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CompuApps SwissKnife V3
Downloads If you are looking for an external hard disk drive that can be used interchangeably between Windows XP, Windows 98, Mac OS, and Linux, there is only one way to prepare the hard disk and SwissKnife does it for you.
[January 16, 2006, 13:13]
LaCie Desktop FireWire Hard Drive review
Reviews The 160GB Desktop FireWire Hard Drive uses LaCie’s standard external disk housing, seen on many of its drives (including removable media drives). External drives that don’t use the hard disk’s native interface to communicate with your PC will...
[May 22, 2002, 11:27]
Hard disk upgrades review
Reviews But there's more than one way of boosting your hard disk capacity: internal or external, Ultra-ATA or SCSI, USB or FireWire? Hard disk storage, like memory, is something you can never have enough of -- after all, just loading Windows and Office...
[May 22, 2002, 15:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So let's fast forward two hours - two mind-numbing, tear-strewn hours - to the point that I've booted into the Ubuntu live disc which knows about the hard disk, knows about the external disk, knows about USB and is happy to do the job.
[June 16, 2006, 18:50]
Freecom DataTank Gateway WLAN review
Reviews The DataTank, which measures 9.6cm wide by 12.4cm high by 20cm deep and weighs 2.9kg, is a combination of external hard disk drive, file server (four gigabit LAN ports; one WLAN) and USB server (two USB 2.0 high-speed ports).
[October 9, 2007, 9:37]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 - A Few Quick Comments
Blog Comment If I wanted to run Ubuntu, I would shut down, plug in the external disk and restart (having previously changed the boot priorities in the bios) and, hey presto, Ubuntu without touching the internal hard drive.
[September 4, 2009, 16:40]
Maxtor Personal Storage 3000LE review
Reviews Since LaCie's USB 2.0 product uses exactly the same hard disk as Maxtor's 3000LE (a 120GB Maxtor DiamondMax D540X-4G), the performance difference between these products must be down to the electronics that mediate between the hard drive itself and...
[May 22, 2002, 12:28]
Comdex: USB 2.0 looking good in Vegas
News The Digital Wallet from Minds@Work is an external 6GB hard disk drive. 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...
[November 14, 2000, 16:04]
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]
Dell Latitude C400 review
Reviews The only on-board drive is a 20GB Hitachi Ultra-ATA/100 hard disk with a rotational speed of 4,200rpm -- if you need more capacity, a 30GB drive will cost you an extra £184 (ex. The right-hand side is where the hard disk lives, and the system's 3...
[January 27, 2002, 23:00]
Sony VAIO PCG-VX71P review
Reviews The hard disk is this 2kg system’s only internal spinning media drive, weight considerations banishing the bundled DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo unit to external FireWire-connected status. This is partly down to the system’s integrated graphics chip, which...
[July 2, 2002, 18:20]
Dell Dimension 8200 (2.8GHz Pentium 4) review
Reviews Hard disk storage is provided by a fast 7,200rpm 120GB Western Digital drive, while optical media are taken care of by a Philips DVD+RW drive and a fast 48-speed CD-ROM drive. Inside the tool-free-access case, you can fit another 3.5in.drive if...
[August 29, 2002, 14:14]
Dell Inspiron 8000 review
Reviews However, the key difference between the Inspiron 8000 and other desktop replacement systems is that it uses a desktop chipset, the Intel 815E, that significantly boosts the system's performance in key areas such as hard disk throughput.
[December 4, 2000, 23:00]
LaCie Desktop USB Hard Drive review
Reviews The Desktop USB Hard Drive is based around a 5,400rpm Maxtor DiamondMax D540X hard disk, identical to the unit inside Maxtor’s own 3000LE product. Neither the Business Disk WinMark score of 6,940 nor the High-End Disk WinMark 99 score of 11,400 are...
[May 22, 2002, 11:38]
Sony revamps its mobile range review
Reviews High-end models use Intel's Dothan-core Pentium M processor and come with an 80GB hard disk; the screen is a massive 17in.wide-screen WUXGA (1,920 by 1200) 'x-black' unit, driven by ATI's flagship 128MB Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics chip.
[May 16, 2004, 9:20]
Toshiba Tecra M9L-12K review
Reviews The 80GB Hitachi hard disk on our review sample is replaced by a 120GB drive on the Tecra M9L-12T. The hard disk drive head has temporarily been moved to a safer position'. The third is for PowerPoint jockeys, and is called the Toshiba Presentation...
[July 2, 2007, 0:00]
Sony VAIO VGN-A197XP review
Reviews Obviously there's plenty of room to fit in all the features you might require: this is a two-spindle system with a multi-format DVD burner on the right-hand side and an 80GB internal hard disk. As mentioned above, you get 80GB of hard disk storage...
[July 15, 2004, 17:00]
Sony VAIO PCG-F809K review
Reviews The combination of an 850MHz Mobile Pentium III SpeedStep processor, 128MB of PC100 SDRAM and a 30GB IBM hard disk deliver predictably good performance, even though the Intel 440BX chipset limits hard disk controller support to Ultra-ATA/33.
[December 5, 2000, 23:00]
585_kit.exe
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:Trident Accelerrator ISA/VL (v6.00.32) Trident 9320 PCI (v6.00.32) Trident 9440 PCI (v6.00.32) Trident 9660/968x/938x/978x PCI (v6.00.32) Trident 9470 PCI (v6.00.32) Trident 9783 PCI (v6.00.32...
[September 4, 1997, 8:00]
Alienware Area-51 m5550 review
Reviews CNET.com's test system had a top-of-the-line 2.33GHz T7600 Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM and a 100GB hard disk. We would expect the 2GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB hard disk model examined by ZDNet UK to deliver less stellar performance in return for...
[December 13, 2006, 12:58]
