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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 »


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Samsung New Double-Speed SSDs

9:00PM August 17, 2011 | Brent Rose

Sammy just took the lid off of a set of new solid state drives that promise a significant speed boost from their already peppy previous line of SSDs. They look good enough to eat. More »


This Is The Largest SATA Drive In The World

12:21AM October 20, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

It just looks like any other, but this WD Caviar Green is 3TB, using 750GB per platter. At just $US240, it comes just in time to upgrade my backup storage unit. More »


The Infamous Hard Drive Dock, Now Imbued With USB 3.0

3:57AM February 17, 2010 | Mark Wilson

If viruses evolved as quickly as USB hard drive docks, mankind would be but a rotted pile of bones littered with the occasional green bottle of NyQuil. More »


You Will Want The Unitek SATA To USB 3.0 Adaptor One Day

1:50AM December 29, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

This is so cool: Unitek’s new adaptor will connect any spare SATA hard drive to a PC using the 5Gbps USB 3.0 standard. And it only costs $US48. There’s only one little itty bitty problem: More »


OCZ Colossus 3.5-Inch SSD Reaches 1TB, Super Speeds

3:42AM November 24, 2009 | 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 »


MSATA: It’s Like SATA But Smaller

7:00AM September 22, 2009 | Mark Wilson

You’ve heard of SATA. It’s the technology used for the majority of today’s hard drives and people generally like it. But SATA wasn’t designed for tiny portables. That’s why the guys behind SATA are introducing mini-SATA or mSATA for short. More »


Seagate Barracuda XT “World’s Fastest Hard Drive”

11:09PM September 21, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

The SATA 3.0 spec—which doubles transfer speeds from 3Gbps to 6Gbps—was officially released in May, and it looks like Seagate is first out the gate with actual hardware (no surprise), the 2TB Barracuda XT. More »


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Apple Releases Firmware Update To Boost New MacBook Pro SATA Interface Speed

7:57AM June 23, 2009 | Adam Frucci

We reported earlier that it looks like the new MacBook Pros have had their hard drive controllers downgraded. Now, Apple has released a new firmware update to jack those speeds back up. More »


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Did Apple Downgrade The New Macbook Pro’s Hard Drive Controller?

12:00AM June 16, 2009 | John Herrman

Over the weekend, we got a number of reports that Apple appears to have downgraded the SATA controllers in the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros from 3.0-gigabit to 1.5-gigabit units. Going over the evidence, it looks like they were right. More »