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Reinvent Your PC Ever feel like your system's being left behind by today's technology? Here's how to make any machine run faster, store a lot more data, and serve as your entertainment hub. |
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March 2005
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Give Your Storage a Boost Lower costs and higher capacity make hard drives a great bargain right now. |
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December 2003
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Prime Drive Time Sleek, capacious hard disks are making a new place for themselves in the home and on the road. We look at what's here and what's next. |
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September 2004
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Your Ideal PC Whether you're upgrading your PC or building one from scratch, we show you how to choose the right parts and put them all together. |
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November 2005
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Build An External Hard Drive How to assemble an external hard drive for a lot less than buying a new one. |
PC Magazine
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PC Magazine
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CMS 80GB Velocity SATA Automatic Backup System Back in the twentieth century, the only alternative to SCSI for external hard drives was a parallel port, which was deadly slow. |
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July 2003
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Put Together a Custom PC Get the right components and assemble a system that's suitable for your needs and budget. |
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April 2003
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PC World
July 2001
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PC Magazine
August 1, 2007
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PC Magazine
April 19, 2006 |
SATA and PATA Hard Drives You can use a SATA drive alongside an existing parallel ATA. |
PC World
April 2006
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Hardware Tips: Get More, Spend Less on Your PC Storage Upgrades The pros and cons of different storage media, and how to figure out which one you need... Connecting the S/PDIF audio port on a HP Media Center PC to an amplifier... A weightier mouse... |
PC World
May 2004
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The Outsiders: Disks That Do More An external hard drive gives you lots of storage space, as well as a safe place for backups. |
PC World
August 21, 2006
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Hardware Tips: Plan Ahead to Extend the Life of Your Hardware Buy new computer equipment and peripherals with an eye on the future. |
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March 2001
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Build a RAID Array Don't wait inevitable hard disk crash; set up a mirrored RAID array and let your PC handle the backups for you. |
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September 2001
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Build Your Own PC Save money and craft a system that exactly matches your needs... |
PC World
September 2003
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60-Minute Upgrades Get new PC power in an hour -- or less -- with these speed boosters, storage add-ons, and more. Plus: Tune-up tips to keep your system going strong. |
PC World
August 23, 2006
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Best PC Upgrades The PC you need for tomorrow's tasks may be the one you own today after you upgrade its performance in one or more key areas. We show you how. |
PC World
September 2002
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Step-By-Step: Get Maximum Speed From Your New Drives Ensure that your upgraded drives give you the best performance possible. |
PC Magazine
December 24, 2003
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First External SATA Backup Drive With the CMS Velocity Series drives, you really have no excuse for not backing up. |
Macworld
June 2002
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Four Products That Let You Hook Up Fast, High-Capacity Storage, without a Lot of Clutter If the inside of your Mac is no more mysterious to you than the inside of your sock drawer, an internal hardware RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) array may be the perfect way to add lots of very fast storage to your system or to upgrade your boot drive... |
PC World
July 2006
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To Get Just the PC You Want, Build It Yourself You can construct your own fully equipped system for about the same amount of money as an off-the-shelf configuration. |
PC World
September 2002
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Buyers' Guide to Hard Drives If you work mostly in standard office programs, nearly any drive will do. But speed counts for multimedia authoring. |
PC World
April 2004
Kirk Steers |
Can You Postpone That New PC Purchase? Reasons to buy--or not to buy--a new computer; stream MP3s to your car stereo; keep installation files close by. |
PC Magazine
May 16, 2007
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Buying Guide: Save Memories on Portable Drives Here we roundup five solid options for external memory devices: Iomega UltraMax, LaCie SAFE, Western Digital MyBook Pro, Western Digital Passport and CMS Velocity2 RAID Backup System. |
PC Magazine
February 22, 2007
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CMS Velocity 2 RAID Backup System The speediest external drive that we've tested so far, and also one of the most convenient for people who burn out their hard drives regularly (you know who you are). |
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Buyer's Guide: FireWire hard drives This guide will help you find the right drive for your needs. |
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The Ultimate Unusual Upgrades Offbeat PC additions to supercharge your system. |
Linux Journal
March 2000
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Product Review ProConnect - connect several computers to a single keyboard, mouse and monitor. |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2004
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Creating a Data Backup Server Enlist an old PC to back up your files. |
PC World
January 24, 2007
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Useful Upgrades That Will Outlast Your Aging PC Peripherals to buy to make your old computer act like a new one... Setting up simultaneous audio channels... a USB/FireWire hub that offers plenty of ports... |
PC World
July 2004
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Do You Need a New PC or Just a New Motherboard? Our seven-point guide will help you decide whether and how to buy a new motherboard. |
Linux Journal
September 1, 2007
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The Ultimate Linux Box What kind of computer would you build if you decided to spoil yourself, but keep your spending below the big price differential that occurs when you buy the next best thing? We put together a box based on that very principle, and it packs enough power to last years into a tank of a case. |
PC World
August 2003
Jon L. Jacobi |
FireWire 800: Fast Not Furious Want faster external storage? Third-generation FireWire 800 (IEEE 1394b) claims to provide it, boasting a maximum data transfer rate of 800 megabits per second. |
PC World
August 2006
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Hardware Tips: Cheap Notebook Tweaks: Maximize Your Laptop Simple laptop component upgrades, mobile peripherals, longer battery life, and more. |
PC Magazine
September 16, 2003
Bill Machrone |
Build or Buy Computer prices are low, and manufacturers' offerings are comprehensive, so building your own PC may seem like a peculiar notion. But component suppliers' business is booming, and increasing numbers of people are building their own machines, so there must be something to it. |
Macworld
September 2003
James Galbraith |
250GB FireWire 800 Drives External FireWire 800 devices are useful for moving large files quickly. |
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September 2001
Kirk Steers |
Do-It-Yourself Dream Machines A step-by-step guide to the smartest upgrades, plus the ultimate PC project: building your own system... |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2006
Warren Ernst |
Build an External Hard Drive Try a homegrown solution to your storage needs at a bargain price. |
PC World
December 2000
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The Essential Guide to Hardware Gifts Do you know someone whose inner geek cries out for the boring, the mundane, and the excruciatingly useful? Dare to be dull! Here are a few hardware splurges that many PC users will appreciate but few of us would think of as gifts... Plus, advice about CPU overclocking... |
PC World
January 29, 2008
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Build a PC So Small It'll Fit in a Drive Bay Hands on with Via's new Artigo Do-It-Yourself PC kit, based on the credit-card-size Pico-ITX motherboard form factor. |
InternetNews
March 9, 2009
Andy Patrizio |
Seagate, AMD Double Down on SATA Speeds AMD and Seagate today discuss the next leap in hard disk performance, a doubling of Serial ATA throughput. |
InternetNews
April 25, 2007
Henry Newman |
The Real Cost of Storage When power, cooling, performance and reliability are considered, SATA may not have much of a cost advantage over Fibre Channel after all. |
PC World
June 2006
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Hardware Tips: Make Your Hard Drives Faster and Safer With RAID Choose the RAID configuration most appropriate for your needs... Avoid wrist pains caused by keyboard typing... Dusting your PC just got easier... |
