Hard Drives

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    WD’s HGST Lifts Curtain on 1.5TB Laptop Hard Disk

    Western Digital subsidiary HGST this week unveiled a 1.5TB hard disk drive (HDD) for laptop PCs, which it is touting as offering the “highest storage density of any HDD today.” The...

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    Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB Review

    he Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB is the fastest internal solid-state drive we’ve tested, and comes with a 5-year-warranty. (4 out of 5) Editor’s Choice Pros Best SSD performance we’ve seen...

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    SSD vs HDD: What’s the Difference?

    Until recently, PC buyers had very little choice for what kind of file storage they got with their laptop or desktop. If you bought a netbook or ultraportable, you likely had...

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    Western Digital My Passport Ultra (1TB) Review

    The Western Digital My Passport Ultra packs a 1TB USB 3.0 hard drive into a small and light package. (4 out of 5) Between built-in Wi-Fi and SSD caches, external hard...

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    WD My Passport Ultra Portable Hard Drive

    Western Digital today announced new USB 3.0 portable hard drives which have built-in WD SmartWare Pro backup software with Dropbox integration, hardware encryption and password protection to safeguard against unauthorized drive...

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    Seagate Unveils New Solid State Drive Lineup

    Seagate today introduced a new lineup of solid state drives (SSDs), including its first client SSDs and next-generation enterprise drives. The new lineup, built to provide ultra-fast speed and high data...

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    Seagate 600 / Pro and 1200 SSD Drives

    Seagate today announced the 600 SSD, 600 Pro SSD, and the 1200 SSD drives, which are engineered to deliver ultra-fast speed and high data integrity. Rounding out the portfolio, Seagate also...

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    Buffalo DriveStation DDR Review

    The Buffalo DriveStation DDR uses a 1GB RAM cache to make this USB 3.0 hard drive the fastest we’ve tested. (4.5 out of 5) One of the latest advancements in notebook...

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    Corsair Voyager Air Review

    Despite Apple recently adding a 128GB option to the iPad 4, storage space on iOS devices is still a problem for people who love to watch HD movies on the go....

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    Toshiba Canvio Connect Portable Hard Drive

    Toshiba just announced Canvio Connect, a portable external hard drive that offers the ability to access, share and backup files from virtually anywhere. So you can back up videos and photos...

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    LaCie 5big 20TB Review

    The Lacie 5big drive marries five hard disks in a 20TB volume which, thanks to the capabilities of Thunderbolt, work together at wildly fast speeds. In tests with very small files,...

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    Buffalo MiniStation Air Review

    The Buffalo MiniStation Air HDW-PU3 isn’t a unique product – we’ve seen wireless external hard drives such as the Kingston Wi-Drive and Seagate GoFlex Satellite use Wi-Fi connections as a means...

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    WD Ships First 5mm, 2.5-Inch Hard Drive

    Western Digital today began shipping the world’s first ultra-slim hard drive and its solid-state hybrid drive counterpart. The new WD Blue hard drive and WD Black SSHD were designed for integration...

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    G-DRIVE PRO with Thunderbolt Hard Drive

    G-Technology just announced the G-DRIVE PRO with Thunderbolt, a compact, desktop external hard drive that delivers hard drive capacity with SSD-like performance, taking full advantage of the speed and power of...

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    LaCie Blade Runner 4TB Review

    LaCie is known for striking hard drive designs, but the industrial-looking Blade Runner takes our breath away. Its aluminium body is cut away to look like a parallel series of vertically...

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    Samsung 840 Series 250GB Review

    The Samsung 840 Series is an excellent SSD for those on a budget. Early reliability concerns regarding TLC NAND are apparently unwarranted. (4 out of 5) Editor’s Choice Pros Best price...

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    Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 120GB MKNSSDCR120GB-DX Review

    The Mushkin 120GB Chronos Deluxe is another great SSD option for cost-conscious buyers. (3.5 out of 5) Pros Great price/performance ratio Supports SATA 6G Cons Older SF-2281 loses speed in random...

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    OCZ Vector 128GB Review

    Our very own Jeremy Laird has already taken a look at the latest SSD offering from OCZ – the Vector, in its 256GB capacity guise – and found it to be...

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    HP Pocket Playlist Review

    The HP Pocket Playlist is a wireless media drive that can share 32GB of movies, music, and photos with a small group of friends. It’s not bad if all you need...

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    Promise Pegasus J4 2TB RAID Review

    Slightly wider and deeper than a Mac mini, the Promise Pegasus J4 2TB RAID has space for four 2.5-inch drives. Our review unit was fitted with 500GB Toshiba drives, configured as...