Brando Hooks Up (S)ATA Drives To USB 2.0

EBook Description: Do you need to access data on a regular hard drive, but the only interface you have available is a USB port? If so, Brando may bridge your interface gap.

We pit the Seagate 7200.10, a perpendicular recording marvel, against the latest 500 GB monsters from Maxtor and Western Digital. What benefits does the new technology offer, both now and for the future?

1.8' Hard Drives: Small is Beautiful

Ultra-portable computers require smaller hard drives, which means that drives below 2.5' in size are in growing demand. The latest drive generation stores up to 80 GB, but can these small units live up to the big performance requirements of modern PC systems?

Thecus Brings SATA to External Storage

You can begin to forget about USB or Firewire: there is no substitute for SATA as a fast, reliable and relatively inexpensive external storage solution. Thecus' N2050 storage box, which uses eSATA to hook up two SATA drives externally, makes it happen.

Going the SAS Storage Way

With the availability of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) components, the next generation of business class storage technology has arrived. SAS, however, is not only the legitimate successor to UltraSCSI, but it will also enable new applications while boosting scalability to unprecedented levels.

Buffalo Boosts External Hard Drive Power

External USB hard drives are the easiest way of taking your data with you. Unfortunately, many products

restrict mobility because they require a large, bulky external power supply unit. Buffalo now offers a product

that solves this problem with a much more elegant idea for powering its drives.

Buffalo Boosts External Hard Drive Power

External USB hard drives are the easiest way of taking your data with you. Unfortunately, many products restrict mobility because they require a large, bulky external power supply unit. Buffalo now offers a product that solves this problem with a much more elegant idea for powering its drives.

Mvix Adds Multimedia Player Sauces to External Storage

Lately, there have been few discernable differences between external storage products. Examples of value-add attempts include Western Digital's addition of fancy lights to its devices.

The Latest DVD Writers' True Speeds

Between the alphabet soup of the different standards and the disparity between vendors' claims and true speeds, choosing the right DVD writer is not much fun. To spare you the headache, we detail the latest DVD writers available from NEC ND-3540A, Pioneer DVR-110D, Plextor PX-740A, Sony DRU-810A and Toshiba SDR-5472 and gauge their true speeds.

External Storage With A Mac Design

Hoping to capitalize on Apple's success with the Mac Mini, Taiwan-based Macpower recently sent us its Mini Pod M9-DX. The device at first glance looks like a Mac Mini clone. However, the Mini Pod M9-DX is, in fact, a large-capacity storage device designed for both Macs and PCs.

Round-Up: Comparison Testing of 22 Hard Disk Drives

The jockeying for position among hard drive makers never seems to end, particularly in the areas of drive capacity and speed. As a result, hard disks have nearly doubled their capabilities over the last few years, in contrast to the performance of CPUs and systems as a whole. But that's no mere anomaly; we expect further improvements and enhancements in the immediate future.

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