Storage
Submitted by brandon on November 21, 2008 - 2:00pm. iStarUSA T5F-SS SAS/SATA Hard Drive Mobile Rack
iStarUSA is a company with almost 20 years of experience in manufacturing their own industrial switching power supplies, rackmount chassis and server cabinets. Expanding their product catalogue, iStarUSA also makes workstation and server accessories including mobile hard drive racks. Used in situations where hard drives need to quickly swapped, mobile racks help to make the task easier.
iStarUSA has many internal hard drive enclosure options, and today we'll be looking at the T5F-SS, a single drive SATA/SAS hard drive mobile rack.
The specification of iStarUSA's T5F-SS mobile hard drive rack are as follows:
- - fits in a 5.25" drive bay
- - accepts 3.5" SATA I/II and SAS hard drives (using the SATA power connector)
- - 40mm cooling fan
- - plastic face, steel frame, lockable
- - trayless and screwless design for hard drive installation
- - requires 4-pin molex power source
Submitted by brandon on June 3, 2008 - 5:00pm. Kingston DataTraveler HyperX USB Flash Drive 4GB (DTHX/4GB)
Kingston is a company that needs no introduction. We've already reviewed many of their products here at circuitREMIX, and overall found them to be pretty good.
Today we're going to be looking at a product from Kingston's performance oriented line of products, HyperX. No, it's not RAM, but a USB flash drive. Kingston's DataTraveler HyperX is the fastest USB flash drive series that Kingston currently offers, and we'll see how it stacks up to the competition.
It is offered in 2, 4 and 8GB capacities, and we're going to be playing with the 4GB variety.
The DataTraveler HyperX (DTHX/4GB)
Kingston's DataTraveler HyperX USB flash drive is made almost completely of black plastic. It has a dull, matte surface which gives it some grip.
Submitted by brandon on December 21, 2007 - 7:29pm. Kingston DataTraveler mini USB Flash Drive 4GB
The USB flash drive market is saturated with so many different choices. They vary in all factors including capacity, dimensions, form factor, special features and styles. With so many options, it can be difficult to pick the right drive for you.
In circuitREMIX's series of USB flash drive reviews, we will try to offer more guidance on this issue and maybe find a few gems in the pack.
Today we will be examining Kingston's DataTraveler mini USB flash drive (4GB). It's a bite size drive, with a big capacity, unique design, and Migo functionality right out of the package.
The DataTraveler mini
Kingston's DataTraveler mini is a unibody USB flash drive. By unibody, we mean that the drive itself and it's cover are built together as one piece. The whole drive is made of plastic, with the exception of the USB connector. The drive element is white plastic, and the cover portion is blue plastic. Kingston's "Easter Island head" logo, as I call it, is enscribed on the front of the cover piece, and the drive's model name and capacity is silk screened on the front of the drive piece.
Submitted by brandon on November 29, 2007 - 10:01pm. OCZ Rally 2 Dual Channel USB Flash Drive 4GB
OCZ Technology has a reputation in technology enthusiast circles for making high performance and high quality products. Making popular products for enthusiasts and overclockers alike, today we're going to be examining one of their more performance products, the Rally 2 USB flash drive. This drive was made with performance in mind, and performance is what we're going to test.
The Rally 2
The Rally 2 is a USB flash drive of standard design, a flash drive with a cap to cover the USB connector. The body of the drive is made up mostly of black aluminium, including the cap. The ends caps of both sides lengthwise are clear plastic. An activity indicator is under that plastic on the flash drive end.
Submitted by brandon on November 9, 2007 - 10:00am. Kingston DataTraveler ReadyFlash USB Flash Drive 1GB
The USB flash drive market is saturated with so many different choices. They vary in all factors including capacity, dimensions, form factor, special features and styles. With so many options, it can be difficult to pick the right drive for you.
In circuitREMIX's series of USB flash drive reviews, we will try to offer more guidance on this issue and maybe find a few gems in the pack.
Today we are starting out with Kingston's DataTraveler ReadyFlash USB flash drive (1GB). The drive is a USB2.0 device which is designed and optimized for Microsoft's Windows ReadyBoost feature.
The DataTraveler ReadyFlash
Submitted by brandon on November 6, 2007 - 12:17am. OCZ Minikart USB Flash Drive 2GB
OCZ Technology has a reputation in technology enthusiast circles for making high performance and high quality products. Making popular products for enthusiasts and overclockers alike, today we're going to be examining one of their more mainstream level products, the Minikart USB flash drive. Made with portability in mind and not performance, we'll see how it does on our test bench.
The Minikart
Submitted by brandon on January 25, 2007 - 8:37pm. Ultra Stackable 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure USB 2.0 & Firewire
I decided to buy an external hard drive enclosure for the purpose of backing up and storing additional data on my laptop. At a local computer store, I looked at my options knowing that I wanted a Firewire based external IDE hard drive enclosure. Based on price and availability, I picked up an Ultra 3.5″external hard drive enclosure with USB2.0 and Firewire 400 interface connectivity.
In this article, Ultra's Stackable 3.5" Hard Drive Enclosure will be examined and performance tests will be conducted on both the USB 2.0 and Firewire interfaces.
Manufacturer Specifications
The Enclosure
Submitted by brandon on January 10, 2007 - 12:28pm. Comparison of File Systems, Interfaces and Operating Systems
I decided to buy an external hard drive enclosure for the purpose of backing up and storing additional data on my Macbook. At a local computer store, I looked at my options knowing that I wanted a Firewire based external IDE hard drive enclosure. Based on price and availability, I picked up an Ultra 3.5″external hard drive enclosure with USB2.0 and Firewire 400 interface connectivity.
I installed a Western Digital 160GB (WD1600JB) with 8MB cache in the enclosure (using the Prolific 3507 chipset) and it worked flawlessly. I just had to setup the file system on the drive, and it got me thinking. I’d always use NTFS for my desktop computer and it’s a Windows XP machine, but I didn’t know much about the file system performance for the options available in OSX.