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Hard Drive Prices Are About to Get Seriously Ugly

Hard Drive Prices Are About to Get Seriously Ugly

Because of the epic flooding in Thailand right now, hard drive shortages are about to hit the US. Some retailers have already begun raising their prices. Continue reading

ITRI and Transcend Create Epic 2TB Thumb Drive

ITRI and Transcend Create Epic 2TB Thumb Drive

ITRI and Transcend have introduced a flash drive that stores an amazing 2 Terabytes of data. Did we mention that this drive is only the width of a penny? Continue reading

Printable Sticker Will Keep Your Hard Drive Safe from the FBI

Printable Sticker Will Keep Your Hard Drive Safe from the FBI

FAT (Free Art & Technology) has designed a sticker that lets you destroy your hard drive data at a moment’s notice. Just don’t forget the drill. Continue reading

WD Unveils Largest SATA Drive in the World

You know what they say, it’s just more to love. WD unveiled their newest Caviar Green SATA Drive which stores 3.0 TB of data, divided into 750 GB platters. An Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) allows users to skirt the 2.5 TB limitations of PC hardware. Nothing like a little technical trickery to get your juices flowing. Believe it or not, 3 TB of storage is completely affordable. WC is offering the Caviar Green for only $239, with a 2.5... Continue reading

Moleskine Notebook Hard Drive Mod

Here’s a nice little mod to start off your snowy morning. Found in the MAKE Flickr pool, Flickr user Shoxcorp snuck a full 3.5-inch hard drive inside a fine-looking moleskine notebook. Who would ever think that your private data is inside a journal? Notebooks? Private? You be the judge. Link

NES External Hard Drive Enclosures

I must admit that most external hard drive enclosures today resemble nothing more than a melted hunk of plastic or metal. Why not get a little creative and rip off Etsy user NES Box. He shoves external hard drives inside of old NES cartridges which give your computer a real retro feel. Need to back up right now? This Super Mario Brothers 3 hard drive can be had for $180 on Etsy and it runs from USB power. Not bad,... Continue reading

Lenovo’s First Shot At Netbooks

Computing isn’t always about raw power and trying to build the best gaming rig out there. Sometimes the simple bare necessities will suffice.  Lenovo’s first netbook, the IdeaPad S10-42312CU, comes with all the bare necessities you’ll ever need to surf the web. Featuring a 10.2-inch 1024×600 widescreen display, an Intel Atom N270 single core processor running at 1.6GHz, GMA 950 integrated graphics and Windows XP Home, this netbook packs quite the punch considering it only weighs 2.65 pounds. This specific... Continue reading

Oops! I Stepped On My Computer!

This computer sure is tiny. Fit-PC Slim is the ultimate mini-rig for anyone who isn’t satisfied with USB drives as a means of transporting data. It’s dimensions are 110 x 100 x 30mm and it packs a mean 500MHz AMD Geode LX800 processor, Ethernet jack, VGA output, WiFi, and a 2.5-inch hard drive option for taking data on the go. Two sizes of memory are available: 256MB or 512MB. Obviously, depending on how much memory and/or hard drive space you... Continue reading

[Re]drive Has A Stupid Name, Great Cause

Saying you’re into saving the Earth is the best way to score pussy nowadays. After all, after Al Gore’s movie and the Prius, every company is looking for a way to market something as “green.” A company called Fabrik will be releasing what is being dubbed the world’s most eco-friendly external hard drive, as if you cared. The SimpleTech [re]drive uses Turbo USB 2.0, which is supposedly hella fast, for reading and writing. The casing is made from bamboo and... Continue reading

Hardbox: Stephen King Novel or SATA Enclosure?

External hard drives never really become a personal affair. For the most part, we buy them to add additional storage to our computers because we just downloaded 100GB of pornography off a Bit Torrent site. Rather than have our OS slow to a crawl and our storage shrink to the size of an appendix, we simply copy all the tits and dicks over and our objective is fulfilled. However, not everyone in this world is a complete slob and I... Continue reading