Hewlett-Packard LTO Ultrium WORM 400 GB

Advantages: Fast
Disadvantages: Cost

...the leading edge LTO tapes have a small spring loaded "door" at the side through which the tape is dispensed into the drive. So unlike your videos, which spool from one side to the other, this is spun out in one long line and then rewound. I could be totally wrong but Fuji and the other manufacturers are a little obscure on this! Enough of that anyway; what do you do with them? You copy your ever so precious data onto it. Now I'm willing to bet a penny to an LTO drive that your data isn't worth £3000+. Nope, didn't think so. But for business it is. Frequently it's worth a lot more than that. Your average home user will NEVER need this much storage capacity. Each tape has a native (I.E. Uncompressed) capacity of 200GB. Most home PCs don't even have hard drives that big. Compress the data and you can get a theoretical capacity of 400GB... Read review

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Advantages: Slimline, many different options and room for expansion
Disadvantages: not too many, mainly the price issue

...to practically sit on top of the plug socket to make it reach! So including the power cord, the grand total length of the ac adapter cable is actually 12 ft, which I think is quite sufficient without the aid of extension cords. The battery is a 6 cell high performance Li-Ion Battery and there is the option to purchase a secondary 8 cell battery. This secondary battery has HP fast charge technology, which means you can charge the battery up to 90% in just 90 minutes (which in case you're not too sure is very fast) and the battery boasts an additional 4 hours of battery life on top of the time provided by a normal battery, designed to keep the user mobile for days. Display ------------------------------------------------------ The screen is 14.1 inches, TFT XGA. It can output a resolution of 640x480 to 1600x1200 depending on the colour... Read review

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Advantages: four gigabyts of ram! very fast, cheap, only slots into one slot
Disadvantages: not many, wont work with older operating systems

...that the limit for most operating systems, apart from all or most server or networking operating systems, for the RAM is about four gigabytes, so I had brought the right OS for the Ram I had brought. ◙User Experience ◙ After installing my new ram, I was very happy with what I had brought; I noticed a significant change in the speed of my computer and how many programs it could run simultaneously. For instance, before, I could only run about five or six programs at once, and my computer would slow right down, and my computer would also have problems with my fast broadband connection. Now, because of my new ram, I can run as many programs as I want to and also my broadband connection is much faster than it was before. So all in all, I was very pleased with my new purchase. The support of Compaq is absolutely brilliant... Read review

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