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by Pedro Hernandez on July 14, 2009 · 0 comments

External hard drives are handy but most lack networking smarts. Hitachi wants to change that amid a flood of new product releases with the company’s clever SimpleTech SimpleNET adapter. Simply plug one or a pair of USB hard drives in…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 13, 2009 · 0 comments

It’s not that you should be swinging your hard disk drives around like some sort of flail or anything but a bit of durability for your portable hard drive is always a plus for those inevitable occasions where you’ll be…

Read more Hitachi GST Makes Storage Tougher, Launches Three Storage Products

by Rafael Hernandez on June 27, 2009 · 0 comments

If you thought that solid state drives were going to replace the platter as your storage method of choice DataSlide wants you to think twice. The company has designed a method whereby the old spinning platter is replaced by a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 16, 2009 · 0 comments

It seems like jumping into a purchase can foil you in ways you never thought possible. It appears that Apple’s new 13″ and 15″ MacBook Pros have an issue where their SATA ports are limited to around about 1.5Gb/s…

Read more Some New Apple Mac Portables Suffer SATA Speed Degradation, SSD Users Saddened

by Pedro Hernandez on June 9, 2009 · 0 comments

Are you finding that 1 TB of external storage is a paltry amount of room for your data? Then Western Digital has you covered with the anything-but-svelte My Book Studio Edition II with up to 4 TB–that’s terabytesof storage. Aimed…

Read more Western Digital Takes My Book External Drive to 4 TB

by Rafael Hernandez on June 6, 2009 · 0 comments

Notebooks had been lagging desktops in storage capacit for quite a while barely storing as much data as the modern road warrior needs in order to get things done. That’s no longer the case as The Tech Report has a…

Read more 500GB 2.5" Hard Drive Roundup, the Tiny Get Bigger

by Rafael Hernandez on May 24, 2009 · 0 comments

Dual use devices are wonderful things as they usually solve two problems at once but the idea of turning your portable hard drive into storage for your massive digital multimedia library is a somewhat strange turn of events.Futurelooks delves into…

Read more Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD, Your Portable Harddrive Is Now A Media Serving Juggernaut

by Rafael Hernandez on May 19, 2009 · 0 comments

Since the advent of external USB storage devices, it’s been extremely easy to add storage to your computer without all of the popping open your case and cramming in the hard drive nonsense.Western Digital’s My Book Essential Edition 1TB USB…

Read more Western Digital My Book Essential Edition 2.0 1TB External USB Hard Drive Review (WD10000H1U-00/10EAVS)

by Rafael Hernandez on May 13, 2009 · 0 comments

There was a time when every single component in a notebook computer was a generation or so behind what could be found on desktop computers, nowadays you’ll find feature parity in almost every category outside of the latest and greatest…

Read more Notebook SSD Upgrades, Are They Viable?

by Rafael Hernandez on May 12, 2009 · 0 comments

Solid state drives are quite speedy at what they do regularly trouncing spindle based hard drives of old quite easily much to the joy of PC enthusiasts everywhere. There are some things that it can’t do however and that is…

Read more Acard ANS-9010 RAMdisk Versus OCZ Vertex 30GB SSD, Plain Not Fair

by Rafael Hernandez on April 22, 2009 · 0 comments

There comes a time when your system, or server’s, on-board storage solutions aren’t cutting it, and if you’re bound by the speed of your storage system that time is very evident once you load up your target applications.PC Perspective has…

Read more PC Perspective On The HighPoint RocketRaid 4310 SAS/SATA RAID Controller