Blast Magazine» hard disk http://blastmagazine.com Video games, movies, music, and smart magazine journalism Fri, 25 May 2012 05:52:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 WD adds a couple sick drives http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/technology/wd-adds-a-couple-sick-drives/ http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/technology/wd-adds-a-couple-sick-drives/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:13:19 +0000 John M. Guilfoil http://blastmagazine.com/?p=2555

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 shaking it like a maraca, and it would still work.

Hawt.

WD RE3 1 TB (model WD 1002FBYS) and the 750 GB (model WD57502ABYS) hard drives are available now for $249 and $199, which may be the best part.

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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 and tons of files. They’re also powered by USB, so no additional power source is needed.

Starting at $89.99, they’re priced just right, too.

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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 and recycled aluminum and features fanless cooling and Energy Star-compliant power. The company says it uses just 10 percent the power of traditional external drives.

Even the drive itself is made from recyclable materials.

The [re]drive also includes 2GBs of online "cloud" backup with Fabrik’s Ultimate Backup or $4.95 per month for unlimited capacity.

Fabrik also announced a 1TB external drive and a mini drive with 500GB capacity.

The [re]drive retails for $159.99.

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