Hard Drives

Seagate’s New Drives Automatically Upload and Download Photos From Facebook and Flickr

As far as hardware specs go, Seagate’s new line of Backup Plus external drives are pretty straightforward—storage ranging from 500-gigabtyes to 4-terabytes)—but the one neat thing about this drive is that the included file management software will not only schedule backups for you, but it will automatically upload and download photos from Facebook and Flickr.…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 12

RIP My Hard Drive, 2008-2012

This morning, I woke up to find my MacBook barely functioning, frozen, and plagued by a near-constant spinning rainbow of death. Long, painful story much shorter: my hard drive crashed and I can either have a new one installed, tomorrow at the earliest (I’m writing tonight from the completely empty office!), or I can buy…

Tech News Molly Oswaks May 25

Hard Drive-Annihilating Microwave Blasts Your Data With a Single Zap

We already know how the DoD wipes its hard drives. It’s effective, but it takes time. This weapons-grade data nuke instantaneously sends your disks back to the Stone Age in a flash with the push of a button. https://gizmodo.com/wipe-your-hard-drive-dod-clean-5905223 Developed by Platform of Japan, Data Killer whitewashes a hard drives—or any other magnetic media like…

Privacy & Security Mario Aguilar May 14

LaCie Little Big Disk Lightning Review: The Future Is Shockingly Super Fast

The Little Big Disk is simply the fastest way to backup your data you’ve ever used. But it’s also, finally, a delivery on Apple’s promise that Thunderbolt would do crazy things to our tech lives. That promise came true. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-thunderbolt-5769321 What Is It? An extremely fast solid state external hard drive that uses Thunderbolt. Who’s…

Gadgets Sam Biddle Jan 30

Nimec Hit Hard by Thailand Floods; Here Comes the Great Hard Drive Shortage of 2011

Apple, Dell and other hardware manufacturers are bracing this quarter for an expected hard drive shortage after heavy flooding in Thailand has claimed another tech victim at the world’s largest hard drive supplier. Previously we brought word of issues at Western Digital, one of the world’s foremost drive makers that is now effectively underwater. Today…

Tech News Jack Loftus Oct 23

The World’s First 2.5-Inch 1TB SSD Needs to Get In My Laptop’s Belly Like Now

OCZ’s new Octane series is the first solid state drive to squeeze one full terabyte of storage into a 2.5-inch drive, but the awesome doesn’t stop there. It has read speeds of up to 560MB/s and write speeds of 400MB/s, versus top competitors who are at 500MB/s read and 315MB/s write. The Octane series has…

Tech News Brent Rose Oct 20

How to Increase Your Hard Drive Capacity Six-Fold with Table Salt

Traditional hard drives are hitting a capacity wall—they simply can’t physically fit any more data onto their discs. However, a researcher at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) has discovered a way to significantly sextuple that capacity—using common table salt. Current data storage technology relies on an unevenly-distributed cluster nanoscopic magnetic grains—each about…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Oct 18

A 320 GB Hard Drive’s Landing for Xbox 360

If you’re running out of room for movies, music, photos, and other things that tend to take up hard drive space in your 360, you might need a bigger hard drive. Hey, here’s a brand new 320 GB one. The drive will set you back $130—keep in mind what a 750 GB hard drive actually…

Tech News Sam Biddle Oct 11

The First Ever Stupid-Fast Thunderbolt External HD Is Finally Out

I like the sound of backing up my entire hard drive in several minutes, instead several hours. With LaCie’s Little Big Disk, we might finally be able to do it: dual drives plus Thunderbolt. The Little Big Disk straps together two HDs in a RAID array (0 for extra speed, or 1 for extra data…

Gadgets Sam Biddle Sep 20

Seagate’s New GoFlex Desk Is the First Ever 4TB Hard Drive

Seagate is still pushing their GoFlex Desk line as hard as they can. After releasing the first 3TB external drive last year, they’re raising the bar with their new 4TB beast. https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-seagates-3tb-goflex-desk-external-har-5585387 This year’s model gotten a bit of a makeover as well, looking slimmer and trimmer than its older sibling. The PC model supports…

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 7

How to Buy a Hard Drive: An Essential Guide

Do you need gigabytes or performance? Laptop upgrades or a screaming new gaming PC? We walk you through what you need to know to pick the right storage solution for your PC. Storage. Always needed, often overlooked. Often lost in the buzz surrounding the latest DirectX 11 GPUs and hexacore CPUs is the ability to…

