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Hard Disk Life and How to Maximize Hard Disk Life!

max — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:03:24 +0000

I’ve always wondered how long a hard disk’s life is if you left it on 24 hours a day (which I do with some of my server computers).

Well on average, according to this site,

The average service life of a hard disk is usually given as “5 years or 20,000 hours.” This means if a hard disk operates 24 hours a day, you will need to replace your drive with a new one every 1.5 to 2 years. (For specification details, refer to your hard disk drive’s user manual.)
The measure of service life used by most hard disk manufacturers is “mean time between failures” (MTBF)*1 (usually quoted at between 300,000 to 500,000 hours). The ratings (for expected service life) used by PC makers are more conservative, as they are based more closely on “real world” usage conditions. Since expected service life and MTBF figures can differ by hundreds of thousands of hours, we recommend you use the expected service life value. For example, the usual service life of a 2.5 inch drive will be almost 5 years or 20,000 hours, if used at the temperatures specified for your PL. However, if a drive is operated continuously, i.e. 24 hours a day, its service life will be shorter.

Also, there’s a way to put your hard disk under sleep mode on most operating systems, I suggest you to turn that on:

I see no reasons why you should leave your hard disks on if you have left your computer for couple minutes or even hours.

For Windows operating systems, go to ScreenSaver->Power then set “Turn off hard disks” to “After 3 mins” so you save both power and your hard disk life. Also digitgeek.com has a great article on maximizing more life out of your hard drive.

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DIY “POV” Hard Drive Clock!

max — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:30:45 +0000

This has to be the most “awesome” POV hard drive clock I have seen so far. Not only it tell time, it does it in the most stylish fashion imaginable using RGB LEDs and rotating discs.

I’ve seen a handful of hard drive clocks, but this one beat them hands-down! I would love to have one.

Schematics available here, use Google translate to translate!

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Cloud Hack – How to Build a cheap Perabyte Cloud Server for under $120K!

max — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:34:05 +0000

Okay, I admit it, I am not an Apple fan boy, I am a linux fan boy, let’s forget about bad PR just for a minute here as I don’t really like getting mad anyways.

The BIG NEWS this week is that there’s a way to build a Perabyte (or 1,000,000 gigabytes) Cloud Server for under $120,000.

BackBlaze, a company that provides unlimited online backups for just $5/month, has just released their company’s secret. They can build this “perabyte” cloud server for just about $117,000. Compared that to Dell’s $826,000 or Amazon EC’s $2M equivalent storage space.

Perhaps they did provide this HOWTO as a marketing ploy but it’s a very honest marketing ploy and I am buying it.

I have to say I am highly impressed that BackBlaze had the courage to share their knowledge to the world. I see that their web traffic has skyrocketed overnight, must be getting a lot of new customers. (I am even thinking about signing up for their backup service, maybe they can give me one free so I can test it out for the next couple years? hahaha, I love free stuff.)

You can read full instructions on their blog here.

In essence, they just showed you how to start a storage server company at the minimal cost. Of course, there’s more involved than just making servers but still, they just solved 90% of the overhead for you.

Before realizing that we had to solve this storage problem ourselves, we considered Amazon S3, Dell or Sun Servers, NetApp Filers, EMC SAN, etc. As we investigated these traditional off-the-shelf solutions, we became increasingly disillusioned by the expense. When you strip away the marketing terms and fancy logos from any storage solution, data ends up on a hard drive. But when we priced various off-the-shelf solutions, the cost was 10 times as much (or more) than the raw hard drives. Here’s a comparison chart of the price for one petabyte from various venders:

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USB to SATA combo kit

David Allen — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:00:03 +0000

This is something that all computer users might need at some time; it can transfer your files no matter how large they are or in did what they are. Apparently, you can dock just about any old drive into this device and it may seem strange but sometimes that is going to be useful.

Features

Connect USB 2.0 ports to any IDE or SATA drive:

3.5″ IDE

2.5″ laptop IDE

1.8″ micro IDE

3.5″ SATA

2.5″ SATA

Optical drive that supports standard IDE or SATA connectors*

AC Input: 100-240v/50-60hz

DC output: 5v/12v

Supports Windows (98se and up) or Mac OS (8.6 and up)

Includes power supply, molex y-splitter, USB cable and drive dock

Priced at $24.99

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Hard drive and flash drive popsicles

David Allen — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:00:10 +0000

Do not leave these laying around otherwise someone is likely to pick it up and eat and that would not go down very well with the person that owns this device. They may look like popsicles but these are very impressive pieces of hardware.

