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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The number of top tier hard drive and solid state disk makers shrinks by one today, with the announcement that Western Digital is acquiring Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. The deal is worth about $4.3 billion, and it gives Hitachi Storage’s parent company (Hitachi Ltd) a share in Western Digital and two seats on the company’s boards. What does this mean…

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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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[/caption] All of the information I’ve seen about the new Acer Aspire One netbook with a 10 inch screen has indicated that the laptop will have a 160GB hard drive and run Windows XP. And according to ZDNet, that’s true of the first generation models that should be hitting the shelves in mid-February. But the Acer reportedly plans to offer…

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If you thought adding a Bluetooth module to the Acer Aspire One was cool, how about practically squaring the amount of storage available? Tnkgirl is back with part two in her Aspire One hacking series, and this time she’s replaced the solid state disk with a 60GB hard drive. But wait, you might be asking, aren’t SSDs sturdier and faster…

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The folks at Laptop Magazine decided to take their Eee PC 1000H, rip out the hard drive, and install a solid state disk to see what impact the change has on performance. But wait, isn’t the Eee PC 1000H basically identical to the Eee PC 1000, but with an 80GB hard drive instead of a 40GB SSD? Why not just…

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Ever since Asus decided to slap 4GB of solid state memory in the original Eee PC, mobile computer makers have been struggling with a choice: hard disk drive (HDD) or solid state disk (SSD)?On the one hand, the good old HDD has been around for ages and allows PC makers to offer large amounts of storage at a relatively low…

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