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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
Origin Data Locker Backs Rugged Looks With AES Hardware Encryption
7:00AM Jack Loftus | The Origin Data Locker: For the paranoid geek who lives with his parents in their fortified underground bunker. More »
Peripherals
Are Apple Time Capsules Short Lived?
4:00AM Jesus Diaz | Apple’s Time Capsule allows you to back up all the computers in your house. But what’s the point of a network backup server that stays alive for only 17 months and 17 days? More »
Peripherals
Quick Test: Seagate’s 1TB Portable FreeAgent Go
1:00AM Wilson Rothman | The season of the 1TB bus-powered USB drive is upon us. WD was first; now Seagate is shipping the FreeAgent Go, a chunky SOB — three platters worth of storage powered and connected by one skinny cable. More »
Hardware
Buffalo’s HD-HU3 Poised To Be The First USB 3.0 Hard Drive
5:20AM Sean Fallon | Buffalo is set to cross the USB 3.0 finish line first with their HD-HU3 hard drive. They also plan on offering NEC’s IFC-PCIE2U3 2-port PCI Expressx1 host controller with the drive so you can, you know, use it. More »
Peripherals
2:40AM Jesus Diaz | I like the new LaCie Starck drives. I look at that all that melty chrome and all I want is to dunk a toast in it and eat. It’s hard to find a storage that you actually want to lick. More »
The Silver Surfer Probably Uses LaCie Starck Drives
2:40AM Jesus Diaz | I like the new LaCie Starck drives. I look at that all that melty chrome and all I want is to dunk a toast in it and eat. It’s hard to find a storage that you actually want to lick. More »
Peripherals
WD Puts E-Labels On My Book Elite/Studio, Passport Elite Gets Dock
11:00PM Wilson Rothman | Hard drives have become so generic and commoditised, manufacturers are always trying to draw attention to their products in new ways. WD’s My Book desktop drives now get an ebook-like screen, while the portable My Passport Elite gets a dock. More »
Peripherals
Another Modder Desecrates Fond Nintendo Memory From My Youth
3:00AM Jack Loftus | Like I’ve said here before, when a modder takes a perfectly perfect piece of Nintendo lore and makes a hard drive out of it, or turns a classic item from gaming history and begets a USB drive, I weep. More »
Computers
12:18PM Chris Oaten | NETGEAR, purveryors of quality Network Attached Storage devices, has announced NETGEAR Stora for the Australian market. Setting it apart from other NAS products is it has been designed to not only make home media sharing a snap but to send your fun stuff over the web, too. But you’ll have to wait a few weeks to get your paws on it. More »
NETGEAR Pimps Stora NAS With Easy Web Sharing
12:18PM Chris Oaten | NETGEAR, purveryors of quality Network Attached Storage devices, has announced NETGEAR Stora for the Australian market. Setting it apart from other NAS products is it has been designed to not only make home media sharing a snap but to send your fun stuff over the web, too. But you’ll have to wait a few weeks to get your paws on it. More »
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