This is unexpected but welcome I would think, Seagate just announced a NAS specific hard drive that’s meant to be used with network attached storage devices so it’s made to be in use all the time. The drives are available…
Not to be outdone after the announcement this morning by Seagate, Western Digital just announced their own very thin drive, this one is the WD Blue which is only 7mm thick but what’s special is it’s the only 1TB drive…
Can you ever have enough storage? I know I don’t seem to have enough, at least I don’t have enough large capacity drives like two or three terabyte in size. Seagate has just announced a 4tb hard drive which features…
The new Toshiba Canvio Basics 3.0 2TB is $190, but it has UBS 3.0! The Special Edition version is $220 but it comes with NTI Backup software which would normally cost $30 for the download version. Hmm, personally I’d get…
Hmm.. I think I need one of two of these.. would make for a great backup drive or since it has the SATA 6 interface, it would make for a fine second drive. Right now I run an SSD as…
Haven’t hybrid drives been around for awhile now? It seems Toshiba is finally catching up as they’ve just announced their first hybrid hard drive that combines mechanical platters with nand flash memory. It’s basically a hard drive with a small…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
