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  • StarTech's flash drive duplicator, eraser is fast and simple

    I've been using a StarTech hard drive duplicator for a couple of years now to clone my computer's drive to other internal drives for testing purposes. Once my OS, apps and data are transferred over to a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD), I can then use the target drive for review purposes.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 20 May 13 17:10

  • Review: HP 3PAR conjures powerful storage magic

    HP 3PAR StoreServe 7400 combines high scalability, high performance, and a big bag of tricks for easing storage management

    Written by Paul Ferrill • 08 May 13 10:15

  • Seagate Wireless Plus review: A terabyte of mobile wireless storage

    Seagate's Wireless Plus drive offers a terabyte of storage and a way to stash your videos, photos, music and documents or wirelessly stream them to your mobile devices.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 02 April 13 11:06

  • Transcend ESD200 review: A fast little external SSD

    Transcend's ESD200 external SSD is fast and very portable. Unfortunately, the backup software doesn't impress.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 18 Feb. 13 11:11

  • Review: The best network monitoring system on earth

    ScienceLogic EM7 brings ultraflexible, ultrascalable, carrier-grade network monitoring to the enterprise

    Written by Brian Chee • 06 Feb. 13 11:09

  • IronKey Workspace review: Windows 8 PC on a stick

    Imation's IronKey division has introduced a new USB drive from which you can boot up an encryption-secured Windows 8 PC on any computer.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 01 Feb. 13 18:20

  • Office 2013 is the best Office yet

    With Office 365 Home Premium, Microsoft brings excellent cloud features and pay-as-you-go pricing to the world's best office suite

    Written by Serdar Yegulalp • 29 Jan. 13 14:22

  • FreeNAS: Flexible, fast storage, and the price is right

    It takes something different to stand out in the crowded network-attached storage market. How does free, as in free beer and free speech, sound?

    Written by David Newman • 28 Jan. 13 12:03

  • SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD review: Fast and inexpensive

    The SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD, which sports data speeds of up to 530MB/s, is aimed squarely at replacing aging hard drives in existing desktops and laptops.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 25 Jan. 13 12:31

  • SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD review: Fast and inexpensive

    The SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD, which sports data speeds of up to 530MB/s, is aimed squarely at replacing aging hard drives in existing desktops and laptops.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 25 Jan. 13 12:31

  • SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD review: Fast and inexpensive

    The SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD, which sports data speeds of up to 530MB/s, is aimed squarely at replacing aging hard drives in existing desktops and laptops.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 25 Jan. 13 12:31

  • SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD review: Fast and inexpensive

    The SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD, which sports data speeds of up to 530MB/s, is aimed squarely at replacing aging hard drives in existing desktops and laptops.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 25 Jan. 13 12:31

  • SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD review: Fast and inexpensive

    The SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD, which sports data speeds of up to 530MB/s, is aimed squarely at replacing aging hard drives in existing desktops and laptops.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 25 Jan. 13 12:31

  • SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD review: Fast and inexpensive

    The SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD, which sports data speeds of up to 530MB/s, is aimed squarely at replacing aging hard drives in existing desktops and laptops.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 25 Jan. 13 12:31

  • SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD review: Fast and inexpensive

    The SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD, which sports data speeds of up to 530MB/s, is aimed squarely at replacing aging hard drives in existing desktops and laptops.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 25 Jan. 13 12:31

  • SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD review: Fast and inexpensive

    The SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD, which sports data speeds of up to 530MB/s, is aimed squarely at replacing aging hard drives in existing desktops and laptops.

    Written by Lucas Mearian • 25 Jan. 13 12:31

  • How We Tested Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

    We tested the Windows Server 2012 Editions and Windows 8 Professional/Enterprise Editions on a Gigabit Ethernet switched network, principally using an HP DL580G8 with four 2.17Ghz quad-core Intel Xeon CPUs, 64GB of memory, and four high-speed local drives. We also used an NFS store for developing ISO images, then used VHD and VMDX images to build Windows 2012 and experimented with Windows 8 images. We also tested Windows Server 2012 on VMware vSphere 5.1, and Citrix XenServer 5.6, where we found no difficulties in mounting and managing Windows Server VMs. We tested features, spawned new virtual machines, configured routing and (tiny) VLANs to emulate environmental multi-tenancy successfully.

    Written by Tom Henderson • 24 Oct. 12 11:42

  • NAS appliances: Not just raw storage anymore

    When we did a roundup of Network Attached Storage devices seven years ago, the products boasted an amazing (for the time) 1TB of disk space. This time around, we're testing six units that sport 8TB or larger storage capacities. While the disk space has exploded, the investment remains modest, sometimes at a lower actual dollar figure than the first batch back in 2005.

    Written by James E. Gaskin • 08 Oct. 12 15:42

  • How we tested Microsoft's System Center 2012

    We initially attempted to implement System Center 2012 modularly, which is almost impossible, so we used the Unified Installer after reading the salient documents for each module, then installed each module into its own VM, combining SQL Server resources where necessary. We recommend that up to four SQL Server instances may be necessary for protecting all of the modules.

    Written by Tom Henderson • 24 Sept. 12 04:35

  • HP P4000 VSA teaches dumb storage new tricks

    HP’s LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance offers a wealth of flexibility with a few caveats

    Written by Matt Prigge • 25 July 12 14:45
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