Hard drive prices are creeping upwards rather rapidly, so if you need storage, it’d be wise to buy now. Big W’s advertising a special on the Seagate 2TB external expansion drive for $88 until tomorrow. A few months ago that might have been unremarkable; now it’s quite cheap. [Big W]
It certainly seems that way, and allegedly Lenovo’s the first company to feel the sting of the Thailand flooding on its ability to source hard drives for build-to-order machines. More »
He’s not as sexy as Ryan Gosling — then again, who is? — but damn it, he’s a hard drive with a mysterious past, a sweet jacket and an awesome soundtrack. More »
With recent floods the price of hard drives is likely to go up, so it might be wise to get your backup and storage deals sorted now. Amazon has Seagate’s 3TB USB 3.0 drive for $US123.95 delivered, which is fair value (although you may need a plug adaptor and/or stepdown transformer as well). [Amazon via OzBargain]
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 »
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 »
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.
