Storage
Once the domain of external, bus-powered hard drives, these days the market for external storage has been almost completely consumed by portable SSDs. Rapid technological advancements in NAND flash technology (including the advent of 3D NAND) has allowed their capacity to eclipse 2.5-inch HDDs, all the while multiple improvements in host interface speeds (such as the move from USB 2.0 to 3.0, and onwards to 3.2 Gen 2 / Gen 2x2 / USB4) has made portable SSDs faster and more reliable than the hard drives they replace. All of which has helped to make portable SSDs the go-to solution for external storage, both big and small. For our latest storage buyer's guide, we've rounded up some of the best portable SSDs we've looked at in...
Western Digital's Raptor - Part I: The World's Fastest Desktop Drive
Less than a week after we took a look at Western Digital's Raptor we received a production drive. Let's just say that the performance improvement is just shy...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/11/2003Western Digital Raptor Preview: 10,000RPM & Serial ATA
In our first storage review in years, we take a look at one of the most highly anticipated hard drives in recent history - the world's first 10,000RPM Serial...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/7/2003ASUS CRW-5224A: CDR's Reach The End of the Line
Many people are claiming CDRW drives won't get any faster than 52X. This really is the end of the line for the CDRW drive, although it will be...
4 by Kristopher Kubicki on 1/13/2003ASUS CRW-4012A-U: High Speed Mobile Burning
ASUS takes a stab at the mobile market with their 40X USB 2.0 burner but are they successful? Find out as we take a look at the ASUS...
1 by Kristopher Kubicki on 11/6/2002IDE RAID Comparison
5 RAID cards, 48 different configurations, over 110 hours of benchmarks. For what you ask? Only the most comprehensive IDE RAID article to date. Find out what IDE RAID...
2 by Matthew Witheiler on 6/18/2001OnStream ECHO 30 USB Storage Drive
We have all heard the age-old tale, "backup your data". The number of personal backup devices out there now makes the decision of which one fits your budget/needs a...
0 by Jason Clark on 8/27/2000IBM Deskstar 75GXP Ultra ATA 100 Hard Drive
AnandTech takes a look at the popular IBM 75 GXP hard drive. It boasts an impressive list of features, but does it have what it takes to steal the...
1 by Scott Gooden on 7/26/2000Quantum Fireball Plus LM Review
We test Quantum's latest ATA offering, the Fireball Plus LM, a 30GB, 7200-RPM, Ultra ATA/66 hard drive, which promises to give the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus a run for its...
0 by Scott Gooden on 5/18/2000Ultra ATA/66 versus Ultra ATA/33 Comparison
We took three recently reviewed hard drives and ran them through the paces under the Ultra ATA/33 interface. We then compared these results with our previous Ultra ATA/66 test...
0 by Scott Gooden on 5/16/2000Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 Ultra ATA 66 HDD
With this first update to the March 2000 Hard Drive Roundup; we are fulfilling our promise to continue to bring you hard drive reviews on a regular basis. In...
0 by Scott Gooden on 4/14/2000Ultra ATA 66 Hard Drive Roundup - March 2000
With our first hard drive roundup in over a year, we take a look at six Ultra ATA 66 hard drives and put them to the test -...
0 by Scott Gooden on 3/14/2000
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