MemoRight Blazing Fast SSD Drive

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May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment

All signs point to the slow demise of traditional magnetic, physically driven hard drives. The reason is that SSDs are incredibly fast, quiet, and power efficient. The only things that are barriers right now are cost and capacity. But the capacities are edging up and the cost is slowly going down. […]

HP MV2020 NAS Appliance

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March 20, 2008 | 3 Comments

The HP MV2020 is a good bet for a NAS box. After our flop with the Linksys NAS200, it’s a nice find. In case you have no context for NAS, let me explain. NAS is network area storage. It gives you a simple way to have storage across the network. […]

Linksys Nas200 Storage Appliance

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March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment

As consumer digital media explodes, we are seeing continued forays into the storage and backup market.  Enter Linksys’ Nas200 storage appliance.  This little nifty box is a pretty nice box that can satisfy basic storage requirements for most people.  Except, well, it’s performance sucks.

PATA SATA SCSI Cantata

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March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

You’ve probably heard some of these acronyms thrown around. Oh, and the IT world seems to run on acronyms. It’s enough to drive anyone crazy. All these acronyms have to do with hard drives. They describe the way that a hard drive connects to your computer’s motherboard. That’s a broad […]

Recovering Laptop Hard Drive Data

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February 5, 2008 | 2 Comments

There are many ways to get data off of a non bootable drive.  One such technique is to utilize Live CD’s that run an operating system independent of the hard drive.  That way you can grab what you need from it and push it over to a network drive.  But, in my mind, an even […]

Samsung 64GB Solid State Drive

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January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment

And now, reviews are starting to come out about laptops utilizing solid state drives. It’s a dream come true. Afterall, hard drives are probably the most unreliable part of a computer because of its moving parts. They are also loud and inefficient. But now solid state drives are starting to make […]

Maxtor Fusion Network Storage

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December 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The explosive nature of digital media has pushed our storage to the limits. As such, we are becoming more and more dependent on safeguarding and sharing this digital content. And hence, the desire to do this blog. When it comes to easily accesssing and sharing content, storage mediums haven’t been very helpful. […]

Iomega Never Down Ships with eSata Drives

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December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Nestled into the behemoth drive package details is a nice, new feature.  Today, Iomega announced that it will start shipping what it calls “Never Down.”

Sentry Safe Fire and Water Proof Hard Drive

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December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Well, I was pleasantly surprised to see a company come up with this kind of idea. Sentry Safe has come up with a fire and water proof housing for the Maxtor One Touch drive. The product is an all in one package. You don’t have to add the Maxtor drive after the […]

Seagate Drive Kills Macbook Data

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November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Retrodata data recovery firm is reporting a critical manufacturing defect in some revisions of Seagate drives that shipped with Macbooks.  The faulty drives were manufactured in China and contain firmware revision 7.01.  You can find the revision under System Profiler > Serial-ATA.  Apple has been contacted and is investigating the issue.  I bet we are […]

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