hard drives

This 1.5TB Laptop Drive Is The Most Memory-Dense You Can Buy

While SSDs are blisteringly fast, they still can’t offer the capacities that the humble hard disk provides. Especially this one, because with 1.5 TB squeezed into its tiny little frame, it’s the most memory-dense drive you can buy right now.


Your Old Hard Drives Are DIY Candy Floss Machines Just Waiting To Happen

What with cloud storage becoming more and more affordable, chances are you’ve got a stack of old hard drives just laying around somewhere. At least one. You could just throw them away, or leave them to languish, or you could throw caution to the wind and make one into a candy floss machine.


Thanks To HTML5, This Website Can Fill Your Whole Hard Drive With Trash

Sometimes a browser needs to leave a little data on your computer, just a little 5-10KB nibblit, a cookie. HTML5 is a hungrier beast than that which came before it though, and sometimes wants a little more. Maybe 5MB or so. But that’s where it should end. Thanks to a little HTML5 vulnerability, however, this site can and will fill your entire hard drive with trash.


These Rugged Pocket Drives Keep Your Data Locked Up Safe

There are plenty of external drives floating around at CES, but Rocstor offers up a rugged casing and secure encryption in a surprisingly sleek package.


Corsair Voyager Air: Do Anything Anywhere NAS

Corsair, primarily known as a manufacturer for PC memory and power supply, is breaking into new territory with Voyager Air, an all-in-one wireless hard drive that’s just as useful on the road as it is in your living room.


LaCie’s 4TB Blade Runner Hard Drive Looks Like A Renaissance Sculpture

LaCie’s always had a certain flair for external hard drive design, bringing as much style to its hardware as functionality. But the company appears to have just one-upped its past efforts with the stunning Blade Runner that packs four terabytes of storage into an enclosure that looks like it was sculpted by a renaissance master.


LaCie’s 5big Thunderbolt RAID Puts 20 Terabytes On Your Desk

Last year LaCie showed up to the Thunderbolt party with its 2big RAIDs that promised capacities of up to eight terabytes. A number we all foolishly oohed and awed at not realising how pitiful it would sound compared to the company’s new 5big RAID that tops out at 20 terabytes and speeds of up to 785MB/s.


Monster Machines: The Most Expensive Hard Drive Ever

Twenty-two gigabytes seems like a paltry amount of storage by today’s standards, but in the early days of networked computing — when most storage capacities were measured in a lower order of magnitude — IBM’s ultimate DASD offered an unheard of amount of space.


480GB Ultrabook SSDs Will Arrive In 2013

If 256GB just isn’t enough for your ultrabook-toting needs, things are set to change. Mushkin has announced what it claims to be the “world’s first” 480GB mSTATA SSD — and it will be available in January.


At Just 5mm Thick, This Hybrid Drive Is Impossibly Thin

Until SSDs get big and cheap, hybrid disk drives — which combine a traditional high-capacity hard drive with speedy solid state memory — are a great compromise. Particularly now that Singapore’s Data Storage Institute has created a 2.5-inch 1TB hybrid drive that’s just 4.98mm thick.


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