One of the fastest hard drive on the market has just gotten an upgrade, yes it’s now available in 1TB capacities. The drive is 2.5” in size and runs at 10,000 RPM with an SATA 6 interface for maximum transfer speeds. This new drive comes with a price tag of $319.99, and if you want …

As SSDs (solid state drive) continue to drop in price there are more and more platter hard drives become displaced; especially if the drive came from a laptop. One way to keep these drives functional and useful is by placing them within an external enclosure. While some SSD upgrade kits come with 2.5” external USB …

It looks like Seagate’s hard drive business got a little bigger with the acquisition of Samsung’s HDD division. There aren’t many hard drive companies left really are there? That can’t be good for competition can it? Seriously though, think about it? Where is the incentive to offer good prices when there isn’t any competition in …

It seems like just last week that we were hearing about 3TB hard drives and now we’ve got 4TB ones. I’ve got the Seagate 2TB and 3TB drives and they’re not even close to being full, still though I guess I have to get a 4TB to complete my collection… The price for a gargantuan …

Hard drives just get bigger and bigger don’t they?  Seagate just announced their new 3TB Barracuda XT. I have one actually, have a review up for you soon hopefully. Just having a small issue getting it formatted… Seagate today began shipments of the industry’s most elegant, easy-to-install 3TB desktop drive – the Barracuda® XT …

We haven’t heard much from Verbatim at CES, but here they are with this one about their new USB 3.0 portable HDDs and then I’ll have a follow up as well. “We’re thrilled to debut our innovative line-up of portable hard drives at CES 2011 and to deliver exciting new options in this rapidly-growing …

Western Digital has just announced that they’re shipping massive 3TB hard drives, a little behind since Seagate already shipped them, but at least they’re catching up right? These new drives are the Caviar Green and are available in 2.5TB or 3TB sizes. Pricing is $189.00 for 2.5TB and $239 for 3tb, which isn’t bad. …

USB 3 is everywhere it seems, to bad not many computers out there actually have it on them huh?! That’s the way though with new tech isn’t it? Things that can utilize it come out before the tech hits worldwide acceptance.  Anyway, these new Canvio drives look great and of course they offer the fast …

Cirago has decided to further join the USB 3.0 revolution with the introduction of their  new CST6000 portable hard drive. It’s a 250gb 2.5” drive that runs on the USB 3.0 interface so it should achieve some decent speeds for all your transfer needs. Cirago even included a nice carrying case as well for added …

Nice, a 1.5TB 2.5” hard drive.. wow, I could put a lot of stuff on that. It’s a GoFelx drive actually so you can use several different types of connections with it. Shipping now in the United States and rolling out globally later this year, all 1.5TB GoFlex ultra-portable …

It’s about time prices have dropped on USB 3.0 hardware surely. The new eGO portable hard drives feature hardware encryption and are built tough to withstand abuse like drops and anything else your average day can throw at them. USB 3.0 Transition Timeline for Iomega Portable Hard Drives Iomega plans to move …

So we’re going for another Samsung review today, this one though is of one of their newest hard drives called the F4. I’ve put it up against many other drives from other manufactures and even against the Samsung F1 and an SSD as well. The F4 is fast, it’s faster than all of the …

Wow, a 1TB 2.5” drive, laptops have just got a nice boost in capacity with the new Samsung Spinpoint MT2. It’s a 540RPM drive with 8mb buffer, SATA3 and it comes equipped with native command queuing. Employing industry-leading 333GB per-platter technology, the new Spinpoint MT2 drive offers up …

External hard drives are nice for their portability but when you’re not going anywhere and you need to transfer files there’s nothing better than a dock to do that. Docks are easy to use, there’s no messing around with installing and uninstalling when you want to swap drives, just pop in and pop out. …

Seagate recently released the FreeAgent GoFlex series of products that put a unique spin on portable hard drives and how we can use them. The GoFlex series  is meant to be, as the name suggests, flexible and they are in that the drive itself can be used with many types of interfaces by just …

These are small and fast, only 7mm thick. They’re called the Travelstar and Cinemastar drives and are available in both 1.8” and 2.5” sizes. Capacities are up to 320gb, so they’re not small, but they’re not exactly big either.. From laptops and handhelds to PVRs and blade servers, Hitachi’s new 7mm …

Backups are important and not long ago I looked at a product from Clickfree called the Traveler that worked well, today for review I’ve got another one from Clickfree but this one is very unique in that it works on your network but not how you might think. The Clickfree C2N Automatic Home Backup …

Toshiba UK just dropped a whole bunch of new product announcements, launching five laptops, two new high definition camcorders and a new selection of external hard disk drives. The new Satellite A660 – make the most of your multimedia     * New design features textured finish and new …

Just like the title up there says, Seagate is now offering the FreeAgent Go portable hard drive with movies already on it. You can get the new Star trek for free, and there will be up to 20 more movies on the drive that users can purchase an unlock key for. Prices …

The VelociRaptor, the well known speedy hard drive from Western Digital just got bigger, at least in capacity. WD also claims a 15% performance increase as well over previous generations. Pricing is still rather high though, $300 for 450gb, $329 for 600gb. Features of the new WD VelociRaptor hard …

It’s been a while since I’ve taken a look at any USB 3.0 products here at TestFreaks, but today I’ve got one that I think is worthy of a review. It’s a 3.5” SATA HDD enclosure from Vantec called the NexStar 3 SuperSpeed and it’s one of the most attractive and well made enclosures …

