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Silicon Power Armor A80 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Drive

The Silicon Power Armor A80 is designed to provide protection against water, drop, pressure, and dust with its rugged design. The unit manages to provide excellent protection and performance without adding much bulk. Available in storage ranges from 320GB to 1TB, it is one of the best external hard drive available on the market.

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Patriot Gauntlet (PCGTW320S)

Need more portable file storage, but can’t use the Cloud? The Patriot Gauntlet may just be the device that you are looking for. 

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Western Digital VelociRaptor 1TB Hard Drive

 

The WD VelociRaptor 1TB hard drive comes with a 10,000 RPM spindle speed and a whopping 333GB per platter! How does it stack up against a growing slate of SSD’s and hybrid hard drives? Keep reading to find out.

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Seagate Momentus XT 750GB Gen 2 (ST750LX003)

The second generation Seagate Momentus XT marries a large amount of drive capacity with the lightning-fast performance of 8GB NAND flash. Keep reading to find out how it performs.

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Seagate Barracuda 3TB (ST3000DM001)

Seagate relaunched the world first high-density platter drive: the Barracuda XT. The new drive can fit a whopping 1TB per platter, but does the higher density really make a difference? Keep reading to find out.

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Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB

Seagate’s latest Barracuda XT brings high capacity to computers. But how well does it really perform? Keep reading to find out.

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Seagate Constellation.2: 2.5” Enterprise Hard Drive

 

Seagate’s Constellation.2 is the first 2.5” enterprise level 1TB hard drive. With 7200RPM, 64MB Cache, and a 6 Gbps interface, it is designed for the highest level of performance.

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Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB

Hard drive manufacturers are working hard to maintain good performance while reducing power consumption, so we put the 2TB Seagate Green to the test.

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Seagate Savvio 10K.4 HDs & LSI 3Ware 9750-8i RAID Card

The Seagate Savvio 10K.4 Serial Attached SCSI hard drives are the first to be the largest capacity (600GB), and smallest form factor (2.5 ”) server hard drives available, making capacity and speed an issue of the past for server based systems.

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Seagate Cheetah NS.2 HDs & LSI 3ware SAS 9750-4i RAID Card

Seagate’s new 6Gb/s Cheetah NS.2 SAS 600GB 10K Hard Drives and LSI’s new 3ware 6.0Gb/s SAS 9750-4i RAID Card bring top notch performance to the Hard Drive industry that has not yet been seen in the past.

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Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB

The Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB drive is a “Green” based drive that offers a huge storage capacity, uses less voltage and still offers good performance..

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