enterprise-class storage features with complete data protection solutions. Simple Modular Storage 100 is ideal for businesses looking for storage systems that are easy to manage, easy to grow, and easy to integrate with applications such as Microsoft Windows and others common to the SMB marketplace. The solution can be installed in minutes. No storage expertise is required. The platform enables simple installation and includes configuration wizards, easy to use graphical user interface (GUI) storage management software and powerful yet simple snapshot copy software deployment. With Simple Modular Storage 100, Hitachi Data Systems delivers market leading availability, performance and uncompromised reputation for reliability. Advanced self-healing features, coupled with a RAID-6 configuration, protect your most important information assets. Simple Modular Storage 100 is engineered to run nondisruptively for several years without onsite maintenance. It is alsoideal for workgroup or departmental storage needs. Unlike the competition, this cost effective platform offers enterprise-class features designed for simplicity, ease of management, and storage growth.
enterprise-class storage features with complete data protection solutions. Simple Modular Storage 100 is ideal for businesses looking for storage systems that are easy to manage, easy to grow, and easy to integrate with applications such as Microsoft Windows and others common to the SMB marketplace.The solution can be installed in minutes. No storage expertise is required. The platform enables simple installation and includes configuration wizards, easy to use graphical user interface (GUI) storage management software and powerful - yet simple - snapshot copy software deployment.With Simple Modular Storage 100, Hitachi Data Systems delivers market leading availability, performance and uncompromised reputation for reliability. Advanced self-healing features, coupled with a RAID-6 configuration, protect your most important information assets. Simple Modular Storage 100 is engineered to run nondisruptively for several years without onsite maintenance.It is also ideal for workgroup or departmental storage needs. Unlike the competition, this cost effective platform offers enterprise-class features designed for simplicity, ease of management, and storage growth.
Advantages: Value for money, great performance, additional drive utilities , SATA 300Gb/s Disadvantages: Little noisy
...Product Description Hitachi DeskStar T7K250 - harddrive - 160 GB - SATA II
Type Harddrive - internal
Form Factor 3.5" x 1/3H
Dimensions (WxDxH) 10.2 cm x 14.6 cm x 2.5 cm
Weight 0.6 kg
Capacity 160 GB
Interface Type Serial ATA II
Connector 22-position Serial ATA (SATA) plug
Data Transfer Rate 300 MBps
Average Seek Time 8.5 ms
Spindle Speed 7200 rpm
Buffer Size 8 MB
This is one of the cheapest SATA 300Gb/s capable hard disk available in this capacity range.
The hard disk has a SATA interface, regular 12v power connector, and also a SATA power interface. If your computer has the new SATA power connectors, you...
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Advantages: Fast and Silent, Easy SATA installation, Two flavours to choose from Disadvantages: Dismal performance
...Maxtor are one of the 3 leading harddrive manufacturers in the personal and business computing market at the moment along with Western Digital and Hitachi. They are also the cheapest. Unfortunately, the saying that price doesn't equals quality is true here. Too true.
The 160GB version of the DiamondMax Plus9 can be purchased online from around £51.00 onwards. And with the way harddrive prices have fallen recently, that's not bad at all. But as I said, you're getting cheap quality to match the cheap price.
The drive itself looks very similar to any other harddrive, and comes in both IDE ATA/133 and SATA 150 flavours, with the SATA ones easier to configure due to their jumperless installations.
My personal experience with this drive has been short. I first purchased this drive to use in my first ever custom-built computer...
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Advantages: Fast, high capacity storage. Well built, looks good. 2 year warranty, No fan. Disadvantages: No fan.
...Freecom before as they've always looked a bit cheap and nasty so this would be an interesting experience. The box did feel reassuringly heavy though, a good start.
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Apart from the drive, the box contained a small light external PSU, a USB lead and a CD with some backup software.
The case is made of extremly solid and heavy aluminium with a silver plastic front piece with a sexy blue '400GB' light (yes, you can have sexy lights. Really.) at the front just to prove how big it was. The finish is excellent and I have to say, if this is anything to go by, I'm converted to Freecom. Unlike the picture here, my unit has the aluminium finished in matt black which looks really nice on top of my black PC. It's also surprisingly compact - not that much bigger than a harddrive at 20x11.5x4 cms...
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Toshiba are a very good electronics company in general and have a great
reputation in the computer industry so it was with a certain amount of expectation that i tried out toshiba's offerings on the hard drive market and i certainly am not... more
I am glad to see such a reliable brand name as Western Digital finally producing a USB Powered external hard drive - Thats right these drives require no power adapter they are powered directly through the USB cable (imagine them as very large USB memory... more
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