Play audio and video from hard disk on television without a computer

Here’s a SATA hard disk multimedia dock that lets you connect any 2.5″ or 3.5″ SATA hard disk to your computer using a USB cable. Not just that, this dock can deliver audio and video from the hard disk to your television or Hi-Fi music system without a computer’s intervention. Pretty cool, eh?
This dock will [...]

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Samsung Announces Mass Production of the 500 GB Hard Drive for Laptops

Samsung recently announced the mass production of Spinpoint M6, the world’s highest capacity hard drive for laptops and also mass production of Spinpoint MP2 - one of the world’s fastest laptop hard drives. The 500GB storage capacity of Spinpoint M6 hard disk makes it the obvious choice of those who store a vast amount of [...]

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Samsung develops world’s fastest 256GB solid state drive

Samsung, in fifth annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum in Taiwan, has announced that it has developed a 2.5-inch, 256 GB multi-level cell (MLC) based solid state drive (SSD) using SATA II interface and claims it to be the world’s fastest SSD yet.
Once released in market, this solid state drive will change a lot of things. [...]

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Hard disk crusher - The ultimate hard disk destruction machine

Here is a hard disk crusher, costing $11,500, created specifically to destroy the hard disk drive and make it completely useless. There is no chance of recovering data from the remains of the crushed hard disk, claims the company that manufactures the hard drive crusher - eDR solutions.
With the Hard Disk Crusher you can [...]

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LaCie launches 500GB rugged hard disk

LaCie has taken the storage capacity of its popular rugged hard disk to as much as 500GB. The latest disk drive supports FireWire 800, FireWire 400 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0. The drive is bus-powered, so need for any external power sources. Just plug into the computer and your drive is ready.
LaCie’s hard disk features scratch [...]

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Fujitsu offers hardware based hard disk encryption

Fujitsu has announced the release of their 2.5 inch hard drives that features AES-256 bit encryption using the hardware in the hard disk itself. Since the encryption keys resides in the hardware of the hard disk, the chances of someone breaking into it is highly remote.
Hard disk based encryption puts less burden on the system [...]

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Review: Full Hard Drive Encryption from AlertBoot

Millions of laptops gets stolen every year and information worth millions of dollars is lost. Many organizations throughout the world keep losing confidential data from their office computers and some of them don’t even know about it. What if your laptop gets stolen - what kind of data resides on your system - what could [...]

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