Hard Drives Archive

  • mufin launches a new music player with online music streaming specifically designed for the new Android system

    Posted on January 5, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Brando gets comfy with USB 3.0

    Brando gets comfy with USB 3.0

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    USB 3.0 is no longer for richy-rich chumps. The low-cost crapgadget standard, Brando, has its own line of USB 3.0 gadgets now: a 4-port hub and a USB 3.0 to dual SATA cable. Times are good, my friends.

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  • Western Digital outships Seagate for the first time ever

    Western Digital outships Seagate for the first time ever

    Posted on June 3, 2010 | No Comments
    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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  • Hitachi unveils super-fast, super-slim HDD for laptops

    Hitachi unveils super-fast, super-slim HDD for laptops

    Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced the Travelstar Z5K320 today, a new line of 2.5-inch mobile hard drives that are just 7mm thick. The HDDs will be available in capacities of 160GB, 250GB or 320GB. Hitachi says the new HDDs are the slimmest, lightest, and fastest in the industry (at least in this combination).

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

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

    Posted on May 26, 2010 | No Comments
    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

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    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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  • Western Digital has sold more hard drives this year than Seagate

    Western Digital has sold more hard drives this year than Seagate

    Posted on May 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Five hundred and fifty eight million hard drives were shipped in 2009. Think about that for a moment. Five hundred and fifty eight million. Of those, 175.2 million (or 31.4%) carried the Seagate brand name while 165.2 million came from Western Digital. According to The Information Network, WD pulled ahead in the first quarter of 2010, selling 51.1 million hard drives compared to Seagate's 50.3 million sold. I guess that's big news, if you're really into hard drives, or have strong brand loyalty to the drive in your computer. Me, I don't care so much.

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  • AMD’s Vision: The chip race is finally over

    AMD’s Vision: The chip race is finally over

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember back in the day when you could go into a store and compare two clock speeds and come out with the right machine for you? Everything else was immaterial. Hard drives could be upgraded, memory could be added, but clock speed was the number you lived or died by. 1.8GHz was better than 1.5GHz [...]

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  • Lenovo refreshes laptop line for 2010

    Lenovo refreshes laptop line for 2010

    Posted on May 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Lenovo announced their latest models today, a whole slew of new laptops, all-in-one models, and desktops. We're going to talk about the latest laptops here, but make sure you check out our other coverage on their new products.

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  • CrunchDeals: 2TB Western Digital hard drive for $109

    CrunchDeals: 2TB Western Digital hard drive for $109

    Posted on May 10, 2010 | No Comments
    This is crazy. Storage is so damn cheap now. It wasn't that long ago that 2TB drives cost north of $300 and now this Western Digital drive can be had for $109 after a $40 mail-in rebate. Hopefully next year around this time we'll be saying the same thing about 3TB hard drives.

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  • A rant: The Seagate Freeagent GoFlex system has major downsides

    A rant: The Seagate Freeagent GoFlex system has major downsides

    Posted on May 5, 2010 | No Comments
    John gave us a quick look at Seagate’s attempt at reinventing the external hard drive yesterday. His hands-on video is here, but the concept is simple enough. It’s an external hard drive with a native SATA port on the rear side where different proprietary cables convert the interface into USB 2.0, USB 3.0, eSATA, and [...]

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  • Weekend Giveaway: Waterproof, fireproof, and bombproof ioSafe hard drives

    Weekend Giveaway: Waterproof, fireproof, and bombproof ioSafe hard drives

    Posted on April 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Do you live at the heart of the sun? Maybe under an active volcano? Or under water? Then you need an ioSafe 500GB super duper drive. These monsters, if you recall, can take quite a beating, surviving backhoes, fire, and water. So what can you guys get? How about one of two 500GB ioSafe hard drives. How do you win? Glad you asked!

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  • RIAA, MPAA would like to scan your hard drive for infringing content

    RIAA, MPAA would like to scan your hard drive for infringing content

    Posted on April 16, 2010 | No Comments
    There really isn't any particular point to the following story other than to get you riled up as your begin your weekend. The U.S. government is actively trying to figure out how best to handle intellectual property rights, so it has asked the concerned parties to submit all sorts of information in order to better understand what's going no. The person in charge of this is the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, and what the RIAA and MPAA have submitted borders on the insane. Well, it would border on the insane if it weren't totally their modus operandi. The most glaring "suggestion"? That computer users install software that would scan the contents of their hard drives, looking for examples of "infringement." If the software discovers what it thinks it infringement, bam! Deleted! I'd be surprised if this were the year 2001, but after so many years of insane RIAA/MPAA stories it's hard to be shocked anymore.

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  • Plextor has a NAS of its own in the PX-NAS2

    Plextor has a NAS of its own in the PX-NAS2

    Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Plextor, Plextor... Seems they have a new Network Attached Story for you to consider. It's the PX-NAS2, and it's the company's first NAS. Two bays in this bad boy—that means you can slip two hard drives in there, if you please.

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  • The Dell Latitude E6410 ATG has attitude

    The Dell Latitude E6410 ATG has attitude

    Posted on April 7, 2010 | No Comments
    What do you get when you combine the new Dell Latitude E6410 with a semi-rugged frame? Obviously this ATG model. Yeah, I know, lame joke but I don't have time to to think of a more clever intro so deal with it.

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