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0	Hard Drive-Annihilating Microwave Blasts Your Data With a Single Zap [Video] We already know how the DoD wipes its hard drives. It's effective, but it takes time. This weapons-grade data nuke instantaneously sends your disks back to the Stone Age in a flash with the push of a butt... 0 Published 10 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	LaCie Little Big Disk Lightning Review: The Future Is Shockingly Super Fast [Hard Drives] The Little Big Disk is simply the fastest way to backup your data you've ever used. But it's also, finally, a delivery on Apple's promise that Thunderbolt would do crazy things to our tech lives. That prom... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Solid-state hard drives can save your life, so says this well played OCZ promo Selling hard drives online isn’t the sexiest of ventures, therefore you have to get a little creative in how you grab people’s interest. One site, that appears to be a promo for OCZ SSD’s (solid-state drives), asks you how much time you ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in The Next Web - International technology...: Profile, Details
0	Do Rising Hard Drive Prices Mean You Should Buy a SSD Right Now? [Lifehacker] Prices for hard disk drives are increasing dramatically because of the tragic flooding in Thailand. Some of the world's major HDD manufacturers based there have been forced to close factories, creating su... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Nimec Hit Hard by Thailand Floods; Here Comes the Great Hard Drive Shortage of 2011 [Hard Drives] Apple, Dell and other hardware manufacturers are bracing this quarter for an expected hard drive shortage after heavy flooding in Thailand has claimed another tech victim at the world's largest hard drive... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The World's First 2.5-Inch 1TB SSD Needs to Get In My Laptop's Belly Like Now [Hard Drives] OCZ's new Octane series is the first solid state drive to squeeze one full terabyte of storage into a 2.5-inch drive, but the awesome doesn't stop there. It has read speeds of up to 560MB/s and write spee... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	How to Increase Your Hard Drive Capacity Six-Fold with Table Salt [Storage] Traditional hard drives are hitting a capacity wall—they simply can't physically fit any more data onto their discs. However, a researcher at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IM... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	How Salt Could Multiply Hard Drive Space By Mark Brown, Wired UK Researchers in Singapore have discovered a way to bump up hard disk storage capacity to six times current figures, and all it takes is a pinch of sodium chloride — also known as chemical grade table salt. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Wired Science - News for Your Neurons: Profile, Details
0	A 320 GB Hard Drive's Landing for Xbox 360 [Xbox] If you're running out of room for movies, music, photos, and other things that tend to take up hard drive space in your 360, you might need a bigger hard drive. Hey, here's a brand new 320 GB one. More... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Seagate's New GoFlex Desk Is the First Ever 4TB Hard Drive [Hard Drives] Seagate is still pushing their GoFlex Desk line as hard as they can. After releasing the first 3TB external drive last year, they're raising the bar with their new 4TB beast. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	How to Buy a Hard Drive: An Essential Guide [Guts] Do you need gigabytes or performance? Laptop upgrades or a screaming new gaming PC? We walk you through what you need to know to pick the right storage solution for your PC. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Seagate's New GoFlex Turbo Keeps Your Data in a SafetyNet [Hard Drives] The Seagate GoFlex portable hard drive has the amenities you'd expect for its price range. 500GB. USB 3.0. Support for FireWire and eSATA. But what makes it stand out is that it offers full data recovery ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Apple Offers iMac Replacement Program for 1TB Seagate Hard Drive Failures [Blip] Heads up: Apple has officially acknowledged a 1TB Seagate hard drive failure issue affecting iMacs sold between May and June 2011. Hard drive replacement is free, so just click the source link for all the info. [Apple] More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Every Hard Drive Should Be As Minimal As LaCie's Porsche Drives [Gear] A weird quirk of LaCie drives: The desktop models feel like cheap crap, from the materials to the electronics (I'm particularly thinking of Neil Poulton's drive), but their portable drives are solid. This... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	A HDD-Powered Tablet Sounds Like a Very Bad Idea [Hard Drives] The world's first 2.5-inch HDD intended for tablets (but also available as a standalone device) has one thing going for it: It allows Archos to release two new G9 tablets that'll each have 250GB of storag... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Hitachi G-Connect: A Wireless Hard Drive and Router for Your iPhone and iPad [Hard Drives] Like the Seagate GoFlex Satellite hard drive before it, Hitachi's G-Connect can act as expandable wireless storage for your mobile device. It can store 500 gigs and even has an ethernet port to turn itsel... