hard drive

Gnomie Rafael Ramirez writes:
Hey, Chris. Lately I made up my mind on getting an Solid State Drive, but today I heard something that’s making me have a change of heart and I think it would make a great discussion video. I own a Mac Pro; obviously I would want an SSD for speed, but I [...]

It is surprising how strongly some people feel about the issue of partitioning or not. Voices are raised — faces become a bit redder — language becomes a bit more colorful. If you are from the school of thought that partitioning is absolutely not necessary, please leave a comment at the bottom of the page. [...]

Discover how to wait less and do more with high performance Intel Solid State Drives.
Watch the informative video, Intel Solid State Drives Technology Video, and learn what’s 100x faster than a standard hard disk drive. Bring a new level of storage performance and reliability to your application with Intel X25-M and X18-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State [...]

CrystalDiskInfo is an HDD health monitoring utility. It displays basic HDD information and monitors S.M.A.R.T. values and disk temperature. [Discovered via Major Geeks]
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Other World Computing (OWC), a leading Mac and PC technology company, has partnered with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies to offer consumers rebates on select OWC Mercury Elite, OWC Mercury On-The-Go, OWC Rack Pro, OWC Neptune, NewerTech miniStack, and NewerTech Guardian MAXimus FireWire/USB 2.0 storage solutions featuring Hitachi hard drives as well as rebates on Hitachi [...]

Ever have one of those days where your PC is screaming “upgrade me?” I think mine is heading in that direction, but not without a real fight first. Yesterday I was thrilled to see that I was able to do a clean install of my OS without any troubles, largely because I keep my user [...]

Recently I had someone ask me about getting a USB Flash drive working so they could copy some sort of video file to it. Sounds simple enough, however after awhile it seems like one might consider the possibility that when a drive is not allowing data to be transfered to it, then it may be [...]

Today Jim asks,
I installed a new hard drive in my computer and placed my old one as a spare. I had some pictures on the old hard drive that I would like to transfer to the new hard drive. When I click on the icon in my old hard drive where the pictures [...]

The 1TB Caviar GP 3.5″ Internal SATA Hard Drive for Desktops from Western Digital is a high-capacity internal drive. Boasting a Serial ATA interface that allows for burst transfer rates of up to 300MB/ sec, a large 16MB data buffer, and a rotation speed of 7200rpm, this drive is an excellent solution for adding storage [...]

Optimized at approximately 30MB, the Parted Magic LiveCD OS employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs (e.g. Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, and ddrescue) and an excellent set of documentation to benefit the user.
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