Dream Machine 2010 was an exercise in PC building, overclocking, cooling—and patience So, the desktop PC will become nothing more than a truck? Well, here’s your Mack truck, Mr. [......]
USB 3.0 and solid state storage; two great tastes that go great together! We’ve seen a few USB 3.0 external drives here at Maximum PC, and we do appreciate the long-overdue speed boost. It’s nice to have file transfers limited by drive speed again, rather than the interface—the 33MB/s maximum was killing us. And while we appreciated the boost we got from USB 3.0 in WD’s My Book 3.0 and the Vantec NexStar 3 SuperSpeed enclosure, the former was only as fast as the mechanical drive within it and the latter couldn’t even match the speeds of the drives it enclosed[......]
USB 3.0 and solid state storage; two great tastes that go great together! We’ve seen a few USB 3.0 external drives here at Maximum PC, and we do appreciate the long-overdue speed boost. [......]
Hybrid drives come back to the future We got the first hints that Seagate was planning a hybrid hard drive when, in response to an offhand question last year, company reps replied with “no comment,†instead of saying “hybrid drives are deeeaaaad!†as we expected. Our suspicions were confirmed when we got our hands on the Momentus XT, a 500GB 7,200rpm notebook drive with 4GB of SLC NAND flash memory and an “Adaptive Memory†algorithm designed to speed up your system by copying the most frequently accessed files to the NAND flash[......]
Great for 3D gaming, and not bad elsewhere Before you scream, “Who in their right mind would pay $500 for a 23-inch twisted-nematic panel?!†know that this is a 120Hz monitor, and that Asus is putting Nvidia’s 3D Vision kit—a $200 product—inside the box. [......]
