Hard Disks & Solid State Drives Category

The solid state drive has long been a popular tool for computer users, especially those who like their storage media free of moving parts for added safety and speed. And to that end, the folks at Intel have wheeled out a whole new version of their solid state drive–the SSD [...]

I’ve always, always, been fond of devices that serve more than one purpose. And while I’m not exactly fond of long sleeve shirts, or shirts that require cufflinks, even I have to take notice of Brookstone’s newest offering, the Wi-Fi Cufflinks.

You’ve got to hand it to the crew at ioSafe for knowing how to put on a show. That and showing off just how durable their external drives are; last year, they sent a swarm of tech journalists armed with shotguns and assault rifles into the ring with their Rugged [...]

The rush to make computers smaller and smaller has been going on for some time now, but we may have a winner–at least for now–in terms of the small computer race. It’s called the Cotton Candy from FXI Tech, and though it just looks like your standard USB thumb drive, [...]

I’ve always said that the two big things keeping solid state drives from really catching on: their comparative lack of storage against hard drives, and their comparatively high pricing. But the new model out from Plextor, the M3S, is going to go a long way toward getting my interest, and [...]

If you’re planning to buy a computer or computer peripherals soon, you might have to pay a bit more. Massive flooding in Thailand has stalled production of hard drives and components, and might drive up prices and limit supply.

If you find yourself wishing you could watch a lot more television than you actually get time to watch, or wanting to stop buying television series on DVD or Blu-ray because you miss episodes, then the folks at Seagate have something you’re definitely going to want to hear about. They’ve [...]

The folks out at Plextor have pulled the curtain back and showed off a couple new solid state drives waiting for us in their M2P line. And for those of you who like the idea of solid state drives, well, you’re about to get a couple more reasons to be [...]

The debate between proponents of the hard drive storage system and the solid state storage system has gone on pretty much ever since their was a solid state storage system of which to be a proponent in the first place. And while both sides of the issue have valid points [...]

External hard drives are the great unsung heroes of the computing age, folks. Most every other function, if you want to upgrade it, you have to open up your computer and add something to the internals. More processing power? Open it up and replace the motherboard. More RAM? Open it [...]