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LaCie Porsche Mobile Hard Drive USB 2.0/FireWire review
Reviews The drive also ships with various versions of Silverlining, LaCie's proprietary disk management utility. Installing the LaCie Mobile Hard Drive is as simple as plugging it in to the USB 1.1 or 2.0 or FireWire bus; no AC adapter is required if your...
[January 4, 2005, 9:15]
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]
Fujitsu unveils USB 3.0 silicon
News Using USB 3.0, a two-hour HD video could be copied to a 3.5-inch hard disk drive in three to four minutes, the company estimated. The integration of the Sata (Serial ATA) storage interface technology means the chip is suitable for use in external...
[July 27, 2009, 17:28]
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]
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]
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]
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]
LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive 80GB review
Reviews In comparison, it wrote the data just a little slower than the LaCie Little Big Disk, which has twice the cache. On the other hand, the Rugged All-Terrain drive is a few seconds faster than the Little Big Disk when reading.
[August 15, 2006, 9:10]
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]
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]
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]
Dell Vostro 1310 review
Reviews The most impressive component score was Primary hard disk (Disk data transfer rate) which scored 5.2. On the right-hand side, behind the optical drive, sits a mechanical switch for the Wi-Fi radio with three USB 2.0 connectors behind that.
[September 15, 2008, 10:50]
Acer TravelMate 8204WLMi review
Reviews This was as much for its 2GB of system memory, fast hard disk and ATI graphics as for its 2GHz Core Duo T2500 processor. The drive is protected with Acer’s Disk Anti-Shock Protection (DASP), which automatically retracts the disk heads if sudden...
[January 17, 2006, 12:20]
Photos: 2nd generation UMPCs at CeBIT review
Reviews Hard disk sizes of 20, 30 and 40GB are available and an external USB optical drive can be added as an option. In the UK, PocketPC Solutions is taking orders for the T770, which will be available in April: the 1GB RAM, 40GB hard disk version costs...
[March 16, 2007, 8:15]
HP ProBook 4710s review
Reviews The top rating was a maximum 5.9, for RAM (Memory operations per second), followed by 5.6 for Processor (calculations per second), 5.3 for Primary hard disk (Disk data transfer rate) and 4.8 for Gaming Graphics (3D business and gaming graphics...
[November 4, 2009, 6:35]
Portable OpenOffice.org
Downloads Portable OpenOffice.org OS X is the complete OpenOffice.org office suite - word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database - packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB...
[April 29, 2006, 8:00]
HP says latest netbook is business-ready
News It uses 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi and has options for Bluetooth 2.0, a USB docking station, USB-powered HP Mobile Audio Speakers and an HP USB optical disk drive. The netbook comes with a choice between an 80GB solid-state drive and a 160GB hard disk...
[January 7, 2009, 12:23]
Archos Jukebox Recorder 20 review
Reviews In the menu, you can select MP3 Record, Sound, Play Mode, Playlist, Language (English, French, German) and Hard Disk Diagnose. Connect the player via USB 1.1 or 2.0 after installing the drivers, and the Jukebox Recorder 20 shows up on your PC as an...
[July 23, 2002, 10:31]
Win95 update will spark USB, 2Gb-plus PCs
News FAT32 also makes many more clusters available so that small files don't hog unwarranted disk space. Experts caution that disk and other utilities will have to be rewritten to take advantage of the new capacity.
[August 2, 1996, 16:22]
Five years ago: Win95 update enables USB, 2Gb-plus PCs
News FAT32 also makes many more clusters available so that small files don't hog unwarranted disk space. Experts caution that disk and other utilities will have to be rewritten to take advantage of the new capacity.
[August 3, 2001, 8:00]
