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WD Black² Dual Drive Review: A Convenient Combination Of SSD Performance & Storage

The WD Black2 excels in it’s ability to combine a significant performance boost with plenty of storage in a single drive. If that’s a combo you’ll value; this may be the hard drive upgrade for you.

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OCZ Vertex 450 (256GB) SSD Review

In the SSD space, OCZ has already established themselves as one of the leading brands with products like the Vertex 4 and the flagship Vector.

With their acquisition of Indilinx back in 2011, they’ve now produced the Vertex 450 using in-house components giving them more control…

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WD My Cloud NAS Drive (2TB) Review: Personal Cloud Storage For Your Home

Working with cloud services like Dropbox or Google Drive is easy, fast and efficient, but for a while now there have been concerns about levels of data privacy & security. As a solution, Western Digital launched My Cloud, a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device that lets you have your own personal

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Sandisk Extreme II SSD (240GB) Review

Affordability and top notch performance, these are two words that lie predominantly in our minds when considering SSD upgrades. As far as affordable upgrades go, SanDisk’s Extreme II 240GB SSD is definitely one to consider, but with so many alternatives out there – does this SSD really bring anything new to the table? Priced at…

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WD My Passport Slim External Hard Drive (1TB) Review

Western Digital recently announced the newest addition to their range of external hard drives, the My Passport Slim. Available in 1TB and 2TB capacities, this drive is a follow up to the My Passport Ultra that we recently reviewed, and now comes in an aluminium topped enclosure with 256-bit hardware-based encryption. It’s definitely one of Western Digital’s…

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Kingston HyperX 3K SSD (120GB) Review

When Solid State Drives (SSDs) were first released, you were expected to pay an arm and a leg for the luxury of quietness, reliability and full on performance benefits they offer. As time has passed though, SSDs are becoming a lot more affordable and there’s very few reasons not to invest in upgrading your current…

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WD My Passport Ultra External Hard Drive (1TB) Review

If you’re on the search for a well-built, compact and reliable storage device for your media, the Western Digital My Passport Ultra could be your answer. A follow up of the ‘My Passport Edge’, this external drive offers top of the range performance with extra software features like Dropbox & WD’s SmartWare backup facility that…