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Protect Your External Hard Drive from Lizards and Dirt and Destruction [Hard Drives] External hard drives are wonderful for all our gigabytes of tasteful porn and legally downloaded media, but what happens when you drop one? Your data might die. You spent a long time hoarding that stuff! ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Samsung's 1TB Drive is the First 9mm For Ultraportable Laptops [Memory] But as one of our interns put it, "what kind of jerk would put a HDD in an ultraportable though?" That pair of 500GB platters will be a nice upgrade though, if you fork out $129 for it. [Engadget] More... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Secret Lives of Hard Drives [Video] I'm going to go ahead and guess that the computer component you take most for granted is your HDD. No longer! Bill the Engineer Guy—our favorite uncreepy uncle geek since Bill Nye—unfolds its... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	How to Enable TRIM on Your Mac's Solid-State Drive [How To] Enabling TRIM is one of the best ways to maximize the life of your solid-state drive, but OS X doesn't support it out-of-the-box. Here's an easy way to get better performance and longevity out of your Mac... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Seagate's New Hard Drive Transfers Media To and From Your iPhone, Android or Tablet Over Wi-Fi [Memory] It must be scary, offering traditional storage in these cloud-based times. Seagate's obviously thought long and hard over this one, and whacked Wi-Fi into their new GoFlex 500GB drive, so you can store/dr... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Navy SEALs' Booty Was Yesterday's Biggest Victory [Terrorism] The most important achievement of yesterday's operation wasn't killing Osama. It was the US Navy SEALs' booty: dozens of computers, memory sticks and disks loaded with information that might just crush al... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Depleted Uranium Could Be Used to Create MASSIVE Hard Drives [Genius] Uranium that's been depleted isn't necessarily waste, according to researchers at Nottingham University who think it could be used as the basis for future hard drives thousands of times larger than curren... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	How to Dismantle and Destroy a Hard Drive [Security] There are many reasons you might want to physically destroy a hard drive rather than use disk wiping software: higher confidence that the data is destroyed, a recourse if your drive has failed and no long... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Intel SSDs Will, In Fact, Get Smaller and Faster This Year [Guts] The roadmap for this year's Intel SSDs has been exposed, and some will use a manufacturing technology as small as 25nm MLC and 34nm SLC, meaning more efficient drives in bigger capacities or smaller form ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Is SSD Worth It? Performance Tests with MacBook Pro [Hard Drives] Solid State Drives cost more per gigabyte than standard hard drives but promise better performance, durability, and more. Just how much more? Macworld tested a couple of MacBook Pros (one with typical HDD... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Spring Cleaning for Your Computer: Evacuate PC Dust Bunnies [Spring Cleaning] If your PC's been humming along under your desk for more than a year or two, I've got news for you: Chances are inside that case, half a dozen dust bunnies are dancing around your hard drive, leeching on... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Seagate Chalks Up Thinnest External Hard Drive Yet [Now Shipping] Okay, so the previous record-holder in the world's thinnest hard drive category was only 1mm fatter, but still! Records! The Seagate GoFlex Slim portable hard drive—first debuted at CES this January... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	WD My Book Studio Edition II Goes To a Whopping 6TB Now [Blip] Western Digital's My Book Studio Edition II was already at the top of the leader board, with four interfaces (FireWire 800/400, eSATA, USB 2.0) and 4TB of storage. But now that the external hard drive com... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Design From the Ground Up These $480 Transparent Hard Drives [Storage] I hadn't realized before just how much design work can go into building an external hard drive. Granted, these are $480 drives, so definitely a step or two above the Western Digital littering your desk. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Samsung Breakthrough Means Giganto Hard Drives on the Way [Guts] Samsung's got good news for you digital hoarders—they've hit the 1TB mark in platter density—meaning they can cram more information than ever into the metal discs that're stacked together to make a hard drive. This means 4TB (!!... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Learn the Sounds of a Failing Hard Drive to Avoid Lost Data [Troubleshooting] Most hard drives make certain sounds when they start failing, but every drive and brand of drive is different. Data recovery company Data Cent has put together a database of sounds that let you know what'... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	A Cacophony of Failing Hard Drives [Hard Drives] Lovers of failure, train your ears on this fine list of failing hard drive sounds that Boing Boing discovered this weekend. Hard drive lovers, perhaps you should just move along. [Data Cent via Boing Boin... