Seagate 1.5TB Internal 3.5" Sata 32MB Cache Review

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(More customer reviews)The first thing to be mentioned, is that no one can rightfully complain about not having 1TB of storage, every drive, for the longest time is rated raw. When I formatted mine to NTFS it was 931.5GB, about 20GB more than I even expected.

The second thing to understand, is every drive model, from every manufacturer, has a pretty standard, and somewhat high, DOA (here I am considering DOA as literally dead on arrival, and 1 week and under) rate. If you receive a DOA, rate the replacement, or the service you received. If you get two DOA's, or get a replacement that is DOA; complain freely.

I have my drive (I have the exact drive, except I purchased it OEM) inside a Nexstar 3 enclosure (capable of recognizing all 1TB) via esata (you can use USB 2.0 with this enclosure as well). The esata run into my Asus G2S-B2 via a Rosewill Expresscard32 2-port esata expansion. In short, the performance I received, will reflect SATAII internal performance Identically.

The first thing to do, if your sata controller can handle auto-negotiation, is to remove the tiny gray jumper entirely, this will increase your burst performance.

Seq. Write - 70 MB/s Seq. Read - 105 MB/s Buffered Write - 59 MB/s Buffered Read - 62 MB/s Random Reading - 54 MB/s This drive is faster than the kin Seagate inside my laptop as the main disk. For those of you who can't use it internally or through esata, you will not see this kind of performance, the theoretical throughput of USB 2.0 is almost half the seq. read.

These tests are run through PC Wizard 2008, important, with the jumper installed. I didn't wish to assume people know what it is and know if their sata controller can use it removed. The performance is slightly better, but nothing substantial, without the jumper (it effectively dubs the drive down to sata 1).

I've basically torture tested this drive since I received it almost a month ago, it is perfect. Generally, I've found, drives fail sooner than later; this drive will most likely serve me for quite some time.

I recommend this drive over any other, if the performance is not higher (Hitachi's are snoozfest), then the fail rate is much much lower (Samsung's new 1TB is notoriously bad, unacceptably high fail rate). etc.

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SanDisk Ultra Cruzer Titanium 16 GB Ultra Cruzer Titanium Drive SDCZ7-016G-A11 (Silver) Review

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(More customer reviews)The familiar Blue LED is now Amber just like the cheaper plastic Cruzer's have.
The finish is distinctly more silvery instead of the matte titanium design.It appears that the casing is no longer made of Liquidmetal? as were the 8/4/2gb models.
Ti Cruzer continues to ship with U3 Smart Technology enabled. However the majority of users choose to remove this using the U3 removal tool provided by Sandisk.
The 16gb no longer includes a pocket clip or lanyard but neither did the 8gb models.
The performance is unchanged compared to the 8GB model at 15MB/s read speed & 9MB/s write speed.
It appears that Sandisk decided to cut corners with the latest Titanium.
I would have rated this flash drive a 5 Star had Sandisk left well enough alone...



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Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 5900RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Desktop Hard Drive ST320005N4A1AS-RK-Retail Kit Review

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(More customer reviews)These two "Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 5900RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Desktop Hard Drive ST320005N4A1AS-RK-Retail Kit[s]" purchased on 6/9/2010 are truly great drives, holding an amazing amount of data. Further, there are two things I like about them being Seagate: 1-Seagate has a software which is built on Acronis True Home drive-cloning software -- but for free with Seagate drive use, and 2-Seagate has a program for drives in warranty -- and here is my experience: A past 1 TB Seagate Barracuda drive failed mechanically. Instead of going through the entire "I-send-it-there-you-evaluate-the-warranty-maybe-you-send-me-a-new-drive-maybe-you-don't-etc", Seagate has a program where I paid $19.99 (after running some tests online on my drive). No questions asked now--or later: They send you a new box, foam packing, anti-static bag, and pre-paid UPS shipping label -- with a brand new drive in it! You put your old drive in it, ship it back, and forget it! You pop the drive in they sent you! Voila! That's it! No hassles, no problems! This is why I have stuck with Seagate, have 3 1TB and 2 2TB Seagate Barracuda drives (having replace two 0.5 TB other-brand drives). I have had zero problem with any of my other Seagate drives -- and the one I did -- replacement was cheap, up-front, and totally hassle-free.

