Post Tagged with: "Computer storage media"

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.

Cooler Master Elite 310 Case Review

Cooler Master Elite 310 Case Review

I’ll say it like it is, The Cooler Master Elite 310 is not the case you’re going to be selecting for your next powerful gaming rig. However, it still a solid case that would be suitable for a budget build or if you’re going for something less flashy. The one we received was the model [...]

8TB NAS – Upgrading the Primary Synology NAS Volume

8TB NAS – Upgrading the Primary Synology NAS Volume

Digital media is so common in today’s modern society. Even people who would not be considered “tech nerds” have many gigabytes of personal data. Be it MP3s, digital photos, eBooks, or documents, people accumulate a lot of stuff. All of today’s digital media is usually strewn all around the house in a disorganized mess. This [...]

Vantec NexStar3 NST-380S3 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Enclosure

Vantec NexStar3 NST-380S3 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Enclosure

SuperSpeed USB emerged onto the scene as an answer to the limited bandwidth of today’s current popular connectivity interface.  The additional throughput is a boon for external hard drives, but most other devices aren’t fast enough to take advantage of it.  With USB 3.0 external drives, you can now realistically perform intensive data transfer tasks [...]

Rosewill RX358 USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure

Rosewill RX358 USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure

SuperSpeed USB (otherwise known as USB 3.0) is a new standard for PC peripheral connectivity.  Although Intel has been hesitant to make this interface truly standard, more and more vendors are including the technology on their motherboards, and you can even purchase add-on cards to upgrade your current system.  The increase in data transfer naturally [...]

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 [...]

Enermax Phoenix Neo Case

Enermax Phoenix Neo Case

A generation ago the only way to tell the difference between a high end gaming PC and a beige office box was by looking inside.  Today PC gamers want to brand their gear as fashionable as gaming consoles, so everyone knows what’s up.  There are no shortages of gaming computer cases, and because there are so many [...]

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 [...]

Purchasing a DVD Recorder

Purchasing a DVD Recorder

DVD (“Digital Versatile Disk”) players and recorders have all but replaced the VCR (“Video Cassette Recorder”) and its associated analogue technology, at the heart of home entertainment systems. A DVD recorder, for example, allows you to record from standard definition, analogue television, as well as digital cable, satellite and “Freeview”, and you can, of course, [...]

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 [...]

How to Clean CD and DVD Drives

How to Clean CD and DVD Drives

When your CD or DVD (disc) drive starts giving you problems, your first thought may be to replace it or take it to the repair shop, but a good cleaning may be all it needs. Below are three methods to clean the disc drive. The easiest method is the least effective. The hardest method is [...]

SunbeamTech SATA Dock

SunbeamTech SATA Dock

I’ve always been an advocate of external devices.  Except for HDD enclosures - the lack of heat dissipation on most of them makes me shudder in my Spiderman jammies.  But other stuff, like thousands of Plug N’ Play USB devices out there, have always made my eyes glaze over and my tongue hang like a puppy [...]

Fix: Hard Drive goes to sleep even in High Performance Power Profile

Fix: Hard Drive goes to sleep even in High Performance Power Profile

I have a desktop PC running Vista Ultimate, and I want it running at its full potential.  I have several hard drives, and notice that they do a “hard click” after a while, turning themselves off. I hate it when hard drives do that… I’ve had too many hard drive crashes that this noise makes me [...]

SansDigital MobileStor MS2UTN+ RAID Enclosure Review

SansDigital MobileStor MS2UTN+ RAID Enclosure Review

Sometimes setting up a RAID array can be a pain in the butt.  For one, professional RAID cards can be expensive.  Two, many “easy RAID” features of motherboards are closed solutions.  Three: cheaper solutions may not be reliable, and often require offline rebuilds when something goes wrong..  What if you want to have the redundancy [...]

Why You Should Wipe Free Disk Space

Why You Should Wipe Free Disk Space

Computers have found very many applications in today’s world, in almost every field of human activity. Offices, schools, libraries, and other organizations that need to keep track of and organize huge masses of information have found that computers perform this task admirably. Scientists and engineers have been able to leverage the massive computing power now [...]

GlacialTech Altair A381 Home Theater Case

GlacialTech Altair A381 Home Theater Case

We review so many Home Theater PC cases that sometimes they all start to look alike.  Many of them try to mimic the look of either a home theater amplifier or DVD player.  Due to size constraints, many manufacturers opt for the amplifier, which allows the consumer to use standard-size PC components.  Some of the [...]

I-Star T5F-SS Hot-Swap Hard Drive Bay Review

I-Star T5F-SS Hot-Swap Hard Drive Bay Review

I love storage.  It doesn’t matter what kind.  I have stock in those plastic dresser-style drawers, and I keep ‘em chock full of crap I’ll never use or at the most very rarely.  Any time I look at a car I check out the trunk first, and try to estimate how many bodies would fit [...]