Storage
Computers
Seagate Unleashes Trio of Solid State Drives 600, 600 Pro and 1200
Seagate has finally taken the plunge into speedy Solid State country. After waiting and lurking in the background for several years, the company kicks things into high gear with a small hit-squad of SSD options aimed at various...
Computers
HGST Travelstar 2.5-Inch 1TB 7200RPM 32MB Cache Hard Drive Review
Ever wonder what happened to computer storage company Hitachi? Those of you with better things to do than keep your antennae tuned to this sort of thing may not know Hitachi was absorbed into Western Digital. In fact we’r...
Computer Accessory Reviews
Lenovo IdeaCentre Q190 Mini PC Review
Computer processing chip maker AMD is making some well-deserved strides with their new APU (accelerated processing unit). We’re seeing more companies adopt the chip and incorporate it into mini PC’s for consumer l...
Computers
Western Digital WD Black 4TB Internal SATA 6gb/s Hard Drive Review
To have a current generation solid state drive as your main system storage solution is a thing of beauty. They are fast beyond belief and make system startup and loading programs peppier than ever. But there is a trade off. Sol...
Accessory Reviews
Seagate Wireless Plus 1TB Mobile Storage Drive Review
Working and playing on the go, over competent mobile devices is real fun stuff-until you hit the ceiling for your storage capacity. When purchasing phones, tablets and laptops we try to aim as high as our wallets will fire. But...
Accessories
D-Link SharePort Go II Pocket Router
Is that a router in your pocket, or are you just happy to see us? Oh, pardon my indiscretion! It is a router in your pocket, Mr. D-Link. That’s right, network chief D-Link launches the SharePort Go II pocket router/hotspo...
Computers
Kingston DataTraveler HyperX Predator “World’s Largest” Flash Drive (video)
CES 2013, Kingston, the monarch of storage solutions, announced the “World’s Largest Capacity USB 3.0 Flash Drive.” This is a point of personal and professional interest here. I’m skipping over to Window...
Accessories
CES 2013 Seagate Storage Solutions Announced
The simplest things don’t often come simply. Take a system backup. It’s a simple task that can save a world of headaches. Pushing myself to do one was like ice skating uphill, until I reviewed the Seagate Back Plus ...
Computers
OCZ Technology Takes “Control” With New Vector Series SATA III SSD Line
I would argue that the solid state game would not be where it is today if not for OCZ Technology. The company has made incredible leaps and bounds with solid state drive tech. To get here OCZ has kicked out more drives than an ...
Computers
Mushkin Announce World’s First 480GB mSATA SSD
It’s interesting how a company as accomplished as Mushkin can fly so stealthily under the radar of many of the most hard-nosed storage sleuths. But it’s true when you ask many people about their go-to company for so...
Apple
Nifty MiniDrive: Hot Swappable Macbook Air Flash Storage
My Macbook Air’s hard drive capacity, or to be more technical SSD capacity is sorely limited. Limited to a paltry 128GB of storage, it means I’m always chasing my tail, deleting photos, movies, and other needless i...
Holiday Gift Guides
2012 Holiday Gift Guide: SSDs and External Hard Drives
After spending most of my life with solid disk drives, I’ve discovered two extremely important things: first, hard disk drives are terrible. They break too easily, they don’t last long, and once they’re broken...