Features:

Chocolate (120GB HD / 8GB flash)

Strawberry (80GB HD / 4GB flash)

Vanilla (60GB HD / 2GB flash)

No word on prices

Source [Techna Bob]

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Transferring files made easy

David Allen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:00:45 +0000

It is amazing how many files and applications are stored on a laptop, but when it is time to move some of them, it can be a nightmare. This where a device like this from PQI comes in very handy, it is a flash drive and a way of transferring files from one computer to another, in fact data can be transferred in both directions making it for people who use a desktop and a laptop.

PQI Cool Drive U360 product specification:

Interface: USB 2.0

Transfer rate: Up to 21 MB/s

Capacity: 4 GB to 16 GB

Dimensions: 64 x 21.5 x 12 (mm)

Weight: 11g ± 0.5g

Warranty: 2 years

No news on prices or launch dates yet

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The super Dell XPS 630

David Allen — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:00:31 +0000

As far as PC’s go there are simply just too many to choose from, so it depends on what you want do on the computer, it seems that gamers are the most demanding of computer users and therefore computer makers are now producing machines that are designed specifically for the gamer market.

This is the Dell XPS 630, a gaming machine that appear to have fashioned itself on “Knightrider” but it is great value, according to Dell this is about half the price of the original price tag in 2008.

So what do you get?

Powerful Intel Core 2 E8400 CPU running at 3GHz

A 6MB cache

1333MHz front-side bus

SLi Dual nVidia GeForce 9800GT with 512MB of memory

2GB of high speed RAM

7200 RPM 500 GB SATA hard drive

Pre-loaded OS, you will get Windows Vista Home Premium, 64-bit Edition

Priced at $999 but only for a short time

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The super Dell XPS 630

MacBook Hack – How to Make MacBook Run Faster!

max — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:31:50 +0000

Well, the Ken Mingis over at ComputerWorld has figured out how to make a Macbook run faster, simply by swapping out the harddrive with an SSD, read more there.

As I’m wont to do whenever I get a new computer, I ran a quick Xbench benchmarking test. The results were about what I had expected — in a good way. The faster SSD yielded an Xbench score for the MacBook of 144. That’s on par with the SSD-based MacBook Air I had parted ways with. (The Air had a score of 141.) And both were far ahead of the Xbench scores for the 2.4-GHz MacBook I tested in October (122) and my old 2007-model 17-in. MacBook Pro (118).

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Desktop USB 2.0 external hard drive

David Allen — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:00:34 +0000

This is great way of storing your data, photos, music and videos without having to store it on a computer, this will the user the move from computer to another without the fear of losing anything or not being able to get into files and folders etc. It is ideal for both business and home use and will free up valuable hard drive space from a Mac or PC.

Product Features and Technical Details

Product Features

1TB external desktop hard drive

Free storage solutions for your home or work files

Easy set-up

USB 2.0 and 1.1 compatible

PC and Mac compatible

Technical Details

Main Specifications

Product Description: Maxtor Basics Desktop – hard drive – 1 TB – Hi-Speed USB

Type: Hard drive – external

Form Factor: 3.5″

Dimensions (WxDxH): 4.5 cm x 12.7 cm x 20.3 cm

Weight: 1.1 kg

Localisation: Middle East, Africa, Europe

Capacity: one TB

Interface Type: Hi-Speed USB

Data Transfer Rate: 480 Mbps

Spindle Speed: 7200 rpm

Buffer Size: 32 MB

OS Required: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Apple MacOS X 10.2.8 or later, Microsoft Windows Vista

Power Source: Included AC adapter

Manufacturer Warranty: 3 years guarantee

Extended Specifications

General

Width: 4.5 cm

Depth: 12.7 cm

Height: 20.3 cm

Weight: 1.1 kg

Localisation: Middle East, Africa, Europe

Device Type: Hard drive – external

Expansion / Connectivity

Interfaces: one x Hi-Speed USB

Manufacturer Warranty

Service & Support: 3 years guarantee

Service & Support Details: Limited warranty – 3 years

Miscellaneous

Cables Included: one x USB cable

Power

Power Device: Power adapter

Software / System Requirements

OS Required: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional , Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Apple MacOS X 10.2.8 or later, Microsoft Windows Vista

