Archive for Category: "Storage"

Western Digital MyPassport 1TB USB 3.0 Hard Drive

Western Digital MyPassport 1TB USB 3.0 Hard Drive

Western Digital’s MyPassport 1TB hard drive could be the answer you’re looking for. Not only does it offer a ton of storage, but comes in a small form factor and is equipped with USB 3.0 technology.

Corsair Force F40 40GB SSD Review

Corsair Force F40 40GB SSD Review

OIOpublisher One way that I know that I’m old is when I reminisce about the first computer I ever owned, which sported a 40 MEGAbyte hard drive.  By today’s standards, you can transfer a file half-way around the world over the Internet faster than these first consumer storage devices.  Magnetic hard drives have been getting [...]

Seagate GoFlex Ultra-Portable Hard Drive Kit

Seagate GoFlex Ultra-Portable Hard Drive Kit

Laptops just don’t come with enough storage space, which is one reason why ultra-portable hard drives have become so popular lately.  The problem with most of them is that most of them are based on USB 2.0, and the industry has moved onto faster technologies.  If you’ve already spent some money on a large hard drive, [...]

Seagate FreeAgent Go 500GB Portable Hard Drive

Seagate FreeAgent Go 500GB Portable Hard Drive

Everybody needs a lot more digital storage these days, even your grandma.   Most people have tons of music, videos, photos, and documents all in digital format.  An average person’s digital collection of media would easily fill several rooms if they were in a “physical” format.  It’s always handy to have several portable hard drives on [...]

Vantec SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCI-e Host Card Review

Vantec SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCI-e Host Card Review

  Computer technology never stands still for long.  It wasn’t that long ago that USB took over as the de facto standard for PC computer peripherals, and has evolved into the standard data path for hard drives, cameras, and just about everything else you can think of.  USB 2.0 is well and good, but it still doesn’t [...]

Verbatim Insight 500GB Portable Hard Drive Review

Verbatim Insight 500GB Portable Hard Drive Review

This year, give your loved one a little space.  Storage space, that is.  Christmas is just around the corner, and there’s no better gift for that nerd in your family than external storage for all those downloaded episodes of Heroes that are cluttering up precious hard drive space.  Verbatim has once again outdone themselves on [...]

Verbatim Tuff Clip 8GB Flash Drive Review

Verbatim Tuff Clip 8GB Flash Drive Review

Nearly everyone has a USB drive today, but the one demographic that seems to have the most of them are students. Life would have been a lot different if I could carry around a 1-ounce piece of plastic rather than reams of ripped paper in my Trapper Keeper (which has been strewn down the hall [...]

Verbatim Store n Go Micro 4GB Flash Drive Review

Verbatim Store n Go Micro 4GB Flash Drive Review

Nearly everyone in modern society has need for portable digital storage, and therefore carry some sort of USB flash drive. They have replaced the floppy drive in terms of portable ubiquity (even Windows finally uses them to load disk drivers at install time), and it’s so convenient to be able to copy files to and [...]

Verbatim Quad-Interface eHDD

Verbatim Quad-Interface eHDD

I don’t know how many times I’ve needed to back up my hard drive for a reinstall of my OS and been left wanting because I didn’t have any place to put all my pictures and data.  I’ve had to rewrite several articles and reviews do to exactly such a scenario.  It’s a sad fact, [...]

Verbatim BD-R and BD-RE BluRay Media Review

Verbatim BD-R and BD-RE BluRay Media Review

Let’s face it: DVD is on the way out as a data storage medium.  Don’t believe me?  Do you remember when writable CDs were all the rage?  I do, and I have a receipt for the $1000 2x drive to prove it. Once writeable DVDs became affordable, they were the backup medium of choice, and only [...]