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Western Digital 2 TB Caviar Black SATA 7200 RPM 64 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive WD2001FASS Review

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(More customer reviews)The Caviar Black model of drives differ in three ways from Blue in three major ways:

1) 32MB buffer vs 16MB.This means the drive is overall faster because it can store more data in memory local to the drive.So if you access the same data frequently there is little or no drive access to get at the data.

2) Dual processors vs single.This will alleviate the load on your CPU as the drive itself has more processing power locally.

3) Five year warranty vs three.Five years is a lifetime in hardware.Basically, you're covered for longer than you will most likely use the drive.

The Caviar Black line comes in three four sizes; 1TB, 750GB, 640GB, and 500GB.The 1TB and 640GB are the fastest because they use a denser platter technology which allows the drive head to get at the data quicker.The 750GB and 500GB are no slouches though and the differences in speed will not be noticeable to most people under most real-world usage scenarios.

Caviar Black drives are the fastest affordable consumer drives available today.If you want faster you have to look that the VelociRaptor 10000RPM line of drives but expect to pay a lot more for a lot less storage.

I measured the speed of the 750GB model using the HD Tune utility and access time was a fast 12.5ms with less than 1% CPU usage on my 3.2Ghz Intel Quad Core setup.The drive runs cool at 32

Seagate 750 GB 3.5" External Combo Hard Drive 16MB Cache ST3750640CB-RK Review

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(More customer reviews)The device was purchased so that I could consolidate the contents of 9 PCsonto one drive.Only the NT systems had any difficulty in recognizing the drive,and some short internet searches later removed this small obstacle.

The Drive is performing excellently on my desktop as I sift thru the bits.Good Job Seagate!!Hoping to buy a 4TB drive in 2 yearstime.

I do a lot of work in digital video and photography, as well as document processing.

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NETGEAR ReadyNAS NVX 4-Bay 2TB (2 x 1000GB) Review

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(More customer reviews)I have owned the NV+ and this NVX is much better, read much faster.It validated all the new disks I bought and said two of them were bad even though they worked in a PC.It is very quiet and does not take much power.Software is very versatile - lot of options and the web interface is very straight forward.5 year warranty is also appreciated.

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The ReadyNAS NVX is a 4-bay desktop storage system designed for home offices, workgroups and small businesses . It is a high-quality solution for storing, sharing and protecting businesscritical data that is affordable for the smallest office.ReadyNAS unified architecture solves numerous data management problems with a single system, making capacity management, access, backup, restore and disaster recovery worries obsolete. Now you can eliminate common data concerns and revolutionize your storage environment without becoming an expert.

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G-Technology G-RAID 4TB Dual External Hard Drive w/ eSATA, USB 2.0, Firewire 400, Firewire 800 Interfaces and RAID 0/1 0G00273 Review

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(More customer reviews)Needed more room to store photographic and video files. Another unnamed drive has failed me twice, but this product has proven to do the job.
This is the second G-raid I've bought and I'm pleased with the design and quality.

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Professional High-Performance Dual-Drive Storage System. G-RAID is designed specifically for professional content creation applications like Final Cut Studio, G-RAID features a high-speed interface - 3 Gbit eSATA, FireWire 800 (FireWire 400 via cable) and USB2.0 ports - and is available in storage capacities up to an amazing 4TB. When connected via eSATA, G-RAID provides data transfers rates in excess of 200MB/second to support demanding post production environments. Easy to Setup-G-RAID is ready right out of the box for use with Mac OS X systems and appears to the system as a single, big and fast disk drive. A simple reformat is all it takes to ready G-RAID for use with Windows systems**.The Best Warranty & Support in the Business - G-Tech's 3-Year WarrantyG-RAID is backed by a standard 3-year factory warranty and unlimited free technical support by representatives experienced with the latest content creation applications.

