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portable media

Hardbox External Hard Drive Hides Your Illiteracy With a Book Called Hardbox

This Hardbox enclosure from Korean company Sarotech looks even more book-like than the Western Digital MyBook drives that have been around for a few years. There are two status indicator lights on the front, behind which sits 3.5-inch SATA drives that connect to your PC via USB. It's great for hiding the fact that you don't have any books but have loads of external hard drives. That is, until someone looks closer and realizes you've read a book called Hardbox. Maybe Hardbox means something different in Korean. [Sarotech via AVING via Oh Gizmo]

6:10 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Jason Chen
1,498 views, 17 comments

Latest by Xenobiologista: I'm the only person who thinks it looks nice apparently. Hopefully the "hard" bit means it's shock-resistant or something. more »

deals

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]

1:33 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By Jason Chen
15,950 views, 55 comments

question of the day

Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?

I get tired of music quick, and I'm not much of an archiver, so I don't need a lot of hard drive space or a high capacity MP3 player to store my music. However, there are plenty of folks out there that have taken to collecting digital music with the same voracity as people once did with CDs and vinyl. Fortunately, these days a music collection doesn't require you to add on to your home. So, the question is: how big is your digital music collection? More »

5:00 PM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Sean Fallon
27,092 views, 161 comments

Latest by ChowderFacial: Wow...my Led Zeppelin discography...alone is close to 12gigs. No, most of it isn't legal as they are rare bootlegs or over seas recordings. more »

storage

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]

11:25 AM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Kit Eaton
4,077 views, 52 comments

Latest by wired203: Popcorn hour does do 5.1 via coax which if you need a fiber connection you can buy a 5 buck converter. Or just stream it out through the hdmi. more »

storage

Question of the Day: How Many TBs Is Enough?

With the news from Seagate today that it had shipped its billionth hard drive, I got to thinking about the mahoosive amount of storage space that all those drives represent. Then I wondered, "How much drive space do I have around the place?" and after opening cupboards and drawers, I tallied the lot to what I think is a surprisingly large amount. You may beg to differ, and you can below. But first, vote in the poll: how many terabytes does one person need really? More »

3:00 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Kit Eaton
20,926 views, 184 comments

Latest by Sqube: I'm not familiar with this "enough" concept that you're bandying about when it comes to storage. I've got a 500GB drive for Windows and software installation. I've got a 750 for media and installers, and it's already more than half-full. No such more »

mods

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]

7:00 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Jason Chen
11,441 views, 21 comments

Latest by bemused0: Haters man, haters. more »

brando

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]

12:30 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Jason Chen
12,076 views, 70 comments

Latest by Barion: @GarthWood: Sweet, thanks for confirming. Looks like a better buy than the model Brando is selling. more »

design

USB Bomb is Bursting With Storage Space

Joel Escalona, the same dude that brought us the Seven alarm clock concept is back with a design for a USB bomb-shaped storage device. I can definitely see where he came up with the design—bombs are cool, the cord makes for a great fuse and the size of the device itself would mean that it could potentially hold a massive amount of data. But what would keep this sucker from rolling off your desk? Since it is only a concept, we will probably never know. [Joel Escalona via Pan-Dan via Techabob]

2:30 PM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Sean Fallon
3,980 views, 34 comments

Latest by Out2gtcha: @nutbastard: "Dammit! Where did all these people come from!! I hate fan day!!" more »

hard drives

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]

2:00 PM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Jason Chen
11,979 views, 29 comments

Latest by MrDisco1: I must voice my strong disagreement with the reviewer. My Samsung F1 1TB drive, all of 20 days old, died. It spins up, then immediately generates a stream of clicking noises. Ran the Samsung dos util on it and it more »

storage

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.
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10:30 AM on Sun Mar 9 2008
By Haroon Malik
6,457 views, 13 comments

Latest by Joseph: @jerrt: The Spinpoint M6 is currently shipping with an MSRP of USD$299 while no pricing info was available for the SH-S223 at the time of writing. that's from the gizmag site. Now by current, I would assume they mean right more »

peripherals

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]

