Hard Drive Archive

  • We live in a world where a 1.5TB Seagate Baracuda hard drive costs only $95

    We live in a world where a 1.5TB Seagate Baracuda hard drive costs only $95

    Starting off your Tuesday with a quick deal. Amazon has a 1.5TB Seagate Baracuda (7200RPM, SATA II, 32MB cache) for $95—a full $100 off the regular price. Could make a fine storage drive, you know, for all those “digital photos” you have. Pretty sure “digital photos” is codeword for Blu-ray rips and the like.

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  • Confirmed: Kinect Bundles and a New $199 Xbox

    Confirmed: Kinect Bundles and a New $199 Xbox

    At a Microsoft internal marketing Q&A session, representative proffer a little more details regarding the new slim Xbox. Announced last week at E3, the new slim design Xbox, comes with both WiFi and a 250 GB hard drive  all for $299. Right now Microsoft has reduced their price of the elite and arcade models to $249 and $149 respectively. As far as a new lower priced slim model similar to the arcade, Microsoft simply commented, "We will offer a $199 Xbox 360 this fall."

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  • Western Digital outships Seagate for the first time ever

    Western Digital outships Seagate for the first time ever

    Seagate is no longer the reigning hard drive king. Western Digital edged-out Seagate in the first quarter of 2010 by shipping 51.1 million 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 Dell Latitude 2110 netbook packs mobile broadband and touchscreens

    The Dell Latitude 2110 netbook packs mobile broadband and touchscreens

    There is certainly a market for business-ordinated netbooks and Dell's latest Latitude netbook ensures that it can keep up with the corporate world. An Intel Atom still resides at the core, but it's the new 1.83GHz N470 model backed with the latest Intel Graphics Media Accelerator, the 3150. Along with a wide range of hard drive and OS options including Windows XP, Vista, Win 7, Linux, and FreeDOS, the updated netbook can also be configured with a mobile broadband card.

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  • Seagate to release a 3TB 3.5-inch hard drive and a 1TB 2.5-inchthis year

    Seagate to release a 3TB 3.5-inch hard drive and a 1TB 2.5-inchthis year

    Whoa there, Seagate. A 3TB hard drive? That's nearly enough to hold all of John's adult materials.

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  • Sony offers extended warranties for PS3, PSP

    Sony offers extended warranties for PS3, PSP

    Looks like Sony now offers extended warranties for the PS3 and PSP. It's not free, of course, but it's not like the prices outrageous either, with prices ranging from $30 to $60.

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  • Monami, the hard drive concept with a leather top hat (kinda)

    Monami, the hard drive concept with a leather top hat (kinda)

    Yeah... How much thought do you put into your hard drive purchase? Like, zero seconds? I mean, you check out the specs—capacity, cache, speed, etc.—and then off you go. Do you care what it looks like? I certainly don't, but then I'm probably not the "demo" for this deal. Then again, it's not even real, so I don't even know what's going on anymore.

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  • MSI announces new GE600 gaming notebook

    MSI announces new GE600 gaming notebook

    MSI just announced their latest, the GE600 gaming notebook, is now available for purchase. Built around an Intel Core i5 processor and the ATI Radeon HD5730 GPU, the GE600 is billed at MSI's lightest gaming notebook yet at 5.9 lbs, and this latest addition to their stable is also DirectX11 capable.

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  • Microsoft Fix It comes to Windows Vista, XP

    Microsoft Fix It comes to Windows Vista, XP

    Good news for those of you who are still plugging along on Windows XP and Vista. Microsoft is bringing Fix It to said operating systems; it's already available on Windows 7. Fix It tries to—wait for it—fix your PC problems before they require your to break out a sledgehammer and teach your hard drive a lesson. It's in beta right now, so feel free to give it a shot. "Feel free," as if I'm the arbiter of your free time!

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  • Some Chinese company makes a tablet

    Some Chinese company makes a tablet

    So there’s a Chinese company called Hanwang that makes stuff. And they have, um, models? And they’re making… well look at the one in the middle. She’s pretty. Ummm… what was I saying? Oh. 7-inch touchscreen, 1024×600 pixels with like a hard drive… where was this taken? When can we go there? It will have a [...]

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  • WeaKnees now selling a 2TB and 4TB TiVo Premiere

    WeaKnees now selling a 2TB and 4TB TiVo Premiere

    Just in case the 1TB drive in the TiVo Premiere isn't big enough for you, WeaKnees is now selling two upgraded models with a bit more storage capacity. The TiVo authorized reseller has a 2TB and 4TB Premiere available for $849 and $149, respectively. That's a lot of recording storage, boys and girls, and currently the only way to get a larger drive in the Premiere.

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  • Seagate teams with Paramount pictures, pre-loads DRM-laced movies onto FreeAgent Go portable hard drives

    Seagate teams with Paramount pictures, pre-loads DRM-laced movies onto FreeAgent Go portable hard drives

    Seagate and Paramount are trying something new. The thought here is to offer consumers an alternative source for movie content and so select FreeAgent Go portable will soon come with 21 of Paramount’s best flicks. But of course these movies aren’t free. Nope, while they are actually pre-loaded on the drive, they cost between $10 [...]

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  • Samsung Spinpoint MP4: A 2.5-inch 640GB 7200 RPM drive meant for us

    Samsung Spinpoint MP4: A 2.5-inch 640GB 7200 RPM drive meant for us

    Doesn't it seem like 2.5-inch hard drives have been stuck at 500GB for a while? Well, Samsung is the latest to announce its next-gen hard drive platform and while it doesn't have the same 750GB capacity as WD's latest 5400 RPM drive, we'll take the Sammy's 7200 RPM speed with a little less storage any day.

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