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Updated Western Digital DVR Expander
For those of you with a cable or satellite DVR or TiVo, Western Digital has updated their My Book AV DVR Expander hard drives. Among other things, is the addition of a USB port, to the already...
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Kingston To Release USB 3.0 SSD Drives
Kingston has announced the first portable USB 3.0 SSD (solid state drive). The news actually came from Engadget Spain, but it appears to be official. I have not seen the press release, but have...
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Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive Cloud Edition
If you are in the market for a new external hard drive (and which of us isn’t buying one regularly these days?) then Iomega may have one you will want to look at. Just announced at CES is the Iomega...
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OWC — Other World Computing — High Performance Aftermarket SSD Drives
Grant Dahlke from Other World Computing aka MacSales.com introduces Sandforce processor-based high capacity, high-performance SSD (solid state drive) hard drives for computers such as Apple’s Macbook...
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La Cie and Thunderbolt
If you depend on moving a lot of data around and are looking for ways to move it faster then the Thunderbolt technology (formerly Light Peak) is something that should be of interest to you. Companies...
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GoFlex Slim Performance Drive Review
I have been using a Seagate GoFlex Slim Performance Drive for the past few days. While external hard drives are a dime a dozen, this is one of the first USB 3.0 with 2.o fallback that I have been able...
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Buffalo USB 3.0 Interface ExpressCard Review
If your laptop is like mine and pre-dates USB 3 but you want to use USB 3 devices at their full speed, then you might be interested in the Buffalo USB 3.0 Interface ExpressCard (IFC-EC2U3/UC). It’s an...
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Seagate Momentous XT Hybrid Solid State Hard Drive
Want to give your tired old computer a speed boost? Listen up — this is a good one! A few days ago my 17” MacBook Pro shut down a couple of times due to overheating issues, so I ended up taking it to...
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Freecom Mobile Drive Mg Review
The Freecom Mobile Drive Mg is no ordinary 2.5″ external drive. It’s a thing of beauty. Intended to complement Apple’s MacBooks, the slimline Mobile Drive has a magnesium body that looks and feels...
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TDK Looking to Double Hard Drive Capacity
Storage, both HDD and SSD, is growing in capacity and shrinking in price all of the time. With hard drives currently as large as 2 TB available, and promises of even bigger ones coming it seems there...
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Buffalo Gets Extreme
Buffalo Technology has announced the launch of the MiniStation Extreme, a ruggedised USB3 portable hard drive. Conforming to the US Military’s MIL-STD-810F 516.5 Procedure IV, the shock protection on...
View ArticleThailand Flooding and the Price of Hard Drives
If you are thinking about getting a hard drive you may want to wait. Thailand has been hit by terrible flooding during the yearly monsoon season. Up to 500 have died and whole areas have been...
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Buffalo DriveStation Velocity Review
The Buffalo DriveStation Velocity is a 2 TB USB 3 external drive, and given the size and the interface, it’s aimed at people who want lots of data and want it quickly. Let’s get the external features...
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Monster Digital Will Be Showing off its LeMann SSD Drive at CES 2012
Back in November Monster Cable license their brand name to SDJ Technologies a Simi Valley based technology business creating the company Monster Digital. At CES 2012 Monster Digital will be showing...
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OWC Mercury SSD Drives
Other World Computing (OWC) will be introducing their newest Solid State Drive (SSD) line called Mercury Extreme. It is 3G with a combination of Sandforce Dura Class technology and Tier 1/Grade A NAND....
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Verbatim SSD Drives
One of the categories that you will see a lot of at CES 2012 are Solid State Drives (SSD). With the price of regular hard drives going up due to the flooding in Thailand. (Although the price of...
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Kingston HyperX SSD
Kingston is known for their memory, but now they are branching out into the world of hard drives and, more specifically, solid state hard drives, or SSD’s as they are commonly referred to. The HyperX...
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Rocstor AES 256-bit Enctypted Hard Drive
Rocstor has unveiled a new portable external hard drive that practically guarantees that your data won’t be stolen. The hard drive, which comes in capacities up to 1 TB, has a slot for a smart card....
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WD TV Live at The Gadget Show Live
Western Digital’s TV Live series of media players has been around for a couple of years and they’ve gained a sizeable following with over 3.5 million devices sold. The 3rd generation WD TV Live has...
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Upgrading My NAS…Yawn
Last weekend, I upgraded my NAS from 2 TB to 4 TB and it was all too easy. The NAS is a Buffalo LinkStation Duo but as the drives are mirrored, I only get half the total 2 TB capacity, i.e. 1 TB. I was...
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A Hard Disk Designed to Last Millions of Years
Traditional hard drives can last anywhere from a few months to a few years, with the latter being more likely. SSD’s can last longer thanks to their lack of moving parts, but they still probably...
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HyperDrive Shop
Hypershop introduced several products that allow you to connect wirelessly to an attach device even if you have no internet connection. The iUSBport has its own router with it’s own SSID . The...
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G-Technology G-Drive Mobile Review
On review today is the G-Technology G-Drive Mobile, a 1 TB mobile external hard drive. Aimed squarely at the Apple MacBook crowd, the brushed aluminium finish and white LED compliments the host...
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Today only – Amazon offering 4 TB Seagate drive for $139
Depending on your location, you perhaps have more of the day left than I do here in the, still rather chilly, mid-Atlantic region. That’s a good thing if you are looking for your next external hard...
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Buffalo Claim Fastest USB 3 Drive
The folks over at Buffalo Technology have announced a screamingly fast external drive, the DriveStation DDR. By adding a 1 GB DDR3 cache to a standard SATA drive, they’ve created a USB3 hard drive with...
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WD My Passport Edge drive — the good and bad
If you are looking for a small, portable hard drive for your laptop then there are several choices on the market and hard drive prices continue to reach new lows. The one I settled on, mainly because...
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Mac Mini Upgrade
I have two Mac Mini’s — one of them I use as a computer, and the other I use as an over-the-air HD-DVR connected to my home theater. I decided to upgrade the machine as I use as a computer to an SSD...
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G-Technology G-RAID Mini Review
External USB 3 hard drives are pretty common these days and GNC has reviewed several models in the past. However, this is the first portable RAID unit that I’ve had on my desk. On show here is the...
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Digital Curmudgeon
There’s a dirty little secret about computer performance that is hiding within plain sight. A solid state drive (SSD) will take almost any machine manufactured within the past five to ten years and...
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Aleratec Hard Drive Duplicator at CES
Let’s been honest, it’s not often that the average geek needs to duplicate a single hard drive to five others in a range of physical sizes and capacities. But if you did need to do it, Aleratec have...
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