10/20/2011, One of the reasons why the MacBook Air is popular, apart from its slim profile and looks, would be the SSD that it uses that allows for a speedy boot, read and write time. Unfortunately while we’d all love to [...]
09/30/2011, With USB 3.0 promising faster transfer rates, we’re sure that there are many users out there who would love to get their hands on a USB 3.0 external hard drive, but the good news is that instead of spending $80-$100 [...]
09/07/2011, Apricorn’s latest SATA Wire Notebook Hard Drive Upgrade Kit has just gotten a kick in the butt – with a spanking new USB 3.0 interface, of course. We all know how USB 3.0 kicks USB 2.0′s ass ten ways to [...]
04/11/2011, Do you have loads of CF/CFast cards lying around the house doing nothing? Wish you could do something more with them besides using them for backup memory cards when your main ones fail? Addonics has come up with a solution [...]
09/28/2010, We’ve previously seen SATA hard disk multi-function docks in the past, but how many of those allow you to dock up to three 3.5”drives? The SATA HDD Multi-Function Dock is capable of supporting up to three SATA 2.5″/3.5″ drives up [...]
04/15/2010, Folks who are looking for a SSD drive to put into their older notebook don’t have to worry about the lack of a SATA connector on the notebook, as Buffalo has come up with its SHD-NHPU2 PATA SSD. Since it [...]
04/12/2010, Can’t get enough of speed? Western Digital’s VelociRaptor hard drive is most likely the answer to your pleas for speed, and WD has just unveiled its VelociRaptor hard drives in 450GB and 600GB capacities for both Macs and PCs, which [...]
03/15/2010, Active Media Products has a brand new SATA DOM (Disk on Module) drive which is capable of offering far superior performance compared to PATA DOMs where embedded computing applications are concerned. This new range supports sequential read and write speeds [...]
03/11/2010, OCZ is back with their new Onyx SATA II 2.5″ SSD which aims to offer you the best bang for your buck, where it relies on multi-level cell (MLC)-based SSDs with 64MB of integrated cache to store your data. Performance-wise, [...]
02/19/2010, Seems that USB 3.0 news is pretty intense today, and here is yet another device that conforms to the standard – the Sharkoon Technologies SATA QuickPort Duo USB 3.0 docking station. It is capable of holding up to a couple [...]
12/28/2009, Brando’s UNITEK USB 3.0 to SATA Adapter, also known by the model number Y-1034, is a computer peripheral worthy of your money, time and attention. Why do we say so? It breathes new life into your SATA/IDE hard drives, where [...]
12/14/2009, This just in – the Seagate Momentus Thin is finally announced on an official basis by the folks at Seagate, and as we promised, here are more details about this 7mm thin 2.5″ hard drive which is the slimmest of [...]
09/14/2009, Love chocolate and are a geek at the same time? You’ll go all wobbly in your knees with these silicon cases that will encase your 2.5″ SATA hard drives from scratches and minor shocks, coming in Chocolate Brown, White Chocolate [...]
06/15/2009, There’s some buzz this morning about the 2009 Macbook Pro exhibiting SATA 1.5Gbps speeds (the previous models have a 3Gbps SATA hard drive controller) and from the first benchmarks, it looks like disk performance is logically lower, if you have [...]