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might discourage some of our more performance conscious readers, but considering that the MG-350HD uses USB 2.0, 10/100 LAN, and 802.11g to transfer data back and forth; a parallel ATA interface has plenty of bandwidth to handle that sort of traffic. I should...

used Apricorn's EZ Upgrade 2.5" Kit to replace a failing hard disk drive in my notebook computer. This is a Parallel ATA (PATA) kit. Apricorn also makes upgrade kits for Serial ATA (SATA) drives. Apricorn kits support 2.5" drives, though you might find a way...

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Qosmio G25 consistently came in a close second on the other four tests. As for the hard disk drive tests, the G25 uses 5400 rpm SATA drives with 16 MB of cache and a 12 ms access time, while the DV4000 employs Parallel ATA drives with the same cache size and...