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Plenty of people halted their purchase of a new PC in anticipation of Windows 7.  Microsoft officially launched Windows 7 yesterday, but there may be another reason to hold off on that purchase.  USB 3.0 is just around the corner.  With a theoretical speed of 5Gbps, USB 3.0 will be… Continue Reading »

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 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 »

There hasn’t been a whole lot of improvements in hard drive technology in the past few years aside from increasing capacities.  Sure, there’s the advent of the SSD, but it’s still way too expensive for most people.  For the most part we’ve been using SATA 2 connections with upwards of… Continue Reading »

As you can image, we are prone to hearing about ever single new home media networking hard drive and back-up solution that is released onto the market. But what I saw at Iomega really impressed me (and Doug). The new Home Media Network Hard Drive provides a super easy-to-use network… Continue Reading »

Check out the gallery: Iomega makes home media networking the easiest I have ever seen

Standing by their tag line, Fujitsu will truly “make your data portable” with its new Handy Drive 400, offering 400GB of space for any kind of digital contraption you can throw at it. The drive measures a convenient 3.23 x 5.57 x 0.87-inches and weighs 8.12-ounces. This 4200rpm hard drive… Continue Reading »

Western Digital has released ten new colors of its My Passport Essential portable hard drives. Aside from the traditional black and white, the My Passport Essential is now also available in brilliant orange, super sunny yellow, raindrop blue, arctic white, deep viola, cherry red, ultra mint, real red, intense blue,… Continue Reading »

SentrySafe’s new hard drive is all but your normal USB hard drive which you can directly connect into a PC or laptop’s USB port to get some data storing goodness. It enables users to back up critical data in case of systems crash, computer failure and here’s the clincher, fire… Continue Reading »

Something tells me that we will be seeing a lot of hard drive storage promoted at CES and a lot of it will be small and compact. That means the market will won by a combination of form factor and capacity. Based on that criteria is would be worth putting… Continue Reading »