Going the SAS Storage Way: With the availability of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) components, the next generation of business class storage technology has arrived. SAS, however, is not only the legitimate successor to UltraSCSI, but it will also enable new applications while boosting scalability to unprecedented levels.

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A Continuing Work in Progress: The State of Linux 2006: Linux appears on virtually all forms of computer technology - from laptops to desktops, workstations to servers, and even discretely in the form of portable media players and handheld devices.

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Buffalo Boosts External Hard Drive Power: External USB hard drives are the easiest way of taking your data with you. Unfortunately, many products restrict mobility because they require a large, bulky external power supply unit. Buffalo now offers a product that solves this problem with a much more elegant idea for powering its drives.

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Mvix Adds Multimedia Player Sauces to External Storage: Lately, there have been few discernable differences between external storage products. Examples of value-add attempts include Western Digital's addition of fancy lights to its devices.

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The Latest DVD Writers' True Speeds: Between the alphabet soup of the different standards and the disparity between vendors' claims and true speeds, choosing the right DVD writer is not much fun. To spare you the headache, we detail the latest DVD writers available from NEC ND-3540A, Pioneer DVR-110D, Plextor PX-740A, Sony DRU-810A and Toshiba SDR-5472 and gauge their true speeds.

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Round-Up: Comparison Testing of 22 Hard Disk Drives: The jockeying for position among hard drive makers never seems to end, particularly in the areas of drive capacity and speed. As a result, hard disks have nearly doubled their capabilities over the last few years, in contrast to the performance of CPUs and systems as a whole. But that's no mere anomaly; we expect further improvements and enhancements in the immediate future.

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Safer 6 for RAID Controllers: Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Independent Drives (RAID) is the general solution for requirements in which performance, storage capacity or data safety of a single drive isn't sufficient.

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Knoppix Linux On USB: This article provides a gentle introduction to how a simple Knoppix configuration can become an indispensable item in a mobile technical toolkit.

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Shuttle XPC SN27P2: A Mini-PC for Athlon AM2 Processors: A short while ago, AMD introduced a new type of processor socket: the AM2. In contrast to older platforms, which worked only with conventional DDR memory, this new model supports DDR2 RAM. The new Shuttle Mini-PC features a motherboard with the AM2 socket and DDR2 memory slots. But the XPC SN27P2 isn't quite as compact as its predecessors in this Shuttle product line.

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Build Your Own (Physical) 3D Models: 3D Studio Max are created in a manner similar to that of any CAD or engineering software, they can be exported into a file format that is suitable for machining.

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