Hard Disks & Solid State Drives Category

It’s a funny thing about deleting a file. Funny videos about Macs aside (if you’ve not yet seen Hunter Cressall’s old but still hilarious “tribute” to Macs, it’s worth a look), when you delete a file in the Recycle Bin or the like, it’s never really “gone”. If you know [...]

Hammacher Schlemmer has brought us some strange devices before.  A little over a year ago we got a look at their combination camcorder and projector, and the list goes on from there when you check out their website. Now they’ve got another “world’s first” to bring us with a USB [...]

Portable hard drives are great things. They keep your data safe and near to hand no matter where you may actually be or where you may have to go. And the rugged portable hard drives are even better, as they can endure the slings and arrows–as well as the jolts, [...]

Asus, a company that’s been seen as struggling of late in light of poor sales numbers and lawsuits, is looking to launch its new cloud service not too far from right now. In fact, the word is that they’re looking to make the launch at the Computex 2012 show in [...]

An SD card is a terribly important, yet often underutilized, part of the technology package for a lot of people. Smartphones, cameras, and plenty more devices offer up this tiny slip of additional storage. And Samsung’s showing off a new one that’s going to put a lot more punch in [...]

Western Digital has been very busy in recent days, first bringing out a new lineup of My Passport devices, and then tacking on the first ever two terabyte model. But they’ve added on another little extra in the form of the My Passport Studio Edition, which will have a nice [...]

You have no idea how thankful I was that, this year, April 1st was on a Sunday. There’s entirely too much propensity out there for tech news to be a little on the spoofy side, and in many cases, without any indication that it is. But a recent leak over [...]

We recently saw some details about the My Book Thunderbolt Duo drive from Western Digital and as of today it looks like they have also unveiled the latest in their My Passport line of drives. And nicely done, Western Digital is touting a “first-ever” in terms of a portable drive.

I don’t know if you’ve ever felt chafed by the limits of your hard drive of choice. Maybe you have; get a few good games on your desktop and suddenly you’re having to figure out what to delete first. But if you look into one of Western Digital’s new MyBook [...]

Hitachi is not a name we hear around here often, sadly enough, and as such, it’s always a little personally gratifying to see them bring out something new. And for those of you convinced in the superiority of the solid state drive, you may want to take a closer look [...]