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James Fee
10-02-2004, 04:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1658776,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532' target='_blank'>http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1658776,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532</a><br /><br /></div>"<i>Mass storage today is cheap and plentiful. Despite this seeming cornucopia of buckets for your bits, storage technology is still evolving. We'll take a look at some of the key areas of technical evolution in the arena of personal storage. Here, we'll be focusing on disk-based media, both optical and hard disk, with an eye on near-term buying decisions.</i>"<br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/serial_ata.jpg" /><br /><br />ExtremeTech has a nice article on all the different mass storage devices on the market from Serial ATA and Optical Storage to NAS and Firewire/USB. If you are running low on disk space or are unsure of what you need to backup your data, check this in-depth article out.

Neil Enns
10-02-2004, 04:35 PM
Mmmmm, storage. Yummy. Imagine my surprise when I tried to digitize my Hawaii vacation videos (about 4 hours), and found they took up about 120GB on my machine 8O

I have a brand new SATA drive that's super speedy and does wonders for improving video editing performance. With three drives in my system now I can have the app loading from one drive, a second for reading, and a third for writing. It makes a huge difference!

The best part? The drive cost me $110 for 200GB!

Neil