System Requirements Details: Windows 2000/XP/Vista – Pentium III – 500 MHz – RAM 128 MB ¦ MacOS X 10.2.8 or later – PowerPC G4 – RAM 128 MB

Hard Drive

Form Factor: 3.5″

Interface Type: Hi-Speed USB

Buffer Size: 32 MB

Capacity: one TB

Internal Drive Interface Type: Serial ATA

Performance

Spindle Speed: 7200 rpm

Interface Transfer Rate: 480 Mbps

Priced at $105

Source [Amazon]

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Desktop USB 2.0 external hard drive

Harddisk Hack – How to Make a Harddisk DataLocker!

max — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:16:11 +0000

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A sophisticated harddisk datalocker using a PIC microcontroller might not be what you had in mind for securing your data but this guy has done just that, all colorfully illustrated with detailed instructions.

How to turn and ordinary external harddrive into a datalocker using only a PIC microcontroller, a keypad and some various other components.

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Harddisk Hack – How to Make a Harddisk DataLocker!

The ImageMate 12 into 1 reader

David Allen — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:00:55 +0000

This sort of device comes in very handy when there are different cards to be read, these days memory cards come in all shapes and services and but they are not going to be a problem when the user has this device to call upon when needed.

Product Features and Technical Details

Product Features

Transfer, print, email, and display images with the touch of a button

Hi-Speed USB 2.0 certified for superior data transfer

Backwards compatible with all USB 1.1 ports

No additional card adapters needed

Easy to install and use no additional driver installation required for Windows ME, 2000, XP and OS X v10.1.2+

Separate reader and docking station for easy desktop/laptop connectivity

Certified Windows XP and Mac OS X

Technical Details

Main Specifications

Product Description: SanDisk ImageMate 12-In-1 Memory Card Reader – card reader – Hi-Speed USB

Product Type: Card reader Hi-Speed USB

Supported Flash Memory: CompactFlash Card type I, CompactFlash Card type II, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, MultiMediaCard, SD Memory Card, SmartMedia Card, Memory Stick Duo, xD-Picture Card, Memory Stick PRO Duo, miniSD, RS-MMC

Expansion Slots Total (Free): 1 ( 1 ) x CompactFlash Card – type I/II ¦ 1 ( 1 ) x SD Memory Card ¦ 1 ( 1 ) x miniSD ¦ 1 ( 1 ) x RS-MMC ¦ 1 ( 1 ) x Memory Stick PRO ¦ 1 ( 1 ) x Memory Stick PRO Duo ¦ 1 ( 1 ) x SmartMedia Card ¦ 1 ( 1 ) x xD-Picture Card

OS Required: Apple MacOS X 10.1.2 or later, Apple MacOS 9.2 or later, Microsoft Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP

Extended Specifications

General

Width: 52 mm

Depth: 100 mm

Height: 150 mm

Compatibility: PC, Mac

Product Type: Card reader Hi-Speed USB

Expansion / Connectivity

Connections: 1 x Hi-Speed USB – 4 PIN USB Type A

Miscellaneous

OS Required: Apple MacOS X 10.1.2 or later, Apple MacOS 9.2 or later, Microsoft Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP

Priced at $22

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EZ Grabber for video capture

David Allen — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:00:01 +0000

This is ideal for people who want to transfer film from video to their computer, sounds idea! Well it should be as there are many people around who are in this predicament and time is running out, because video tape are fragile and can easily get damaged.

Product Features

Easy to use push to start push to stop capture button;

USB 2.0 PnP Interface

Real-Time MPEG 4/2/1 encoding

Burn edited files onto DVD VCD SVCD…

Capture video source from VHS V8 Hi8…

Easy Use, just push start/stop button

USB 2.0PnP Interface

Real Time MPEG 4/2/1 encoding

Burn Files onto DVD, CVD and SVCD after edited

Capture Video source from VHS,VH8 and Hi8

USB Audio (pro version) support, one USB Cable to your PC.

