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 …

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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) …

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 …

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 course that they are very portable. I still question though whether it’s cost effective …

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 …

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 Vi-on. This one is very different from the …

This looks interesting, but is it really needed? I mean how hard is it to right-click –> properties to find how much space you have left? On in Vista it just shows you under My Computer how much capacity you have.. It’s a neat idea to have the display there, but is it needed? …

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 …

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 NAS boxes running along with …

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 …

Two Portable Drives and a Network Storage Adapter from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Gives Users Simple Ways to Share, Protect and Access Their Digital Content As one of the world’s most recognized and trusted brands, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today unveiled three new consumer products following the acquisition of SimpleTech by …

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 …

I’ve always thought of 2.5″ hard drives as being something for laptops only, but I’ve come to realize that they can run 24/7 just like a 3.5″ HDD can. Anyway, check out the new 4-Bay NAS for 2.5″ hdds that Synology just announced.. The Synology website will be updated with the new product information http://www.synology.com/enu/products/index.php …

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 …

Another 128gb flash drive is here, gotta get me one of these.. EDGE Tech Corp (www.edgetechcorp.com), a leading U.S.-based supplier of DRAM and flash memory upgrades, portable computing products, storage devices, and other experience-enhancing technology solutions, launched a variety of products including two new flash drives to its established DiskGO™ line—one with increased capacities, and …

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 …

Samsung has added some new external HDDs to their lineup… they’ve got some interesting features like Safetykey, SecretZone, Auto Backup, Capacity Gauge.   Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced the launch of two new “Pop” colors, Sweet Pink and Ocean Blue, to its popular …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Today for review I’ve got a product that some people might not find very exciting, but I personally find them very useful, especially if you’ve got two of them. It is what’s called a mobile rack, or an internal hard drive enclosure, and they can be useful for easily swapping …