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AMCC 3Ware 9650SE Serial ATA Controller Series Review

[ 05/15/08 | by Aleksey Meyev]

This article is going to reopen the series of tests devoted to RAID controllers, which was temporarily absent from our regular review schedule. Today we are going to talk about a new lineup from AMCC 3Ware – multi-channel RAID controllers for PCI Express.

Hard Disk Drives of Different Types: Hitachi 7K200 vs. Everyone Else

[ 05/02/08 | by Aleksey Meyev]

Thanks to rapid growth of data density, 2.5-inch HDDs became fit not only for notebooks but also for desktop systems. But how their performance compares against that of 3.5-inch models? Our today’s review is going to answer this question, too.

SSD, i-RAM and Traditional Hard Disk Drives

[ 04/23/08 | by Aleksey Meyev]

In this article we are going to introduce to you two solid state drives from Samsung and a unique data storage solution from Gigabyte aka i-RAM. Let check out their performance compared to that of conventional hard disk drives.