Hardware Roundup: Monday Edition

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Posted: June 15, 2009 04:09AM
Author: Nemo

If there is one technology that is "all the rage' these days it is the solid state drive. The benefits of lower power and faster speeds are well-known but there may be several factors holding users back from switching, aside from price, and these include transferring existing OS and data as well as mounting a 2.5" drive in systems designed for the larger 3.5" form factor. Kinsgston is addressing these issues with its Kingston 80GB SSDNow M Series kits that bundle an Intel X25-M 80GB SSD with everything you need to switch including an external enclosure, cables, hard drive mounting rails for desktops and a copy of Acronis True Image for making an image of your existing drive. Our roundup also looks at more traditional ways to store data with the LaCie d2 SAFE and Eagle Tech Consus ET-CSTESU2-BK external HDD enclosure. Another interesting product is the Leadtek Winfast PxVC1100 that uses Toshiba's Cell processor-based SpursEngine technology to speed up digital video encoding tasks.

Cooling
Glacialtech X-Wing Notebook Cooler @ Virtual-Hideout

Input Devices
Sharkoon Rush FireGlider Laser Gaming Mouse @ TweakTown

Motherboards
Gigabyte MA-790FXT UD5P Motherboard @ Motherboards.org

Storage/Hard Drives
Kingston 80GB SSDNow M Series Drive @ Motherboards.org
LaCie D2 Safe 1TB External Hard Drive @ ThinkComputers
Eagle Tech Consus ET-CSTESU2-BK External HDD Enclosure @ Tweaknews

Video
MSI 285GTX Superpipe and Leadtek Winfast PxVC1100 @ Bjorn3D

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