Tag archive: Hard Drive

Announced over the past week, both Western Digital and Seagate plan to decrease the length of warranty periods on consumer-grade hard drives in order to reduce costs and push more money back into product development. Beginning January 2, 2012, the three year warranty on Western Digital Caviar Blue, Caviar Green and Scorpio Blue hard drives will be reduced to 2 years. This will only affect purchases of these drives made after January 1 2012 as… Read More

As of this week, Western Digital has reopened an important production factory in Bang Pa-in, Thailand according to an official statement from the company. Production facilities within Thailand makes up 60 percent of Western Digital products and the company employs approximately 37,000 workers in the country. The heavy flooding that occurred in mid-October devastated the region and companies such as Western Digital and Sony were forced to close… Read More

Formatting your hard drive is very useful. It's good for clearing everything off a secondary drive or when installing a new copy of Windows. Formatting is also good for cleaning up storage issues, eliminating viruses and other hard-to-resolve problems.  Our How-To guide for formatting your hard drive will be broken down in three parts: Prep, Formatting and Installing XP, and Formatting a Secondary Hard Drive. Preparation 1. Formatting a… Read More

Storage developer Seagate has added a new monster to its desktop hard drive offerings: a new edition of its GoFlex Desk external hard drive with a whopping 4 TB capacity. Seagate claims the 4 TB of storage is the highest in the industry, but the drive isn't a behemoth: it actually sports a small desktop footprint and a new industrial design Seagate plans to migrate across its entire GoFlex Desk line in the coming weeks. The drive sports a… Read More

Storage vendor Seagate has opened up its GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage to the Android world, introducing a native Android app that enables smartphones, tablets, and other devices to tap into media and other content on the drive—including streaming video—via Wi-Fi. Seagate's GoFlex Satellite drives are battery powered and connect to devices using 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi rather than USB, Firewire, or other cables—and… Read More

Designed to blend into the background of any iMac desktop setup, Iomega's new Mac Companion Hard Drive sits unassumingly at the base of the iMac. A brushed silver exterior circles the drive and matches the shading on the iMac stand. The drive comes with either 2TB or 3TB storage depending on the model.  The 3.5-inch hard drive runs at 7,200 RPM and comes with one FireWire 800, one conversion FireWire 400-800 as well as one USB 2.0 cable… Read More

Storage Appliance Corporation has announced its new Clickfree C2 Rugged hard drives, which are designed to make backups easy via built-in software that automatically backs up a PC or Mac as soon as the drive as the drive is connected. And to make sure your data is extra-safe, the C2 Rugged drives are designed to stand falls up to four feet. “The Clickfree C2 Rugged Portable Drive is especially useful considering today's mobile… Read More

Portable hard drives are a great way to carry around vast amounts of media and data—but they're annoying because they can only be connected to one device at a time and require at least one cable (and maybe another for a power adapter). Storage vendor Seagate wants to ease that pain with its new GoFlex Satellite, a battery-powered 500 GB hard drive that connects to devices using built-in 802b/g/n Wi-Fi—and the GoFlex Satellite… Read More

Hard drive giant Western Digital announced Monday its newly-approved acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) for the equivalent of $4.3 billion, reports Engadget. The deal, says Western Digital in a press release, “will result in a customer-focused storage company, with significant operating scale, strong global talent and the industry's broadest product lineup backed by a rich technology portfolio.” Under the… Read More

Memory cards are already a thing of the past, but soon you may not even need a hard drive to save your games. Sony is telling developers that the PlayStation 3 will soon be able to save games to the cloud, reports Kotaku. The new service means that PS3 users will be able to upload all their game data to remote servers, making it accessible on any PS3 they log into with the same PlayStation Network account. Unfortunately, the new service will… Read More

ioSafe might not be the largest or best-known makers of ruggedized storage devices on the planet, but the company has made an impression at this year's CES short by abusing its Rugged Portable hard drive in creative ways—including submerging the device in water and blasting it with a shotgun…then proving the data is intact. For folks who live a dangerous lifestyle—or perhaps just have rambunctious children or… Read More

These new external drives are compatible with  Apple Time Machine, while maintaining the ability to work across both Windows and Mac OS X computers. GoFlex for Mac drives can also be used with computers running Windows by simply downloading an HFS+ driver for Windows from Seagate, which will provide full read-write access to the drive from a Windows computer. The new line-up of GoFlex for Mac external drives include: GoFlex for Mac… Read More

Western Digital has released a new app for Android phones allowing users to remotely view their PC library of photos on the go. WD Photos is compatible with the Droid, Droid Incredible, Nexus One, HTC Evo, and other Android handsets. The app is available on the Android Market today. Unfortunately, there is one stiff requirement for this to work: you must also own a Western Digital network drive. They are a good investment, but many people may… Read More

For some folks, keeping data away from prying eyes isn't just a consummation devoutly to be wish'd, it's an outright business necessity, particularly for folks who work with confidential data under NDA or who don't want their personal or financial information wandering the Internet if a hard drive should be stolen. Peripheral and accessory maker La Cie is looking to address that market with its Rugged Safe external hard… Read More

Winning looks, speed and value make LaCie’s Rikiki the killer portable hard drive to beat. Although the corners can get a little bit stabby and the cord favors portability over convenience, both are small complaints for an otherwise stellar portable storage solution. For more information, read Digital Trends' LaCie Rikiki Review. Buy from Amazon: LaCie Rikiki USB 2.0 640 GB Portable Hard Drive 301911