When shopping for a new computer, you’re faced with a choice: go with a traditional hard drive (HDD) or a solid state drive (SSD). The benefits of an SSD are numerous, but are they enough to justify the extra expense?
To accurately answer this question, you first need to consider your computing needs. If you’re on…
Samsung releases two versions of a 2 TB SSD to the market.
Love your SSD, but starting to feel like space is becoming a little cramped? Well, check out Samsung's latest product releases: the EVO 850 and 850 PRO. Both models maintain the same 7 mm / 2.5 inch drive size as previous EVO drives.…
One of the biggest concerns when designing data centers is space. Many times when a company is looking into a location for offsite backups, virtual servers, email, etc. prices are largely determined by the amount of storage space they will need. Over the years small business have been looking more and more at the possibility…
Seagate, one of the world’s biggest hard drive providers showcased a number of high end drives it intends to market to laptop manufacturers. Seagate would like to see its third generation hybrid drives in high end laptops in 2013 rather than what used to be standard in mass produced high end laptops their 7200 RPM…
The debate is on! Will Solid State Drives become cheaper than the current mechanical hard drives? Depending on who you talk to that answer is yes, but not initially. Due to the large amount of damage done in Thailand in recent months Mechanical Hard Drive prices have be slowly and steadily rising in price due…
In the past there have been numerous cases on privacy and what the government/court system considers over stepping ones bounds when doing an investigation. Currently there is a case in Colorado Springs in which Ramona Fricosu is accused of a mortgage scam. Law enforcement found a laptop in her home while doing a search which…
There are some new forms of storage on the market. These have been around for several years now so I guess they're not that new...but at this size/speed and availability to consumers, they are completely new! At around $4,500 for a 1 TB PCI-Express card this may not really be in most consumers price range…
Recuva is a file recovery tool that allows you to recover deleted files from hard drives, flash drives, MP3 players, and much more. What is even better is they have a full install version and a portable version. This program is free to download and works on most Windows Operating Systems.
Hardware manufacturer Toshiba has done it again, debuting what is known as a rugged hard drive. This in vehicle type of hard drive is made just especially for storing high capacity for telematics, navigation, and entertainment systems that are found in today’s vehicles.
The hard drives have a single platter design, run…
Toshiba has just released their new portable hard drive lineup that is mainly used for easy to use computer backups. This USB drive weighs in at only 6.3 ounces, and stacks up to be 3.1 inches wide and 4.7 inches long. Five colors and four storage capacities are currently available which include: 500GB, 640GB, 750GB,…
So I'm sure we've all by now heard of the famous solid state drive (SSD), which boasts to outperform traditional hard drives by a whole lot. Well they may do just that in fact, but the high prices of these high performing disks haven't settled very well with consumers, no matter how much better they…
Ryan's post below explains the latest is hard drives. But the one thing you do not want to hear is click, click, click.
What you have to understand is the hard drive is one of the few moving parts in a computer. And any engineer will tell you "moving parts are prone to fail". And when your…