Is it me or is everything becoming specialized? Even hard drives now are being made for certain purposes, I mean it’s a hard drive, you put stuff on it right?! What makes it so different form any other one?! Apparently the folks over at Western Digital think a hard drive isn’t just …
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 …
Our society has become extremely multi-media centric, the majority of us spend our free time watching TV and movies, it’s become a world-wide pastime really. When it comes to home theater systems, especially those like an HTPC a lot of us don’t have the room for a computer, or the money really to dedicate …
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) …
Hmmm… this looks interesting… Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN) today announced U.S. availability of its much-anticipated Pro WX Wireless USB hard drive. Built on Imation’s award-winning platform of external hard drive products, the Imation Pro WX drive is the world’s first Wireless USB external hard drive. Offering the convenience of fast data transfer rates, speed …
Today I’ve got a brief review for you of another product from Speck, it’s called the TwoZip and it’s made to be a case for carrying you 2.5” hard drive around, but it can be used for anything really. The TwoZip gets it’s name because it has two zippers on it for the two …
The Asus EeePC 900a is a great little netbook with one big flaw, it comes with a tiny little 4gb SSD drive that is very slow. Actually there’s two flaws, the second would be how Asus handled the updates of the operating system, they’re automatic and they fill that tiny SSD to the point where the system slows to a crawl. The OS that is on the SSD is ok for just messing around, but let’s face it, most everything is Windows and to be any kind of productive with the EeePC you’ll need to install Windows on it. This isn’t a Linux vs Windows or even vs Mac rant, so I don’t want to hear about it, this is a review of the Runcore 64gb SSD for the EeePC 900a that will turn that little netbook into not only a speed demon, but something that can be a more productive machine.
Today for review I’ve got the Vantec NexStar Universal Storage Adapter, it’s a long name but it can do quite a bit. This product will allow you to access both SATA and IDE 2.5” and 3.5” drives along with 5.25” SATA and IDE Optical drives and even 66 types of memory cards, so it does live up to it’s name or being a universal adapter.
Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. and the industry pioneer in small form factor hard disk drives (HDDs), today announced new additions to its 1.8-inch Serial ATA HDD product line, covering the full range of mobile computing applications. The introductions include a high-performance 5,400 RPM family, offering an …
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced that its new 3.5-inch external hard drive, STORY Station, will feature the industry’s first standby power consumption below a watt starting in November. The reduced standby power level easily meets requirements for the forthcoming European Union’s EuP (Energy Using …
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced worldwide availability of two new 15,000 RPM Ultrastar hard drives for Tier 0/1, mission-critical, enterprise storage applications. The new drives include the Ultrastar C15K147, Hitachi’s first 15,000 RPM, 2.5-inch 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drive, and the new 600GB Ultrastar 15K600, the company’s fourth generation 3.5-inch …
Yesterday I posted a review of a 2.5” hard drive enclosure, today I figured I would follow it with a 2.5” external hard drive review. Today I have the Cirago 250GB Portable USB Hard Drive for review. The CST5250 is one of the smallest 2.5” external hard drives I’ve come across, making it very …
During my visit to the Pepcom Holiday Spectacular the folks from Seagate were previewing their latest docks for their FreeAgent Go hard drives – the Free Agent Theatre and the Free Agent Dockstar. Of course to be able to use these drives one needs to have a FreeAgent Go portable hard drive. Seagate was …
The Solid State Disk or SSD is here to stay, they are the future of storage. I see them eventually almost fully replacing the mechanical hard disk. They use less power, they make no noise, they’re much more durable and they’ve generally …
A hard drive specifically for home theaters… haven’t these been around for a while already? Oh well.. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today rolled out the red carpet for the newest members of its celebrated CinemaStar™ family of 3.5-inch hard disk drives (HDD). Based on 500GB per platter technology, the …
Up on the review block today I’ve got a 3.5” SATA hard drive enclosure, the Max 4 from Thermaltake. This enclosure features both eSATA and USB connections along with a built-in 80mm cooling fan and an aluminum housing to make sure things keep …
Love those SSD drives, and Kingston has got a nice fast, new one for us! Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced a new addition to its SSDNow line of solid-state drives. Shipping immediately, the SSDNow V+ features capacities up to 256GB, higher input and output operations per …
and we have a new player in the external HDD market, Toshiba! Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., today announced the availability of a new Toshiba 3.5-inch External HDD, marking Toshiba’s first entry into the 3.5-inch external HDD business. The product offers digital consumers and business professionals a …
