Hard Disks & Solid State Drives Category - Page 6

If you burn through a lot of storage, you’re no doubt sick of buying it a terabyte at a time and sighing, with maximum angst, as you long for one of those hefty new multi-terabyte hard drives you keep hearing about to come out. Well, you’re about to get your [...]

If you go through a lot of storage with your computer, folks, you’ll be happy to know that the crew out at Seagate has your best interest (and your dollars) at heart. They’re offering up a whole slew of new hard drives, and solid state drives, for you to keep [...]

Well folks, if you can’t get enough storage and you’re sick of buying it a terabyte at a time, then prepare to be excessively happy with the crew out at Samsung, who managed to discover a way to put a full terabyte of data onto just one platter of a [...]

Storage is big business, considering the ever-expanding needs to store our data and media. With this, Western Digital has recently entered in to an agreement to acquire Hitachi GST. The price: $4.3 billion.

External hard drives are great things. While they go a long way toward offering you plenty of room to store your material, and easily, too, with just a quick plug or two, they can also look nice on your desktop. And one hard drive that goes out of its way [...]

If it just seems like you can’t get enough storage, prepare to take heart as you get an early look at one of Plextor’s upcoming portable hard drives. We’ve seen plenty of these out there, of course, and one new model by itself only means so much. But the Plextor [...]

Seagate has just announced its Barracuda XT hard drive meant for enterprise customers. While 3 TB hard drive sizes have been available for some time, most of these won’t properly work on older systems. Seagate makes sure its 3TB drive does.

Storage is often a bottleneck in most computer systems. Intel’s latest solid state drives will address all that, but at what cost?

I think we can all safely agree that we love the solid state drive. The idea of having a sublimely portable storage system that still holds plenty of data and has reduced risk of damage from shocks is an idea whose time has long since come. The only real problem [...]

One of the few problems with external drives is that they often take up a USB port, when they should be giving it back. Okay, so that’s an unreasonable demand–after all, those drives take that port up for a very useful purpose–but it’s not as unreasonable as it once was [...]