Technical Details

Video Resolution – NTSC 720*480@30FPS-PAL 720*576@25FPS

MPEG Encoder/*MPEG Editor/*Burn DVD

Support Still Image in JPEG or BMP Format

External Video Input: Composite and S -Video

Automatic NTSC/PAL Detection

System Requirements

Pentium IV GHz or higher

256MBRAM of system memory

Graphics Card

USB port

Sound card

1 GB free HD space

Priced at $40

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EZ Grabber for video capture

DIY Hard Disk Clock for Sale on Etsy!

max — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:36:09 +0000

Remember the wall clock made from a hard disk? Well, there’s an Etsy seller who’s selling this-style of hard disk clock for $32.

It’s sold out right now but this is an awesome clock to get if it’s available again soon.

This is a real 3 1/2in computer Hard drive converted into a desk clock with a quartz drive movement installed. The clock measures roughly 4″w x 6″h, and runs on 1 AA battery, included. It will make a great conversation piece on your desk or a special gift for that geek you know who is so hard to shop for. Since these clocks are made from actual recycled hard drives and circuitboards condition and model may vary slightly. Handmade in USA.

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USB Hack – How to Turn a USB Flash Drive into a Local Hard Disk!

max — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:33:08 +0000

GetUSB.info has a great write up on how to turn a USB Flash drive into a local hard disk. This might be a great way to stick everything you need in a USB if you happen to use multiple computers on daily basis

The process of turning a USB stick into a hard drive is fairly easy. However, there are limitations. For example, this works best with Windows XP operating systems. You also need to update the drivers for the device for any computer you are going to use. Typically, this isn’t a big deal as you can easily do this for your work and home computers. However, this isn’t a great solution if you are trying to create a partitions USB stick for distribution to many possible users [say trade show give-away].

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USB Hack – How to Turn a USB Flash Drive into a Local Hard Disk!

DIY HardDisk Christmas Tree!

max — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:43:11 +0000

Check out this really cool DIY Harddisk Christmas tree. Of course, don’t forget about my Soju Christmas tree and the LED Christmas tree either.

At our work we were decomissioning six old HP/Compaq servers to clear up space for new servers and, naturally, each server had a fairly large raid array. Instead of formatting every hard drive (would have taken weeks performing a DoD level wipe) and disposing them all together with the servers, I decided to disassemble the hard drives and recycle them into something neat. With a lot (a lot) of patience, I made this shiny Xmas tree. In total there are around 70 old SCSI hard drives, between 9gb and 18gb in size each. They were nice and chunky, oldschool style. There were quite a few different hard drive models, which is good because they each had different bits which I could use. The Xmas tree is made with parts from hard drives only except for one nut which I had to purchase for $0.39.

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DIY HardDisk Christmas Tree!

Computer DIY – How to install a IDE hard drive

max — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:17:01 +0000

Need that new hard drive, but don’t know how to go about installing it? Well, it’s super easy. Even this guy can do it:

According to him, just slide the wires over and insert your hard drive. That’s what she said, too!

Oh man. I’m so funny.

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Computer DIY – How to install a IDE hard drive

DIY – How to Make Solid States Drives with SD Flash Cards!

max — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:17:08 +0000

Here’s an idea I had been thinking of before, getting together bunch of 16GB SD cards and making a Solid State Drive.

Apparently, a company in Germany has made this type of device available already, what a great idea:

With the Flexi-Drive S2S we introduce a flexible adjustable memory solution.

Simply insert the desired number of SDHC cards (max. 6) into the Flexi-Drive’s slots. The card’s individual memory capacities merge into one and are available as a single drive then.

Benefit from this flexible, convenient memory solution that can be used as a normal 2.5″ SATA HDD providing the advantages of a SSD: no noise emission, low power consumption and shock resistance.

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DIY – How to Make Solid States Drives with SD Flash Cards!

