Hard disk

Honey, I Shrunk the 300GB Drive: Fujitsu 2.5-Inch Disk Packs It In

The benefits of perpendicular hard drive technology keep trickling down, where last April we first saw it used in a 300GB 3.5″ Seagate Cheetah drive. Now the technology has made its way into even smaller 2.5-inch drives from Fujitsu. The MHX2300BT series of SATA drives were created specifically for laptops, and will be available with…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 11

WeibeTech ToughTech Enclosure: Speed and Toughness

WeibeTech just enhanced its ToughTech Enclosure, where the company raised the bar on performance while adding more connectivity to the equation. The company started out by goosing its Oxford 924 bridge which performs faster than its Oxford 922 predecessor when using FireWire 800 and USB 2.0. Then there’s that quick-like-a-bunny eSATA port, and you can…

Tech News Charlie White Aug 2

Such a Deal: Maxtor 200GB for $40

Our new friend at Bargain Jack found a great deal, a Maxtor 200GB internal hard drive for $40 shipped. It’s an Ultra ATA/133 disk running at 7200RPM, and it might just be perfect for that array you’ve been thinking about building. We’re liking this deal—Bargain Jack did the math for us, reminding us that we’re…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 30

SimpleTech Stylish Portable Hard Disks

While most portable hard disks are boxy 6-sided affairs, SimpleTech eschews practicality and is releasing a 5-sided device. Yes, by cutting out one entire side, their 5400RPM, 8MB drives trade balance for style. Created by the Italian design house Pininfaria Extra, the drives come in 40 to 100GB sizes at prices from $109 to $179.99.…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 8

Fujitsu Mag EraSURE: Erase Your HD In 60 Seconds

We’re far from encouraging people to engage in illegal activities—we didn’t look at our naked selves in the mirror until we were over 18—but this 60 second hard disk eraser from Fujitsu has many business applications as well. Financial and medial corporations often have sensitive data they need to safeguard, say, when they sell off…

Gadgets Jason Chen May 30

Deal on Seagate Barracuda 300GB SATA Drives

Always on the lookout for you, dear readers, we point you toward newegg.com, where there’s a sale on Seagate Barracuda 300GB SATA drives running at 7200RPM. Normally these drives cost between $125 and $130 at their lowest (and we’ve seen a few at $145 or $150), but this deal has them at $100. Good price,…

Tech News Charlie White Apr 7

Western Digital 8GB 6GB Pocket Passport

Western Digital throws its hat into the portable hard drive ring with its 6GB Pocket Passport, a 1-inch 3600RPM disk drive with a 2MB cache. Its USB 2.0 jack is nothing new, rotating into the drive housing just like many of its competitors do, a good thing because that gives it room to squeeze into…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 29

Holographic Drives on the Way This Year?

We’ve been hearing rumblings of holographic drives and media for years, but now they’re actually on the way, ready to be shipped this year. We saw some of these holographic storage prototypes at CES, where 515GB of data can be shoehorned onto a square inch of disk space. What’s the catch? The first wave of…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 28

LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive Pre-Order

Remember LaCie’s new portable hard drives that we told you about in January? The Skwarim drives designed by Karim Rashid are already out, in pink and blue. https://gizmodo.com/lacie-hard-drives-ribbed-for-her-pleasure-146373 If you wanted one of the Neil Poulton-designed LaCie Rugged All-Terrain drives (seen above), they’re now available to pre-order for April. $169.99 to $359.99, depending on which…

Tech News Gizmodo.com Mar 23

Samsungs 32GB Flash Drive: Hard Disk Killer?

Samsung rolled out a 2.5-inch, 32GB flash drive that the company intends to market as a hard drive replacement unit. As it is with solid-state anything, it uses up just a fraction of the energy of devices with moving parts—in this case, 5% of the power of an old-fashoined spinning hard disk. This technology will…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 21

Honey, I Shrunk the 300GB Drive: Fujitsu 2.5-Inch Disk Packs It In

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