WD adds a couple sick drives

Aug. 26, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Western Digital added 750GB and 1TB SATA drives with up to 32MB cache and enhanced vibration and shock tolerance. Hawt. Translation: Huge drive. Fits your music, movies, pics, games, docs, and about 1,600 full-length MPEG/Divx movies or hundreds of uncompressed DVD movies. Huge cache. Lets you access them fast. Shock protection. You could walk around [...]

Memorex adds new hard drives

Aug. 15, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Who said they were all about cassette tapes? Memorex just announced the Essential TravelDrive, a 2.5″ USB hard disk that maxes out at 320GB with several bright and shiny colors that fits right in your pocket, purse, laptop bag, etc. The TravelDrive comes in 160, 250 and 320 gigabyte models, great for photos, video, audio [...]

The “green” [re]drive

July 28, 2008   Leave a Comment  

It seems like everybody is going green lately, and now we’re seeing that trend emerge in the saturated world of external hard drives. Storage solutions provider Fabrik announced the SimpleTech [re]drive, a 500GB external hard drive that they are dubbing the world’s most energy-efficient, resource-conscious external drive. The [re]drive is made from sustainable bamboo wood [...]