DIY – How to Make a Wall Clock from Recycled Harddrives!

max — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:03:44 +0000

Remember the DIY Harddisk Clock? Well, here’s another cool wall clock made from recycled harddrives.(or harddisks)

step 1
Materials and Tools Needed
Tools that you will need for this project are: 1. Drill – I would suggest small DREMEL type drill with bench press. 2. Some Drill bits 3. Kit of Screwdrivers, type and ga…

step 2
Disassembling Hard Drives
First of all you have to undo screws as shown in picture below, after that you’ll be able to remove one or two shiny disks (platters) and some thick aluminum washers. Unde…

step 3
Assembly
First of all you have to assemble solid base, for this I have chosen to use Hard Drive Motors. Join the motors as shown in the pictures to form desired shape of your clock.…

step 4
Fitting Quartz Clock Movement
To attach QUARTZ CLOCK MOVEMENT I have used hot glue. Of course before sticking anything into place you have to measure things accordingly. I have also sprayed quartz move…

step 5

Finishing Touches and setting TIME
The last thing you have to do is attach clock arms and set the TIME DONE !

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DIY – How to Make a Wall Clock from Recycled Harddrives!

2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA HDD Dock with Cooling Fan for backing up/connecting your Extra Harddrives!

max — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:10:54 +0000

I have to admit opening up my harddrive everytime I needed to swap out harddisks or even with the use of removable harddisk docks, I still find it not versatile and flexible enough for all the computer I have.

But here’s a great harddisk dock that can be connected to your PC via USB and accepts 2.5″ or 3.5″ SATA harddrives. At $92, this is a really great gadget to have, especially if you have multiple harddrives you need to plug in and out all the time.

Features:

# Supports both S-ATA 2.5″ HDD and 3.5″ HDD
# USB 2.0
# Big cooling fan (8 cm) is built-in to prevent HDD from overheating
# Fan Speeding: 0 ~ 1800 rpm
# New power saving design added so power ON/OFF status follows the computer linked automatically!
# Temperature and Humidity: 5°~ 35°:, humidity 20 ~ 80%
**This machine should be used in the operation range of the connected PC
# AC Power Adapter input: 100 ~ 240V, 50/60Hz, 1.5A
# AC Power Adapter output: 12V/3A
# Support Windows VISTA, XP, Linux and Mac OS
# Dimension: 134 mm ( W ) x 127 mm ( H ) x 100 mm ( D )
# Weight: 480g

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2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SATA HDD Dock with Cooling Fan for backing up/connecting your Extra Harddrives!

DIY Hacked USB Thumb Drive!

max — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:53:50 +0000

DIY Hacked USB Thumb Drive!

For those of you who need a real USB Thumb drive, this might not be the right picture but for those of you who want to have some fun, just go and grab an old harddrive, USB ports, and couple USB Flash Drives for a real good Thumb Drive laughs.

This ordinary looking hard drive when plugged into a USB port will mount 4 USB thumbdrives onto your computer. Cool idea to make some use of some old computer parts. It would have been cool if the drive would spin up when one of the drives were being accessed.

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Toaster Drive for PCs or Macs!

max — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:46:04 +0000

I must admit I do spend an awful amount of time in front of my computer and there’s always need for some nice toasted bread.

Here’s a Toaster Drive that will fit on any 5.25″ drive bays and you can connect it to your PC power supply for power.

How cool is that?

Now, I have a toaster to make myself breakfast without having to leave my comfy (and cheap) IKEA chair.

We listen to Gamers and what product do they want the most? Turns out Gamers crave toast. Enter the CrazyPC 5.25 Bay Toaster. What better way to satisfy that late night snack craving than a healthy piece of toast? Just slide in a slice of bread – and voila you have toast in just minutes. The Bay Toaster fits in a standard 5.25 drive bay and installs in just minutes. Comes with Windows software for adjusting heat and time (Mac OS version coming soon!)

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Toaster Drive for PCs or Macs!

DIY – How to Make a Coffee Roulette!

max — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:32:18 +0000

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No, this isn’t your Russian roulette or Vegas roulette you are more familiar with. It’s a “techno-geek” coffee roulette machine made from worn-out harddrives to find out who’s making coffee for the day.

This is a gadget made from recycled computer parts to give an absolute, unequivocal and irrefutable answer to that eternal office question – “Whose turn is it to make the coffee?” Each time the power is turned on, this wonderful device will randomly select a person to do the coffee-run.

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DIY – How to Make a Coffee Roulette!

