WD My DVR Expander Hard Drives Add 60 Hrs of HD Video Recording to TIVO

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Western Digital announced today its latest product called the My DVR Expander designed to expand the recording capacity of DVR systems. The My DVD Expander is verified compatible with TiVo HD and Series3 DVR systems.

The drives are available now at Best Buy or via the TiVo online store. With capacities of 500GB the My DVR Extender can store up to 300 hours of SD programming or 60 hours of HD programming. Read more

Posted on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:11:13 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate Momentus ST9160823ASG 7200.2 160GB SATA Notebook Hard Drive Review

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Today we are looking at the Seagate Momentus 7200.2 160GB notebook hard drive. This drive is as fast as notebook hard drives get right now and has good storage space for your music and files.

Installing the drive into my MacBook was easy and the drive performed very well in benchmarks and real world use. If you want to get more storage space and more performance from your notebook, the Momentus 160GB HDD is a great choice. Read more

Posted on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:53:04 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Iomega Announces New Home Network Hard Drives on the Cheap

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Iomega announced today a new low cost line of home network storage solutions. The new Home Network Hard Drives are available in 320GB, 360GB, and 500GB capacities.

The new network drives are built using 10/100 Ethernet technology and include the Ethernet cable you will need to connect the drive to your home network. All the drives also have an 8MB cache. The big news with these network hard drives is the price. Read more

Posted on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:08:11 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

I-O Data Issues Recall on Some External Hard Drive Power Supplies

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I-O Data in conjunction with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a product recall today on power adapters used with some of their external hard drives. The power adapters can overheat or melt and have the potential to be a burn hazard.

About 740 power adapters are included in the voluntary recall that were imported by I-O Data Device USA Inc. of San Jose California. I-O Data says they have received three reports of these adapters overheating and deforming or melting. Read more

Posted on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:27:37 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

VIZO Uranus URA-350SA eSATA and USB Hard Drive Enclosure Review

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Future Looks reviews the VIZO Uranus URA-350SA eSATA and USB Hard Drive Enclosure.

Quote from the review: "Got a Spare hard drive laying around? No more room in that crammed-full case? Look no further, VIZO has come up with yet another option for those spare hard drives! Read more

Posted on Tue, 7 Aug 2007 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Western Digital 750GB Hard Drive WD7500AAKS Review

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3dGameMan reviews the Western Digital 750GB Hard Drive WD7500AAKS. The WD 750GB HDD starts at $190 on these stores.

Quote from the review: "The Western Digital Caviar SE16 750GB Hard Drive (WD7500AAKS) is one of the largest hard drives currently on the market. Why does anyone need a hard drive this large? Well, if you are asking this question, you probably don't. Read more

Posted on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB External Hard Drive Review

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Today we are having a look at another external hard drive, this time from Seagate. The Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB external hard drive can be connected via USB, FireWire 400 or e-SATA making it very versatile.

The large 750GB storage capacity is also a great way to be able to store more video, music, files or other information. The drive also ships with backup software so you are ready to go right out of the box. Read more

Posted on Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:35:57 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Toshiba USB 2.0 200GB External Hard Drive Review

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Today we are having a look at a 200GB External USB 2.0 drive from Toshiba. The cool part about this drive is that it is very small and completely USB powered. That means no need to carry an AC adapter with you.

The Toshiba drive isn’t the fastest external drive around, but it more than makes up for what it lacks in speed on portability and ease of use. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Jul 2007 09:13:37 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Samsung to Ship Hybrid Hard Drives Next Week

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Samsung's first hybrid hard drives will be available for end-user purchase in a week's time reports PC Magazine.

The Samsung 160GB SATA 2.5-inch MH80 notebook drive showed up on a retailer for $299.

The new hybrid drives contain 256MB of flash memory, which is used as a write cache as part of Microsoft's ReadyDrive functionality in Windows Vista. Read more

Posted on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Western Digital Raptor X 150GB Hard Drive Review

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3DGameman reviews the Western Digital Raptor X 150GB Hard Drive.

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"The Western Digital Raptor X 150GB Hard Drive performs very well in a single drive configuration, but even better in a RAID0 configuration. This is really no surprise to me because I've own all the Western Digital Raptor series drives and they were stable, reliable and fast. None of these drives have ever failed. Read more

Posted on Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB External Hard Drive

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Everything USB reviews the Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB External Hard Drive.

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"Backups can be such a chore. For the novice computer user, they're a maze of which folders and backup schemes to pick from. For geeks, they can be slow, inefficient, and sometimes even have the nerve to rely on our memory to press a button! Read more

Posted on Mon, 21 May 2007 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Samsung R55 Lappy Launched with Hybrid Hard Drive

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Samsung has launched their new R55 notebook computer that sports their new hybrid HDD technology to speed data access. With an MSRP of a bit over $1900 it is certainly not cheap. Other features include a 15.4” WXGA LCD, 80GB Hybrid HDD at 5400 RPM with 256Mb OneNAND Flash, NVIDIA GeForce 7400 graphics, Vista Premium and a super multi DL optical drive.

Samsung claims that the hybrid HDD can increase data read performance by as much as 26%, 71% on data write speed and 32% lower power consumption when used with small data chucks of up to 10MB. Read more

Posted on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:42:43 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Vizo Voyager Dual Fan 3.5” Hard Drive (HD) Cooler Review

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TechwareLabs reviews the Vizo Voyager Dual Fan 3.5” Hard Drive (HD) Cooler.

