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Storage Reviews: Computer, Camera and Portable

Cheap 8GB USB Drives Make DVD Data Transfers Obsolete

I was meeting with a friend recently and transferring some files onto their laptop when I realised I’ve been using USB Drives to do that for the last year. In fact I haven’t needed to burn any files to DVD ever since I got several USB Drives with 8Gb or more capacity.

Basically cheap 8GB and [...]

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Iomega Ego vs Seagate FreeAgent Go portable hard drive 320 gb (Review)

You may think you don’t need a portable hard drive but I urge you to reconsider, many people keep only 1 copy of precious information like family photos on their laptop which can get lost or stolen or their home computer where the hard drive will eventually fail after a few years. This review compares [...]

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Buyers Guide: USB 2.0 Flash Thumb Drives Not All The Same

You may think that all USB Flash Thumb Drives are the same and therefore buy the cheapest one from Ebay or a stall at your local computer market – YOU ARE MISTAKEN and this article will tell you why

As you can see in the photo above: USB Flash Thumb Drives vary in many ways: Price, [...]

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Lexar and Sandisk SDHC Card Reader Speed Tests (Review)

Camera cards are continuing to grow in size at an astounding rate. Today I can buy a 16GB SDHC card for the same price that I bought my first ever 1GB SD card.

I asked Sandisk & Lexar to send me fast SDHC camera card readers to see how much time they would take to empty [...]

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How to Choose the Best SATA cables for Computer Hard Disk & Optical Drives

When buying a new hard disk drive or HD DVD, Blu-ray, DVD or CD drive for your computer it’s crucial that you choose the most appropriate Serial ATA (SATA) data cable to connect your drive to the motherboard securely allowing for a direct path without bending the cable too much.
I’m going to describe the most [...]

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Corsair Flash Voyager USB Drive Review

When I started looking for a USB Flash drive to purchase my key requirements were:

Fast with true USB 2.0 transfer speeds
Reliable enough to withstand being dropped quite often and be water proof
Not too expensive

According to an interview of Australian data recovery specialist Payam Data Recovery (PDR) by ITwire:

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Corsair 1GB Secure Digital (SD) Card Review 133x speed

I recently purchased a 1 GB 133 speed Corsair SD card (model CMFSD133-1GB) because of my frustration with the slow write speed of my old Sandisk 1 Gb 32X speed SD card when taking burst (multiple consecutive) photos of moving objects such as wildlife. It came packaged in a small plastic storage case enclosed in [...]

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