Popular Peripheral Related Links

[Bink]

Courtesy of digitaldog :


Links to popular Peripheral Manufacturers plus information:

• Acer
• Adaptec
• Aopen
• BenQ
• Logitech
• PROMISE
• Tekram
• Trust
  
  
  Removable Storage
  
• Asus
• BTC
• Iomega
• LITE-ON
• LG Electronics
• Mitsumi
• Panasonic
• Pioneer
• Plextor
• TDK
• Yamaha
  
  
  Printers, Scanners & Digital Cameras
  
• Canon
• Epson
• Hewlet Packard
• Lexmark
• Microtek
• Mustek
  
  
  
  Hard Disk Drives
  
• Fujitsu
• IBM / Hitachi
• Maxtor
• Samsung
• Seagate
• Western Digital

Solid State Drives

• Crucial
• Intel Toolbox
• Samsung Magician Software

Miscellaneous

• CDR-Info
• HDTach

• DVD Identifier - June 12, 2005
  
• DVDINFOPro™
  
  
• Why is my drive displaying a smaller than expected capacity than the indicated size on the drive label?
  

Mods, feel free to keep this updated.

[Iocombo.com]

May I add:

Coolers

http://www.eumaxinc.com
http://www.thermaltake.com

[jankerson]

Raid Info:

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/...els/single.htm


Yes I posted it in 2 places, but it really needs to be in 2 places..

[Shinma]

ROMTEC link added and minor editing.

[slingblade]

If I may, here's an old favorite site that's chock full o' very thorough reviews/info regarding CD/DVD burners.

http://www.cdr-info.com/

[Shinma]

Link added slingblade.

[Shinma]

Links added.

[Shinma]

Considering a USB thumb drive for myself recently so,

Son of the USB 2.0 Hi-speed Flash drive roundup
Dated Wednesday, April 13, 2005:
Click HERE

USB 2.0 Hi-speed Flash drive roundup
Dated Thursday June 03, 2004:
Click HERE


You can take it with you: 14 tiny USB flash drives
Dated June 24, 2004:
Click HERE


USB Drive Roundup
Dated July 19, 2004:
Click HERE


Labs roundup: USB disks: Introduction
Dated October, 2004:
Click HERE


If anyone has more recent roundup/review,
Please provide link.

[Shinma]

Son of the USB 2.0 Hi-speed Flash drive roundup review link added.

From the review(s),
Appears few handle low power support and/or boot capability...

[Shinma]

For those considering a new DVD burner,
Following may be of interest to some extent:

DVD Burners Roundup
Dated Wednesday, July 20, 2005:
Click HERE

[MuFu]

Here the (difficult to find!) Maxtor Acoustic Management Utility, AMSET.EXE. You can use it to almost completely silence hard drive seeks, or virtually half seek time on drives that have "quiet" mode enabled by default. More info here: http://www.adriansrojakpot.com/Speed...t_Store_02.htm

It works on recent drives e.g. DiamondMax 9. I get about 19-20ms random access seek time on my drives in "quiet" mode and sub 14ms in "fast" (as measured by HDTach).

[jankerson]

Hard Disk Charts:

Link Here

[Shinma]

Just a personal observation,
Not particularly impressed with the BenQ DW1650 DVD burners.
BenQ appears to still have quality control issues during manufacturing.
If they are too lazy to stamp the labelling for Master, Cable Select, Slave, so that it is clearly legible,
Not sure what other corners they may have cut.
And what the bleep! is with that burning smell with all those drives?!

Took a look at three different DW1650 models with supposedly three different shipping dates.

[krupted]

Benq is just the new name for Acer. Apparently they figure a name change will change thier quality control, or their pr in quality control.

[equinoxe3d]

Benq is just the new name for Acer. Apparently they figure a name change will change thier quality control, or their pr in quality control.

Well, maybe now it will