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External Hard Drive Charts
This page is updated on a regular basis and provides a unique resource for everybody who is looking for a desktop hard drive - whether it is for home or for business use. Our service allows for interactive performance comparison, real-time price/performance and costs per Gigabyte analysis.
Enterprise Hard Drive Charts
Tom's Interactive Enterprise Hard Drive Charts compare high-end server/workstation hard drives used in enterprise-class systems. The 15 benchmarks we used as a testing platform are the same as the ones featured in the other HDD Charts, but the interpretation of the data is different in the enterprise segment: Servers often depend on maximum I/O performance rather than on raw throughput. Of course, you can also check various other criteria: read and write throughput, sorted by average, minimum and maximum, access time, interface performance and four I/O benchmark patterns. You will find most of the popular enterprise hard drives made by Fujitsu, Hitachi and Seagate; all using either Ultra320 SCSI or SAS interfaces. Then there is the price/performance index which helps you select a particular drive, as it relates performance and capacity to cost of drive. If your company requires a large number of hard drives, this feature will enable you to make an informed and budget friendly decision.

News

Possible UCSF data breach exposes data of 46,000 people
Friday 6 April 2007 – 01:41
46,000 students and employees at the University of California San Francisco may have had their personal information stolen in a data breach, according to university officials.
Data centers can reduce fire risk by sucking out oxygen
Monday 19 March 2007 – 08:41
Data centers can reduce the risk of a fire by reducing the amount of oxygen in the air. IDG reports that several vendors at Cebit are showing off fire suppression and prevention equipment that reduces the oxygen ratio in normal air. Air normally contains around 21% oxygen, but this can be lowered a few percentage points, with the appropriate equipment. At around 16% percent oxygen, most fires won't even start.
Software that destroys data when your laptop gets stolen
Wednesday 20 February 2008 – 12:40 in Networking
We’ve been harping on about data protection and where it’s hiding for the last 4 months (give or take) but there was nothing to suggest anything was actually being done about it all those discs or laptops that were growing legs and running away.
Man involved in huge data theft loses five days of vacation
Tuesday 16 October 2007 – 10:05 in Business
Columbus (OH) - The man responsible for the biggest data theft in the state of Ohio has received his official punishment - five days of lost vacation.
RAM exposes the key to your secret data
Friday 22 February 2008 – 11:50
Researchers from Princeton University are describing a new and apparently very effective security attack that will allow hackers to access encrypted data on your PC. Technologies such Microsoft’s BitLocker, Apple’s FileVault and Linux’s dm-crypt have...

Articles & reviews

Hacker claims to have gained access to Steam customer data*
Thursday 19 April 2007 – 11:26
A hacker claims to have gotten hold of a mountain of sensitive data from software company Valve, including credit card information from users who have purchased content from its digital distribution system Steam. ...
The Smart Traveller's Guide to Data Theft Protection*
Tuesday 25 July 2006 – 04:21
Your identity and other personal data can be much more vulnerable while on the road. Derek Boiko-Weyrauch shows you how not to be an easy mark.
Data Fever: Ultra320 SCSI from Adaptec and LSI Logic*
Friday 6 June 2003 – 07:00
While the trend clearly favors serial ATA, we devote this article to the ultimate in hard-drive interfaces: Ultra320 SCSI. The parallel interface offers a high throughput rate even for the most ambitious applications and is, for now, indispensable to the professional sector. Here, we analyze two recent host adapters and compare them with Ultra160.
Back Up Your Data With Tandberg's 420LTO and 220LTO Streamers*
Tuesday 5 September 2006 – 01:33
Do you need serious backup capabilities? We tested Tandberg's entries into the low-power, small-size LTO drive category with internal and external 100 and 200 GB models.
Data Transfer on the Run: High-Speed USB Flash Drives*
Friday 20 May 2005 – 07:00
Forget the diskettes or read/write optical media! USB flash memory drives are quicker and easier to use. And some models even offer data transfer rates that exceed 20 MBytes/sec!