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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes complex problems can be solved with simple solutions. Take massively increasing the current storage capacity of magnetic hard drives. Turns out you just need to add a bit of sodium chloride to your lithography process and voilà — you can now fit 3.3TB per square inch, instead of the regular 0.5TB of today’s latest drives.
