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Networking

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Removable Storage

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Speaker / Microphone

System / Server
Video Card

Video Conferencing

Other:

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Software

Game

 Hard Drive Basic Parameters:                              

  •  Storage Capacity: up to 181G. Bigger hard disk lets you store more programs and data.

  •  Spin Rate: up to 15,000RPM. Speed at which the PC boots up and programs load is directly related to hard disk speed.

  •  Interface: Data Transfer Rate EIDE 16MB/sec, USB 2.0 480 MB/sec. The interface can form a bottleneck to overall performance.

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Product

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Hard Drive:

Internal, EIDE

"data center" of the PC, store all of your programs and data

  • Storage Capacity: 20G to 160G

  • 5400RPM to 7200RPM

  • EIDE(Enhanced IDE) / ATA interface

 

 

Hard Drive Internal Structure

EIDE / ATA: data transfer rate up to 133 MB/sec

Hard Drive:

Internal, Ultra2 SCSI 50pin

 same
  • Storage Capacity: up to 9G

  • 5400RPM

  • SCSI interface 50pin

note: 50-Pin SCSI is called narrow SCSI and 68-Pin SCSI is called wide SCSI or SCSI2 or SCSI3. But 50-pin SCSI physically is wider and bigger than 68-pin SCSI.

50-Pin SCSI Drives have Male connector, 68-Pin SCSI Drives have Female connectors, so this adapter has Male-to-Male connector.
 

Ultra2 SCSI: data transfer up to 80MB/sec

Hard Drive:

Internal, Ultra160 SCSI 68pin

same

  • Storage Capacity: 20G to 181G

  • 5400RPM to 15,000RPM

  • SCSI interface 68pin

 

 

Ultra160 and Ultra3 SCSI: Ultra160 SCSI is both a subset and an implementation of Ultra3 SCSI

 

Ultra160 SCSI: data transfer up to 160MB/sec

Hard Drive:

Internal, Ultra160 SCSI 80pin

same

  • Storage Capacity: 20G to 181G

  • 5400RPM to 10000RPM

  • SCSI interface 80pin

     80pin to 68pin adapter included in the package
Hard Drive:
Internal, Fibre channel
 
same
  • Storage Capacity: 9G to 160G

  • 5400RPM to 15000RPM

  • Fibre channel interface

    Up to 200M / second transfer rate

Hard Drive:

External, Ultra160 SCSI 68pin

Portable data storage

  • Storage Capacity: 4G to 181G

  • 5400RPM to 10000RPM

  • SCSI interface 68pin

 

 

Ultra160 SCSI: data transfer up to 160MB/sec

Hard Drive:

External, USB

same

  • Storage Capacity: 10G to 160G

  • 5400RPM to 10000RPM

  • USB 1.1 or USB 2.0

 

 

USB 1.1: data transfer rate up to 12 Mbps

USB 2.0: data transfer rate up to 480 Mbps

Hard Drive:

External, Parallel

same

  • Storage Capacity: 10G to 160G

  • 5400RPM to 10000RPM

  • Parallel interface

 

 

Up to 900K / second transfer rate

Hard Drive:

External, PCMCIA

same

  • Storage Capacity: 10G to 160G

  • 5400RPM to 10000RPM

  • PCMCIA interface

 

 

Up to 4M / second transfer rate

Hard Drive: External, Firewire

same

  • Storage Capacity: 10G to 160G

  • 5400RPM to 10000RPM

  • Firewire interface

 

 

Up to 400M / second transfer rate

Hard Drive: External, Firewire /USB combo same
  • Storage Capacity: 10G to 160G

  • 5400RPM to 10000RPM

  • Firewire / USB combo interface

     

Hard Drive: External,

Stackable

same
  • Stackable design

  • Storage Capacity: 10G to 160G

  • 5400RPM to 15000RPM

  • EIDE, SCSI, Firewire,  USB, or Fibre Channel interface

     

Hard Drive:

Pen Drive

(USB Pocket)

same

  • Storage: 16M to 1G

  • PLUG & PLAY

  • Easy Small & Faster than Removable Hard Drive.

  • Shock resistance: 1000G (maximum)

  • USB interface

  • The Pen Drive is a USB FLASH MEMORY DRIVE and can support up to 1GB disk space, which is 708 times more than a 1.44MB floppy disk.

  • Durable Solid-State Storage: Shock Resistant and more than 10 years data retention.

Hard Drive:

Firewire Pocket

same

 

 

 

 

Hard Drive:

Firewire/USB Pocket

same

Firewire / USB combo interface

Hard Drive Enclosure: USB hard drive enclosure, for portable purpose USB Connection

   

Some enclosures also for zip and LS-120 drives

Hard Drive Enclosure: PCMCIA same PCMCIA Connection

Hard Drive Enclosure: SCSI same SCSI Connection

     
Hard Drive Enclosure: Firewire same Firewire Connection

Hard Drive Enclosure : Parallel

same

Parallel Connection

 

 

 

Hard Drive Enclosure : Stackable same
  • Stackable design
  • EIDE, SCSI, Firewire,  USB, or Fibre Channel interface

     

SCSI External Case:

2-Bays 50-pin

add up to 2 additional 50 pin hard drives, CD-ROMs, CD-RWs, or tape backup drives to your system

SCSI ID select switches

Perfect for:
--> CD Recorder / Duplicators (1 CD-RW Drive and 1 CD ROM Drive)
--> DAT Tape Drives
--> Full height hard drives
--> Anything SCSI that you want external !

4-Bays SCSI3 External Drive Case

add up to 4 additional 68 pin hard drives, DVD-RAM, or tape backup drives to your system

Supports 68-pin SCSI drives at data rates up to 40 MB/s (Ultra Wide SCSI)
 

SCSI ID select switches

 

 

Designed for up to four 5.25" devices (or 3.5" devices with adapter bracket )

IDE RAID Tower for server

Interface:

Host bus SCSI or ATA or Fibre Channel, Disk bus EIDE

http://www.raidweb.com/ DATA TRANSFER RATE: 40MB/second to 160MB/second depending on type of Host bus interface
IDE RAID Rackmount for server

Interface:

Host bus SCSI or ATA or Fibre Channel, Disk bus EIDE

DATA TRANSFER RATE: 40, 80, or 160 MB/second depending on type of Host bus interface
SCSI RAID tower for server

Interface:

Host bus SCSI or ATA or Fibre Channel, Disk bus SCSI

    DATA TRANSFER RATE: 40, 80, or 160 MB/second depending on type of Host bus interface
SCSI RAID Rackmount for server

Interface:

Host bus SCSI or ATA or Fibre Channel, Disk bus SCSI

    DATA TRANSFER RATE: 40, 80, or 160 MB/second depending on type of Host bus interface

Firewire RAID Tower

for server
  • Data Transfer Rate (Typ) 32MB/Sec
  • Seek Time (Avg) 12mS
  • Bus Interface Data Rate (Max) 400 Mb/Sec

  www.smartdisk.com  
Fibre channel RAID Tower for server
  • Fibre channel interface
  • Up to 60,000 IOPS and 400 MB/sec

NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE DEVICE for server Data storage, safe and backing up

     
SGI Storage for server or as a stand-alone storage device.  

  http://www.sgi.com  
Comparision: Serial, Parallel, USB, SCSI, Fibre Channel, Firewire, USB2.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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