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Why Are Some iMacs Being Delayed 5-7 Weeks?

AppleInsider noticed something peculiar about some build-to-orders iMacs; they went from a shipping estimate of 1-3 days to 5-7 weeks. Specifically, the delay affects any iMac that is equipped with a 2TB hard drive. What’s going on? The answer could lie with the floods in Thailand right now, as Thailand supplies a significant portion of…

New Mac Mini Is Roomy Enough For A Second Hard Drive

The new Mac Mini is a roomy little bugger. Inside its aluminum body, there’s an extra SATA connector and room for a second hard drive. You’ll need to find a SATA cable, but iFixit is on the hunt for one. https://gizmodo.com/mac-mini-line-padded-out-with-three-thunderbolt-packin-5822973 And there’s even more upgrades you can do. You can easily replace the existing…

LaCie’s Rugged Mini Hard Drive Is Kind of Begging to Be Abused

I’m pretty paranoid about losing my data to a hard drive failure, so the LaCie Rugged Mini drive is at once awesome and terrible for me. It’s great because the thing’s fast and basically indestructible, but I can’t help thinking I’ll just screw with it until I find a way to break it. The tiny…

A HDD-Powered Tablet Sounds Like a Very Bad Idea

The world’s first 2.5-inch HDD intended for tablets (but also available as a standalone device) has one thing going for it: It allows Archos to release two new G9 tablets that’ll each have 250GB of storage. That is a lot of room. But HDDs aren’t a good component for tablets, even if they are 7mm…

You Won’t Fix My Hard Drive Because I WROTE on the Label?

Almost no one reads the lengthy terms and conditions that come with nearly every piece of technology. But here’s a reason you may want to start: Toshiba is charging a customer over $400 to fix his friend’s hard drive because he wrote “X Faulty” on the label. Chris, a computer technician, determined that the drive…

Western Digital My Passport Studio Drives, Now With E-Paper

Don’t expect to read a book on ’em, but Western Digital’s latest My Passport Studio hard drives feature a customizable e-paper display that stays on even when the drive is unplugged. (e-paper is all the rage in external drives lately, and we’ve already seen Western Digital make the upgrade in their larger externals.) https://gizmodo.com/wd-puts-e-labels-on-my-book-elite-and-studio-includes-5374989 Aside…

Seagate’s Momentus Thin Drive is the World’s Thinnest 2.5″ Netbook Drive

At a mere 7 millimeters in height, Seagate’s Momentus Thin drive will be the slimmest 2.5″ hard drive on the market. Not only that, but supposedly it will also be one of the lowest-priced storage options for ultra-portables and netbooks. We don’t have details as to exactly how much these drives will cost or when…

Olive 4 HD Music Player Brings Minor Updates, Now Costs $2,000

The Olive 4 HD isn’t too different from the Olive Opus N4 we saw back in July, but has a few nice additions and a steeper price: The 2TB version now comes in at $2,000. Youch. https://gizmodo.com/olive-opus-n4-melody-n2-music-players-for-rich-people-5320363 Olive’s music players are the kind of crazy high-end AV hardware that peasants like you and I shouldn’t…

1TB Seagate Barracudas Collapsing A Gogo, Users Say

It looks like the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive series is having serious problems Zune style, with a large number of them failing like crazy, specially the 1TB model. The problem seems to be firmware-based. https://gizmodo.com/30gb-zunes-failing-everywhere-all-at-once-5121311 The company-which has been deleting messages from customers reporting on the problem left, right, and center-has offered a software…

Laptop Cooler Features Slot-Loading Hard Drive Dock

One look at this conglomeration and you pretty much know it’s from Brando. Their latest clunky tech masterpiece is officially named a USB Notebook Cooling Pad + 3-Port Hub + 2.5″ HDD. At its core, the system is a dual-fan USB-powered laptop cooler with extra USB ports. Enter Brando, and this simple device gets injected…

Survey Hints That Zune Could Double as Extra Storage For the Xbox

The most recent installment of the Zune newsletter includes a survey question that hints at the possibility of the Zune being used as additional Xbox 360 storage. After selecting “Yes” to the first question, readers are asked “Have you ever connected your Zune to your Xbox to do any of the following?” The first response…

Recycle Years of Broken Hard Drives into a Surprisingly Non-Dorky Clock

Instructables has posted a guide to breaking down 3.5″ hard drives and creating a wall clock out of the pieces. The guide calls for a bunch of the washers used to separate hard drive platters as well as the innards of a cheapie clock the builder had lying around. It’s a pretty easy project, but…

Fabrik Launches Pro Hard Drive Line, Online Backup Service

Today Fabrik announed that they are launching a pro line to accompany their designer line of drives released last year. The Simple, Pro, and Pro Duo all have features such as a stackable design, security locks, eSata (Pro and Dual Pro) and Raid 0 (Pro only) connections. The eSATA connection transfers at 445 Mb/sec while…

640GB Flash Hard Drive For a Paltry $19,000

Sure, it costs $30 a GB, but Fusion-io’s new ioDrive flash card promises ridiculous 800MB/sec (Read) and 600MB/sec (Write) sustained data transfer rates. That would mean performance on par with DRAM, which would be about a thousand times faster than any existing disk drive. Basically, it’s like packing an enterprise SAN into a PCI express…

Western Digital follows up last Thursday’s My Book announcement with 1TB My Book Studio edition for Macs with Firewire 400/800, USB 2.0 and eSATA. [Western Digital] https://gizmodo.com/western-digital-releases-new-slimmer-1tb-my-books-301865

LaCie Golden Disk Looks Like Gold, Feels Like a Disk

The LaCie Golden Disk is made for those of you who went to Ikea, looked around, and decided to decorate your home with a more ancient Aztec motif instead. It holds 500GB for a price of $189, which isn’t all too bad when you consider that it’s designed by Ora-Ito, a guy who enjoys Legos…

TiVo Series 3 eSATA Upgrade FAQ

The guys at tivocommunity have a nice FAQ up about how to upgrade your TiVo Series 3 with an external eSATA drive. Although it’s not “officially supported”, with the maximum 1TB external drive in addition to the internal one, you can get a good 1.25TB chunk of space to hold all your shows. Head over…

DIY: Apple TV Hard Drive Upgraded to 120GB

Click to viewIn case you were wondering, it is possible to upgrade that measly 40GB hard drive on Apple TV, in this case to 120GB. Tipster Jonathan Bare says he’s done it, resulting in a capacity of 107.36GB. Now that’s more like it. He sent along these two pictures (click on the gallery below for…

Noiseblocker NB-X-Swing Silences Those Hard Drives

Unless you’ve switched to a liquid cooling system in your PC, the loudest component probably wouldn’t be the hard drive, it’d be your fans. But if you have, then these NB-X-Swing hard drive silencers could be just the thing to keep you throwing your dog out of a window over drive noise. How does this…

Western Digital My Books Get Terabyte Storage, Internet Connections

Western Digital‘s expanding their line to 1TB and 500GB drives in the My Book World Edition family, which means they have either dual-drive configuration and RAID capability, or just a USB port for added storage and an Ethernet port. Sifting through the crap that is the horrible press release, the 1TB models can use that…