Full FeedHitachi rolls out new CinemaStar hard drives for HD video
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 »
Both Samsung and Western Digital unveil 640GB laptop hard drives
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 »
Seagate teams with AMD to show off SATA 3
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 »
Crowded HDD market inspires forward thinking quad interface from Verbatim
Verbatim announced their new 500GB and 1 TB hard disk drive aimed at those of us with large libraries of photos and music. The new units feature 4 different interface options: “USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and eSATA II (external Serial ATA II)” for Mac and PC. This means… Continue Reading »
A good old fashioned way to keep your files safe
Removable hard drives are great, allowing you to take loads of files from one place to another, easily and efficiently with a reduced chance of you losing anything. However they do have a few flaws: they are easily stolen, and easily hacked. So, what can a manufacturer do? Well they… Continue Reading »
SanDisk’s 16GB SSD answers the need of netbooks
With consumer’s growing interests in the so called ultra-low cost PC (ULPC) market, it seems only logical for data storage companies to take advantage of the situation and come up with something that is very essential for most ULPCs available on the market today. We’re talking about solid state drives… Continue Reading »
New Fujitsu Handy Drive offers nearly half-terabyte of space
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 »
Class action settlement could have Creative paying for exaggerated HDD player capacities
Let me get this straight. Creative is getting sued for supposedly lying about the true capacities of their HDD-based MP3 players, and as punishment they are going to reward customers who bought such products made between May 5, 2001 and April 30, 2008 with either a 50% discount on a… Continue Reading »
Sony unveils BDZ-A70, BDZ-T70 Blu-ray recorders
Sony Japan has introduced two new Blu-ray recorders, the Sony BDZ-A70 and BDZ-T90. You got to give it to Sony for coming out with something new for every consumer product that they release. In the case of these two Blu-ray recorders, Sony has made their hard-drives compatible with Sony’s own… Continue Reading »
Transcend releases the rugged, shock-resistant StoreJet 25 portable hard drive
Transcend has added a new portable hard drive in its arsenal of data storage products – the shock resistant StoreJet 25 mobile. For a hard drive to be called portable, it must not only be small in size but light weight, high capacity and well protected. This is exemplified by… Continue Reading »
Experience what it’s like to download at unlimited speeds from a massive collection of over 800 Terabytes of user uploads. You’ll max out your Internet connection downloading a file in… Continue Reading »
Palm Pre Information & Updates
Palm just introduced their next-gen smartphone, the Palm Pre, and next-gen operating system, Palm webOS. Gadgetell's got the latest Pre and webOS information and news for you right here.
