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Solid state drives are an attractive option to people who want a laptop that have no moving parts and/or want better battery life.  Picking a SSD option is usually quite expensive, but Active Media announced its new line of SaberTooth S3 Mini PICe SSDs for Asus Eee PCs with pretty… Continue Reading »

Hard drive speeds can never be too fast.  When you are searching your computer for files or using it to access video, a fast hard drive is invaluable.  Here comes a monster from Seagate - the Seagate Barracuda XT.  2TB of storage, 7200RPM, and the kicker - a 6Gbps SATA… Continue Reading »

The Pogoplug has been loved by several Gadgetell writers from the time we stumbled upon them during CES 2009 and since then they have only gotten better.  Now the latest announcement coming from Pogoplug has them partnering with Seagate. The partnership means that the Pogoplug service is going to soon… Continue Reading »

The Addonics 5-port Hardware Port Multiplier (“HPM”) is here to let you hook up lots of SATA devices to your computer.  There are two versions.  The HPM-XA System Version that fits inside your computer where a PCI slot would be where it gives you 5 internal ports - you hook… Continue Reading »

Grabbing a hard drive for video can be somewhat confusing.  Do you go with a 5400RPM or 7200RPM drive?  Will that hard drive spin be so loud that I’ll have to turn up the volume to 11?  Hitachi is trying to reach that consumer who wants to get hard drives… Continue Reading »

Carrying around your collection of videos, music, photos, and maybe even work documents got even easier today as two 640GB 2.5-inch hard drives were unveiled from Samsung and Western Digital.  Both units spin at 5400RPM and cost $149.99 and claim to be very quiet (Samsung has its “SilentSeek” and “Noiseguard”… Continue Reading »

At IFA 2009, Samsung announced two new external hard drives, the S3 Station and the S2 portable, both of which are external hard drives.  The 3.5-inch S3 Station features 2TB of storage, while the 2.5 inch S2 portable stores 640GB worth of data.  Both of these devices are set to… Continue Reading »

The New York Times offers up the interesting tale of Evernote, the company that offers users an electronic shoebox of sorts to store data in.  The story looks into the company and how its “freemium” concept is about to turn the corner. Evernote offers users, for free, a way to… Continue Reading »

Sure, we have seen those super small USB flash drives from Super Talent before, but in the past they were limited to 16GB in size.  Of course, just like all storage options today, that is bound to grow, and grow it did as the Super Talent Pico USB drive is… Continue Reading »

As HD movies become more abundant and files generally increase in size over time it becomes almost necessary to have ways to transport large files.  Portable external hard drives have been limited to 256GB and 500GB in memory size.  However, Western Digital announced the availability of a 750GB My Passport… Continue Reading »