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Cisco SLM2024 24-Port 10/100/1000 Gigabit Smart Switch with 2 Combo SFPs Review

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(More customer reviews)Not sure about the other reviews, but this thing does WAY more than other switches in its price range. Yes, you need to use IE for setting it up (who doesn't have access to IE?) and it helps to read the manual (linksys forums are helpful too), but setup wasn't that difficult.

Does link aggregation (Yes!), does VLANs fairly easily (once you get the hang of it - another YES!).

If you are looking for a switch with 24 GigE ports that you can just plug gear into and have it just work, it'll do that. But if you've got bigger ideas in mind, it'll do those too.

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The SLM2024 offers twenty-four (24) 10/100/1000 Gigabit Copper ports with two (2) shared copper or optical (SFP) uplink interfaces for connecting the switch to the core network. The simplified user interface is an intuitive management tool enabling you to quickly utilize the comprehensive feature-set of the switch, resulting in a better optimized network.

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Buffalo Technology TeraStation III 8.0 TB (4 x 2 TB) Network Attached Storage TS-X8.0TL/R5 Review

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(More customer reviews)First, we like Buffalo and will continue to buy their products.Their is nothing wrong with the design of this product.Buffalo support has been superlative.

But 2 TB hard drives are not ready for prime time.Our unit has Samsung drives.We use it raid 5.We lost one drive on Monday.We continued using the unit only to read from.

On Thursday a second drive failed.All data was lost.Luckily we backed up everything on Monday and continued to write to another drive.

When I talked to tech support they said units shipped with the Western Digital drives had been even more problematic.

Steer clear of 2 TB drives for now.

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Buffalo's TeraStation III Series is the ideal choice for businesses or demanding users looking to implement a RAID based Network Attached Storage solution. As Buffalo's flagship NAS product the TeraStation III includes all firmware features presently found in the Buffalo lineup of NAS products. Especially, business oriented features, such Active Directory support, DFS support, disk quota support, a share level replication feature and port trunking make the TeraStation III a top choice for small to medium sized businesses. Hardware features like hot swap and dual Ethernet ports add to the list of new features. Reliability and performance are again the key design criteria for the TeraStaion III. A heavy-duty power supply and oversized cooling system, as well as vastly improved CPU speed guarantee excellent and reliable performance. It is the clear choice for those users who desire maximum reliability and robust features.

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Netgear ReadyNAS Duo 2-Bay 2 TB (1 x 2 TB) Network Attached Storage RND2120 Review

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(More customer reviews)This device is fast, great for home use and is fairly fast. The setup is very easy however make sure you read all the tips as some firewalls will prohibit the software to see the device. The Marketing and box states it will run at 1GB Ethernet speeds. This is true BUT NOT WITH THE SUPPLIED ACCESSORIES. They give you a CAT5 cable which can only achieve 100MB speeds. I would think most people do not know that fact and would cause them to wonder why the device is slow. I did buy a CAT5e cable for $3 to replace it and it does run at the stated 1GB speed with my supplied cable. Quite cheap of Netgear in my mind. Netgear would not replace the cable after numerous attempts. Otherwise the device is working fine.

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The Netgear ReadyNAS Duo, a member of the award-winning ReadyNAS family of advanced network storage products, is the ideal storage and file sharing solution for the home or small-office. This compact, quiet, and very low-power-consuming, network attached server lets your network users share all your files, including music and video, easily and securely. The Duo has two storage bays and supports RAID for secure storage with great performance.

