Up for review today I have another UBS 3.0 hard drive dock from Liztek called the HDDT1BSB which is a top loading dock which is very similar to many on the market today. I’ve tested it with the same drives…
Up for review today I have a hard drive dock from a company called Liztek that doesn’t really have a name just the HDDS1BS. The dock is equipped with USB 3.0 and it’s vertical loading, you just slide the drive…
I need one or two or maybe three of these drives for my surveillance systems. WD has just announced the WD Purple hard drive line specifically made for surveillance uses that are optimized for HD video playback and 24/7 usage.…
This is unexpected but welcome I would think, Seagate Technology today took the wraps off its new Seagate® NAS HDD—a cutting-edge drive custom-built for always-on, one- to five-bay network attached storage (NAS) systems. Engineered with performance and reliability in mind,…
Not to be outdone after the announcement this morning by Seagate, Western Digital just announced their own very thin drive, this one is the WD Blue which is only 7mm thick but what’s special is it’s the only 1TB drive…
Can you ever have enough storage? I know I don’t seem to have enough, at least I don’t have enough large capacity drives like two or three terabyte in size. Seagate has just announced a 4tb hard drive which features…
The new Toshiba Canvio Basics 3.0 2TB is $190, but it has UBS 3.0! The Special Edition version is $220 but it comes with NTI Backup software which would normally cost $30 for the download version. Hmm, personally I’d get…
Hmm.. I think I need one of two of these.. would make for a great backup drive or since it has the SATA 6 interface, it would make for a fine second drive. Right now I run an SSD as…
Haven’t hybrid drives been around for awhile now? It seems Toshiba is finally catching up as they’ve just announced their first hybrid hard drive that combines mechanical platters with nand flash memory. It’s basically a hard drive with a small…
One of the fastest hard drive on the market has just gotten an upgrade, yes it’s now available in 1TB capacities. The drive is 2.5” in size and runs at 10,000 RPM with an SATA 6 interface for maximum transfer…
As SSDs (solid state drive) continue to drop in price there are more and more platter hard drives become displaced; especially if the drive came from a laptop. One way to keep these drives functional and useful is by placing…
It looks like Seagate’s hard drive business got a little bigger with the acquisition of Samsung’s HDD division. There aren’t many hard drive companies left really are there? That can’t be good for competition can it? Seriously though, think about…
It seems like just last week that we were hearing about 3TB hard drives and now we’ve got 4TB ones. I’ve got the Seagate 2TB and 3TB drives and they’re not even close to being full, still though I guess…
