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Drive eRazer Tabula Rasas Hard Drives, No Computer Required

Matt Buchanan — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:20:56 EST

Need to kill the data on a hard drive you have lying around but don't wanna bother hooking it up to a PC? Wiebetech's pocket-sized eRazer plugs directly into lonely hard drives and genocides whatever naughtiness you have have etched into it at a rate of 35MB/s, leaving a 250GB hard drive scorched earth in under two hours.

There are two versions, ~~both~~ the latter of which meets DoD HDD sanitation specfications: The $99 Standard hooks up to IDE drives and performs a single pass, while the $150 pro model jacks into SATA drives and sports a multi-pass mode for the super paranoid. [Wiebetech via Crave]

Seagate is the first major hard drive manufacturer ...

kthompson — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:12:46 EDT

Seagate is the first major hard drive manufacturer to halt production of IDE drives. Seagate will be SATA only in 2008 and beyond. [Ars ]

USB 2.0 To SATA/IDE Adapter With One-Touch Backup

Charlie White — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:37:05 EDT

Here's an adapter that makes any SATA or IDE disk function as a backup unit, and with its included PCClone EX Lite software it can back up your hard drive with the simple push of a button.

This adapter lets you either backup from PC to a bare drive or copy from one drive to another. It also has a dual mode that lets you backup a SATA and IDE drive at the same time. Pretty neat trick for $40. – Charlie White

USB 2.0 To SATA/IDE Adapter With One Touch Backup [Brando]

Brando SATA/EIDE to USB 2.0 Cable

Jason Chen — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:59:26 EDT

Brando is offering a converter cable to make all your internal SATA/EIDE devices USB 2.0 compatible. The cable works with all hard drives, CD drives and DVD drives. It's no slouch on the performance side either, with a tested transfer rate of 165.3Mbps. The unit also comes with AC power adapters so you don't need to power it with a computer.

We think it may be a little risky schlepping a bare drive around with you all the time without protection of any sort, but we've never been the kind to take chances with our data. Our precious, juicy data.

Brando SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Conversion Cable Review [Bona Fide Reviews]