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Monday, November 19, 2007
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Hard disks are continuing to get bigger and faster thanks to perpendicular recording, larger cache sizes, SATA-II interface and faster rotation speeds of the platters. Hard disks by no stretch of the imagination are one of the most important parts of the PC. Today we are looking at Western Digital's top end SATA hard disk designed specifically for RAID environments. Using Enterprise class components these drives are built to last. The specific model we have on the chopping block today is the Western Digital RE2 750GB Hard Disk.
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Thursday, November 1, 2007
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Memory modules are shrinking in physical size, but again the amount of memory per stick is increasing giving you even more power out of your PC. With the development of graphics technology getting better we start to see high-end graphics in tiny packages as well. The one thing that has its limitations is the storage. Today we are testing out one of the newest HDDs to come out for the laptop market, Western Digital's Scorpio HDD with an amazing 250GB capacity, this being one of the largest 2.5" HDDs on the market.
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Thursday, October 4, 2007
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The Western Digital My Book Pro Edition II is the first external hard drive we've seen that brings RAID and Firewire 800 to the desktop. It's stylish, quiet, and a breeze to use and, if all you want is data security then it's definitely worth considering. However, if you just want a large and fast external hard drive you'd be better served by a single disk solution.
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
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The Western Digital Passport fits in the palm of your hand and offers you 250 gigs of storage for under two-hundred bucks.
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Friday, September 14, 2007
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The Scorpio 250GB 2.5" SATA Hard Drive is a great addition or upgrade for anyone looking for the maximum storage possible in the 2.5" form factor. In addition to a traditional installation inside a computer, the 250GB Scorpio drive would make an excellent choice for use in a portable enclosure, and as tested it can even be used to upgrade to a Sony Playstation 3.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2007
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If you want the highest performance Serial ATA hard drives available, there's only one manufacturer to turn to and that's Western Digital. Its enterprise class Raptor hard drives are a hit among computer enthusiasts. The Western Digital Raptor hard drive achieves its remarkable performance thanks to the high rotation speed of its platters. At 10,000 RPM the WD Raptor is definitely one of the fastest spinning Serial ATA desktop HDD on the market, on par with enterprise level SCSI counterparts. While 7200 RPM drives are improving in performance by increasing platter density and putting larger caches on the HDD, Western Digital uses a "brute force" type method in increasing performance. It's not be the most elegant way but hey it works very well. ;-)
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
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Today at HotHardware, we have one of the largest 2.5" hard drives on the market, the 250GB Western Digital Scorpio WD2500BEVS. At 5400RPM, it may not be the mobile speed king, but this 2.5" SATA hard drive offers a plethora of nice features, like an 8MB cache and WD's WhisperDrive and ShockGuard technology. Plus, the benchmarks might just surprise you about how well a 5400RPM mobile drive can perform?
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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Western Digital may not be able to toot their horn for being the first to the 750GB plateau, but unless you have a time machine and want to go back 15 months, does it really matter at this point? The Caviar SE16 WD7500AAKS 750GB Hard Drive is one of a very few options at this capacity or higher, and it is well worth consideration by anyone looking for a big drive.
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Thursday, August 9, 2007
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The Western Digital Passport is small, stylish, light, cheap and capacious. It may be a little delicate but with a bit of care it should be the perfect portable storage solution.
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Friday, August 3, 2007
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We aren't sure why Western Digital waited so long to offer a drive bigger than 500GB, but we are happy to see the competition heating up. Plus, with storage prices so low right now, Western Digital's move seems rather smart. The company can offer its flagship drive (in terms of capacity) at a very attractive price. The MSRP for the new 750GB WD Caviar SE16 is only $249.99, which is roughly $0.33/GB.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
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I have always been a fan of external hard drives. Especially a few years ago when Windows XP first came out, because one day you would turn your computer on and Windows would crash and you ended up having to reformat. So having all of my files on an external drive was very important. Fast forward to today and there really is not that problem, but external drives are more popular than ever. The main reason is because the availability of media has grown. You can now download movies, TV shows, and music very easily and legally! So you need someplace to store all of the media and what better place to do that than an external hard drive. Today we will be taking a look at the Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 500GB USB External Hard Drive.
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Sunday, August 20, 2006
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After giving the RE2 500GB a test, I have to say I am impressed. I didn't expect it to beat out the Seagate like it did, in every single test. Since this is an enterprise class drive, I guess it's to be expected. What's not to be expected though, is that the RE2 is cheaper than Seagates 500GB, in all the websites I've checked. Even though I may sound like I am discrediting the Seagate, I am not. It has the benefit of Native Command Queueing, which may prove to be the main selling point for some. For me, I enjoy the faster average Read and Write speeds.
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Wednesday, March 8, 2006
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The Western Digital SecureConnect Serial ATA Cable strengthens the drive-to-cable connection preventing the connection to break off causing the inability to access the data stored on the hard drive. Legit Reviews tested the SecureConnect cable on the WD Raptor, RaptorX and the WD Caviar SE Serial ATA drives and found that the cable worked great on all of the series...
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Monday, February 20, 2006
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Western Digital officially won the heart of the enthusiast with their Raptor drives- they were the first non-SCSI hard drives that could spin at 10,000RPM and thus, produce some speedy results. It started with their 36GB version which was followed by the 74GB version and today, WD doubles that storage again to 150GB. However, doubling the storage capacity isn't the only thing new on the latest Raptor. WD has also doubled the cache buffer which is now up from 8MB to 16MB and adds NCQ (Native Command Queuing) support...
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Friday, February 10, 2006
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The new 150GB Raptor is the fastest SATA hard drive that money can buy. It is extremely impressive and the capacity is now respectable, but you have to pay a high premium for the extra speed...
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