28 September 2011, 00:00
Let's see what the differences between the use of SLC and MLC, mean to you.
20 October 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide explains what a solid-state drive is, how it works, where you’ll find it, and what the future holds for the increasingly popular storage medium.
20 October 2008, 00:00
With hard disk capacities reaching some tough physical limits with longitudinal recording, as manufacturers struggle to improve aereal density of HDDs as they approach 1TB in capacity, the disk vendors ...
20 October 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide explains what Intel’s Robson technology is, why it matters and what currently supports it.
2 July 2008, 00:00
Serial ATA, or SATA, is a relatively new storage technology that is now being adopted in computers. It is the successor to Parallel ATA. SATA allows for faster transfers between ...
19 June 2008, 00:00
OK, so you’re savvy to hard disks. You know what interfaces they have, you know whether one will work in your computer or not, you even know the difference between ...
14 June 2008, 00:00
This HEXUS.help guide covers DAS and NAS, what they mean, what they’re used for and how they’re different. We’ll start by looking at the technology, then move on to the ...
14 June 2008, 00:00
In this guide we will be examining a popular method used for increasing the performance and reliability of your hard drives and data storage.
1 March 2007, 00:00
RAM upgrades are probably one of the easiest upgrades to do to a modern PC. Pop the case of, stick in some new RAM, put the case back on and ...
27 September 2005, 13:41
Data recovery company Disklabs has provided HEXUS with some top tips for avoiding the need for professional data recovery, and what to do if things do go a little... wrong.
23 August 2005, 00:00
If you've used a computer for any duration of time you'll have come across the terms “kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte” and so on. Then there's “kilobit, megabit and gigabit” to add ...
9 August 2005, 00:00
Data Recovery is the process of retrieval of inaccessible or corrupt data from digital media that has become damaged or has been corrupted in some way. Data Recovery can be ...
5 August 2005, 00:00
You might have seen Rys and I use the terms GiB, MiB and KiB around HEXUS in recent months, when talking about memory or data sizes. If you've hung around ...
28 July 2005, 00:00
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks and is used for a number of reasons including improving performance and reliability of your data storage. RAID, which can be implemented ...
28 July 2005, 00:00
Serial ATA is the next evolutionary stage in the development of magnetic storage media, it differs from PATA not only in the speeds attainable (150MiB/s to 600MiB/s as opposed to ...
19 February 2005, 00:00
Serial ATA is rapidly taking over from parallel ATA in desktop PCs. James Morris explains why we need this new hard-disk connection