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Fastest External Hard Drive is an SSD

by: admin June 17, 2010

The OCZ Enoy is an ultra-fast external SSD that uses USB3 to crush any and all competition based on conventional hard drives.  For anyone with a need (or desire) for extremly fast external storage, the only alternatives are of course based on solid state drives. OCZ’s Enyo is available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities [...]

Seagate Launches First Successful Hybrid

by: admin May 27, 2010

The first hybrid drives that came out a few years ago didn’t offer much of a performance boost. Now Seagate is trying again to give us the best of both worlds with its new Momentus XT, a roomy 500GB 2.5-inch hybrid drive with 4GB of SLC NAND flash for laptops for less than $150, and [...]

What is SSD TRIM Support?

by: admin April 13, 2010

First some background: The longer you use an SSD, the more likely it becomes that you see degradation in performance, even if the device isn’t filled with data. When the performance of conventional hard drive deteriorates it’s usually sufficient to defrag, because in this case it is beneficial to have all data stored in sequence [...]