After a couple months with a USB 3.0-enabled laptop, my USB 2.0 hard drive docking station just wasn’t cutting it anymore. Looking at reviews on Amazon, though, it seemed that there were a lot of issues with USB 3.0 docks — in part it seems that the USB 3.0 chipset market isn’t nearly as mature…
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Interesting speculation at Tom’s Hardware based on an alleged document leak that Western Digital plans to release a 5 terabyte hard drive by the end of 2013. If it hadn’t been for the Thailand floods of 2011, a 5TB hard drive would have probably already made it to market. The flooding wiped out a significant…
These hard drive cases from Mukii are colorful and look nice, but they don’t seem to offer much in the way of actual protection for the hard drives being stored within them.
I really like Silicon Fornesics’ hard drive transporter for 3.5″ hard drives, but I’ve got 10-12 hard drives stuck in a locking drawer, and the bulk from 10 or 12 of the hard drive transporters would be a bit much. Enter Silicon Forensics’ Hard Drive Shipping Case: Holds 12 hard drives in a foam padded…
So, I have a lot of hard drives lying around that I occasionally move from office to office and need effective way to store them in the meantime. I’ve tried a couple of different solutions, none of which worked very well, until running across Silicone Forensics’ Hard Drive Transporter. As you can see, on the…
I happened to be reading a comment on another website the other day where the commenter claimed SSDs would never be viable alternatives to traditional magnetic hard drives until manufacturers solved the “100,000 rewrite cycle issue.” StorageSearch.com’s SSD Myths and Legends – “write endurance” attempts to put this claim to bed once and for all.…