NTI Backup Now 5 Advanced Edition Review
PUBLISHED: 7/23/2009  BY: Greg Ross
NTI Backup Now 5 Advanced Edition is NewTech Infosystem's latest system backup utility. It provides users with the ability to backup and restore files, partitions, or entire hard disks. NTI Backup Now 5 also comes with a few extra features like emergency boot disk creation, backup compression, and backup encryption. Does NTI Backup Now 5 play well with the big boys, or does it fall flat on its face? We make the call in this review.

Kingston SSDNow V-Series Notebook Upgrade Kit Review
PUBLISHED: 7/1/2009  BY: Jerry Jackson
Are you looking to boost the performance and reliability of your laptop? The new Kingston SSDNow V-Series with Notebook Bundled Accessory Kit provides everything you need to add SSD performance, reliability, and lower power consumption at a low price. Read on to find out exactly what to expect from this impressive SSD upgrade kit.

Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II Review
PUBLISHED: 6/9/2009  BY: Jerry Jackson
If you're looking for the fastest possible external hard drive that supports multiple interfaces and comes pre-formatted for Macs, then Western Digital has exactly what you're looking for in the form of the My Book Studio Edition II. This new dual hard drive RAID enclosure has up to 4TB of storage and works with Macs or PCs via USB, FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and the high speed eSATA interface. Keep reading to find out just how fast this drive really is.

Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive Review
PUBLISHED: 6/7/2009  BY: Jerry Jackson
The eGo series of external hard drives from Iomega offers a variety of stylish storage solutions to keep your important files safe. The colorful casings, range of storage capacities, and variety of connection options mean that just about any notebook user can find their perfect hard drive. We took a closer look at the newest 500GB USB eGO Portable Hard Drive to find out just how much "perfection" you can buy for $135.

Mtron Mobi 3000 SSD Review
PUBLISHED: 5/22/2009  BY: Kevin O'Brien
The 1.8" Mtron Mobi 3000 is a PATA SSD targeted towards a specific niche of users: those who own an Apple MacBook Air and certain netbooks. Offering low power consumption, high transfer speeds, and low seek times this drive gives users the ability to upgrade their computer, even with the not-so-common 1.8" form factor. In this review we take a look at the Mtron Mobi 3000 from RocketDisk and see how well it performs compared to other SSDs and hard drives we have reviewed.

Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B Review
PUBLISHED: 4/30/2009  BY: Kevin O'Brien
The Hitachi Travelstar 5K500.B is a new eco-friendly notebook hard drive that aims to reduce your notebook's power consumption. This model line-up offers halogen-free production, improved signal processing, and optional encryption for better security. In this review we put the 5K500.B head to head with some of the latest notebook hard drives to measure speed and power consumption to find out if you should replace your drive with a new Travelstar.

Solidata SSD Review
PUBLISHED: 4/9/2009  BY: Kevin O'Brien
Solid state drives (SSDs) are becoming very popular these days for upgrades in notebooks, especially now that flash-based drives are coming very close to the capacity of standard hard drives. DV Nation sells 256GB Solidata SSDs, in both SATA and PATA formats for upgrading your notebook, claiming speeds up to 240MB/s read and 210MB/s write. In this review we checkout how well the SATA drive performs with or without the operating system installed on the drive and what impact it has on the notebook.

WD Scorpio Black and Scorpio Blue Hard Drive Review
PUBLISHED: 4/5/2009  BY: Jerry Jackson
The hard drive inside your notebook is far more important than most people realize. Not only is the capacity important in terms of how much data you can store on your computer, but hard drive speed impacts your laptop's performance and hard drive power consumption affects battery life. Should you replace your laptop's hard drive with a Western Digital Scorpio drive? We took a close look at these drives to help you make a decision.

ZumoDrive Review
PUBLISHED: 3/25/2009  BY: Jerry Jackson
Have you ever wished you could access all your music, photos, and documents from any computer or iPhone? Maybe you've heard about "network storage" but either don't have the budget for a network drive or don't know how to setup network storage. ZumoDrive comes to the rescue with what they call "Hybrid Cloud" storage that promises to deliver high speed access to all your files regardless of what notebook or netbook you might be using.

Western Digital My Book World Edition Review
PUBLISHED: 3/20/2009  BY: Jerry Jackson
The Western Digital My Book World Edition is a high performance network storage solution wrapped inside an attractive casing that allows you to share files with multiple computers over the internet or a home network. This compact file sharing solution lets you backup all your computers and works seamlessly with iTunes and Xbox 360 so that everyone in your family has access to music, photos, and videos that are important to you. Notebook users can also benefit by keeping important files on a networked drive at home, so a stolen laptop doesn't result in stolen data. Let's take a closer look.