  It’s nice to see 2.5” drives getting up there in size, I can remember a time, not that long ago actually, that 2.5’ drive capacity was very far behind that of their 3.5” cousins. Now though we can get massive storage for our laptops just like we can for our desktops. …

Is it me or is everything becoming specialized? Even hard drives now are being made for certain purposes, I mean it’s a hard drive, you put stuff on it right?! What makes it so different form any other one?! Apparently the folks over at Western Digital think a hard drive isn’t just …

The majority of PC users out there have regular mechanical hard drives in their computers, it’s going to be a long time before SSDs replace them. Hard drive companies like Seagate know this and they’re not going to stop improving the technology, with the introduction of the new SATA 3 interface we’re starting to …

Mac owners rejoice! You now get your very own passport! Yes the new WD Passport Studio is formatted for Macs. It comes in 320gb, 500gb and 640gb capacities and features hardware based 356bit encryption to keep your data nice and safe. Price ranges from $150 to $200 depending on capacity of course.  …

…and I’m back with the second review for today, or it could be considered part two of the earlier review I posted today. I couldn’t exactly test a USB3.0 PCIE card without something that was USB3.0, so I used a nice little enclosure for a 2.5” drive. Today for review I’ve got another product from our …

I don’t know about you but I’m getting tired of the Michael Jackson themed products out there now. Yes I know he was a great artist and all but I think they might be going a bit overboard with it all.. Anyway, if you’re into MJ and you happen to need a new portable hard …

Our society has become extremely multi-media centric, the majority of us spend our free time watching TV and movies, it’s become a world-wide pastime really. When it comes to home theater systems, especially those like an HTPC a lot of us don’t have the room for a computer, or the money really to dedicate …

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced the STORY Station Plus, its new line-up of 3.5-inch external hard drives featuring an external serial ATA (eSATA) interface to allow lightning fast data transfer. The 3.0-gigabit per second (Gbps), high-performance drives are available in up to 2-terabyte (TB) …

Hmmm… this looks interesting… Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN) today announced U.S. availability of its much-anticipated Pro WX Wireless USB hard drive. Built on Imation’s award-winning platform of external hard drive products, the Imation Pro WX drive is the world’s first Wireless USB external hard drive. Offering the convenience of fast data transfer rates, speed …

Today I’ve got a brief review for you of another product from Speck, it’s called the TwoZip and it’s made to be a case for carrying you 2.5” hard drive around, but it can be used for anything really. The TwoZip gets it’s name because it has two zippers on it for the two …

The Asus EeePC 900a is a great little netbook with one big flaw, it comes with a tiny little 4gb SSD drive that is very slow. Actually there’s two flaws, the second would be how Asus handled the updates of the operating system, they’re automatic and they fill that tiny SSD to the point where the system slows to a crawl. The OS that is on the SSD is ok for just messing around, but let’s face it, most everything is Windows and to be any kind of productive with the EeePC you’ll need to install Windows on it. This isn’t a Linux vs Windows or even vs Mac rant, so I don’t want to hear about it, this is a review of the Runcore 64gb SSD for the EeePC 900a that will turn that little netbook into not only a speed demon, but something that can be a more productive machine.

Today for review I’ve got the Vantec NexStar Universal Storage Adapter, it’s a long name but it can do quite a bit. This product will allow you to access both SATA and IDE 2.5” and 3.5” drives along with 5.25” SATA and IDE Optical drives and even 66 types of memory cards, so it does live up to it’s name or being a universal adapter.

Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. and the industry pioneer in small form factor hard disk drives (HDDs), today announced new additions to its 1.8-inch Serial ATA HDD product line, covering the full range of mobile computing applications. The introductions include a high-performance 5,400 RPM family, offering an …

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced that its new 3.5-inch external hard drive, STORY Station, will feature the industry’s first standby power consumption below a watt starting in November. The reduced standby power level easily meets requirements for the forthcoming European Union’s EuP (Energy Using …

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced worldwide availability of two new 15,000 RPM Ultrastar hard drives for Tier 0/1, mission-critical, enterprise storage applications. The new drives include the Ultrastar C15K147, Hitachi’s first 15,000 RPM, 2.5-inch 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drive, and the new 600GB Ultrastar 15K600, the company’s fourth generation 3.5-inch …

Yesterday I posted a review of a 2.5” hard drive enclosure, today I figured I would follow it with a 2.5” external hard drive review. Today I have the Cirago 250GB Portable USB Hard Drive for review. The CST5250 is one of the smallest 2.5” external hard drives I’ve come across, making it very …

During my visit to the Pepcom Holiday Spectacular the folks from Seagate were previewing their latest docks for their FreeAgent Go hard drives – the Free Agent Theatre and the Free Agent Dockstar. Of course to be able to use these drives one needs to have a FreeAgent Go portable hard drive. Seagate was …

The Solid State Disk or SSD is here to stay, they are the future of storage. I see them eventually almost fully replacing the mechanical hard disk. They use less power, they make no noise, they’re much more durable and they’ve generally …

A hard drive specifically for home theaters… haven’t these been around for a while already? Oh well.. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today rolled out the red carpet for the newest members of its celebrated CinemaStar™ family of 3.5-inch hard disk drives (HDD). Based on 500GB per platter technology, the …