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Poweroid 1200 review
Reviews As mentioned above, the hard disk is a massive 250GB Western Digital Serial-ATA unit with a rotational speed of 7,200rpm and an 8MB cache. Poweroid told us that it had attempted to fit Zalman's ZM2-HC1 hard disk heat-pipe assembly, but that the...
[March 26, 2004, 11:50]
Retrospect Desktop Backup 5.5 review
Reviews Once you've lost data, you can choose to restore an entire disk -- helpful after a hard drive disaster -- either to the original location or to a new place. When it's time to do another backup to the same set, Retrospect compares this catalogue to...
[February 4, 2002, 23:00]
Should businesses upgrade to Vista? review
Reviews Our system had several such drives, so were told three times that Vista needs at least 15GB and to add a hard disk or free up some space. On the other hand, Microsoft says that PCs need at least 15GB of disk space just to install the Vista...
[November 30, 2006, 9:32]
Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test review
Reviews Partitioning the hard disk is also straightforward thanks to the efficient Disk Utility program. Installation from a bootable DVD takes about two hours, and the operating system requires 5.9GB of hard disk space.
[November 9, 2005, 8:20]
Sorting security fact from fiction
News Cookies do pose a privacy issue, but they don't disseminate viruses or allow access to your entire hard disk. Cookies are small text files that some Web sites place on your hard disk, containing information such as user IDs, shopping cart...
[April 11, 2006, 16:20]
Benchmarks: Windows 7 RTM versus Vista, XP review
Reviews The launch of Windows 7 on a system with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N330 processor and a conventional hard disk took 44 seconds. HDD: Disk performance is measured using Windows Defender, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Movie Maker, Windows Media Center and...
[July 30, 2009, 7:39]
Mesh Matrix D750 Pro review
Reviews The hard disk is a 5,400rpm Fujitsu Ultra ATA/66 drive, 1.4GB of whose 20.4GB capacity is taken up by the Windows 98 SE operating system and bundled software. As far as performance is concerned, the Matrix D750 Pro is comfortably fast enough to run...
[October 23, 2000, 0:00]
VIA cranks out the Hi-Fi PC
News application cannot access the hard disk, so that although it can play MP3s from a CD, it cannot play them from a hard disk. Motherboard manufacturer VIA Technologies will further blur the distinction between consumer electronics and computers early...
[October 21, 2002, 12:45]
Comdex: USB 2.0 looking good in Vegas
News Whereas USB 1.1's maximum data rate of 12Mbits/sec is sufficient for devices such as mice, keyboards, low-end printers, Webcams and Internet telephones, it has tended to be a bottleneck for more demanding peripherals like scanners, high-resolution...
[November 14, 2000, 16:04]
Streamline Outlook 2000 installs
News Hard-disk access times are much shorter, so I recommend placing the installation files on a hard disk instead of on a CD-ROM. That location can be a distribution server hard disk or CD-ROM. This type of shortcut, known as a hard-coded shortcut, is...
[April 10, 2003, 12:17]
Transmeta to unveil chip customers
News McKernan said to watch for both one and two-spindle notebooks: machines that sport a hard drive but no other internal disk drives, and those with a hard drive and one internal disk drive, respectively.
[June 21, 2000, 8:39]
Wiebetech Drive eRazer review
Reviews A standard single-pass mode writes one time across the whole disk, deleting blocks including partitions and Host Protected Areas. It automatically checks for and removes Device Configuration Overlays (DCOs) and writes to every sector of the disk...
[January 29, 2008, 7:57]
Inside Intel's Santa Rosa platform review
Reviews More performance, and lower power consumption, comes from a flash-based hard disk cache called Turbo Memory. Turbo Memory, formerly code-named Robson, is a NAND flash hard disk cache that's designed to reduce boot times, boost performance and...
[May 9, 2007, 8:25]
Panther problem eats some hard drives
News Apple has identified an issue with external FireWire hard drives using the Oxford 922 bridge chipset with firmware version 1.02 that can result in the loss of data stored on the disk drive," the company said in a statement provided to CNET News.com.
[October 31, 2003, 7:15]
Toshiba Portégé A600-122 review
Reviews The component WEI scores were generally similar between the two machines, except in the Primary hard disk (Disk data transfer rate) test; here, the R600's 7,200rpm drive gave it an advantage (5.7) over the A600 (5.3) with its slower 5,400rpm drive.
[April 27, 2009, 14:57]
Maxtor dumps open source for Windows
News Maxtor, the largest hard disk maker since its acquisition of Quantum's disk line in October, has been working hard on its line of network-attached storage products, which are storage systems that lie somewhere between gussied-up hard disks and...
[March 6, 2001, 7:08]
Vizioncore esxEssentials review
Reviews For example, we made a replica of a Windows Server 2003 system that was configured with a 30GB hard disk and 4GB of RAM, which took around 2 hours to replicate via a 1000Base-T LAN. The CLI then uses VCB to copy those files directly from the...
[August 21, 2007, 12:52]
PDC Day minus one
Blog In spite of my best efforts (by shrinking partitions) I couldn't persuade both Linux and Vista to work on the same hard disk. Sadly HP don't supply a rescue disk for SUSE install so I just plain gave up and installed Vista on half the hard disc...
[October 26, 2008, 15:01]
Toshiba Tecra 9000 review
Reviews Options for the multi-purpose drive bay include CD-RW and a combination DVD/CD-RW drive, as well as second hard disk and battery modules. Our review sample's performance doesn't approach the heights reached by Dell's Inspiron 8100, which scored a...
[October 15, 2001, 0:00]
Poweroid.com 8202 review
Reviews Predictably, the Poweroid 8202 is an excellent performer - after all, it has a 3.2GHz CPU, a gigabyte of RAM and a 7,200rpm primary hard disk. The resulting 286GB of high-performance disk capacity should be enough for most people.
[October 23, 2003, 13:00]
