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LaCie Little Big Disk with Thunderbolt now available

, Sep 20th 2011 Discuss [6]

The LaCie Little Big Disk portable external hard drive with the Thunderbolt connector port has finally arrived. The device was first announced back in February when Apple's early 2011 MacBook Pro revamp was confirmed to sport the Thunderbolt port, which was jointly developed with Intel and promises up to 10Gbps of bi-directional transfer speeds and supports daisy chaining. Read The Full Story

Satechi Lockdown external SATA HDD enclosure keeps data safe

, Sep 13th 2011 Discuss [6]

A company called Satechi has rolled to a new external HDD enclosure that has a pretty cool security system to protect your data. The enclosure is called the Lockdown and it secures the data with 256-bit hardware password protection. The enclosure also has a USB 3.0 connectivity for hooking to your computer for fast data transfers. Read The Full Story

Geek walks into Apple Store with broken Time Capsule, walks out with drive full of Apple documents

, Sep 2nd 2011 Discuss [0]

Sometimes weird things happen at Apple. Losing one iPhone at a bar is odd enough; losing a second, the same way is downright weird. The latest snafu at Apple is firmly on the weird side as well. Apparently, a guy took his malfunctioning Time Capsule back up drive into an Apple Store. When he left with the drive and got home the owner realized he had a bit of extra content on the old supposedly broken hard drive. Read The Full Story

Apple will replace some 1TB Seagate iMac HDDs

, Jul 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

If you were one of the many people that upgraded to a new iMac back in May when they got new hardware you aren't alone. We reviewed the new iMac when it launched. The machines got new processors and larger storage drives. If you opted for one of the iMacs that had a 1TB HDD from Seagate inside you may need a new HDD. Some of those early iMacs had an issue with the 1TB HDD and Apple is looking to replace those drives for you. Read The Full Story

Samsung itching to dump HDD business as SSDs arrive in MacBook Air

, Apr 18th 2011 Discuss [5]

Samsung is reportedly looking to dump its hard-drive business, in an attempt to refocus in areas of stronger growth such as flash storage, in which the company has seen recent wins from industry heavyweights like Apple. According to the WSJ's source, Samsung is hoping to sell its traditional hard-drive business for $1.5bn, in a move that would leave it focusing on solid-state drives instead. Read The Full Story

Fiskar “88″ HDD Headphone Amplifier Designed For Sharp Audio

, Mar 8th 2011 Discuss [2]

Fiskar, the brand best known for shears and garden tools is stepping into the audio equipment market? Most likely not, but that doesn't stop creative experimental designs using the Fiskar aesthetic. Designer Edouard Urcadez created a fittingly sharp looking concept of an HDD headphone amplifier called the 88. Read The Full Story

Microsoft FlashStore promises HDD/SSD-beating performance for Xbox LIVE & more

, Feb 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Microsoft is looking to boost Xbox LIVE online gaming speed, server farms and cloud apps using an injection of flash memory. Microsoft FlashStore works in a similar way to Seagate's hybrid Momentus XT drives, using a flash-based bridge between RAM and a traditional HDD; that bridge maintains not only a "working set" of the most commonly accessed data, but provides a computer's RAM with a hash-table-based index for speedier recall. Read The Full Story

Western Digital adds new SAS HDDs for enterprise

, Jan 19th 2011 Discuss [0]

Western Digital has announced that it has added two new SAS HDDs to its line of enterprise storage solutions the new HDDs are both SAS devices and include the WD S25 and the WD RE SAS 3.5-inch HDD. The S25 is a compact 2.5-inch HDD that uses the SAS 6Gb/s interface and comes in 450GB and 600GB capacities. The drive spins at 10,000 rpm for faster data access. Read The Full Story

Hitachi unveils new CinemaStar HDDs for AV use

, Jan 4th 2011 Discuss [1]

Hitachi has unveiled a new HDD that is specifically aimed at the AV market. The new HDDs include a 2.5-inch units and new 3.5-inch units that are all aimed at DVRs, video surveillance and other uses for digital video recording. The 3.5-inch HDDs are the CinemaStar 5K2000 family. Read The Full Story

OCZ Vertex 2 SSD Review

, Dec 24th 2010 Discuss [2]

Fast, silent and power-efficient; it seems like the only thing not to like about SSDs is the price. OCZ has sent over its Vertex 2 SSD, a 120GB model that straddles the performance/price boundary at around $220. Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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Hitachi outs new 7mm thick 500GB single disk HDD

, Dec 17th 2010 Discuss [0]

One of the things that will allow us to get more storage capacity inside our small and thin ultraportable devices and netbooks is thinner hard drives. Hitachi has announced a new HDD that is a typical 2.5-inch notebook form factor that is crazy thin at only 7mm thick. Read The Full Story

Hitachi 3TB HDD ships to OEM

, Dec 14th 2010 Discuss [1]

One of the reasons to move from 32-bit to 64-bit versions of an operating system is to allow the computer to see more memory. Hitachi has announced that its massive 3TB HDDs are now shipping to OEMs and system builders for use in computer systems. This 3TB HDD is the first to break the 2.2TB storage barrier on a 32-bit Windows XP computer with no additional hardware according to Hitachi. Read The Full Story
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