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" Vizo recently sent us the Voyager dual fan 3.5" hard drive (HD) cooler for review. Vizo, based in Taiwan is a manufacturer of computer peripherals with unique designs and has many products focused on the DIY crowd. The Voyager as mentioned earlier is a hard drive cooler. Of the many ways to cool your hard drive the most is to increase the air flow through the case and over the hard drive in particular. Heat is the number 1 killer of hard drives and our philosophy is to spend a few dollars now and save the cost of replacing your drive and data later. Read more

Posted on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

OWC 160GB Mercury On-The-Go Portable Hard Drive

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Other World Computing (OWC) introduces the OWC 160GB Mercury On-The-Go portable hard drive.

This portable HDD is equipped with FireWire 800/400, USB interfaces and a 2.5 inch 160GB HDD with 7200RPM. The OWC 160GB Mercury On-The-Go is bus powered and very compact.
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Posted on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Western Digital Launches New Line of AV Hard Drives

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Today Western Digital (WD) announced a new line of Hard Disk Drives (HDD) for the audio and video markets. AV use is one of the fastest growing sectors of hard drive use. This makes sense if you consider how many people are currently using DVR and Tivo devices that rely on HDD internally to store video.

The new WD line was built around durability more than size increases or even new speeds. In addition to being built for optimal durability the new drives are also made to be quiet and cool as well. Anyone who has used a DVR inside a closed entertainment center can tell you how much heat they put out. One of my biggest issues with my SuddenLink DVR is the noise the HDD makes as it seeks and writes data. It is quite bothersome during quiet movie moments or when you are trying to sleep or read and the DVR is recording. Read more

Posted on Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

GW2.5HD-U2 USB 2.5 inch HDD Enclosure looks like Hard Drive

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Japanese KUROUTOSHIKOU brand offers a USB HDD enclosure for 2.5 inch Hard Disks that look has the shape and look of an actual Hard Disks.

This is very cool idea. It is the perfect portable HDD enclosure for geeks.

The GW2.5HD-U2 takes 2.5 inch IDE drives and supports USB 2.0. The unique enclosure measures 84×134×12mm.
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Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:41:53 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Maxtor Shared Storage II 1TB External Hard Drive Review

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If you are looking for an easy way to backup both Mac’s and PCs on the same network Maxtor has a great solution called the Maxtor Shared Storage II External hard drive that has a whopping 1TB storage capacity.

The Maxtor Shared Storage II External hard drive connects directly to your network and configures itself so any PC on the network can backup to the drive via a user account. You can also stream media from the Maxtor Shared Storage II External hard drive with a special adapter. Read more

Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:56:41 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Seagate 500GB eSATA External Hard Drive Review

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External hard drives are great for portable storage needs, but often you have to trade speed for that portability. Seagate has an external drive that is as close as you will get to internal drive speeds that uses the eSATA interface.

The subject of this review is the Seagate eSATA 500GB External Hard Drive. Seagate includes a PCI eSATA card for users who don’t have an on-board eSATA part and the required cable. Read more

Posted on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:31:43 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Get Those Eyes A-Poppin' -- Terabyte Hard Drive Coming Soon?

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Although there are various storage devices that can hold up to one terabyte of data, we've yet to see them be packaged in the same way as a normal, lightweight hard drive that can be easily installed onto Joe Schmo's computer. However, Hitachi is now saying that this kind of hard drive could be coming soon...by the end of the year, in fact.

Hitachi says they want it to be a product that people will be able to use for personal and home networking needs. May I just say, out of redundancy, that that is a lot of space. It's a thousand gigabytes (though I prefer to see it as a million megabytes). Read more

Posted on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB Hard Drive Review

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The Tech Report published a detailed review of the new Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 with perpendicular recording technology. Seagate introduced the 750GB 7200.10 in April.

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"Perpendicular recording does wonders for storage capacity, and thanks to denser platters, it can also improve drive performance. Couple those benefits with support for 300 MB/s Serial ATA transfer rates, Native Command Queuing, and up to 16 MB of cache, and the Barracuda 7200.10 starts to look pretty appealing. Throw in an industry-leading five year warranty and a cost per gigabyte that's competitive with 500 GB drives, and you may quickly find yourself scrambling to justify a need for 750 GB of storage capacity.

Is Seagate's Barracuda 7200.10 as good as it sounds? And what's the deal with perpendicular recording technology, anyway? "
Read the full review. Read more

Posted on Tue, 30 May 2006 01:52:36 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Datel XBox 360 4GB Portable Hard Drive

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Datel made big waves with their hard-drive for the Sony PSP. Now they offer a portable hard-drive for the Microsoft Xbox 360.

The Datel Xbox 360 4GB Portable Hard Drive connects via USB 2.0 to the Microsoft Xbox 360. It features a green glowing power Xbox 360 button on the case.

The original 20GB Xbox 360 Hard-drive can also be called portable. Additionally any USB external hard-drive actually can be connected to the Xbox 360. See this report on LLamma explaining the details. Read more

Posted on Thu, 2 Feb 2006 03:18:25 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr