Mtron Mobi 3000 SSD Review

By Kevin O'Brien | 5/22/2009

The 1.8" Mtron Mobi 3000 is a PATA SSD targeted towards a specific niche of users: those who own an Apple MacBook Air and certain netbooks. Offering low power consumption, high transfer speeds, and low seek times this drive gives users the ability to upgrade their computer, even with the not-so-common 1.8" form factor. In this review we take a look at the Mtron Mobi 3000 from RocketDisk and see how well it performs compared to other SSDs and hard drives we have reviewed.

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OCZ Intros Summit SSDs

By Charles P. Jefferies | 5/21/2009

OCZ today introduced its latest Solid State Disks (SSDs), the Summit line.

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Toshiba Intros First Notebook with 512GB SSD

By Charles P. Jefferies | 5/14/2009

Toshiba has introduced a notebook in Japan with a world first: a 512GB Solid State Disk (SSD).

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Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B Review

By Kevin O'Brien | 4/30/2009

The Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B is a new eco-friendly notebook hard drive that aims to reduce your notebook's power consumption. This model line-up offers halogen-free production, improved signal processing, and optional encryption for better security. In this review we put the 5K500.B head to head with some of the latest notebook hard drives to measure speed and power consumption to find out if you should replace your drive with a new Travelstar.

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OCZ Intros Mini SSDs for Netbooks

By Charles P. Jefferies | 4/20/2009

OCZ today introduced a new storage solution designed specifically for netbooks: a flash-based Solid State Disk (SSD) with a mini-PCI Express interface.

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G.Skill Intros Falcon SSDs

By Charles P. Jefferies | 4/20/2009

G.Skill today introduced its Falcon series of Solid State Disks (SSDs), which are MLC-based and feature a SATA II interface.

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Corsair Intros High-Performance 256GB SSD

By Charles P. Jefferies | 4/10/2009

Corsair will soon be launching its first high-performance Solid State Disk (SSD), the 256GB P256.

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Solidata SSD Review

By Kevin O'Brien | 4/9/2009

Solid state drives (SSDs) are becoming very popular these days for upgrades in notebooks, especially now that flash-based drives are coming very close to the capacity of standard hard drives. DV Nation sells 256GB Solidata SSDs, in both SATA and PATA formats for upgrading your notebook, claiming speeds up to 240MB/s read and 210MB/s write. In this review we checkout how well the SATA drive performs with or without the operating system installed on the drive and what impact it has on the notebook.

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WD Scorpio Black and Scorpio Blue Hard Drive Review

By Jerry Jackson | 4/5/2009

The hard drive inside your notebook is far more important than most people realize. Not only is the capacity important in terms of how much data you can store on your computer, but hard drive speed impacts your laptop's performance and hard drive power consumption affects battery life. Should you replace your laptop's hard drive with a Western Digital Scorpio drive? We took a close look at these drives to help you make a decision.

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Western Digital Acquires SSD Business

By Jerry Jackson | 3/30/2009

Western Digital, one of the world's largest mobile and desktop Hard Disk Drive manufacturers, will now also manufacture Solid State Drives.

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Microsoft Arc Mouse Review

By Allison Johnson | 3/27/2009

The wireless Microsoft Arc Mouse features a sporty arc design and folds for portability. But is it a good on-the-go notebook mouse, or is it just dead weight? Read on for our full review.

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ZumoDrive Review

By Jerry Jackson | 3/25/2009

Have you ever wished you could access all your music, photos, and documents from any computer or iPhone? Maybe you've heard about "network storage" but either don't have the budget for a network drive or don't know how to setup network storage. ZumoDrive comes to the rescue with what they call "Hybrid Cloud" storage that promises to deliver high speed access to all your files regardless of what notebook or netbook you might be using.

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