application including databases, servers and storage platforms. Its definitely something I see useful since standardization is something very important when you have various... Continue Reading

Samsung may have just released their 32GB Solid State disk but I think thats not enough capacity for a blogger like me. Alas ! I found a website at DVNation that stocks up Solid State disks up to 128GB. This... Continue Reading

Fujitsu's Mag EraSURE ensures that all sensitive data that must be destroyed permanently will be wiped off the face of the hard disk platters within a minute. It will definately come in handy in financial and business circles who need... Continue Reading

Man.. I just love the dudes at Samsung. Take any technical field like cameras, cell phones etc and they are always one step ahead of the competition. Now news has just poured in that Samsung by July is all set... Continue Reading

  SmartDisk has launched a new portable hard drive which does not need to be powered by an external source and can draw power from the PC USB or Fire wire cable. The new SmartDisk FireLite Xpress features a... Continue Reading

Sun Microsystems Inc is buzzing with activity today as it's just unveiled its plans to launch new data storage hardware and software products. Sun Microsystems Inc is planning to further expand its popular "Try-and-Buy" program which will now include storage... Continue Reading

More good news for Mac users. Just recently one of the industrial leaders FirmTek has just launched a new SATA expansion card intended exclusively for the latest PCI-E enabled dual-core Mac G5 platform. The new SeriTek/2SE2-E is a state of... Continue Reading