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Skip the "Green" Hard Drives If You're Trying to Save Power [Hard Drives] There are a lot of "green" hard drives out there, which claim to be low-power, low-noise, low-heat, and low-cost. Sadly, they don't save quite as much power as they claim, and here's why. More &ra... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Free Up Hard Drive Space by Changing the Location of iTunes Backups [ITunes Tips] If you've noticed some extra bulk on your hard drive since purchasing an iOS device, you're not alone. iTunes backups can suck up a significant amount of hard drive space; liberate your primary drive by m... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This Delorean Backs Up Your Computer at 88 MPH [Storage] This 500 gigabyte Back To The Future Hard Drive is already geekbait on its own, with its 1:18 scale stylings and all. But the thought of combining it with this could potentially cause a spontaneous nerdga... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Designer Hard Drive From LaCie and Philippe Starck Goes USB 3.0 [Hard Drives] Cramming 500GB of storage into that molten silver casing, LaCie's design partnership with Philippe Starck has gone USB 3.0 for faster data transfers—though of course it also works with USB 2.0 ports... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Gb4less Finds the Lowest Per-Gigabyte Storage and Memory Deals [Deals] If you've just found your backup religion, or you're always in need of ever more storage, gb4less is an interesting place to start looking. The shopping filter finds the best dollar-per-gigabyte deals on ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The First 1.5TB Portable External Hard Drive Is USB 3.0 and From Seagate [Hard Drives] SSDs might be the storage du jour for their speed, but there's still no beating regular-ass hard drives for their price to capacity ratio. And now, the first 1.5TB portable hard drive, from Seagate. Mo... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Are Solid-State Drives Worth the Money? [Ask Lifehacker] Dear Lifehacker,I'm considering ordering a MacBook Pro with a solid-state drive. Is it really worth it to dish out the extra few hundred bucks for one? More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Hitachi LifeStudio Coats External Storage In Bells and Whistles and Hulu [Storage] You've got to hand it to Hitachi: it's not easy to muster mass enthusiasm for external storage. So the LifeStudio hard drive line takes a new tack: piling on features until it doesn't feel like a hard dri... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The World's First 3TB External Hard Drive, From Seagate [Hard Drive] This Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk sounds like an exercise commandment for your desk, but it's the world's first 3TB external hard drive. Best news: It has USB 3.0 and FireWire 800 (along with USB 2.0). ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Skin Your Hard Drive, So You Can Pick It Out of a Lineup [Hard Drives] No one ever accused external storage of being titillating. But Iomega's Skin line of portable hard drives is trying to bring sexy back to where it never was in the first place. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Seagate Dishes Out Momentus XT HDD, World's Fastest 2.5-Inch HDD [Hard Drives] Offering 250GB, 320GB and 500GB options, Seagate's hybrid Momentus XT HDD is allegedly the world's fastest 2.5-inch drive for laptops (breaking their previous record), and comes in at a shade over 100 buc... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Vibration Is Killing Hard Drive Speeds [PCs] I can't be the only one who's wondered—even stabilized by several screws in metal mounts—how can hard drives sift through so much minuscule data amidst minuscule vibrations? A new study sugges... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Western Digital's Velociraptor SATA 3.0 Hard Drives Out Now In 450 - 600GB Options [Hard Drives] Western Digital has updated its two-year-old Velociraptor range of hard drives with the SATA 3.0 drives, coming in 450 and 600GB capacities. They're the fastest-writing hard drives around, transferring up... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Your Xbox 360 Now Supports USB Storage [Xbox 360] Any USB drive—be it a thumb stick or a full-blown 1TB enclosure—now works with the Xbox 360 to store content like game saves and DLC. Just keep in mind, 16GB is the limit—you may need to... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	HDD Reborn as Bench Sander [DIY] This week is tool tech: YouTuber [Mhkabir] opened up an HDD, removed the read head, and added some sand paper. The result is predictably predictable. Also, loud and marginally effective. [Hackaday] Mor... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	WD Scorpio 750GB Notebook Hard Drives, the Densest on the Planet [Notebooks] WD's latest Scorpio drive stuffs 750GB in a 2.5-inch notebook drive—without resorting to the taller 12.5mm form factor—by cramming in 375GB per platter, giving it the tightest areal density of... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Giz Explains: The Future of Storage [Giz Explains] Hard drives, DVDs, USB sticks: This is where we store our digital lives. But while our data is timeless, our storage devices aren't. So, what's next? And then what? More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details

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