Tag Archive for 'hard-drives'
I work on a lot of computers. Even though I’ve been out of the computer repair biz for some time now, friends, family and assorted strangers still feel that I’m the guy to come to for all of their technological troubles. This of course means that I’ve still got a nice assortment of tools in [...]
They were able to hit 520GB per square inch, which means I now want a freaking hard drive that holds that much data that’s not much bigger than a square inch. Yeah sure, they’ll probably use the technology to crank out hard drives somewhere in the multi-terabyte range, but I think it would be awesome [...]
Not everyone has the luxury of frequent PC upgrading cycle. While we still see many IDE hard drives, it is starting to go down in production number. What do you do if you have a SATA hard drive that you want to stick into an old computer with IDE only motherboard?
Hybrid hard drives from Seagate are all the new rage. So you can’t afford an SSD drive for your laptop and the power loss from a traditional HDD is killing your battery life, what can you do?
Well Seagate has come up with a compromise, a hard drive that has some flash storage but the large [...]
These days hard drive manufacturers are looking more toward SSD drives, as they are the future. However, a Utah-based company has decided to take a different approach to storage. Would you consider plugging your hard drive directly into a PCIe slot?
Never has it been any simpler to buy an HDD enclosure, and an HDD separately and then without any further work, just put the HDD into the enclosure. That’s the level of simplicity offered by WiebeTech’s TrayFree technology.
You take a bare SATA drive and slide it right into the enclosure, close it up and you [...]
I love to hack, especially when the end product is a device disguised as something completely different. This latest one involves turning your UPS (uninterruptible power supply) into an external hard drive.
Transcend launched a new set of StoreJet 2.5-inch SATA external hard drives today. They look nice with their polished aluminum encasings in different colors.
There are three colors to choose from that are coordinated with each drives capacity. Silver is for the 80GB, titanium is for 120GB, and blue is for the 160GB.
If you’re in the market for a SSD, Transcend has just upped the capacity on their current offerings. They may not be the biggest ones on the market, but there’s nothing wrong with a little healthy competition to bring the prices down.
How much hard drive space does your laptop have? I’m going to guess that it doesn’t have more than your desktop. However, if you maxed-out one of Alienware’s new laptops, that might not be the case.
