hard drives

Peripherals

Is There Any Point To The World’s First Wireless USB Drive?

2:10AM Jesus Diaz | I get that it is cool technology, but I don’t get the Imation Pro WX. It’s the world’s first Wireless USB disk drive, sure, but there are already drives that are Wi-Fi enabled. So how is this different? More »
Games

Let’s Count The Ways NES Modders Have Decimated My Fondest Childhood Memories

7:00AM Jack Loftus | So a new, potentially very popular Mario title comes out today. Sweet, sweet nostalgia. To celebrate, let’s revisit all the 2009 NES hacks and mods that have, thus far, utterly destroyed or otherwise corrupted my most cherished memories, shall we? More »
Hardware

Building A NAS? Skip The Performance Drives

5:00AM Chris Jacob | A while ago I was considering putting low-powered 5400rpm drives into a NAS. I was worried about performance, but Tom’s Hardware shows us that drive speed isn’t the bottleneck, and how slower drives can even beat faster ones. More »
Hardware

Intel Promises To Stop Its Firmware Bricking SSDs

11:00AM Rosa Golijan | A few weeks ago, Intel pulled a firmware update the day after it came out because many users running 64-bit Windows 7 found that it bricked their SSDs. Whoops. The good news though is that Intel has acknowledged and replicated the bug, and is working on a fix. The bad news? There’s no timeline for when the fix will come out. [Reg Hardware]
Entertainment

Seagate’s FreeAgent Theatre+ HD Media Player Now Available

11:30AM Nick Broughall | If you were interested in the Seagate FreeAgent Theatre+ HD media player solution, you’ll be happy to know it’s launched in Australia. It’ll set you back $219, although that doesn’t include any hard drive capacity at all. I still think connecting my PS3 to a home network and streaming directly from a NAS or home server is a better option, but maybe that’s just me… [Seagate]
Hardware

The World’s Wittlest 320GB Hard Dwive

12:18AM Mark Wilson | Toshiba has just squeezed 320GB of storage into their 1.8-inch 5400rpm line of SATA drives. (That’s enough to double the storage of the iPod Classic.) Available this December for an undisclosed price. [Toshiba via I4U]
Hardware

Toshy’s New Hard Drives Look Pretty Swish

4:16PM Nick Broughall | I like the design on Toshiba’s new portable hard drives. It may not be revolutionary, but there’s something about the black and red swirl on the 640GB version that makes me think of throat lozenges. Tasty throat lozenges. More »
Computers

Hey Dell: A “Hard Drive For Laptops” Program Doesn’t Work

7:40AM Sean Fallon | So, this guy sends his laptop to Dell for repair and Dell sends him back a hard drive…just a hard drive in a box. So what’s the problem here? More »
Hardware

Fire And Flood Proof ioSafe HDDs Now Available In Australia

2:44PM Nick Broughall | If you’ve ever wanted to set a hard drive on fire, dump it in water and then reef it out to access the data safely, you’ll be happy to know that the ioSafe hard drives are now available in Australia. More »
Peripherals

Brinell Powerstorage HDD Celebrate Steel, Leather, Wood

1:20AM Mark Wilson | In case you’re as sick of plastic as we are, Brinell Powerstorage hard drives combine the best of Asian tech with the best of European craftsmanship. More »