In the age of digital media, the more the capacity of a hard disk is, the better it is. I still remember, back in 1998 my first computer had a hard disk from Quantum with capacity of mere 4GB and it was the greatest at that time. Fast forward to 2010, my system runs on 80GB hard disk and almost nearing capacity. It’s another story that I run more than 2 operating systems on my computer. Toshiba has reached 1TB
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Fantom G-force Greendrive is an external USB 2.0 and eSATA hard disk drive that features latest power saving technology yielding average drive power savings of 4-5 watts without compromising on the performance of the drive. It’s one of the best value for money external hard drives and easily stand in the top 10 external hard drives. The Fantom external hard drive offers maximum bus transfer rate of 60MB/S when connected using USB and upto 300MB/S over eSATA interface connectivity. If
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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 also help you read data from SD cards and let you do data transfer, cloning and backup. A multi-purpose dock that is a media
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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 information in their notebooks. For those interested in the technicalities, the M6 hard disk consists of three 167GB platters, is 9.5mm in height, meets the
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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. For instance, the laptop manufacturers will be the early adopters of this SSD drive who had earlier resisted using these drives due to its
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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 crush over 60 disks an hour. It drills through the hard disk’s spindles and physically creates ripples in the platters making it impossible to recover
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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 resistant aluminum shell & shock resistant rubber bumper. Yes, that’s right, its shock resistant hard disk drive that people on the move, with bad
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