Hard Disks & Solid State Drives Category - Page 5

Hard drives can be sensitive to bumps and drops. This is especially true for external hard drives, as they’re often transported in bags. Buffalo’s latest shock-resistant hard drives will help keep your data safe.

You’ve seen the early reviews about the Crucial M4 solid state drives (again thanks to our own Kevin Schram who brought them here in the first place), and they’re probably looking pretty attractive to you right now. But one thing we didn’t have at the time was pricing on them, [...]

One thing that’s downright indispensable for most any mobile computer user is the simple, everyday USB thumb drive. These little fellas carry around our files, and give us an easy way to move said files from one computer to another as well as give us emergency backups for our most [...]

“The Cloud”, as a concept, has been getting a pretty serious workout lately. But you may not have expected to encounter getting a cloud in your hard drive, and that’s exactly what Hitachi’s looking to do with their new Touro line of USB hard drives.

In a move described as a strategic alliance, Samsung and Seagate have announced a big business shakeup in the hard drive industry. Seagate is taking over Samsung’s hard drive business in exchange for cash and shares of stock.

We’ve all probably seen a breathless story on one news channel or another, detailing the many failings of government officials who lose a laptop or a hard drive jammed to the gills with people’s personal data. But the folks out at Kingston have a way to make losing a hard [...]

You may think that naming a product like the Delkin Elite 633 is just an exercise in sheer pompous–personally, all I could think of was that scene from Small Soldiers where the Tommy Lee Jones figure declared that everything else was just a toy–but they’ve got some substantial numbers to [...]

I love portable hard drives. There’s just no two ways about it–what’s not to love about a small, highly portable device that can carry around the digital content we all hold dear these days?–portable hard drives are useful, valuable items. And the folks out at Seagate are bringing out their [...]

Those who know, know that Crucial’s brand of solid-state drives, with the Micron C300 SSD controller, are the fastest out there with a 335 MB/s (sequential) read speeds and respectable random read speeds. Intel’s drives are still preferred by many, even though they have a slower read speed. Anyway, back [...]

I’m not really big on the whole solid state drive concept. Sure, I like the idea of storage that goes anywhere and takes bumps like a champ but it’s hard for me to get my mind around paying comparatively huge amounts of money for inferior service just because it’s extra [...]