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by Jason Giacchino on November 16, 2009
Hitachi realizes that there’s no such thing as too much storage space when it comes to external hard drives. The firm has just introduced a 2TB (terabyte) edition of its popular external SimpleDri...
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by Chris Matier on August 21, 2009
Depending on who I am working for, or where I am teaching, the information on my external hard drive can be very sensitive. I am constantly afraid that I am going to leave my drive someplace or have s...
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by Chris Matier on August 14, 2009
I have to SSD drives. I own an 80GB Intel X-25 SSD and a 128GB Kingston V-Series SSDNow. Both are fast, but the Intel drive screams when it comes to gaming and video streaming. I can only imagine the ...
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by Chris Matier on August 12, 2009
On my computers, I have a wide range of hard drive sizes. I have an 80GB SSD in a MacBook, a 120GB SSD in another, and on my home computer, I use a 250GB platter drive. I thought I was hot stuff when ...
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by Chris Matier on August 5, 2009
How fast is too fast, and how large is too large? The answers to those questions is quite different if you are talking about your spouse, your date, or your SDXC card. Personally, when it comes to sto...
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by Chris Matier on July 28, 2009
Notebooks are replacing desktop computers at staggering rates. I have completely abandoned a desktop computer; the fact of the matter is that I do not game on my computer - that is what my PS3 is for,...
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by Chris Matier on July 9, 2009
Making certain products rugged makes a lot of sense. Rugged laptops are a must for some careers, and rugged cellphones and flash drives are great because of how fragile those devices typically are. A ...
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by Chris Matier on July 3, 2009
The USB 3.0 standard has been in development for some time now, but it finally looks like we might be seeing that blazing speed in our computers and peripherals sooner than later. In fact, Nikkei Elec...
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by Chris Matier on June 16, 2009
I know that you can get some serious performance boost when you add a ssd (solid state drive) to a laptop setup. The problem is, most of the drives that I can afford are slow, stuttery, or flat out bu...
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by Chris Matier on June 10, 2009
Speaking for someone who has a few computers and has had substantial data loss on everyone, 4TB (yes Terabytes) of data storage does not sound like overkill. I could run Time Machine for years on th...
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by Chris Matier on May 26, 2009
The reality for hard drives is that if you are not going to be a SSD (Solid State Drive), then you have to fast, big, and do a few tricks to stay relevant. Western Digital knows that better than anyo...
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by Chris Matier on May 20, 2009
There are a few things that are so incredible cool that it doesn't matter how geeky how they are; I will buy them. The Ravage Transformer USB drive is one of those things. Coming straight out of m...
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by Chris Matier on May 19, 2009
The cost of USB external drive storage has come way down. As evidence for this, Iomega has announced the eGo, Portable USB drives, and they are small, stylish, and affordable. The eGo drives include...
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by Chris Matier on May 8, 2009
My wife lost a Blackjack Smartphone a few years ago, and all she had to do was contact her IT department and the phone was wiped remotely. Some Blackberrys and even the iPhone and other cheap mobile...
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by Chris Matier on April 28, 2009
10MB per second isn't the fastest transfer speed on the block, but it is screaming when it comes to wireless transfers. 10MB is the approximate speed limit of a new protocol, UWB (Ultra-Wide Band...
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by Chris Matier on April 23, 2009
Computers and kids are a dangerous mix. My son has destroyed two laptops in my family wih his drive-by play. He yanked one off of a table by the power cable, and he also broke a flash drive off inside...
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by Chris Matier on April 9, 2009
There is no question that SSD (solid state drives) are the way to go in the future. They consume less power, they are quieter, and as anyone who has dropped a flash drive off of a five story building ...
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by Chris Matier on March 20, 2009
My kids have a nasty habit of stepping on things. Personally, I don't try to understand it; I just want to survive it, but so far I have not been lucky. The other day, my messenger bag was lying o...
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by Chris Matier on February 11, 2009
Have you tried working on a netbook? I am talking about one of the 10 inch or smaller units that are all the rage right now. Personally, I find them too small and too limited in what they cannot do. O...
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by Chris Matier on February 2, 2009
So, I am drafting this on my Google Documents account; I saw the news item via a Google News Alert, but before I wrote it, I checked my Google Calender to verify that I didn't have another writing...
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by Chris Matier on January 29, 2009
Netbooks are all the rage, and who can blame them. They are cheap, light, small, and ultra-portable. They do lack certain amenities such as DVD/CD drives and burners. It does make sense then that dri...
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by Chris Matier on January 15, 2009
So, I was cleaning out an an old desk drawer the other day when I pulled out a floppy disk. My son picked it up and asked me what it was, and so I explained it to him. He looked at me, looked at the d...
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by Chris Matier on December 5, 2008
I have a flash drive that I carry some pretty important information on, and I know if I ever lost it, I would be screwed. Things would be especially bad if some bad-guy were to get their grubby hands...
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by Chris Matier on December 2, 2008
I like useful things, and I hate single use items. Unfortunately, some of my single use items are absolutely essential, which is the case with my flash drive. Every now and then someone comes up with...
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by Chris Matier on November 19, 2008
If you are the proud owner of a ultra thin MacBook Air, new Aluminum Macbook, or voodoo Envy, then you have a hard time finding peripherals that do your machine justice. I am lucky, a cinder block si...
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by Chris Matier on October 8, 2008
There are two types of people in the world right now, those that are scared to absolutely freaking death by the current financial state of affairs, and the type of people that want the Incrudo 8GB fla...
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by Chris Matier on September 25, 2008
The netbook craze is staring to get a little bit overwhelming. Just about everyone and their brother is producing one of the diminutive little buggers, and most of them are absolutely unimpressive. It...
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by Chris Matier on September 16, 2008
I am all for multi-function devices. I have a printer / scanner / copier, I carry a Swiss-Army knife, and own an iPhone. If I am going to plop money down for a gadget or gizmo, it better do more than ...
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by Chris Matier on July 29, 2008
Good price - check. Large capacity - check. Economical, quiet, and environmentally sound - yep. It sounds like SimpleTech's [re]drive is a great little storage gadget that has a lot going for it. ...
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by Chris Matier on June 13, 2008
Even gadget lovers can care about the earth. In fact, some would argue that because of our massive amounts of electronic gizmos, we have a duty to cut back where we can. That's where Fantom's ...
