NEC's MultiSpin 4X Pro performed without flaws. This high-performance drive achieved 590.3-KBps throughput, or two times the rate of double-speed products. In addition, it comes in a well-designed housing with a rotating dust door and a clear control panel with an easy-to-understand LCD.
However, the price, with adapter, is $1120, or almost 2 1/2 times the price of our Best Overall winner. For most mainstream applications, quadruple speed is too expensive to justify, but if you need the fastest performance--and price isn't an issue--consider this drive.
Illustration: Graph: Sequential Throughput (KBPS)
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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