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Seagate Launches Industry’s 2.5-inch 1TB Enterprise Hard Drive

December 13, 2010
Seagate Launches Industry’s 2.5-inch 1TB Enterprise Hard Drive

Seagate’s new Constellation.2 hard drive is the world’s first 2.5-inch enterprise-class HDD to boast 1TB of storage capacity, the HDD maker announced today.
“Data center managers continue to seek out more efficient storage technologies without sacrific…

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Western Digital Infuses Budget Friendly Caviar Blue Line with SATA 6Gbps Interface

December 8, 2010
Western Digital Infuses Budget Friendly Caviar Blue Line with SATA 6Gbps Interface

Western Digital’s Caviar Blue line is the cheapest of all the Caviars (which includes Green and Black label drives), which makes the addition of a SATA 6Gbps interface a groovy addition, even if not fully utilized.
“We’ve added a SATA 6Gbps interface t…

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Seagate Reportedly Balked at Western Digital’s Takeover Talks

December 6, 2010
Seagate Reportedly Balked at Western Digital’s Takeover Talks

In some alternate universe, perhaps Western Digital is able to acquire Seagate and instantly more than double its hard drive sales. But in this one, Seagate ultimately scoffed at WD’s takeover proposal, or so that’s the story “two people with knowledge…

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Playboy Outs 250GB Hard Drive Filled with 56 Years of Vintage Magazines

November 30, 2010
Playboy Outs 250GB Hard Drive Filled with 56 Years of Vintage Magazines

Decide for yourself whether or not to put this one on your holiday wish list, but for those who are interested, and can get away with such a thing with their significant other, Playboy is now selling a 250GB portable hard drive packed with digitally co…

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Back Up Data with this Glorious Delorean HDD

November 26, 2010
Back Up Data with this Glorious Delorean HDD

Tacky, novelty gadgets are something of a guilty pleasure for us, and tacky, novelty gadgets based on films from days gone by hold an even dearer, more secret place in our hearts. Our latest love is this Delorean HDD.

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Great Scott! DeLorean Hard Drive Runs on Electricity, Not Plutonium

November 25, 2010
Great Scott! DeLorean Hard Drive Runs on Electricity, Not Plutonium

Don’t worry about where you’re going to find Plutonium, the DeLorean Time Machine hard drive runs on good old fashioned electrical power, and we’re not talking about lightning bolts either.
Flash Rods came up with the idea and put together what’s essen…

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Larger Capacity Notebooks on the Horizon

November 24, 2010
Larger Capacity Notebooks on the Horizon

Notebooks have some catching up to do with their desktop brethren in the storage department. Hard drive makers are now up to 3TB for single internal drives, and it will likely be a few years before we see the same capacity in mobile PCs, especially as …

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Asus Disk Unlocker Utility Breaks Down 2.2TB HDD Barrier (Sort Of)

November 18, 2010
Asus Disk Unlocker Utility Breaks Down 2.2TB HDD Barrier (Sort Of)

Asus a couple of weeks ago Asus slipped its Disk Unlocker utility under our radar, a piece of software designed to overcome the so-called 2.2TB barrier that, in a nutshell, prevents legacy operating systems from accessing the full storage capacity of h…

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