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LaCie’s Rikiki hard drive is tiny but spacious
Making something small shouldn’t affect its capacity, especially if it is a hard drive. With ever shrinking gizmos making it to the market we can expect to see a lot of surprises in store. Let’s take the Rikiki hard drive from LaCie as a case study. It’s really small (yes, smaller than that ghastly monkey).…
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Seagate Momentus the world’s thinnest hard drive
Seagate has announced the Momentus Thin drive which is the world’s thinnest 2.5-inch hard disk drive. To be made available in 160 and 250GB capacities it packs in 8MB of cache and is just 7mm in height – 25 percent slimmer than traditional 9.5mm 2.5-inch laptop hard drives. It spins at 5400RPM and offers a…
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Here’s what you can do with screwed up hard drives
There are scores of things you can do when computer parts go bad. One of them being, getting them repaired (for crying out loud!). If that doesn’t work then you always have the good old smash and build technique, or, in this case, open it up. Get creative. Just like this dude, Miguel Rivera by…
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Imation brings forth the world’s first wireless USB external hard drive
Here’s one of those firsts that we see when you turn back the pages of tech history or attend a quiz competition at a gizmo fair. Imation have begun shipping the world’s first wireless USB external hard drive. Called the Pro WX drive, this drive provides with good data transfer speed, high capacity of storage…
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Brinell Purestorage: As classy as external hard drives can get
German manufacturers Brinell have brought forth their absolutely elegant external hard drives. After being driven away from the ugliness of those extremely wired up hard drives that had some over performing specs to go with them, we finally have something that’s worth a look. The Purestorage line of hard drives has some really catchy designs…
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Freecom 2TB USB 3.0 external hard drive
Its been sometime since the USB 3.0 technology got the seal of approval. And here’s the world’s first external drive powered by USB 3.0 technology. The Freecom external drive comes in capacities of up to 2TB and boast of speedier data transfer rate of 130 MB/s.
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Pimp my Drive promotion from Seagate
How many things can you pimp? Well nowadays, it is almost anything and everything. Starting today, Seagate has entered the world of pimping by launching the Pimp my Drive promotion. Seagate has partnered with MusicSkins to offer a variety of vinyl skins that can be used to dress up your hard drive just like how…
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Verbatims’s InSight is a portable USB hard drive
Verbatim’s latest addition to its family of mass storage is the Verbatim InSight portable USB hard drive. This hard drive has a revolutionary design making it look totally out of this world. It has a sleek body with a premium piano black finish. It has a unique feature which I find very useful, the Always…
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Hitachi ships the world’s first 7200 rpm 2 TB hard drives called GST Deskstar
What if we thought that the Western Digital Caviar Green was the end of world of hard disks? We still have hope. Hitachi brings for the very awesome 2 TB drive of its own that is the only one in the universe that rotates at 7200 rpm that too with pin drop silence. We can…
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Samsung launches tacky colored Mini S2 portable HDD
Looks like pink is the color for Samsung because the company has launched two new eye-catching colors for its Mini S2 portable HDD series. Joining the Snow White will be Ocean blue and Sweet Pink. All other options appear to remain the same with capacity options ranging from 160GB till a massive 500GB. It will…
