Seagate is at it again, this time making their GoFlex drive even smaller! Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today announced the availability of its new GoFlex® Slim portable hard drive — a svelte, 9mm, 2.5-inch external drive designed for the latest trend of…
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by Kristofer Brozio • April 6, 2011 •
Review of Thermaltake Max5G USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure
by Kristofer Brozio • February 7, 2011 •
External Hard Drive Cases, Product Reviews
Hard drive enclosures can be play an important role in our computer centric lives, they’re great for taking stuff with you. You can get them in big and small sizes and they certainly come in all shapes and designs. Today…
SAMSUNG Announces USB 3.0 External Hard Disk Drives for Consumers
by Kristofer Brozio • January 4, 2011 •
Press Releases
Non CES news, Samsung has just announced USB 3.0 portable and desktop style hard drives with up to 1TB in capacity and even with 256bit full disk encryption. -Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in digital…
Hitachi GST Launches a Trio of Three Terabytes (3TB) Hard Drives
by Kristofer Brozio • December 14, 2010 •
Press Releases
Again with the hard drives today, I wonder if Hitachi and Seagate planned to launched both of their new HDD lines on the same day or was it just a coincidence? The three drives are for desktop, external and OEM…
Seagate Ships Industry’s Highest Performance “Green” Desktop Hard Drive
by Kristofer Brozio • December 14, 2010 •
Press Releases
I have an ECO style drive in my system now for automatic backups with Windows 7, but it’s getting rather full, I need more capacity just for my backups and these new Green drives from Seagate just might do the…
RunCore Intros 3.5 inch SSD Drives
by Kristofer Brozio • December 8, 2010 •
Press Releases
Most SSDs are 2.5” in size, they are some 3.5” ones of course, but RunCore has now joined in with their own 3.5” SSDs that are compatible with SATA6 for speeds of more than 500MB/s and a maximum capacity of…
Review of Seagate FreeAgent Go 500Gb Portable Hard Drive
by Kristofer Brozio • September 9, 2010 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
Today for review Seagate has sent me over one of their FreeAgent Go drives, specifically the 500gb version. I’ve taken a look at quite a few Seagate products in the past and I’ve always liked them, the same goes for…
Review of Patriot Gauntlet USB 3.0 2.5 HDD Enclosure PCGT25S
by Kristofer Brozio • August 7, 2010 •
External Hard Drive Cases, Product Reviews
USB 3.0 is getting more and more mainstream and it’s nice to see it. I was an early adopter and what was out there was limited and expensive, but most new technologies are. With USB 3.0 becoming more mainstream more…
Review of Cirago USB 3.0 Hard Drive Dock CDD2000
by Kristofer Brozio • July 26, 2010 •
External Hard Drive Cases, Product Reviews
It’s been a bit since I’ve taken a look at any USB 3.0 related products hasn’t it? I think the last thing was an enclosure, and while enclosures are nice I much prefer docks, they’re just so much more useful…
Review of Vantec NexStar 3 2.5” SATA to USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure
by Kristofer Brozio • June 19, 2010 •
External Hard Drive Cases, External Hard Drives
Portable hard drive are great, but did you ever notice it’s cheaper to get the hard and buy the enclosure separately? it seems there’s a premium price when they put it together for you, then again a lo of companies…
Seagate Unveils World’s Thinnest 2.5-Inch Hard Drive for Slim Laptop Computers
by Kristofer Brozio • December 14, 2009 •
Press Releases
Seagate Technology today announced the Momentus® Thin drive, the world’s thinnest 2.5-inch hard disk drive for ultra-portable and entry-level laptops, high-end netbooks, backup devices and consumer electronics. At a wafer-thin 7mm in height – 25 percent slimmer than traditional 9.5mm…
Verbatim 500GB InSight USB Portable Hard Drive with "Always On" Display
by Kristofer Brozio • December 9, 2009 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
Last week I took a look at the Verbatim Clon Portable Hard drive, this week I’ve got another Verbatim portable HDD called the InSight. It’s a 500gb capacity drive that’s 2.5” in size, but what makes it special is the…
Verbatim CLŌN 320 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive
by Kristofer Brozio • December 1, 2009 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
Today for review I’ve got the new Verbatim CLŌN 320GB portable hard drive. It’s a 2.5” drive encased in a black plastic shell, it’s one of the smallest I’ve had the please of reviewing and one of the fastest as…
Vantec NexStar Vault 2.5" SATA Enclosure
by Kristofer Brozio • October 5, 2009 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
External hard drives have become big business, they’ve started popping up everywhere in both 3.5” and 2.5” sizes. The 2.5” size has become much more popular do to the fact that the drives are ever increasing in size and of…
Thermaltake VI-ON 3.5" SATA Hard Drive Enclosure eSATA and USB
by Kristofer Brozio • August 24, 2009 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
About one week ago I took a look at the Thermaltake Max 4 USB and eSATA external hard drive, and I found it was a decent product. Today for review I’ve got another Thermaltake External Hard Drive Enclosure called the…
ioSafe Solo 500GB Rugged USB External Hard Drive
by Kristofer Brozio • August 7, 2009 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
I’m big on storage, I’ve had several hard drives die on me in my time owning a computer, and after a couple catastrophic failures I’ve become a bit paranoid when it comes to my data. I’ve personally got a couple…
Rebit 500 GB Multi-PC Backup Appliance
by Tomas Ratas • July 23, 2009 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
Disaster can strike a PC at any moment; whether it is a drive failure, data corruption or malware infection. Any of these occurrences can lead to unfortunate data loss. We have all heard how important it is to back up…
Seagate BlackArmor WS 110 External Storage and Backup System
by Kristofer Brozio • July 8, 2009 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
A few days ago I took a look at the Seagate BlackArmor PS 110 2.5″ external hard drive, today I’ve got the BlackArmor WS 110. This drive utilizes a 3.5″ 1TB hard drive inside of the unit, and features both…
Otterbox iPod Nano 4th Gen Armor Case
by Kristofer Brozio • May 2, 2009 •
iPod Accessories, Product Reviews
Today for review I’ve got the last case from our friends at Otterbox for the Apple iPod nano 4th Generation, the Armor case. This case is the ultimate in protection for your iPod, not only is it rough and tough,…
Iomega 160gb 2.5" Silver Portable Hard Drive USB
by Kristofer Brozio • February 15, 2009 •
Portable Hard Drives, Product Reviews
USB Thumbdrives are nice, but there are times when they just aren’t big enough. Yes they are getting bigger, but not like hard drives, if you need to transport or store large amounts of data a hard drive is the…



