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  • Corsair SURVIVOR 32GB USB pendrive review and execution

    Corsair SURVIVOR 32GB USB pendrive review and execution

    25 September 2008, 10:40

    We take the 32GB Survivor USB-based flash drive for a review spin.....and then execute it.

  • Synology Disk Station DS508: the NAS that has it all?

    Synology Disk Station DS508: the NAS that has it all?

    28 July 2008, 08:36

    We look at Synology's Disk Station DS508, a five-disk network-attached storage solution that specifies all but the kitchen sink

  • HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 - Ready for take-off?

    HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 - Ready for take-off?

    22 August 2007, 08:37

    The HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 has got quite a few features but still relies on the CPU and operating system to do a lot of the work for it. Help or ...

  • Cooler Master X Craft 360 3.5in

    Cooler Master X Craft 360 3.5in

    13 August 2007, 07:55

    Cooler Master continues to pursue its interest in the crowded external enclosure market with the X Craft series. Today, HEXUS is taking a look at the X Craft 360. But ...

  • Thecus N5200 Pro - NAS with an injection of iSCSI

    Thecus N5200 Pro - NAS with an injection of iSCSI

    8 August 2007, 09:08

    Thecus recently applied the "make it better" methodology to its five-disk N5200 NAS device. It's taken the original and sped it up, added some features and come up with a ...

  • Antec MX-1 SATA HDD enclosure

    Antec MX-1 SATA HDD enclosure

    3 August 2007, 11:30

    Antec enters the external data-storage market with the MX-1 enclosure for 3.5in SATA drives. We take a look to see just how good it is and learn that there is ...

  • Lord of the NAS: QNAP Turbo Station TS-109 Pro

    Lord of the NAS: QNAP Turbo Station TS-109 Pro

    23 July 2007, 08:55

    Regular HEXITES will be no strangers to suitable home storage products; we've reviewed a number of NAS products now, but today is the first time we've presented to you a ...

  • Thecus N1200 NAS Media Server

    11 April 2007, 08:51

    Stop! NAS time. What better way to kick off another HEXUS storage review than with a tribute to the mighty Hammer, eh?

  • Thecus 1U4500S 1U rackmount NAS

    21 March 2007, 08:55

    Today, dear readers, we're reviewing a rackmount NAS solution. It stands to reason, then, that this product should allow us to install it, configure it, then use it, and use ...

  • Tested to Destruction: Episode 2 - Teed Off

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    Tested to Destruction: Episode 2 - Teed Off

    8 March 2007, 07:39

    Our Nick gets his wood out, and smacks his balls around a blustery hole or two. Of golf. With a Corsair flash memory stick taped to the ball.

  • Tested to Destruction: Episode 1 - Road Rage

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    Tested to Destruction: Episode 1 - Road Rage

    25 January 2007, 08:35

    What happens when a Corsair Flash Voyager thumbdrive meets a boy racer intent on its demise?

  • Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB USB2.0 drive

    24 January 2007, 09:02

    Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB USB2.0 drive

  • Samsung SE-S184 18x USB DVD burner - world exclusive review

    6 January 2007, 02:29

    Samsung's SE-S184 is claimed to be the world's fastest USB external DVD burner. We check out its writing and reading speeds, see how well it works and ponder the need ...

  • Thecus N1200 RouStor NAS first look

    25 December 2006, 11:06

    Our preview look has left us with the feeling that whilst most people don't strictly need a NAS device, it is such a useful tool.

  • SOHOUSB Magic Bridge SATA/eSATA IDE/USB bridge

    15 November 2006, 10:34

    What's the opposite of an enclosure? Seems there isn't a direct antonym for the word, following an exhaustive search of the net (well, after two queries I was exhausted). We'd ...

  • LaCie Two Big 1TB DAS enclosure

    26 September 2006, 10:51

    We've had some fun with eSATA before, thanks to the Thecus N2050. Today we have a similar product from LaCie on test. We got 1TB worth of storage to ...

