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0	This Is Your Faulty Brain, On a Microchip [Memory] Take a good look at the downward trend of this graph—it's important. It's the reason why you're only getting worse at first-person shooters and why you never feel as sharp as you were yesterday. It'... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	LEAK: Xbox 360 to Support USB Mass Storage [Uncomfirmed] According to what looks like legitimate Microsoft documentation, the Xbox 360 will soon support USB mass storage through an official System Update. There are a few caveats, however. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Right Hard Drive For You [Memory] So, all this storage talk has gotten you excited about upgrading your laptop's crappy old 120GB drive? It's about time, dammit. More » 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This Is the Cloud: Inside Microsoft's Secret Stealth Data Centers [Memory Forever] "The cloud" isn't some nebulous thing existing just beyond your computer's consciousness. As Microsoft showed us, it's stacks of hard drives packed into shipping containers, parked in secret data centers ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Giz Explains: How Data Dies (and How It Can Be Saved) [Giz Explains] Bits don't have expiration dates. But memories will only live forever if the media and file formats holding them remain intact and coherent. Time can be as deadly to data storage as it is to carbon-based ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Leave No Trace: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives [Memory Forever] With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. H... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Storing Your Data For a Billion Years [Memory Forever] As concerned as we are about memory, we haven't done much to preserve it. Most of our hard drives don't last past 30 years. But soon, using diamond-like carbon nanotubes, even your Gizmodo comments could ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Why Windows XP Users Upgrading Their Hard Drives Should Be Wary [Windows] Considering the fact that Windows XP is still the most-used OS worldwide, anyone considering swapping out their old hard drives for a new one should heed this advice: be careful. You may want to even cons... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Leave No Trace: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives [Security] With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. Here's how to wipe them clean. Why Erasing Files Is ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Connecting the Quantum Dots to More Than Double Hard Drive Capacity [Science] Scientists have developed a new type of semiconductor structure—using microscopic crystals called magnetic quantum dots—that could more than double current hard drive storage capacity. That's just for starters. The crystals themselves aren't n... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Xbox 360 Data Migration Kit Sold On Its Own, Hello Knockoffs [Xbox 360] That annoying, proprietary cord that you need to duplicate/upgrade your Xbox 360 hard drive used to be bundled exclusively with Microsoft's overpriced drives. Now it's being sold on its own for $15, making eBay drives attractive. [Blast Magazine via Kotak... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Strobeshnik: As Close as Hard Drive Clocks Get to Harley-Davidson [Mods] This hard drive clock by Russian designer Viacheslav Slavinsky feels like it could fly off its hinge at any moment, impaling onlookers shuriken-style...which is exactly why the video is so entrancing.To craft the device, Slavinsky stripped back the hard d... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Datel Space Dock Adds External Hard Drive to PS3 and Xbox 360 [Storage] Adding a USB hard drive to your PS3 or Xbox 360 isn't as simple as plugging it in (and on the 360 especially, it's pretty much a hack). But Datel's new Space Docks make the process simple.Their Space Dock, available in PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, accepts 2... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	HDDBOOST Fuses SSDs with HDDs for Speed Made Cheap [PCs] So, the HDDBOOST may be ridiculously brilliant. It's a hard drive bay that offers SATA connections to both a normal hard drive and a solid state drive. Ultimately, it promises the speeds of SSD with the storage capacity of HDD.Here's how it works: With no... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Life Inside a Flash Factory [Guts] Intel and Micron are growing their latest 25nm flash memory in this new production facility. PC Perspective gives us a tour of this strange world where men wear cleanroom suits, lest they contaminate the robots. [PC Perspective] 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Seagate BlackArmor PS110 USB3 Drive Kit Review: Three Times Faster [Review] Seagate's BlackArmor PS110 USB3 drive kit brings USB3 to laptops without USB3. And your transfer speeds will be 3 times what they were through USB2. If you weren't excited about USB3 before, you should be. The Price $180 The Verdict It's three times faste... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Seagate Black Armor PS110 is a Portable USB 3.0 HDD [Storage] The obvious reason here to be excited about Seagate's new Black Armor PS110 500-gigabyte portable HDD is because it uses a USB 3.0 connection and transfers 3x faster than current USB 2.0 drives. Seagate says the drive can transfer at speeds of 100 MB/s an... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	WD's First USB 3.0 Hard Drive Is Incredibly Fast, and You Want One [Storage] Thank God for USB 3.0. I was getting really tired of staring at the progress bar for seconds (seconds!) while my shit transfers. WD just announced their first MyBook external drive with 3.0, and it looks great. The MyBook 3.0 drive is available in either... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Iomega v.Clone App Portable-izes Your Entire PC [Virtualization] It'd be easy to get knotted up in jargon describing v.Clone, so let's stick with the concept for now: It's a syncable, complete image of your PC, which you can boot run from basically any other PC. And it's free. To anyone who's used mainstream backup sof... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	ioSafe Solo External SSD Is Apocalypse-Safe [Storage] Traumas the ioSafe Solo can survive: Building collapse, 1550-degree fire, 30-foot submersion in salt water, and a 5,000-pound "crush force." So you might say it's durable. It's pretty much the most disaster-proof external drive I've ever seen. It also has... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Ex-Employee Says Seagate Stole Quiet Hard Drive Tech From MIT Researchers [Seagate] An ex-Seagate employee turned whistle-blower claims that Seagate not only stole hard drive-silencing technology from the MIT researchers who developed it and they company they formed, Convolve, but destroyed blueprints to hide the evidence. [NYT, Image vi... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	You Will Want the Unitek SATA to USB 3.0 Adapter One Day [Usb 3] This is so cool: Unitek's new adapter will connect any spare SATA hard drive to a PC using the 5 Gbps USB 3.0 standard. And it only costs $48. There's only one little itty bitty problem: Who has a PC or a Mac with USB 3.0? Anyone? Anyone? Features Suppor... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	LaCie 2Big: The First USB 3.0 RAID Drive [Storage] You can't buy them until early 2010, but LaCie's next generation 2Big drives will be the first USB 3.0 devices to support dual-SATA-disk RAID 0/1 configurations, promising real time HD video editing and burst speeds up to 275MB/s. [BW] ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The LaCie Rikiki Is the Tiniest 2.5-inch Portable Hard Drive On the Market [LaCie] With LaCie, you always expect the product to look good—and the Rikiki portable HDD is no exception. They also claim that it is the smallest 2.5-inch drive on the market. I'm not sure if that is accurate or not, but with measurements at 4.3 x 2.9 x .... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	A Hard Drive Motorcyle and Other Wonderful Storage Sculptures [Art] What if, instead of just poisoning sub-minimum wage workers in China and India, our recycled computer equipment reassembled into something beautiful? These pieces by Miguel Rivera, a systems administrator, require weekends of man hours and a massive amoun... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Western Digital Advanced Format Gives You 11 Percent More Hard Drive Space [Hard Drives] Western Digital's come up with a fancy new way to format hard drives—changing sector sizes to 4KB that use a pooled Sync/DAM header and ECC blocks—that promises to give back 7 to 11 percent of hard drive space. If that description doesn't make... 0 Published 100+ days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details

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