Hardware Museum

Benchmark VGA 2004 - 2008 (2012 edition)
Test of many DX9 and DX10 class video cards in 17 games. This article shows performance in Windows XP environment, which was still very popular at the time.

Benchmark VGA 1998 - 2001 (2011 edition)
Find out how various legendary video cards perform in games and benchmarks. Unlike contemporary reviews, in this test all GPUs are using mature drivers and overclocked Athlon XP provides more than enough performance to avoid CPU-limited scenarios.

25 Years of HDD History in Benchmarks
Test of 46 Hard Drives. Mostly desktop but also some workstation and server types. This article covers 25 years of HDD development, starting with 1992 classic WD Caviar 80 MB and up to 3 TB Toshiba P300.