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  • #hdd

    Seagate's Momentus Thin Drive is the World's Thinnest 2.5" Netbook Drive

    At a mere 7 millimeters in height, Seagate's Momentus Thin drive will be the slimmest 2.5" hard drive on the market. Not only that, but supposedly it will also be one of the lowest-priced storage options for ultra-portables and netbooks. More »
    12/14/09
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    By Rosa Golijan
  • #harddrives

    Western Digital Advanced Format Gives You 11 Percent More Hard Drive Space

    Western Digital's come up with a fancy new way to format hard drives—changing sector sizes to 4KB that use a pooled Sync/DAM header and ECC blocks—that promises to give back 7 to 11 percent of hard drive space. More »
    12/11/09
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    By matt buchanan
  • #infographic

    Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies

    This infographic makes me so glad that we came up with storage methods other than floppy disks. Imagine replacing your 2TB hard drive with 1,422,222 floppies. No thank you. Update: More »
    11/28/09
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    By Chris Jacob
  • #storage

    Is There Any Point to the World's First Wireless USB Drive?

    I get that it is cool technology, but I don't get the Imation Pro WX. It's the world's first Wireless USB disk drive, sure, but there are already drives that are Wi-Fi enabled. So, how is this different? More »
    11/19/09
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    By Jesus Diaz
  • #nas

    Building a NAS? Skip the Performance Drives

    A while ago I was considering putting low-powered 5400 RPM drives into a NAS. I was worried about performance, but Tom's Hardware shows us that drive speed isn't the bottleneck, and how slower drives can even beat faster ones. More »
    11/07/09
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    By Chris Jacob
  • #dell

    Dell Doesn't Understand That a "Hard Drive For Laptops" Program Doesn't Fly With Support Customers

    So, this guy sends his laptop to Dell for repair and Dell sends him back a hard drive...just a hard drive in a box. So what's the problem here? More »
    11/02/09
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    By Sean Fallon
  • #harddrives

    Seagate Barracuda XT "World's Fastest Hard Drive" 2x Faster Than Yours With 6Gbps Transfer Speeds

    The SATA 3.0 spec—which doubles transfer speeds from 3Gbps to 6Gbps—was officially released in May, and it looks like Seagate is first out the gate with actual hardware (no surprise), the 2TB Barracuda XT. More »
    09/21/09
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    By matt buchanan
  • #clocks

    Crazy Hard Drive Clock Was Probably Built by Nerd Ravers

    Hard drive clock, sure sure, we've seen that before. But watch the video—this thing is just about the gaudiest clock I've ever seen. It's got dancing neon colors, rapidly flickering lights and tosses in some creepy artwork too. More »
    09/17/09
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    By Dan Nosowitz
  • #nas

    Seagate's FreeAgent DockStar Network Adapter Brings Access To Your Files Courtesy of Pogoplug

    Remember Pogoplug, the device that lets you take any USB disk and make it accessible to anywhere on the internet? Seagate's just licensed that technology and put it into the DockStar Network Adapter for their own DockStar hard drive. More »
    09/16/09
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    By Jason Chen
  • #apple

    The Real Reason You Got Back So Much Hard Drive Space With Snow Leopard

    Sure, Apple carved out a lot extra code, like printer drivers you don't need. But you're also seeing additional space where you didn't used to, because Snow Leopard calculates disk capacity differently than Leopard (or Windows, for that matter). More »
    08/31/09
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    By matt buchanan
  • #apple

    Your Freezing, Clicking MacBook Pro Hard Drive Just Got Better

    08/19/09
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  • #storage

    Verbatim InSight Portable HD Has Always On Display, Can Serve Cheese

    The 6-ounce Verbatim InSight portable HD has an always-on display that shows its name and remaining capacity even while disconnected. However, I just posted it because I can serve some Brie and Reblochon on it. Hmmm, cheese. More »
    08/17/09
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    By Jesus Diaz
  • #storage

    Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 Is World's First 2TB, 7200 RPM Hard Drive

    SSDs might be catching up to the trusty HDD in capacity, but this first-of-its-kind, 2-terabyte, 7200 RPM drive from Hitachi serves as a reminder that for speedy mass storage people can still afford, the old standby still remains king. More »
    08/05/09
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    By Adrian Covert
  • #hometheater

    Brando Tells Apple TV to Suck on this HD Media Player

    Seamless white boxes? Pfft. Brando doesn't need any of white plastic's pomp and circumstance. Instead, their Darwinian hard drive dock gets another upgrade. Now it's an HD media player. More »
    07/28/09
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    By Mark Wilson
  • #storage

    WD Scorpio Blue Drive Is First One Terabyte Mobile Drive Ever—Yes, 1TB

    I seriously need the new WD Scorpio one terabyte drive. I want to be able to tote around all my desktop data, without any external drives hanging around, and $250 seems like a little price to pay for that. More »
    07/27/09
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    By Jesus Diaz
  • #storage

    LG XF1 500GB Multimedia HDD Comes Complete With HDMI-Out

    The LG XF1 is a 500 GB "Multimedia HDD" that packs a HDMI-out for quick media playback, and has a slick looking design to boot. More »
    07/17/09
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    By Adrian Covert
  • #docks

    SATA HDD Multimedia Dock II, Now with HDMI

    Brando, Brando, oh purveyors off all things plastic and electronic in a myriad forms and shapes. If you didn't like the Brando SATA drive horizontal dock with HDMI output, now you can have the vertical model. More »
    06/12/09
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    By Jesus Diaz
  • #macbookpro

    MacBook Pro Hands-On Gallery

    We've got a delicious gallery of pics of the new 13 and 15-inch MacBook Pros. More »
    06/10/09
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    By Jason Chen
  • #wii

    Loading All Your Wii Games From A Hard Drive Just Got Easier

    06/07/09
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  • #wii

    Play Your Wii Games From An External Hard Drive With Simple Hack

    05/24/09
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  • #storage

    LaCie 5big Takes Networked Storage to 10TB

    With the upgraded 5big Network array, LaCie gives users the ability to go into double-digits with regard to terabyte storage capacity—10 TB to be exact. More »
    05/11/09
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    By Sean Fallon
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