  • Boston SAS RAID -X- Pack (LSI MegaRAID 8408E, Seagate ST3750640AS & Supermicro SATA M35)

    17 August 2006, 08:50

    Remember the Thecus N5200? We had it kitted out with 3.5TB worth of disks. The prospect of such a huge amount of storage was just too tempting for us, so ...

  • Sima Hitch USB-101 transfer device

    12 August 2006, 11:37

    Most of us now have a USB device that we carry around with us, be it a thumb drive, camera, audio player, or missile launcher. With all of us carrying ...

  • GIGABYTE GC-RAMDISK i-RAM

    27 July 2006, 07:53

    The GIGABYTE GC-RAMDISK i-RAM uses fast RAM modules to emulate a hard disk drive, an interesting approach to speeding up storage. Does Gigabyte's i-RAM deliver the blistering performance it promises? ...

  • Thecus N5200 NAS Appliance - 3.5 terabytes tested

    13 July 2006, 16:54

    The latest (and topmost) in Thecus' line of NAS products is the N5200. It frees itself from the shackles of the XScale processor and adopts the x86 architecture via an ...

  • Thecus N2050 DAS appliance

    27 March 2006, 10:06

    With the N2050 on eSATA DAS, it's as though your using an internal RAID array. Performance is impressive, and the reliability that RAID 1 brings is always welcomed.

  • Thecus YES Box N2100

    19 January 2006, 09:37

    YES stands for "your enhanced storage" - a very personal kind of branding, don't you think? Also known as the N2100, it has a few things in common with the ...

  • Ultra Portable Disk Enclosures

    23 December 2005, 14:01

    The 3.5" Portable Disk Enclosure proved itself a product that works as advertised, but there are alternatives out there that perform as well and have a better build quality. However, ...

  • Synology Disk Station DS-101g+

    31 August 2005, 00:00

    At the time of writing, the Disk Station DS-101g+ is available at around the £200 mark. You'll have to supply your own SATA hard drive, but prices are forever dropping ...

  • The joys of redundancy: XFX's Revo 64

    20 July 2005, 00:00

    If you need high data rates and really don't need the hassle of downtime thanks to a dead hard drive, RAID is your answer. If you want efficient usage of ...

  • Thecus N4100 IP Storage Appliance

    18 July 2005, 00:00

    If you're looking for a new means of storing and protecting the vast amount of data you have somehow managed to acquire, then ask yourself whether an IP storage solution ...

  • Icy Box IB-350U-BL

    26 July 2004, 00:00

    In the giant sea of new, affordable external hard disk enclosures, the Icy Box stands out due to its appearance and ease of use. Recommended if you\'re in the market ...

  • USB-PenDrive.co.uk 32MB USB Bar

    9 May 2004, 00:00

    The 32MB Bar isn\'t going back, unless they send me a 256MB version, perfect for all the extra things I\'d like a bootable USB key to do. I can\'t really ...

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  • External Disk Roundup

    28 February 2004, 00:00

    There\'s something for everyone in the four disks on test, I\'m just more tempted to add other disk to an ATX chassis, rather than hang it externally. Like everything, you\'ll ...

  • CyberDrive CW099D 52X CDRW

    13 March 2003, 00:00

    Quite simply the fastest way to burn a CD on the PC at the present time, 52X drives are the pinnacle and CyberDrive have themselves a contender.

  • Seagate ST380023AS Hard Drive

    30 December 2002, 00:00

    Seagate have produced an excellent hard disk drive at the high quality end of the market place which should be very well received. I for one will be very sorry ...

  • TX Venus II 48/24/48 CDRW

    22 November 2002, 00:00

    If you've got an older drive, I'd recommend the Tx Venus II. It excels in not just writing but also in reading. With an estimated street price of around £50, ...

  • Belkin USB Dual Media Reader/Writer

    1 June 2002, 00:00

    With potentially 1GB of storage on offer, the end-user needs an effective method of transfer between device and a PC (where data is usually kept and manipulated). Most card-ready devices ...

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