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NETGEAR ReadyNAS NVX 4-Bay 4TB (4 x 1000GB) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a powerful and very flexible platform for all your storage needs.Out of the box it provides wholesale upgradable storage.With a little work, it can become your personal webserver, streaming media server, FTP server, remote data server through VPN, the list goes on!This is all, of course, while being under the protection of RAID.The best part is there is a thriving online community that can help you with anything you might want to do with this little machine.I've been consistently impressed by the ReadyNAS.I highly recommended it to anyone wanting flexible network storage!

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The ReadyNAS NVX is a 4-bay desktop storage system designed for home offices, workgroups and small businesses . It is a high-quality solution for storing, sharing and protecting businesscritical data that is affordable for the smallest office.ReadyNAS unified architecture solves numerous data management problems with a single system, making capacity management, access, backup, restore and disaster recovery worries obsolete. Now you can eliminate common data concerns and revolutionize your storage environment without becoming an expert.

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Netgear ReadyNAS Duo 2-Bay 2 TB (2 x 1 TB) Network Attached Storage RND2210 Review

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(More customer reviews)I just placed an order for my second Readynas Duo.Done with backing up PC's to thumb drives, Cd's or DVD's.Internet access is great once it is configured.I could never get the remote software to work, so I'd looked around the web for directly setting up web access.

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Dane-Elec My Ditto 2TB 2-Bay, MD-H102T2E23S Review

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(More customer reviews)I've had many bad expriences with external hard disks in the last 7 years. All my disks were made by Western Digital and none of them lasted more than 2 years. I was looking for something that was easier to install and use. Read the review of 'myditto' decided to buy it. Installation is truly a breeze. I love the key concept. Makes file storage/sharing secure. Only time will tell about the logetivity of the unit but i am hoping that setting the conifguration to RAID1 will give me redundancy. I feel that a lot of small business will find this system very useful.

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QNAP Pro II 2-Bay Desktop Network Attached Server TS-239 Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this for 3 reasons - 1. RAID 1 mirrored backup, 2. Data protection and 3. In hopes of greater transfer rates with 2 Gb NICs versus the TS-109 model. Initializing the mirroring process took hours on 1Tb disks, Data security works as described and transfer was slow...I ended up decoupling the NIC's and using one NIC to get reasonable speeds. Now I realize I needed a switch with port bonding capabilities. Otherwise it works as advertised. Good investment - pricey.

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The TS-239 Pro II is the powerful 2-bay network attached storage (NAS ) server, which is designed to provide an affordable and easy-to-management solution with iSCSI service for virtualized and clustered environment. The TS-239 Pro II also offers versatile business applications to maximize the efficiency of the data center in the business environment. Incorporating the next-generation Intel Atom D410 1.66GHz Single-Core processor and 1GB DDRII RAM, the Turbo NAS delivers exceptional performance and maintains high reliability for multiple concurrent applications and intensive data transfer with guaranteed low power consumption.

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WD Caviar Black WD20000LSRTL - Hard drive - 2 TB - internal - 3.5" - SATA-300 - 7200 rpm - buffer: 32 MB Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this drive to put into an external FW800 enclosure to do Time Machine backups.I've bought several WD drives in the past few years, and all (except 1, which was DOA) have performed flawlessly.I went with the Caviar Black because this is going to be my main data backup, and I wanted a drive that I can count on.

It's really quiet and runs cool.The drive has been in my Macally FW800 enclosure for a couple of days now and the case is only slightly warm to the touch.

I would definitely recommend this drive to anyone considering adding storage.WD drives, in my experience, seem to work exceptionally well in Macs, and this one is no exception.

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WD Caviar Black high-performance up to 2 TB 3.5-inch SATA hard drives combine 7200 RPM spin speed, 32 MB cache, SATA 3 Gb/s interface, and an integrated dual processor for lightning-fast performance in demanding desktop, workstation, and multi-drive systems. Rock solid mechanical architecture and enhanced reliability features help protect the drive and the data stored on it.

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