Hard Drives Archive

  • Netgear jumps into the consumer-friendly NAS arena with ‘Stora’

    Netgear jumps into the consumer-friendly NAS arena with ‘Stora’

    Posted on September 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Netgear’s got a new home network hard drive system called Stora. It’s a $229 NAS system with a 1TB SATA hard drive built in and a second open SATA slot, allowing you to easily add a second drive in the future (that second drive can be set up to mirror the first).

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  • Seagate’s new 2TB hard drive pushes 6Gb/s transfer speed

    Seagate’s new 2TB hard drive pushes 6Gb/s transfer speed

    Posted on September 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Seagate’s just busted through that swing-down arm thing commonly found at tollbooths and for-pay parking lots. In the wake of thousands of little wooden splinters, we observe Seagate sticking its hairy arm out the driver’s side window, fist clenched but for a solitary index finger pointing skyward, as if to say, “I’m number one.”

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  • It shouldn’t be this difficult to upgrade a hard drive

    It shouldn’t be this difficult to upgrade a hard drive

    Posted on September 14, 2009 | No Comments
    You know what's a little more difficult than I first imagined? Upgrading the hard drive in my late 2006 iMac. I had initially wanted to upgrade the hard drive so I could finally dual boot between Mac OS X and Windows 7, since the old drive, a 250GB model, was pretty much filled to capacity. (Trying to run Mac OS X with only ~5GB of free space isn't ideal.) And even though the iMac user manual clearly states that the only user-replacabable parts are the RAM, I figured, “Bah! I think I can handle a simple hard drive replacement.” I did, but not before wishing I had never so much had broken out a screwdriver.

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  • Elecom’s tiny ‘nanoSSD’ SATA drive is cuter than all the Jonas brothers combined

    Elecom’s tiny ‘nanoSSD’ SATA drive is cuter than all the Jonas brothers combined

    Posted on August 25, 2009 | No Comments
    SSDHow adorable is that little solid-state SATA drive right there? You just plug it right into the SATA port on your motherboard! Look at you, little man, with all your data! You're holding an entire operating system -- yes you are! Yes you are!

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  • One external hard drive connector to rule them all

    One external hard drive connector to rule them all

    Posted on August 7, 2009 | No Comments
    driveThe trouble with conventional hard drive enclosures is that if you just want to hook up a particular drive to quickly grab some files off of it, you have to go through the hassle of unscrewing the enclosure, taking out the old drive, making sure you've got the right adapter to fit the new drive, closing it all back up, and man, oh man, all of a sudden it's 4:00 in the afternoon. This external drive whatsit from ThinkGeek interfaces with just about any standard hard drive, be it IDE or SATA, laptop or desktop, and lets you swap them out quickly.

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  • New NXE reduces size of Xbox 360 hard drive installs

    New NXE reduces size of Xbox 360 hard drive installs

    Posted on August 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Clever users with the beta of the new Xbox 360 NXE-thing have noticed something: the size of game installs on the hard drive have decreased. So, good news for those of you with smaller hard drives. (I'm still kicking about with the old school 20GB hard drive. I soldier on.)

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  • Samsung’s Spinpoint F3 uses two 500GB platters

    Samsung’s Spinpoint F3 uses two 500GB platters

    Posted on July 29, 2009 | No Comments
    In case you're hurting for more choice when it comes to shopping for 1TB hard drives! Yup, Samsung's Spinpoint F3 has now reached the 1TB mark by way of two 500GB platters.

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  • Store your data on an ice cream bar with deliciously easy file transfers

    Store your data on an ice cream bar with deliciously easy file transfers

    Posted on July 22, 2009 | No Comments
    popsicleYum. Ice cream bars and external data solutions are, without a doubt, two of my favorite things. Actually, I don't back up all that often (I'm in the cloud, baby!) and frozen confections give me headaches. But this concept actually makes a whole lot of sense and it looks good, to boot.

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