Sure SSDs are great, because they’re fast, sturdy, and quiet. But do you ever feel like it’s a little too quiet around your computer? If you find yourself missing the signature ticking sounds that accompany hard drive activity the $25 HDD Clicker is here to help. The HDD Clicker is little bit of retro-inspired fun […]
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Seagate’s future hard drives could be (up to) twice as fast
Solid state drives are faster, quieter, and more durable than hard drives, so it’s no surprise that most laptops and many other PCs ship with SSDs instead of HDDs these days. But hard drives still offer more bang for your buck when it comes to storage capacity, and hard drive makers keep pushing the technology […]
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1 Comment on More details on the demise of WDLabs (hard drives for Raspberry Pi… among other things)
More details on the demise of WDLabs (hard drives for Raspberry Pi… among other things)
1 Comment on More details on the demise of WDLabs (hard drives for Raspberry Pi… among other things)Western Digital is shutting down its WDLabs division, which is responsible for selling hard drive kits intended for use with the Raspberry Pi line of products, as well as other single-board computers. We first reported on the news last month, but WD has yet to release a public statement on the matter. Now our anonymous […]
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WD PiDrive is a 1TB hard drive kit for the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is a tiny, low-power, low-cost computer. But in order to keep the price of the $35 computer low, the developers have left out some key features… like built-in storage. Users need to install an SD card for the operating system and a USB drive if you want additional storage space. Want a […]
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Seagate wants to put 500GB hard drives in Android tablets
Flash memory and solid state drives offer a number of benefits over a traditional hard drive. SSDs and flash memory have no moving parts so they generate less heat, make less noise, and can be much harder to break than a hard drive with spinning platters. In many cases, SSDs are also faster than hard […]
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Seagate drops 7200rpm laptop hard drives to focus on SSD/HDD hybrids
One of the world’s largest producers of hard drives is giving up on 7200rpm hard drives for notebooks. Seagate will end production of 2.5 inch drives which spin at 7200 revolutions per minute. The move isn’t surprising — while 7200rpm disks are faster than the 5400rpm drives that you tend to find in cheaper laptops […]
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Western Digital introduces 5mm thick hybrid hard drives for ultrabooks
One way to keep ultrabooks, tablets, and other portable computers thin is to use tiny solid state disks instead of spinning hard drives. But hard drives are generally cheaper and often come with higher storage capacities. So some companies are looking at another solution: thinner hard drives. Earlier this year Intel suggested that we could […]
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Archos 80 now available with 1.2 GHz CPU, 250GB storage
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 […]
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Toshiba introduces a 1TB 2.5 inch hard drive
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 […]
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Living in the future: The incredible falling prices of computer storage
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 […]