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  • The coolest clock you’re going to see today: strobing LED hard drive digital clock

    The coolest clock you’re going to see today: strobing LED hard drive digital clock

    Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Making clocks out of hard drives isn't anything new. The hard drive platters make nice shiny backgrounds for your traditional analog clock, and provides just a little geek panache to an ordinary timepiece. This new strobing LED hard drive digital clock really takes things to the next level, though, as you can see in the video inside.

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  • The hard drive platter wallet will show your true colors and hold your credit cards

    The hard drive platter wallet will show your true colors and hold your credit cards

    Posted on December 15, 2009 | No Comments
    The duct tape wallet has officially been replaced as the geekest wallet you can make yourself. Although, I must say, it's probably a whole lot more comfortable to carry around in your back pocket then two hard drive platters.

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  • Seagate to announce new ultra-thin drives at CES

    Seagate to announce new ultra-thin drives at CES

    Posted on December 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Seems like Seagate is trying to make up for some lost time in the storage technology field. After a late entry into the SSD market, Seagate may be getting a jump start on the ultra-thin drive market. One of the issues with the new ultra-thin generation of notebook computers is the hard drive size. You can only make a computer so thin before you run into issues with the thickness of the components.

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  • Review: Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 NAS

    Review: Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 NAS

    Posted on November 4, 2009 | No Comments
    With the terabyte to dollar ratio decreasing every day, there's no excuse for not having adequate digital storage space. The new Iomega ix2-200 Network-Attached Storage (NAS) unit makes adding storage to your home or business network about as easy as it can get. Its a very powerful, versatile unit that is quite nearly plug-and-play. Let's take a closer look shall we?

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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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  • LaCie Ruggedized, Portable HD Movie Player

    LaCie Ruggedized, Portable HD Movie Player

    Posted on July 10, 2009 | No Comments
    A hard drive is a hard drive is a hard drive, right? You store things on it and buy another one as a backup, for when the first one breaks. True, but the hard drive makers have been making boxes that do more than just hold the spinning platters recently, and one of those boxes turns [...]

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  • The Unbearable Lightness of Data

    The Unbearable Lightness of Data

    Posted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Dissected hard drive, by Marcin WicharyYou don't back up your data, do you? It's okay, you can fess up. Here, I'll make you feel better: I rarely back up my data. Now you say it. There, doesn't it feel better to get that off your chest? For most of us, it's no big deal if we lose all our data. For some, though, it's a really, really big deal. My buddy Jeff, an independent contract artist, lost a hard drive and most of his portfolio. Jeff sent his hard drive to a data recovery service in California, but was informed that the reader arm had shaved into the platters, rendering his precious digital artwork lost forever. Absent physical damage to the drive, though, just how much data is actually recoverable? How do data recovery services work?

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