Storage

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.

By Lucas Mearian | 20 May, 2013 17:10

Tags: StarTech, storage

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

By Paul Ferrill | 08 May, 2013 10:15

Tags: 1E, Configuration / maintenance, IBM, storage, hardware systems, hitachi, Data Center, Storage Server, Hewlett-Packard, HP, Dell, Storage Area Network, Microsoft, netapp, VMware, Hewlett-Packard (HP), emc

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.

By Lucas Mearian | 02 April, 2013 11:06

Tags: Mobile/Wireless, storage, Networking, wireless, storage hardware, mobile

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.

By Lucas Mearian | 18 February, 2013 11:11

Tags: Data storage, storage, storage hardware, transcend

Review: The best network monitoring system on earth

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

By Brian Chee | 06 February, 2013 11:09

Tags: network monitoring, Configuration / maintenance, virtualization, storage, Networking, hardware systems, Network management, Data Center, management

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.

By Lucas Mearian | 01 February, 2013 18:20

Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Data storage, Networking, wireless, Windows, software, mobile, operating systems, intel, imation, Apple

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?

By David Newman | 28 January, 2013 12:03

Tags: Configuration / maintenance, network storage, hardware systems, Data Center

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.

By Lucas Mearian | 25 January, 2013 12:31

Tags: SSD, amazon.com, Drives, storage, storage hardware, sandisk

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.

By Lucas Mearian | 25 January, 2013 12:31

Tags: SSD, amazon.com, Drives, storage, storage hardware, sandisk

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.

By Lucas Mearian | 25 January, 2013 12:31

Tags: SSD, amazon.com, Drives, storage, storage hardware, sandisk

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.

By Lucas Mearian | 25 January, 2013 12:31

Tags: SSD, amazon.com, Drives, storage, storage hardware, sandisk

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.

By Lucas Mearian | 25 January, 2013 12:31

Tags: SSD, amazon.com, Drives, storage, storage hardware, sandisk

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.

By Lucas Mearian | 25 January, 2013 12:31

Tags: SSD, amazon.com, Drives, storage, storage hardware, sandisk

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.

By Lucas Mearian | 25 January, 2013 12:31

Tags: SSD, amazon.com, Drives, storage, storage hardware, sandisk

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.

By Lucas Mearian | 25 January, 2013 12:31

Tags: SSD, amazon.com, Drives, storage, storage hardware, sandisk

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.

By Tom Henderson | 24 October, 2012 11:42

Tags: Windows, Gateway, software, Lenovo, hitachi, operating systems, intel, VMware, HP, Parallels, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Microsoft

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.

HP P4000 VSA teaches dumb storage new tricks

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

Microsoft System Center targets cloud, virtualization

With the revamped System Center 2012 suite of management tools, Microsoft has launched a powerful new weapon in the battle to control the virtualized data center and the cloud, both private and public.

Microsoft raises the bar with SQL Server 2012

While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft's database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements.