1tb Archive

  • LaCie’s Rugged Safe external hard drive is both rugged and safe

    LaCie’s Rugged Safe external hard drive is both rugged and safe

    LaCie wants to ensure that your data is safe. Like really safe. The company took its Rugged hard drive line, added a fingerprint scanner and 128-bit AES encryption and in turn, made what might be the Mad Max of hard drives.

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  • Seagate confirms its working on a 3TB hard drive set for a 2010 launch

    Seagate confirms its working on a 3TB hard drive set for a 2010 launch

    A few weeks back a story broke about Seagate's plan to release a 3TB 3.5mm hard drive this year. Well, apparently that's the case although if your system happens to be running a 32-bit OS like XP, you're going to be out of luck. This drive, and any other hard drive larger than 2.1TB, will require the a modified versions of Linux or the 64-bit version of Windows 7 or Vista. Sorry, kids. It's time to upgrade.

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  • The TiVo Premier is finally official

    The TiVo Premier is finally official

    Finally. We finally have new TiVo models. The TiVo HD XL launched a long year and half ago and the UI is even older. But that’s behind us now, the TiVo Premier is here and it’s (nearly) everything we need in a DVR. Everything is different: the hardware, the interface, even the remote. (QWERTY!) With the [...]

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  • Coming soon: Postage stamp-sized 1TB SSDs

    Coming soon: Postage stamp-sized 1TB SSDs

    SSDs haven't found their way into the mass market yet, but a team of Japanese researchers is already trying to make them more worthwhile. The team claims it has developed a technology that helps to shrink the size of SSDs by no less than 90%, makes them cheaper and boosts energy efficiency by 70%.

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  • Panasonic to release four 3D Blu-ray recorders and players in Japan

    Panasonic to release four 3D Blu-ray recorders and players in Japan

    The VIERA 3D full HD plasma TVs weren't the only 3D products Panasonic priced and dated for the Japanese market today. The company also announced a total of three new Blu-ray 3D recorders and one player. Here are the details.

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  • Review: G Drive mobile USB hard drive

    Review: G Drive mobile USB hard drive

    Short Version: It’s an external USB hard drive for your Mac. It’s white. Features Pre-formatted in HFS+ for OS X Time Machine compatible Bus-powered Color matches MacBooks $139 MSRP Pros It’s white like your MacBook Cons Bigger and heavier than most other bus-powered 500GB external hard drives Questionable build quality Review So this is just another external hard drive. Yeah, there isn’t anything special about it besides the white [...]

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  • Where did the TiVo HD go? New model launching soon?

    Where did the TiVo HD go? New model launching soon?

    Let’s say you want to buy a TiVo HD right now from TiVo.com. After all, it’s a great DVR with Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, and local networking streaming support. The only thing is you that can’t. It’s listed as out of stock. The only option available is the 1TB $499 TiVo HD XL. Does this hint [...]

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  • Gateway announces new product line up for 2010

    Gateway announces new product line up for 2010

    Gateway announced their new desktop models today. They added five new systems, including a touchscreen, and two high end gaming machines. We managed to get our hands on their new basic system, the SX2840, and you can read our review here.

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  • Review: Western Digital My Book 3.0

    Review: Western Digital My Book 3.0

    We looked at the 500GB USB 3.0 Seagate BlackArmor PS110 a few days back and now the Western Digital My Book 3.0 drive is on the bench. There are some important differences and similarities between the two USB 3.0 options. First, while the PS110 is a portable solution and the My Book 3.0 is a desktop external, [...]

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  • The BlackArmor PS 110 gets Seagate in the USB 3.0 game

    The BlackArmor PS 110 gets Seagate in the USB 3.0 game

    Hope you're ready for CES's flood of USB 3.0 drives and accessories. Seagate is the latest manufacturer to announce its initial offering at the trade show. The BlackArmor PS 110 Performance Kit includes not only a 500GB portable hard drive, but also a ExpressCard USB 3.0 adapter because, you know, no one really has a USB 3.0 yet.

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  • The WD MyBook line gets the USB 3.0 treatment

    The WD MyBook line gets the USB 3.0 treatment

    If you're going to buy that new USB 3.0 hub, you might as well have something to plug into it. Why not the new WD MyBook 3.0? I mean, it's damn fast, not that expensive, and looks sick.

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  • Buffalo Japan sells very pretty external HDD

    Buffalo Japan sells very pretty external HDD

    If you ever wanted to watch movies stored on your computer (you know, the ones you legally downloaded from the web earlier) in style, Buffalo might have the right device for you. Their HD-AV2.0TU2 [JP], an external HDD, is currently Japan-only, but the company sells a good number of external storage solutions in other countries, for example the US, too (which means this new HDD might become available there in the future).

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  • OCZ Colossus finally hits retailers

    OCZ Colossus finally hits retailers

    Get your wallet ready; OCZ's Colossus line has finally hit the shelves. We were expecting them back in August, but it seems that there must have been some difficulties.

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  • Hitachi redesigns the SimpleDrive and ups the capacity to 2TB

    Hitachi redesigns the SimpleDrive and ups the capacity to 2TB

    Folks, 2TB external drives are now coming out from everyone. Isn't it grand? Hitachi has revised the look of the SimpleDrive external hard drive and it's now available in a 2TB option. In fact, the rest of the SimpleTech lineup can now be had with a 2TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 hard drive.

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  • OfficeMax Black Friday ad to feature $150 Acer netbook

    OfficeMax Black Friday ad to feature $150 Acer netbook

      And so it begins. The impending onslaught of Black Friday ads starts with a leaked OfficeMax circular featuring a 10.1-inch Acer Aspire One netbook with Windows XP, 1GB of RAM, and 160GB hard drive for just $150. It’ll be available from 7AM to 12PM on Friday, November 27th. That, my friends, is indeed a doorbuster. Other [...]

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