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more about #harddrive more comments → Scott Crawford: Good and amusing but as others point out, still room for improvement. Surely film came before the photo....and there were more before the flloppy....s... more » denisnossevitch: WTF is a wax cylinder? Is that that thing they use as candles in church? more » KhaiJB: he missed out C90 tapes and C120's with cassette tapes.. C60's were hardly used... more » RipRapRob: The constant change of units makes the chart much less informative than it could have been. The same goes for using the same color for a minute of m... more » os_2: ah.. 5 1/4" floopies, I remember punching holes on other side so I can use the backside for storage. It seems like it was yesterday. more » bubbagrump: Syquest drives? tape drives? it's nice but not very complete. more » Kingofhearts589: Color fail on the Data Storage section. Otherwise, great chart. more » BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: I store everything in my shed. Does that count? more » ploopsy: Long story short. Anything that you send back in time will blow the recipients minds. more » back_at_it: back when we used floppies we had to be much more selective about what we were going to save. i, too, like that we can store anything and everything w... more » MrToblerone: I don't know, I still miss them big old 5.25" floppy discs. They felt so futuristic! :D more » PrestonBenz: I hate to be a negative Nancy, but they got the color coding wrong in the data... they used the red coloring for MB when they should have used the gre... more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Well, what can I say? Simplicity sells. There's one favorite Gizmodo company whose motto is exactly that. And you know, the vast majority of computer... more » blash: Why? Let's see... 1) Put wireless USB fob on your key ring 2) Pair it with your desktop 3) Pair it with your laptop When you're at home, work on ite... more » Kaiser-Machead: This is junk, and whoever buys it is a sucker, when one could get either a good USB (cabled) drive or a network drive. I can't see any situation whats... more » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
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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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#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 » -
#macbookpro
MacBook Pro Hands-On Gallery
We've got a delicious gallery of pics of the new 13 and 15-inch MacBook Pros. More » -
#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 » -
#backup
Seagate Replica Is Time Machine for Windows PCs
For all of Windows 7's niceties, it still doesn't have an appropriately slick built-in backup system like Time Machine. Enter Seagate Replica, which Rob at BoingBoing Gadgets says works perfectly, just like Time Machine. More »
