hard drives
Entertainment
LaCie LaCinema Classic HD: 1TB Media Player For $299
4:56AM Mark Wilson | LaCie makes design-friendly, premium hard drives. But while it’s no surprise that their LaCinema Classic HD looks this attractive, the $299 price is surprisingly reasonable. More »
Hardware
Buffalo’s USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Arrives In The US
12:42AM Danny Allen | As expected, the DriveStation HD-HXU3 is the first external USB 3.0 drive in the US. It promises transfers up to 4.8Gbps (compared to USB 2.0’s 480Mbps) and Buffalo has a two-port USB 3.0 PCI Express card to get you started. More »
Hardware
3:42AM Mark Wilson | OCZ’s new Colossus drives are among the first SSDs designed for desktops, and they’re the very first to store up to 1TB of data. Oh, and on top of all that, they work pretty well, too. More »
OCZ Colossus 3.5-Inch SSD Reaches 1TB, Super Speeds
3:42AM Mark Wilson | OCZ’s new Colossus drives are among the first SSDs designed for desktops, and they’re the very first to store up to 1TB of data. Oh, and on top of all that, they work pretty well, too. More »
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
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 »
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
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…
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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…
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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
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 »
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 » 
