http://www.tomshardware.co.uk en 10 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:27:03 +0200 http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/logo_rss.png http://www.tomshardware.co.uk http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ultrastar-cheetah-sas,review-31295.html Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:30:00 CEST While people keep looking at flash SSDs, a lot has been going on in the hard drive space as well. The new enterprise drives by Hitachi and Seagate offer throughput that remains unmatched by flash-based models.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/USB-Flash-Drives,review-31276.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:20:00 CEST USB drives can be critical when it comes to data security for companies. The Defender from Kanguru only saves data in encrypted form, and enables the remote deletion of content over the Internet in case of theft.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/flash-ssd-hard-drive,review-31258.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:30:00 CEST Having found a number of SSDs that don’t deliver on their efficiency promises, we decided to put 14 different drives to the test. Here is the latest roundup--dominated by a single product.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/SansDigital-Superbox-FantomDrive,review-31247.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:40:00 CEST For as much as we love Blu-ray, it's totally unsuited for full hard drive backups. Well, what could be easier than saving your data by simply copying the contents of an internal drive to an external one?]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Storage-Buffalo-Toshiba,review-31227.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:10:00 CEST The latest external 2.5” drives by Buffalo and Toshiba come with easy-to-use backup software, but they lack features. More interesting is their capacities of 500 GB and 320 GB.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Iomega-Quantum-Backup,review-31183.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:10:00 CEST Are you in danger of catastrophic data loss? We look at feature-rich hard disk backup solutions aimed at small businesses from Iomega and Quantum. ]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/enterprise-flash-ssd,review-31115.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:50:00 CEST What can flash SSDs can do for high-end enterprise storage? To find out, we compared eight state-of-the-art Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 drives with eight MemoRight flash SSDs in RAID setups.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ciprico-enterprise-raid,review-31100.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:00:02 CEST Remember RAIDCore? The flexible storage architecture is now available as a software package that transforms many motherboard SATA controllers into top-notch RAID solutions. And you can plug in a hardware controller to add ports later on.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ssd-hard-drive,review-31086.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:40:00 CEST Acknowledging that our initial article on the efficiency of Flash SSDs was based on an inaccurate test procedure for battery runtime, we looked at more SSDs and HDDs. Our conclusion, however, was not far off, as Flash SSDs can do much better.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/500gb-notebook-hdd,review-31069.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:40:00 CEST The capacity gap between 2.5" notebook drives and 3.5" hard disk drives is closing. We look at the latest 500GB drives from Hitachi and Samsung, which unfortunately fail to impress.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ssd-hdd-battery,review-31019.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:00:00 CEST Manufacturers tout the power savings of flash-based solid state drives compared to conventional hard drives. True? Check out our notebook battery tests.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/energy-disk-drive,review-30918.html Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:10:00 CEST Hitachi’s Deskstar P7K500 battles the Western Digital GreenPower line for the title of king of balanced performance and power consumption.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/cpu-gpu-disk,review-30915.html Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:10:00 CEST Our new component charts may not be perfect (we're working on that), but they're still full of useful information. Click here for our quick access guide.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ssd-memoright,review-30808.html Fri, 09 May 2008 16:10:00 CEST Memoright has achieved an important milestone with its flash SSD: the device’s performance is truly better than that of any competing hard drive we have seen to date. Any skepticism one might have had about SSDs’ future should now be put to rest. ]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/nand-flash-memory,review-30805.html Fri, 09 May 2008 11:40:01 CEST More here at ]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/external-raid-storage,review-30772.html Fri, 02 May 2008 15:30:00 CEST iSCSI and SAS storage are flexible and powerful — but expensive. We looked at two direct attached storage solution kits from Accusys and AMCC/3Ware.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/adaptec-series-5,review-30636.html Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:30:00 CEST RAID controllers are of little interest to enthusiast users, but the entire IT industry relies on them. The new Adaptec RAID cards target all sorts of business storage solutions in the areas of DAS, NAS and SAN.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Quickport-Sharkoon,review-30350.html Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:10:00 CET Notorious collectors of data often call many hard drives their own - usually external ones. Sharkoon's Quickport offers a quick and simple way to switch between drives without having to install them in the case.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/sub-terabyte-external,review-29954.html Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:00:00 CET Buffalo, Maxtor, Seagate and SimpleTech sent us their latest external premium hard drives. They all offer 750 to 1000 GB of storage along with USB 2.0 and other interfaces, but their software, design and performance is what sets them apart.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Flash-Sticks-USB-U3-ReadyBoost,review-29856.html Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:10:00 CET Today, USB sticks are considered a commodity. In order to win out over the competition, manufacturers have to offer more than simply large capacities. Design and bundled software are therefore becoming important buying factors besides hard technical data.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/momentus-5400-fde,review-29806.html Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:10:00 CET Seagate now offers a 2.5" SATA drive with hardware encryption. Although it isn't yet ready for Windows Vista, the encryption doesn't affect performance, and we found it a solution worth considering for businesses.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/NDAS-Ximeta-Co-World,review-29803.html Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:20:00 CET The Co-World ShareDisk Gigabit Pro has nothing in common with the crawling speed of other NAS devices. It offers high performance and a selection of interfaces.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/hardware-prices-global,review-29801.html Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:34:00 CET Do you know which country has the best prices for PC gear? We looked at pricing in the United States, Canada, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Australia to find out just how much prices vary from one market to another]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/samsung-overtakes-with-a-bang,review-29767.html Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:03:06 CET It arrived later than expected, but it is also better than expected: Check out Samsung’s new hard drive family, the Spinpoint F1, which takes the pole position. Is it fast enough to win?]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/travelstar-7k200-5k250,review-29754.html Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:10:50 CET While the storage market is in motion thanks to Flash SSDs and Hybrid HDDs, Hitachi's new top models show that there has also been great progress in the conventional 2.5" drive space.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/hyperdrive4-ssd,review-29738.html Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:12:00 CET SSD drives are coming, but RAM drives are the real thing for true enthusiasts. These things are super fast. We compare the new HyperOS RAM drive to SanDisk's SSD drive.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/seagate-Barracuda-7200-11,review-29734.html Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:00:00 CET Seagate is the third hard drive maker to join the exclusive Terabyte club. How does its Barracuda 7200.11 match up to the existing giants from rivals Hitachi and Western Digital? We find out.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/bare-metal-backup,review-29729.html Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:07:12 CET We look at full disk backup and restore packages for Microsoft Small Business Server and Vista desktops to help you decide what's best for your networks and systems.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Imation-Odyssey-Backup,review-29713.html Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:53:00 CEST Iomega's Odyssey aims to be a quick and painless backup solution for the SOHO and home user segment. The system takes "data security" literally, using hard-drive based cartridges that are shock proof and can withstand an electrostatic discharge.]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/parallel-processing-RAM,review-29694.html Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:31:00 CEST The second part of this article series deals with the differences between single and dual channel memory, and the performance benefits of using RAID with two or even four hard drives.]]>