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more about #harddrives more comments → Xagest: Next year, you guys need to put this stuff in a spreadsheet... more » bornonbord: Ahhh... now that's better. more » shaggedope: What happened to page 2? more » nutbastard: Dro- ... Drobo- ......Drobo Pro... bo bo bo bo bo. more » zeroprime: OK, who else read the article and saw the "RAID 101" and thought "why would they do raid 1, then 0 and then 1 again?" before realizing what it actual... more » GraphicoFantastico: I've never really seen the attraction to these Drobo things. They are insanely expensive. Especially considering that you can stack rackmount drive ap... more » TigerLeopard: I'm looking at getting a Drobo. Anyone else have one? Are they worth it? more » Kaiser-Machead: This is why it's best to point this stuff out in private to the author. Now you all look like dyslexic crazy people. more » Magicant: No wonder there's so much confusion about where to find the TVs! They're inexplicably listed under the "Televisions" category, instead of "Big Video ... more » olternaut: Woh woh woh woh wohhhhhhhhhhhhh..........woh! 3GB/s??? Is that real world speeds? And is that even possible on a SATA connection? I thought the ho... more » Ajh: Don't SSD wear out after so many read write? Will this have the same durability as the current hard drives? I don't know about you all but I download... more » w0ng3r: While I submitted this tip sometime ago, I realized that for that money you could saturate SATAII's bandwidth with a bunch of regular drives in raid a... more » Nathan Obbards: I wouldn't call that hacking speeds, I'd call it being smart on the part of OCZ. more » chauncy that billups: $3,300 today, $330 a year from now, $33 two years from now. more » J2M3: Can you imagine the day these cost the same as magnetic drives? Laptops and PCs will finally rid themselves of one of the largest bottlenecks in syste... more » -
#blackfriday
Black Friday Deals List Updated
Our Black Friday List is updated with deals from Vizio, WireFly, HP and Amazon, including an entirely new page for Blu-rays and DVDs. That's in addition to Best Buy, Office Depot, Dell, Target, Walmart, K-mart and more. Start saving here. -
#nas
8-Bay Drobo Pro Reviewed, Approved
PC Perspective put the $1,500, 8-bay Drobo Pro through all the paces, and they found that, yes, it's wonderful, and yes, it lacks eSATA. But if you need/want eSATA, there's always the 5-bay Drobo S. [PC Perspective] -
#ssds
OCZ Colossus 3.5-Inch SSD Reaches 1TB, Super Speeds
OCZ's new Colossus drives are among the first SSDs designed for desktops, and they're the very first to store up to 1TB of data. Oh, and on top of all that, they work pretty well, too. More » -
#blackfriday
Black Friday Deals: The Only List You Need
Black Friday is a week away, and thousands of markdowns are already announced. Our master list of Giz-friendly deals—a hefty read—includes similar items priced differently at different stores. Keep it refreshed, cuz we'll be updating it all week. More » -
#mods
Let's Count the Ways NES Modders Have Decimated My Fondest Childhood Memories
So a new, potentially very popular Mario title comes out today. Sweet, sweet nostalgia. To celebrate, let's revisit all the 2009 NES hacks and mods that have, thus far, utterly destroyed or otherwise corrupted my most cherished memories, shall we? More » -
#storage
The World's Wittlest 320GB Hard Dwive
Toshiba has just squeezed 320GB of storage into their 1.8-inch 5400RPM line of SATA drives. (That's enough to double the storage of the iPod Classic.) Available this December for an undisclosed price. [Toshiba via I4U] -
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#peripherals
Brinell Purestorage Drives Celebrate Steel, Leather, Carbon and Wood
In case you're as sick of plastic as we are, Brinell Powerstorage hard drives combine the best tech of Asian tech with the best of European craftsmanship. More » -
#harddrives
Origin Data Locker Backs Rugged Looks with AES Hardware Encryption
The Origin Data Locker: For the paranoid geek who lives with his parents in their fortified underground bunker. More » -
#harddrives
Quick Test: Seagate's 1TB Portable FreeAgent Go
The season of the 1TB bus-powered USB drive is upon us. WD was first; now Seagate is shipping the FreeAgent Go, a chunky SOB—three platters worth of storage powered and connected by one skinny cable. More » -
#usb30
Buffalo's HD-HU3 Poised To Be The First USB 3.0 Hard Drive
Buffalo is set to cross the USB 3.0 finish line first with their HD-HU3 hard drive. They also plan on offering NEC's IFC-PCIE2U3 2-port PCI Expressx1 host controller with the drive so you can, you know, use it. More » -
#harddrives
The Silver Surfer Probably Uses these Touch-Sensitive LaCie Starck Drives
I like the new LaCie Starck drives. I look at its surface and all I want is to dunk carrot cake into all that melty chrome and eat it. It's hard to find storage that you actually want to lick. More » -
#harddrives
WD Puts E-Labels on My Book Elite and Studio, Includes Dock With My Passport Elite Portable Drive
Hard drives have become so generic and commoditized, manufacturers are always trying to draw attention to their products in new ways. WD's My Book desktop drives now get an ebook-like screen, while the portable My Passport Elite gets a dock. More » -
#storage
A-DATA Hard Drive Proceeds With Diesel and Grunting
The A-DATA SH93 hard drive looks to be covered in caution tape, but you needn't worry about dropping it on land or water. More » -
#harddrives
Yet Another Modder Desecrates Fond Nintendo Memory From My Youth
Like I've said here before, when a modder takes a perfectly perfect piece of Nintendo lore and makes a hard drive out of it, or turns a classic item from gaming history and begets a USB drive, I weep. More » -
#standards
mSATA: It's Like SATA But Smaller
You've heard of SATA. It's the technology used for the majority of today's hard drives and people generally like it. But SATA wasn't designed for tiny portables. That's why the guys behind SATA are introducing mini-SATA, or mSATA for short. 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 »


