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Hardware
Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 World’s First 2TB, 7200RPM Hard Drive
12:30PM Adrian Covert | SSDs might be catching up to the trusty HDD in capacity, but this first-of-its-kind, 2TB, 7200RPM drive from Hitachi serves as a reminder that for speedy mass storage people can still afford, the old standby still remains king. More »
Gadgets
Brando Tells Apple TV To Suck On This HD Media Player
10:50PM Mark Wilson | Seamless white boxes? Pfft. Brando doesn’t need any of white plastic’s pomp and circumstance. Instead, their Darwinian hard drive dock gets another upgrade. Now it’s an HD media player. More »
Hardware
WD Scorpio Blue Drive Is First 1 Terabyte Mobile Drive Ever
10:05PM Jesus Diaz | I seriously need the new WD Scorpio 1 terabyte drive. I want to be able to tote around all my desktop data, without any external drives hanging around, and $US250 seems like a little price to pay for that. More »
Hardware
LG XF1 500GB Multimedia HDD Comes Complete With HDMI-Out
6:40AM Adrian Covert | The LG XF1 is a 500 GB “Multimedia HDD” that packs a HDMI-out for quick media playback, and has a slick looking design to boot. More »
Gadgets
SATA HDD Multimedia Dock II, Now With HDMI
2:40AM Jesus Diaz | Brando, Brando, oh purveyors off all things plastic and electronic in a myriad forms and shapes. If you didn’t like the Brando SATA drive horizontal dock with HDMI output, now you can have the vertical model. More »
Science
How to Erase Your Data With Thermite
8:47PM Kit Eaton | Over at Hackaday they’ve gone a bit fiery destruction crazy, and posted a guide on how to destroy HDDs with thermite—that’s the super-high temperature chemical mix used in welding, fireworks, and generalized military destruction. The guide shows how a kilo of burning thermite melts clean through a PC case, hard drive platters and all, turning them into pools of melted metal…which may be handy if you, uh, ever need to, um, “destroy” your data in an emergency. Hmmm. Check out the video, which is pyrotechnically cool, then see the hard drives post-incineration. More »
Computers
Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive Matches with Your MacBook Air
8:00PM Gizmodo US Edition | Iomega, maker of many a sexy storage device, has a new eGo out specifically tailored to the MacBook Air set. The 2.5-inch eGo Helium Portable Hard Drive encloses 320GB in anodized aluminium. In case that’s not enough space, the drive can utilise an online backup service for “cloud computing.” The entire package is less than an inch thick, weighs 7 ounces (about 200 grams) and can be dropped from up to 4 feet 3 inches (1.3 metres) onto industrial carpeting without worry. Not that any of you will experiment with that, I hope. More »
Hardware
DroboShare Adds Gigabit Ethernet to Data Robotics’ Lil Server Bot
7:07AM Gizmodo US Edition | We all love the idea behind Drobo, the four-drive storage robot from Data Robotics that promises auto-mounting on both OSX Macs and Windows PCs. It’s a little pricey at $US500, especially since the drives cost extra, but the system just got more powerful: its new shoe fits snugly underneath, providing a gigabit ethernet network connection and support for “all major file systems” (NTFS, HFS+, EXT3, FAT32). And unlike most NAS devices, this one can be connected locally when necessary, then easily reattached to your network. Of course, it will cost an extra $200, but it’ll probably make your initial investment worth more. [Data Robotics] More »
Online
Google Sees the World in an iPod by 2020
2:25AM Mark Wilson | In a recent presentation at the Captains of Industry Conference, Google BP Sukhinder Singh Cassidy wanted to drive home just how much the growth of storage alone has driven innovation. After pointing out that the factor of storage prices had fallen by 3.6 million since 1982, she told the group: if this trend continues, and the cost of storage continues to decrease, we estimate that somewhere around 2020, all the world’s content will fit inside an iPod, and all the world’s music would sit in your palm as early as 2015…rendering the CD format unnecessary. More »
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