Tech News Loyd Case - MaximumPC Aug 25

Samsung’s New Double-Speed SSDs

Sammy just took the lid off of a set of new solid state drives that promise a significant speed boost from their already peppy previous line of SSDs. They look good enough to eat. The new 830 series will utilize SATA Revision 3.0 technology, which will give it potential speeds a face-melting 6 gigabits per…

Gadgets Brent Rose Aug 17

Seagate’s New GoFlex Turbo Keeps Your Data in a SafetyNet

The Seagate GoFlex portable hard drive has the amenities you’d expect for its price range. 500GB. USB 3.0. Support for FireWire and eSATA. But what makes it stand out is that it offers full data recovery right out of the box. Seagate calls their Data Recovery Service SafetyNet. It works as the name promises; should…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 8

Apple Offers iMac Replacement Program for 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Failures

Heads up: Apple has officially acknowledged a 1TB Seagate hard drive failure issue affecting iMacs sold between May and June 2011. Hard drive replacement is free, so just click the source link for all the info. [Apple]

Tech News Jack Loftus Jul 24

Every Hard Drive Should Be As Minimal As LaCie’s Porsche Drives

A weird quirk of LaCie drives: The desktop models feel like cheap crap, from the materials to the electronics (I’m particularly thinking of Neil Poulton’s drive), but their portable drives are solid. This Porsche-designed drive feels like it just might stop bullets. The edges are are as sharp as they look, though. It’s a USB…

Tech News Kwame Opam Jun 28

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…

Tech News Max Behrman Jun 23

Hitachi G-Connect: A Wireless Hard Drive and Router for Your iPhone and iPad

Like the Seagate GoFlex Satellite hard drive before it, Hitachi’s G-Connect can act as expandable wireless storage for your mobile device. It can store 500 gigs and even has an ethernet port to turn itself into a router. https://gizmodo.com/seagates-new-hard-drive-transfers-media-to-and-from-you-5802169 The ethernet port is especially convenient because it could do Time Capsule-esque duty: give you storage…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 22

Protect Your External Hard Drive from Lizards and Dirt and Destruction

External hard drives are wonderful for all our gigabytes of tasteful porn and legally downloaded media, but what happens when you drop one? Your data might die. You spent a long time hoarding that stuff! Give it a nice shield. Western Digital’s $30 Nomad case is rugged enough for drops, debris, putting a stiff polycarbonate…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jun 17

Samsung’s 9mm 1TB Drive Is the First That Will Fit Most Laptops

But as one of our interns put it, “what kind of jerk would put a HDD in an ultraportable though?” That pair of 500GB platters will be a nice upgrade though, if you fork out $129 for it. [Engadget]

Gadgets Kat Hannaford Jun 9

The Secret Lives of Hard Drives

I’m going to go ahead and guess that the computer component you take most for granted is your HDD. No longer! Bill the Engineer Guy—our favorite uncreepy uncle geek since Bill Nye—unfolds its many mysteries. [TDW Geek]

Tech News Brian Barrett Jun 8

Seagate’s New Drives Automatically Upload and Download Photos From Facebook and Flickr

RIP My Hard Drive, 2008-2012

Hard Drive-Annihilating Microwave Blasts Your Data With a Single Zap

LaCie Little Big Disk Lightning Review: The Future Is Shockingly Super Fast

Nimec Hit Hard by Thailand Floods; Here Comes the Great Hard Drive Shortage of 2011

The World’s First 2.5-Inch 1TB SSD Needs to Get In My Laptop’s Belly Like Now

How to Increase Your Hard Drive Capacity Six-Fold with Table Salt

A 320 GB Hard Drive’s Landing for Xbox 360

The First Ever Stupid-Fast Thunderbolt External HD Is Finally Out

Seagate’s New GoFlex Desk Is the First Ever 4TB Hard Drive

How to Buy a Hard Drive: An Essential Guide

Samsung’s New Double-Speed SSDs

Seagate’s New GoFlex Turbo Keeps Your Data in a SafetyNet

Apple Offers iMac Replacement Program for 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Failures

Every Hard Drive Should Be As Minimal As LaCie’s Porsche Drives

A HDD-Powered Tablet Sounds Like a Very Bad Idea

Hitachi G-Connect: A Wireless Hard Drive and Router for Your iPhone and iPad

Protect Your External Hard Drive from Lizards and Dirt and Destruction

Samsung’s 9mm 1TB Drive Is the First That Will Fit Most Laptops

The Secret Lives of Hard Drives

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