10 Most Useful External Hard Drives

February 3rd, 2009 Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today introduced its Constellation™ family of new enterprise storage solutions for Tier-2 nearline storage applications. The two new drive models, the 2.5-inch Constellation and the 3.5-inch Constellation ES hard drives, include a combination of features that enable high capacities, increased power efficiency, enterprise-class reliability, and data security.

October 15th, 2005 I have 5 PC's equipped with Samsung 52X (Max) CD-ROM Drives for around 2 years. It was a horrible mistake to make.

April 7th, 2009 Flash drives are becoming increasingly important for our techie beings. No matter what you do, you deal with data for sure.

August 25th, 2006 Plextor launched what it claims as the world's smallest DVD writer, a slim external unit aimed at notebook users. It weighs 250g, 1.6cm high and barely bigger than a CD.

April 9th, 2009 Weirdness has no limits. While we being gadgetophilics have always tried to bring in the serious and most useful products to you first, fun and crazy samples have come running close.

March 4th, 2009 With the advent of new SATA drives, as you probably know, there was a big naming issue. The old IDE drives needed a name to distinguish it from SATA drives and so the name PATA was born.

July 25th, 2005 Promise TV is a home-built personal video recorder (PVR) made out of commodity PC components (primarily LOT of high-capacity hard-drives). Promise grabs the entire broadcast TV multiplex ( all the channels being broadcast in the UK ) slices them up according to the free, over-the-air electronic programming guide, and stores an entire month's worth.

March 18th, 2008 In Linux you can use the dd command to copy MBR from one hard disk to another. You can also use dd to backup your master boot record to a different (or same) media.

February 18th, 2007 The basic idea of RAID (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) is to combine multiple small, independent disk drives into an array of disk drives which yields performance and recoverability exceeding that of a Single Large Expensive Drive (SLED). Redundancy is also provided (unless RAID 0) which allows easy and often automatic recovery from hard disk crash.

October 8th, 2006 When installing Windows 2000 or Windows XP, you have to decide the evergreen question: Should I choose FAT32 or NTFS and why? Today I will try to answer it once and for all. Note: I haven't discussed FAT file system because it is very much obsolete with todays high volume hard-disks.

November 26th, 2008 Powerful, easy-to-use notebook data security is increasingly important as the global adoption of mobile PCs continues to soar and more notebooks are used to store sensitive personal and business information. Lost or stolen notebooks can cost companies millions of dollars in compromised proprietary information and threaten consumers with the high cost of identity theft, yet many computers remain unprotected.

June 26th, 2007 Seagate announced availability of Terabyte disk drives at 7200 rpm; separate models targeted for enterprise and consumer desktops. The enterprise drives features serial attached SCSI interface option.

November 26th, 2008 Leading hardware manufacturer Seagate announced Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB hard drive to deliver a  "perfect combination of capacity, speed and durability". They will market the manufacture for Acer Aspire consumer notebook PCs, and the blazing on-the-road performance and shock tolerance of the Acer TravelMate professional notebooks.

May 24th, 2006 Samsung Electronics said that it will launch a laptop computer and a "ultra-computing device," in early June. In these devices the hard drives will be replaced with 32 gigabytes of NAND flash memory.

May 13th, 2009 To start geeky things with a straight face (:|), let's get familiar with the full name of the gentlemen we are going to discuss about. PATA stands for Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment, SATA means Serial Advanced Technology Attachment and SCSI is Small Computer System Interface.