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Article | 12/05/2011 Crucial M4 SSD

Solid-state drives have had their share of ups and downs in the past few years. Although SSDs are definitely faster than their mechanical counterparts...

Article | 6/10/2010 Lenovo ThinkStation C20

Lenovo originally designed its compact ThinkStation C20 workstation for financial markets, where both the number-crunching power of the system and th...

Article | 3/08/2009 Comparison: Three NAS devices offer efficient backup for small offices

Network-attached storage (NAS), once only available (and affordable) for enterprises, is becoming more common for small business and even home use. An...

Article | 7/05/2009 Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0

Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 is a partition manager that can also run Windows' defragmentation and check disk utilities.

Article | 6/05/2009 Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0

Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 uses the same basic interface as Windows' disk software management routines. In fact, its data integrity checking and...

Article | 24/04/2009 Easeus Partition Master 3.5 Professional Edition

Easeus Partition Manager, last reviewed as Easeus Partition Manager 2.1, has recently received not just a version upgrade to 3.5, but a name change to...

Article | 30/01/2009 NAS devices offer big storage on small networks

We are collecting and keeping more information today than ever before. Whether it's video, pictures, music, or just plain old gobs of e-mail and text ...

Article | 9/12/2008 Antec Skeleton

Antec's enclosure lets you do your testing without having to deal with panels and other nuisances. We give a blow-by-blow account of how it works.

Article | 9/09/2008 New Intel 80GB SSD is faster than the best HDD

Solid state drives (SSDs) are finally coming into their own -- they're faster, more durable, and use less power than traditional mechanical hard drive...

Article | 8/08/2008 Calling all COBOLers

There you are, sipping your latte while banging out code in Django, Drupal, and Ruby, and feeling pretty cutting-edge. Sure, those are the hot skills ...

Article | 1/08/2008 Building a free computer from spare parts

Ah, the joy of summer storms. A recent one involving a flooded basement (a torrential downpour traveled down a chipmunk burrow that led to an otherwis...

Article | 22/01/2008 Lenovo L220x Wide 22in widescreen monitor

Lenovo's ThinkVision L220x Wide display doesn't qualify as a budget 22in widescreen display

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