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fail
1TB Seagate Barracudas Collapsing A Gogo, Users Say
It looks like the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive series is having serious problems Zune style, with a large number of them failing like crazy, specially the 1TB model. The problem seems to be firmware-based. More »
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By Jesus DiazComment by Log1c: Shit. I just got a Seagate 7200.11 1TB model for xmas. Thing makes some seriously uncool sounding clicking noises. 11 Responses | Other threads
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laptops
Laptop Cooler Features Slot-Loading Hard Drive Dock
One look at this conglomeration and you pretty much know it's from Brando. Their latest clunky tech masterpiece is officially named a USB Notebook Cooling Pad + 3-Port Hub + 2.5" HDD. -
zune
Survey Hints That Zune Could Double as Extra Storage For the Xbox
The most recent installment of the Zune newsletter includes a survey question that hints at the possibility of the Zune being used as additional Xbox 360 storage. After selecting "Yes" to the first question, readers are asked "Have you ever connected your Zune to your Xbox to do any of the following?" The first response to the question is "Use my Zune hard drive for extra Xbox 360 storage." One could interpret this as meaning that Microsoft is considering making the Zune official backup storage for saved games, Marketplace downloads, etc. More »
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By Sean FallonComment by Shodan: That is just sad. You can get a 500GB hard drive for $50 and Microsoft wants you to use your... 8 Responses | Other threads
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diy
Recycle Years of Broken Hard Drives into a Surprisingly Non-Dorky Clock
Instructables has posted a guide to breaking down 3.5" hard drives and creating a wall clock out of the pieces. The guide calls for a bunch of the washers used to separate hard drive platters as well as the innards of a cheapie clock the builder had lying around. It's a pretty easy project, but what's remarkable is how cool it looks by the end. You wouldn't know it's made of hard drives; it just looks like an industrial sort of sculpture that tells time. [Instructables]
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By Dan NosowitzComment by Eruanno: Sooo... how do you actually tell what time this clock is? Or rather, if you turn it upside down by mistake,... 6 Responses | Other threads
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hard
Fabrik Launches Pro Hard Drive Line, Online Backup Service
Today Fabrik announed that they are launching a pro line to accompany their designer line of drives released last year. The Simple, Pro, and Pro Duo all have features such as a stackable design, security locks, eSata (Pro and Dual Pro) and Raid 0 (Pro only) connections. The eSATA connection transfers at 445 Mb/sec while transferring with eSATA and Raid 0 bumps speeds up to 856 Mb/sec. However, the bigger news is that Fabrik also launched a new online backup service that efficiently backs up the content of your hard drives to a server. More » -
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Western Digital follows up last Thursday's My Book announcement with 1TB My Book Studio edition for Macs with Firewire 400/800, USB 2.0 and eSATA. [Western Digital] -
hard drives
LaCie Golden Disk Looks Like Gold, Feels Like a Disk
The LaCie Golden Disk is made for those of you who went to Ikea, looked around, and decided to decorate your home with a more ancient Aztec motif instead. It holds 500GB for a price of $189, which isn't all too bad when you consider that it's designed by Ora-Ito, a guy who enjoys Legos and tentacular porn. Best of all, the top is melted like, we don't know, molten gold, so you can't actually stack multiple Golden Disks on top of each other to form a golden pyramid. [Lacie] -
diy
TiVo Series 3 eSATA Upgrade FAQ
The guys at tivocommunity have a nice FAQ up about how to upgrade your TiVo Series 3 with an external eSATA drive. Although it's not "officially supported", with the maximum 1TB external drive in addition to the internal one, you can get a good 1.25TB chunk of space to hold all your shows. More » -
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DIY: Apple TV Hard Drive Upgraded to 120GB
In case you were wondering, it is possible to upgrade that measly 40GB hard drive on Apple TV, in this case to 120GB. Tipster Jonathan Bare says he's done it, resulting in a capacity of 107.36GB. Now that's more like it. More » -
peripherals
Noiseblocker NB-X-Swing Silences Those Hard Drives
Unless you've switched to a liquid cooling system in your PC, the loudest component probably wouldn't be the hard drive, it'd be your fans. But if you have, then these NB-X-Swing hard drive silencers could be just the thing to keep you throwing your dog out of a window over drive noise. More » -
peripherals
Western Digital My Books Get Terabyte Storage, Internet Connections
Western Digital's expanding their line to 1TB and 500GB drives in the My Book World Edition family, which means they have either dual-drive configuration and RAID capability, or just a USB port for added storage and an Ethernet port. More »
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By Jason ChenComment by stallionz53: Ok, so this is not that hard to figure out, but I didn't find this information anywhere else. Since... more » | Other threads
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gadgets
Google Teaches Us Five Things About Hard Drive Death
Robin over at StorageMojo waded thought Google's "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Population," a document that details the search engine's first hand experience with hard drive failure rates by way of polling 100,000 of their own drives. More »
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Comment by Sqube: I really wish they would've told us which hard drive manufacturers failed at what rate. They might say that it... more » | Other threads
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peripherals
Pocketec 12GB 1-inch Portable Hard Drive
If you love the convenience of thumb drive but need something a little roomier, check out Pocketec's upcoming Nano drive. This hard drive-based unit measures about 1-inch squared, and has all of 12GB of storage on board. You can get that much with flash drives, but you'd have to cough up hundreds of bucks. More » -
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Seagate Roars Ahead with the World's Fastest Hard Drive
We've seen Sharp's world's-largest LCD at 108 inches and Hitachi's 3.5-inch hard disk packing a full terabyte for $399. But what about the world's fastest hard drive? Isn't that important? It is to Seagate, which rolled out its 15,000RPM 2.5-inch drive that it says is the fastest on the planet. More » -
digital cameras
How to Add More Storage To Your Sony HDR-SR1 Camcorder
If there's one thing we can say about Sony, it's that they're not entirely against people modding up their gear. That is, if you don't count them forcing Lik-Sang out of business. So if you've been a bad boy present-peeker and know you're getting one of these Sony HDR-SR1 hard drive camcorders for Xmas, you'll be pleased to note that the only thing stopping you from upgrading the 30GB 1.8-inch HD to a 80GB 1.8-inch HD is a single screw. More » -
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Seagate's CEO Comes Clean: 'I help people watch porn'
It's not often that a CEO is honest about the products they sell. Luckily for us, Seagate's Bill Watkins did just that. More » -
peripherals
Formac External Portable Hard Disk Comes in Darth Vader Black, Luke Skywalker White
The Formac Disk Mini comes in both all-black and all-white versions, and despite its name, works on both Windows and OS X. More »
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By Jason ChenComment by aliask: Why all the not-so-subtle product placement? This isn't new tech. This isn't even remotely interesting. Why is it here? more » | Other threads
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Comment by Olbaum: I am in awe when seeing that this thing features an input jack. However, I am appalled that we had... more » | Other threads
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peripherals
I-O Data HDC-UX750 eSATA Drive
I-O Data has rolled out the HDC-UX750, an even bigger eSATA (External Serial ATA) hard drive in its line of 150mbit/second spinners. This one is a 750GB behemoth whose minimalist design doesn't look half bad. More »
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