5:30 PM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Jason Chen
3,347 views, 10 comments

Latest by Pixlmonkey: the hell's wrong with y'all, how's this a competitive price range? best buy routinely sells the excellent 320Gb WD Passport for $150. more »

rumor

Rumor: Microsoft Making 60GB Hard Drives Standard on Xbox 360s

Trusted Reviews says they've got a "rock solid source" who claims Microsoft will dump the standard 20GB hard drive that's now included in the Xbox 360 Premium (which they've since just dubbed Xbox 360) for 60GB drive as early as Q2 of this year. This rumor makes sense if Microsoft's planning on hitting drive-heavy applications such as movie streaming or IPTV, since an HD movie can take up a huge percentage of that small 20GB drive as it is now. Of course, all of this is just a rumor, and if you really wanted a larger hard drive on your 360, you can always just go out and buy one of their 120GB units now. [Trusted Reviews]

2:00 PM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Jason Chen
1,801 views, 21 comments

Latest by Digitele: Can anyone tell me why the fricken' drives are so expensive and small? Both Sony and MS treat hard drive space as if it was a precious commodity... more »

storage

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 »

9:00 PM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Sean Fallon
21,843 views, 105 comments

Latest by rcast1986: What I don't understand is how so many people have (a) assumed that Best Buy "blew off" the couple and (b) forgotten the fact that the manufacturer denied them as well. All the article says is that the couples' claims more »

question of the day

Question of the Day: What's the Best Hard Drive Deal You Can Find?

This is a bit of a self-serving question of the day, but here's something for readers to participate in. What's the best hard drive deal you can find right now? We're talking preferably internal and SATA, but if you've got a hot Swedish deal for an external USB drive, we'd love to hear about that too. Help out your fellow Giz readers and tell them where to get cheap, yet functional, storage.

4:20 PM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Jason Chen
15,369 views, 89 comments

Latest by dbla921: @SigmundTheSeaMonster: Why would you ask for support from Newegg?! They're resellers not manufacturers... that's like buying Vista from Walmart and demanding one of the guys in a blue Walmart vest to explain how to run it in your system.. Or more »

gadgets

Hitachi's 500GB Notebook Hard Drive Turns Your Laptop Into an Ultimate eBook Reader

Hitachi's upping the notebook 2.5-inch storage game to the 500GB level, which means that you'll have much, much more space to store all your eBooks and comics to take with you on the go. The Travelstar 5K500 will be available in 400GB or 500GB models, and have optional Bulk Data Encryption for drive-level security. It also has a power-usage level almost identical to its 5K250 predecessor, and have a 1.9 watt read/write power draw and a 0.7 watt low power idle. More »

12:01 AM on Thu Jan 3 2008
By Jason Chen
10,284 views, 40 comments

Latest by WD40: @Jason Chen: you mean photochop? more »

concepts

External HD Concept Helps You Visualize Your Data Usage

This external hard drive concept entitled "IVY" adds an interesting new aesthetic to a plain old drive via an OLED screen that visualizes the content of the hard disk. Inspired by Sequoiaview visualization software, IVY starts out life as a rather plain-looking disk. As you fill it up, the design changes in sync with the content. In essence, you can automatically decorate your drive with a cushion treemap design that continually evolves. Again, it is only a concept—but it is a particularly interesting looking one if I do say so myself. [Concept Page via Next Nature via about:blank]

7:40 PM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By Sean Fallon
3,863 views, 23 comments

Latest by LED Hard Drive Concept Displays Contents As Mondrians on Gadget Lab: Little LED screens will be the next big thing in cosmetic gadget frippery: the slowly-lowering price of the Optimus Maximus over the next few years will chart this inconsequential revolution. In the meantime: concept art! more »

peripherals

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]

2:15 PM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Jason Chen
2,719 views, 33 comments

Latest by FreeMan: I've been using my F.A. Porsche Design LaCie 250GB drive (with a Seagate inside) for several months with no issues... Yup, it's just as pretentious as it sounds, but the Seagate has been pretty reliable so far - I turn the more »