Hard Drives

Science

How A Laser Could Make Your Hard Drive 1000 Times Faster

5:50AM February 9, 2012 | Jamie Condliffe

The reason people are so pumped about solid-state hard drives right now is because they’re super-speedy. But if you think your SSD is fast, just wait until a new breed of laser-based hard drives comes to market. More »


Computing

LaCie Little Big Disk Review: The Future Is Shockingly Super Fast

11:45AM January 31, 2012 | Sam Biddle

The Little Big Disk is simply the fastest way to back up your data, but it’s also, finally, a delivery on Apple’s promise that Thunderbolt would do crazy things to our tech lives. That promise came true. More »


Computing

Encrypting Your Hard Drive No Longer Works Against US Federal Prosecution

2:00AM January 25, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

Sometimes common “street smarts” fail you. Like when you ask the guy who’s selling you drugs if he’s a cop. Or when you encrypt your hard drive and refuse to unlock it for prosecutors while citing the self-incriminating clause of the Fifth Amendment. More »


Computing

Mushkin’s Speedy New SSD Drives Are At The Top Of My Post-CES Buy List

12:00AM January 13, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

My new years resolution — stop putting up with the interminably slow boot times of my desktop’s conventional hard drive. With these new solid state drives from Mushkin, I may actually keep my resolution past January. More »


Computing

Lunchtime Deal: 2TB Seagate HDD For $65

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12:30PM January 10, 2012 | Nick Broughall

You can never, ever, ever have too much storage. So you should probably jump on this deal from daily deal site OurDeal today. It’s offering a 2TB Seagate external hard drive for $65, down from $159. Given the average cost of hard drives has gone up recently, this is probably as good a bargain as you’re likely to find on storage at the moment… [OurDeal via OzBargain]


Computing

Under The Hood: Seagate Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drive Gets Bigger And Faster

8:30AM November 30, 2011 | Mario Aguilar

Seagate’s newly upgraded Momentus XT drive now sports 750GB of storage and 70 per cent faster performance. The drive claims boot-up and application launch speeds comparable to full SSD’s despite only having 8GB of solid-state storage for only $US245. More »


Computing

Under The Hood: iMac Hard Drive Replacement

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4:30PM November 1, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Hard drives are terribly dull things — until you have to replace them, as our own Elly found out recently. Thankfully, even on heavily sealed systems, hard drive replacement is one of those jobs, like interior painting, that you should always do yourself. More »


News

Here Comes The Great Hard Drive Shortage Of 2011

12:26AM October 24, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Apple, Dell and other hardware manufacturers are bracing this quarter for an expected hard drive shortage after heavy flooding in Thailand has claimed another tech victim at the world’s largest hard drive supplier. More »


Computing

World’s First 2.5-Inch 1TB SSD Needs To Be In Laptop Bellies Now

1:30AM October 21, 2011 | Brent Rose

OCZ’s new Octane series is the first solid state drive to squeeze one full terabyte of storage into a 2.5-inch drive, but the awesome doesn’t stop there. It has read speeds of up to 560MB/s and write speeds of 400MB/s, versus top competitors who are at 500MB/s read and 315MB/s write. More »


Computing

Samsung Announces New Super-Fast Solid State Drives

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2:00PM October 17, 2011 | Alex Kidman

It doesn’t seem like all that long ago that SSDs were insanely expensive and ludicrously small. There’s no word on what Samsung’s newly announced SSD drives will cost, but they’re certainly not small — or slow. More »