The Archos 80 G9 is one of the few Android 3.2 tablets available with an 8 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel display. Now it’s also one of the few Android tablets available with a hard drive option. That means you can store a whopping 250GB of music, movies, and other data on the Archos 80 G9 tablet. Archos also recently…

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Sure, solid state disks are all the rage these days. They’re often faster than hard disk drives and because they have no moving parts they’re more durable. But they’re also much more expensive, which is why you don’t see an awful lot of terabyte or larger SSDs. Meanwhile it looks like there’s still room for innovation and growth (or rather,…

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The Lenovo ThinkPad X120e is a business class thin and light laptop with an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display and an AMD E-350 dual core processor. As YouTube user wussyib discovered, it’s also relatively easy to upgrade. It might not be as easy to remove the back panel on the X120e as on the HP Pavilion dm1z (which…

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Hard drives used to be really expensive. Now they’re really cheap. You probably already know that, but Ivan Smith’s web site really hammers the point home by tracking the falling prices of storage from about 1980 through mid-2010. In a nutshell, 30 years ago you would have had to pay about $300,000 for 1 gigabyte of storage. Last summer you…

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That 160GB hard drive in your netbook not doing it for you? No worries, there are plenty of portable hard drives on the market that you can use to expand your storage, or easily backup or copy files from your desktop to take with you on the road. We’ve seen plenty of 500GB and even 1TB models over the past…

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Most netbooks ship with 160GB to 250GB of storage space. Get a pricier, larger laptop and maybe you’ll get a 320GB or 500GB hard drive. But what if you want enough hard disk space to store 120HD videos? Then you might want to look into getting an external hard drive, like say, the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk hard drive, which…

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One of the advantages of using a solid state disk instead of a hard drive is that it lets you build thinner laptops. SSDs don’t need the same kind of cooling as hard drives, and they can generally be thinner as well. But you still get a lot more storage for your buck with hard drives, which come in capacities…

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The Asus Eee PC 1201N is a notebook with a 12.1 inch display, a dual core processor and NVIDIA ION graphics. On the base of the laptop there’s an access panel that you can open by removing a couple of screws to upgrade the RAM. But if you want to perform a more serious upgrade, like say, replacing the hard…

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Looking to replace that “vintage” SATA HDD in your netbook? Why not upgrade to a snazzy new SSD? Imation wants you to, and they’ve got a host of new upgrade kits designed for just that purpose. The kits include either a 64 or 128 gigabyte 2.5″ SSD as well as an external USB enclosure into which you can slide your…

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Toshiba’s latest hard drive is both really big, and really small. On the one hand, it can hold up to 320GB of data, which hardly makes it the highest capacity hard drive for mobile devices. But it’s better than the 160GB and 250GB hard drives that come with most netbooks. But at just 1.8 inches, the 1.8 inch hard drive…

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Almost every netbook on the market today that has a hard drive ships with a 5400rpm HDD. A few have slower 4200rpm hard drives. And a very few have faster 7200rpm disks. Probably the most highly visible netbook to include a 7200rpm hard drive is the HP Mini 5101, because it ships standard with that feature. If you’re willing to…

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When HP launched the Mini 1000 netbook late last year, the company insisted on using a 1.8 inch hard drive instead of one of the 2.5 inch HDD’s more commonly found in laptops. This helps the netbook, which measure just an inch thick, keep its slim profile. But it also meant that the hard drive’s topped out at 60GB and…

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