Toshiba Announces Their 500GB Laptop Drive Will Be Available for Holiday Season

Toshiba has announced it will be shipping their 500GB laptop drive in December, in time for the holiday season. The 500GB drive has a similar feature set to other drives.

Lenovo Announces ThinkPad USB Portable Secure Hard Drive - With Passcode

Lenovo has announced their ThinkPad USB Portable Secure hard drive. It features a passcode system that uses a physical keypad. This should be useful for those who store sensitive information.

Datacent Compiles Audio Collection of Popular Hard Drives Failing

For those of you who like a good horror movie, data recovery specialists Datacent has put together an extensive collection of recordings of popular hard drives failing.

Hammer Releases Skinnable Morespace Hard Drive

Hammer Storage, a division of Bell Microproducts, has released the morespace Portable hard drive. The pocket-friendly drive is light, weighing in at less than five ounces. Inside the beast, however, exists a 2.5 inch HDD ranging from 160GB to 750GB.

eGo Goes Where You Go

Meet Iomega’s sexy and portable …

Tricky Tricky

At first glance you might think this is some hacked-up clock made out of pieces of a hard drive, but this is actually a hacked-up clock made out of pieces of a hard drive that actually uses the mechanisms of the drive itself in a creative way. The platter itself turns to show the hours, [...]

Iomega Sets New Low in Home Network NAS

And I mean that in a good way. Their new units provide Ethernet connections and 7200RPM SATA-II drives in 320GB, 360GB, and 500GB sizes. And it’s not the features that make these attractive, but the pricing: the 320GB version, available now, is $149, a very attractive price even if all the thing does is show [...]

It Looks Like a Little Trash Can! Get It?

It’s not bad to have a recycle bin, since sometimes we really do want to easily retrieve something we deleted. But a 250GB recycle bin? I dunno. Folks at Franco Cagnini, who designed The Tempo, think otherwise. And, there are blue LEDs that indicate how "full" the "trash can" really is. No price or availability, [...]

XtremeNotebooks Xtreme 917X - Doin’ the Quad-Core

I just love power, especially when packaged in mobile forms.That goes for cars, motorcycles, and, of course, notebooks. The XtremeNotebook Xtreme 917V (wihch is a bit to type) provides some serious power for a low, low starting price of $2,399. The specs:

17-inch display
Core 2 Quad processor
dual nVidia Geforce Go 7950 GTX graphics processors
Up to 4GB [...]

Fujitsu Throws Caution to the Wind, Makes Non-Stop HDD

While most hard drive manufacturers are concentrating on making drives that spin as seldom as possible, Fujitsu decided to go in the opposite direction. Their MHY2 BS series, up to 200GB, 5400RPM, SATA 2.5 inch drives, are meant to run non-stop. I suppose there are certain applications, like medical equipment and industrial systems, that benefit [...]