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 …

So it’s getting hot here finally, well I guess not finally, but unexpectedly. I was expecting one last snow storm here, but I guess not as it’s 74F right now and late this week it’s going to hit 80F. I have a thermometer I keep on my desk for testing to …

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’s a new month and it’s time for some new news!! Yes I said new news there, looks weird but it’s correct right? It’s new and it’s news. So read on to see what’s going on with our affiliate sites from all over the world and I’ll get back to back …

So it’s time again for the news from our friends around the world! In here you’ll find quite a bit, I’ve got a three days worth for you. There’s also a few decent giveaways going on so you can get a chance to win some cool products. Anyway, I’ll be back …

Hello all! I hope everyone had a great holiday and got all sorts of presents under the tree. it’s time though to get back to business, getting back into it slowly, but we’ll be rolling along shortly. I’ve got a lot of news for you so sit back, relax and enjoy.Storage Related: …

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’s Sunday night and it’s about time for me to get my kids ready for bed, but before that I wanted to get the news posted. It’s the news and reviews from our friends around the world and they’ve got plenty of things to share with you. So I’m going to …

It’s Sunday evening, and I’m thinking of going to bed early. Is 9:15Pm too early to go to bed? I don’t think so, I’ve ben up since a little after 7am after all. Anyway, it’s time for the news from our friends around the world! All kinds of new products and …

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 …

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 for review I’ve got the latest enclosure from Thermaltake called the Max5G that uses USB …

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 …

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 consumer electronics and information technology, today announced three new lines of consumer external hard …

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 channels. Just in time for holiday shoppers, a Hitachi Deskstar Internal Hard Drive …

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 trick for me and for you. The new drives are called the Barracuda Green (very …

Seagate  today introduced Constellation.2, the industry’s first 2.5-inch enterprise-class hard drive to reach a record 1TB capacity. The Constellation.2 drive is designed for server storage applications and offers a solid combination of high capacity, leading 6Gb/s performance, superior data integrity, and best-in-class low power consumption. “The Constellation.2™ underscores Seagate’s commitment to its customers …

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. …

Hey I just reviewed this over the weekend, and now here’s the official press release about it.. Stop over HERE and read the full review after you read the PR below. Cirago  today announced the debut of its ultra-compact CST6000 Series USB 3.0 portable storage drive that offers SuperSpeed data transfers in a durable, …

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 …

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 the one I have today. The FreeAgent Go is small and portable and relatively fast, …

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 …

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 and so much more easier to use. Today for review I’ve got a product …

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 …

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 …

Interesting name, wonder what it means?  Anyway, Toshiba just announced these portable drives with the odd names in several sizes for 500gb up to 1TB with prices ranging from $120 to $200. They’re made to be a backup solution for your computers and they come with NTI BackupNow EZ software that is …

With an MSRP of $149.99, the new WD Scorpio Blue is a very attractive upgrade option for notebook users for sure. Supposedly this drive runs cool and quiet and has a low power consumption, all of which is perfect for notebook applications. Features of the WD Scorpio Blue include: …

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 …

  Now this is a secure hard drive.. Combination keypad built right in and 256bit AES hardware based encryption as well. I guess if you have use for something like this then this is the one you would choose huh? It’s 2.5” for factor and you can get regular mechanical HDD or SSDs …

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 …

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 LCD display that shows the remaining capacity even when the InSight is powered off. …

When I got the OCZ Neutrino I was using a Seagate 160GB hard drive, and then I switched over to a Patriot Warp 128gb SSD, but then I got the OCZ Agility 60GB SSD for review. From testing the Agility I found it was faster than the Patriot SSD and the Seagate HDD so I …

It’s Friday, and I’ve got a ton of news for you from our friends.. Gaming and Games: Dirt 2 CPU benchmarks with DirectX 9 and DirectX 11: Phenom doing well, quad-cores rule @ PCGamesHardware Colin McRae: DiRT 2 (PC) review @ Elite Bastards  Mionix Saiph 1800 Mouse Review @ High …

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 well. Included on the drive is Nero BackItUp 4 so you can easily, quickly …

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) …