Hard Drive
”Dealzmodo: 40GB PhotoBank For $2.28
This $2.28 deal for a 40GB PhotoBank seems too good to be true. Picture it as a 40GB portable hard drive with Compact Flash/SD/etc slots that you can dump your digital camera photos onto when the card gets full. $2.28! [PC Connection via Random Good Stuff]Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?
Iomega Screenplay Mediaplayer HDD Does HD Upscaling
Iomega's new Screenplay HD Multimedia drive promises that you can "leave the PC behind" since it stores your movies, pics and tunes and connects directly to your HDTV. You simply save them via the USB2.0 connection, and it's standalone from there on. It can upscale to to 720p and 1080i, plays a wide bunch of formats and connects via HDMI, SCART, composite audio and video or coaxial S/PDIF. With 500GB inside it should be able to store about 750 hours of MPEG2 at 780 x 480 pixels: that's around 500 movies as we mentioned yesterday. It's available now for $218.45. [Iomega and TFTS]Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?
PlayStation 3 External Hard Drive Mod Is Great Work For the Blind
The Super Mario Galaxy Wii Mod is a good mod. This PlayStation 3 external hard drive mod is not. We're not against adding more hard drive space to the PS3—Sony actually puts instructions on how to replace the internal one in the manual—but this? This stove vent addition to the top of an already too George Foreman grill-like PS3? This is no good. We appreciate the effort though, and at least the finish seems to match the PS3 somewhat. [PlayStation EU via Geekpulp via Kotaku]HDD USB Dock Gets USB Hub Integrated, Still Plugs in Like NES Cartridges
The USB HDD Dock we saw a few months ago just got a USB hub upgrade. Not only does it still take 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA drives in the top like a Famicom cartridge, there's an added 4-port USB hub on the front. Because if you're going to take up one of your machine's precious USB ports for something, it's even better when that something gives you 3 extra ports in return. [Brando]
USB Bomb is Bursting With Storage Space
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Seven One-Terabyte Hard Drives Enter, Seven Leave (But Only One is the Best)
ExtremeTech just compared seven one-terabyte hard drives with varying platter sizes and architectures and discovered that the drives are actually all quite similar, but with minor variations in power, noise and speed. If you're looking for a low power, low noise drive that's lightly slower than the rest—perhaps for a media center box— Western Digital's GreenPower (WD1000FYPS) drives could be for you. If you're looking for the absolute best in performance, then Samsung Spinpoint HD103UJ won most of the tests ExtremeTech ran. And at $260, it's actually the second cheapest drive they tested. [ExtremeTech]
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Samsung Unleashes 22X DVD Burner, Smallest 500GB HDD
Samsung's Spinpoint M6 is the world's first 2.5-inch, 500GB HDD. Standing in at 9.5mm tall, the M6 will easily fit most existing laptop hard drive bays. For those of you worried about sloth-like performance, the Spinpoint M6 has a 5400rpm spindle speed, an 8MB cache, as well as a 3.0Gbps SATA interface. A Free-Fall Sensor can be added as an optional extra. Not content with breaking the world record for the HDD with the smallest size/biggest capacity, Samsung is also introducing the industry's fastest DVD burner.More »
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Buffalo's MiniStation Turbo Crams 500GB Into a Small Package
Buffalo's managed to cram 500GB into this MiniStation Turbo, which is a small, portable, 5400RPM USB hard drive with "shock absorbing material" to protect from unintended drops. Buffalo claims that it's got up to 30% faster transfer rates than "most USB hard drives", but chances are you're going to be buying this for the size and not so much for how fast you can get your data off of it. 500GB in your pants? Yes please. The only thing holding us back is the slightly high price of $329. [Buffalo]Rumor: Microsoft Making 60GB Hard Drives Standard on Xbox 360s
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Couple Buys $300 Hard Drive From Best Buy, Box Filled With Nothing But Beans
After purchasing a $300 hard drive from Best Buy, a customer was understandably shocked when she and her husband opened the box at home to reveal nothing but three bags of dried beans. Naturally, they immediately called Best Buy only to find that they were absolving themselves of all responsibility. After calls to both the manufacturer and Best Buy's corporate office resulted in similar denials, they decided to contact a CNN consumer watchdog group that managed to score them a $300 gift card to cover the drive. More »Question of the Day: What's the Best Hard Drive Deal You Can Find?
Hitachi's 500GB Notebook Hard Drive Turns Your Laptop Into an Ultimate eBook Reader
External HD Concept Helps You Visualize Your Data Usage
LaCie Adds Neil Poulton-Designed External HD To Classy Drive Roster
LaCie's no stranger to getting designers to fashion up external hard drive designs, what with Sam Hecht, Ora-Ito, Karim Rashid, GmbH and the LEGO guy (actually also Ora-Ito) lending their name to designs. This latest one by Neil Poulton looks like the 2001 monolith sans naked monkeys, but with an eerie blue ambient light on the front emanated by an LED on the bottom. You'd normally have to pay some kind of huge price premium for designs, but LaCie's $149 for 500GB seems pretty reasonable. Ships January. [LaCie via PC World]






