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Once the domain of external, bus-powered hard drives, these days the market for external storage has been almost completely consumed by portable SSDs. Rapid technological advancements in NAND flash technology (including the advent of 3D NAND) has allowed their capacity to eclipse 2.5-inch HDDs, all the while multiple improvements in host interface speeds (such as the move from USB 2.0 to 3.0, and onwards to 3.2 Gen 2 / Gen 2x2 / USB4) has made portable SSDs faster and more reliable than the hard drives they replace. All of which has helped to make portable SSDs the go-to solution for external storage, both big and small. For our latest storage buyer's guide, we've rounded up some of the best portable SSDs we've looked at in...
Weekly Buyer's Guide: Mid-Range System - March 2004
This week we continue with our weekly Buyer's Guides. Today is our sixth Buyer's Guide in as many weeks, for Mid-Range systems this time around. So, let's take a...
22 by Evan Lieb on 3/24/2004Weekly Buyer's Guide: Entry Level System - March 2004
Today, we do the first refresh of our Buyer's Guides to see how much has changed in the last 28 days. Read on to find out our thoughts on...
33 by Evan Lieb on 3/17/2004Price Guides March 2004: CPU and Motherboards
Looking to buy a new motherboard or processor? Find out what we recommend and when we recommend you should buy it...
7 by Kristopher Kubicki on 3/15/2004Weekly Buyer's Guide: Overclocking System - March 2004
Today, we release the Overclocker's version of our Weekly Buyer's Guides with a slightly new format. Read on to find out our overclocking components picks for this week...
33 by Evan Lieb on 3/10/2004Weekly Buyer's Guide: Cutting Edge System - March 2004
Today we release the Cutting Edge version of our Weekly Buyer's Guides. Read on to find out our cutting edge components picks for this week...
41 by Evan Lieb on 3/3/2004Weekly Buyer's Guide: Mid-Range System
This week, we are publishing our Buyer's Guides on mid-range systems. Read on to find out more...
22 by Evan Lieb on 2/26/2004Price Guides February 2004: Magnetic and Optical Storage
This week we take a refresh on some storage news as well as our weekly recommendations for IDE, SATA and DVDR storage devices.
6 by Kristopher Kubicki on 2/25/2004Weekly Buyer's Guide: Budget System
This week we are relaunching our Buyer's Guides due to popular demand. Read on to find out more...
50 by Evan Lieb on 2/17/2004Price Guides February 2004: Memory and Soon-To-Be-Obsolete AGP Video Cards
We cleaned up our memory section just in time for this week's guide. We have some interesting news relating to memory supplies, as well as a comprehensive analysis...
20 by Kristopher Kubicki on 2/10/2004Price Guides February 2004: CPU and Motherboards
Hot on the heels of the Prescott NDA, we have a full analysis of last weeks price drops, as well as weekly recommendations and upcoming chipset analysis.
7 by Kristopher Kubicki on 2/3/2004Price Guides December 2003: The Year in Component Prices
As the year draws to a close, we took this opportunity to reflect on CPU, Video Card, Memory and Motherboard trends from the last 12 months. Without further ado, let us...
5 by Kristopher Kubicki on 12/25/2003Price Guides December 2003: Holiday CPU & Motherboard Guide
This week was a flurry of news; we will touch on Intel's Prescott announcements, Pentium 4 Extreme Edition's REAL pricing, ATI's AMD core logic announcement, and SiS's return to...
10 by Kristopher Kubicki on 12/7/2003Price Guides November 2003: Video Cards and Memory
Over the last couple weeks we saw the retail debut of GeForceFX 5700 and 5950. Today we take a full analysis of how the new IBM manufacturered GPUs...
7 by Kristopher Kubicki on 11/23/2003Price Guides November 2003: CPU and Motherboards
Intel and AMD's "official" price cuts came 2 weeks after we started seeing changes, but prices are still on the move. NVIDIA, VIA, SiS, AMD, ALI and Intel...
4 by Kristopher Kubicki on 11/2/2003Price Guides October 2003: Video Cards
Need some hot video card deals? With all the video card madness happening lately, we thought we would take a weekly update with just NVIDIA and ATI video cards...
28 by Kristopher Kubicki and Howard Johnson on 10/18/2003Price Guides October 2003: CPU and Memory
Unfortunately, the Athlon 64 launch negatively effected the pricing on Athlon XP chips. This week we take a look at AMD and Intel CPUs, plus DDR memory.
19 by Kristopher Kubicki & Larry Barber on 10/13/2003Price Guides September 2003 IDF Edition: CPU, Motherboards and Video Cards
How have DX9 announcements affected video cards? Will Intel’s Pentium 4 Extreme Edition and Athlon 64 alter upcoming CPU prices? XT/SE, K8T800, nForce3, XGI and more new...
17 by Anand Shimpi & Laura Johnston on 9/18/2003Price Guides August 2003: CPUs, Motherboards, Memory and Video Cards
August and July brought us several new products, including DDR500, single channel nForce2 motherboards and 256MB incarnations of ATI and NVIDIA video cards. Fortunately for us, we have...
17 by Kristopher Kubicki on 8/26/2003Sometimes Weekly Price Guides: Motherboards and Video Cards
It's been a more than a week since the last guide, but a volatile motherboard and video card market has prompted us to put out a quick look at...
3 by Kristopher Kubicki on 6/16/2003Weekly Hardware Price Guides: May 2003 Edition
The last few weeks have been full of new activity including new products from ATI, Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA. Check out recommendations and feel free to use our...
0 by Kristopher Kubicki on 5/26/2003
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