New hard drives are nice.. WD the world’s leader in external storage solutions, today introduced its new one terabyte (TB) and 750 gigabyte (GB) capacity My Passport(TM) Essential(TM) SE Portable USB Drives. Available now at WD’s online store (www.shopwd.com), the new drives feature a titanium silver finish and put massive storage capacity in the palm …
Ok… I need one of these… WD today announced two new mobile hard drives that reach new capacity extremes. The highlight is a one terabyte model — the industry’s highest-capacity 2.5-inch drive available. Industry-leading 333 GB-per-platter technology enables the new WD Scorpio Blue(TM) SATA 2.5-inch hard drives to offer mobile storage device and notebook users …
Who says bigger is better? Strengthening its line up of portable 1.8” hard drives for external storage markets, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced its 250 Gigabyte (GB) 1.8 inch hard disk drive, the Spinpoint N3U which incorporates a native USB controller on its printed circuit board. This optimized design results in a smaller foot …
About a week ago Seagate announced their new BlackArmor series of External Hard Drives, and they sent me two of them for review, the PS 110 and the WS 110. I posted a brief look at them HERE when they arrived. The BlackArmor series of drives are aimed at professionals and business users, but …
New from Thecus! Introducing the Thecus® N7700SAS NAS ServerBrand new 7-bay NAS with powerful business-class performance and expandability 06/30/2009 – Thecus®, the leader in digital storage, today announced the availability of its latest 7-bay NAS server, the N7700SAS. Offering massive storage capacity and cutting-edge technology, the N7700SAS is an enterprise class NAS server …
External hard drive enclosures are nice products, but they can be a hassle, taking them apart all of the time just to transfer files, especially if you’ve got several hard drives floating around. You’ll either need to take the enclosure apart all of the time or invest in an enclosure for each drive you …
So, yesterday we reported here that Seagate just introduced new additions to their BlackArmor family of external storage solutions for small businesses, today they arrived on my doorstep courtesy of UPS. So I figured why not give you guys a quick look at a the two they sent me over for review. The …
ooo… these look nice… me want! Strengthening its external storage portfolio for small business Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today announced three additional BlackArmor(R) product offerings: the BlackArmor(R) NAS 220 storage server, the BlackArmor(R) WS 110 external drive workstation and the BlackArmor(R) PS 110 portable drive. Joining the existing network attached storage line up – the BlackArmor(R) NAS …
Another day, another SSD drive hits the market… this one is from our friends over at OCZ, and it looks to be rather fast with read speeds of 230MB and 135MB write speeds… San Jose, CA—June 9, 2009—OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance …
and more storage from Imation, they seem to have quite a bit coming out soon.. Highlights storage solutions available on its GSA schedules for government agencies’ data storage, backup, archival and security needs GSA Expo 2009 SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN) will showcase its suite of storage products available on …
Bigger is better right? Then 4tb should be enough… New My Book Studio Edition Dual-drive External Storage Systems Deliver a Perfect Blend of High Performance and Power Conservation LAKE FOREST, Calif., June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — WD(R) (NYSE:WDC) , the world’s leader in external storage solutions, today introduced its new 4 terabyte …
There are many external drive cases on the market today, and I’ve taken a look at a lot of them, a couple from Geeks.com in the past actually. Usually with cases though you’ve got to provide your own HDDs, whether it be SATA or IDE hard drives, but I feel …
Geeks.com carries many external hard drives, and most are the same with a standard hard drive inside of them and they’ll all perform as you might expect. Today I’ve got a Cavalry branded 500GB USB 2.0 and eSATA External hard drive from them, this drive though is a …
2.5" hard drives seem to be getting larger and larger all of the time, not long ago I reviewed a 500gig one in fact, and not long ago a 500gig 2.5" hard drive seemed like a dream. Now of course I’ve got several …
We all need more storage, in the form of a hard drive, personally I don’t like having them always running inside of my computer so I have several external enclosures for my storage, they’re used for backups mainly, so they don’t always have to be running and I feel it reduces wear and tear on …
Hard drive enclosures come in many shapes, sizes and styles and they’re all pretty much the same really, you put a hard drive in them and you’re ready to take your data with you wherever you go, but they don’t offer much in the way of security. Yes they’re nice for their portability and ease …
Manufacturer: Imation Product Name: Imation Apollo 500GB 2.5" Portable Hard Drive Review Date: 10/03/08 Author: Kristofer Brozio A few days ago I took a look at a Verbatim 160GB 2.5" portable hard drive and I found it to be a decent little product, …
Manufacturer: Verbatim
Product Name: 160GB FireWire/USB Portable Hard Drive
Review Date: 09/22/08
Author: Kristofer Brozio
Flash drives are nice, but they’re not large enough yet to take huge amounts of data with us, so that’s where portable hard drives come in handy. Of course you can get a large 3.5″ hard drive, but when portability is a factor …