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 […]
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Need a bigger hard drive? How about a 3TB external hard disk?
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 […]
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Hitachi plans to make super-slim hard drives
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 […]
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How to upgrade the Eee PC 1201N hard drive
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, […]
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Imation unveils new 2.5″ SATA SSD upgrade kit
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 […]
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Toshiba introduces 320GB 1.8 inch hard drive
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, […]
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Who knew? Faster hard drive = faster netbook
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 […]
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HP Mini 1000 storage options bumped up to 80GB
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 […]
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Original Acer Aspire One hard drives crash at the sound of Bono’s voice
OK, the headline might be a bit of an exaggeration. But just a bit. While playing U2 songs on your 8.9 inch Acer Aspire One won’t guarantee a hard drive failure, it turns out that some Aspire One owners figured out the hard way that one of the computer’s two speakers is situated just a […]
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Installing a 2.5 inch HDD in a Acer Aspire One A110
2.5 inch hard drives are generally cheaper and often faster than 1.8 inch and smaller hard drives. But as you may have guessed, they’re also larger, which makes them harder to fit into tiny laptops like the Acer Aspire One. But that doesn’t mean you can’t do it if you try. Italian site Netbook News […]