Original Google Storage Server Made with Legos!

max — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:11:45 +0000

It’d be hard to believe but yes, Sergey Brin and Larry Page made their first 40GB Google Storage Server with lego casing. Perhaps they might have been great lego-designers if they didn’t come up with Google.

The development of the Google algorithms was carried on on a variety of Computers, mainly provided by the NSF-DARPA-NASA-funded Digital Library project at Stanford. Click to see the equipment in its laboratory setting on the basement floor of Gates Information Sciences. Crawling the web to obtain its link structure required an enormous amount of storage in comparison with typical student projects at that time. We show here the original storage assembly, containing 10 4 Gigabyte disk drives, giving 40 Gbytes total.

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Eco-Friendly Harddrive Lowers Carbon Footprint!

max — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:50:27 +0000

Here’s a cool eco-friendly harddrive called “[re]drive” by Fabrik made with materials that lessens the carbon footprint.

The [re]drive has 500GB of storage and promises 25% faster data transfer with its Turbo USB 2.0 connectivity compared to standard USB 2.0. Both Mac and Windows users can use the [re]drive and it ships with automate backup software for archiving important data. The SimpleTech [re]drive is available today for $159.99.

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5TeraByte 3.5-inch Hard Drive coming within the Next 2 years!

max — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:14:06 +0000

5 TB 3.5 inch hard drives maybe coming soon…in the next 2 years or so.

Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain.

According to a report by Nikkei Net, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will use Current-Perpendicular-to-Plane Giant Magnetoresistance (CPP-GMR) magnetc read heads to achieve the aim. This, the firm claims, will allow its drives to store 1TB of data in every square inch of the recording surface.

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5TeraByte 3.5-inch Hard Drive coming within the Next 2 years!

Eco-Mode 3.5″ HDD Sata HardDisk Case saves you up to 71% of Energy!

max — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:30:37 +0000

Marshal’s new case for 3.5″ SATA HDD can save you up to 71% of energy and harddisk operations as it automatically stops disc rotation after 5 minutes of inactivity.

What do we think?

It’s great for the harddisk and the environment, get one when they are available. Products like this save you both money and help promote eco-friendliness.

Technically speaking, nothing revolutionary, simply an ECO mode that stops disc rotation after 5 minutes of inactivity. According to Marshal, power consumption is reduced up to 71% when the disc is in standby.

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Eco-Mode 3.5″ HDD Sata HardDisk Case saves you up to 71% of Energy!

Samsung Flash SSD – World’s Fastest Storage Device!

max — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:23:14 +0000

Samsung has just announced their new FlashSSD drives.

With a read speed of 200MB/s and write speed of 160MB/s, The 256GB SSD is supposedly 2.4 times faster than you regular ol’ hard drive.

SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed its 2.5-inch, 256 GB multi-level cell(MLC) based SSD using a SATA II interface at the fifth annual Samsung Mobile Solution Forum held at the Westin Taipei Hotel.

With a sequential read speed of 200MB/s and sequential write speed of 160MB/s, Samsung’s MLC-based 2.5-inch 256GB SSD is about 2.4 times faster than a typical HDD. Furthermore, it is only 9.5millimeters (mm) thick, and measures 100.3×69.85 mm.

Samsung is expected to begin mass producing the 2.5-inch, 256GB SSD by year end, with customer samples available in September. A 1.8-inch version of the 256GB SSD is expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 2008.

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Samsung Flash SSD – World’s Fastest Storage Device!

Western Digital Portable 320GB fits in your pocket!

max — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:57:03 +0000

It looks like these 320GB passport-size storage beasts are released…in Korea. Darn it…

Next time your friend goes to Korea, make them get one for you on the black market. (It’s cheaper, you can haggle real low…)

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Western Digital Portable 320GB fits in your pocket!

DIY Hard Disk Drive Drum Machine!

max — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:59:33 +0000

Wow, this is awesome! This guy is serious about recycling. The hard disks are connected to his MIDI system and are all coordinated to play drums. Well watch the video after the jump to see it in action!

Fibra from Belgrade has created an interesting drum system. It uses old hard drive read/write arms as drum hammers. The original hard drive voice coils are used to move the arms. The picture above is the new system which doesn’t seem to be documented yet, have a look at the video for a demonstration of the first version. If you need a larger hard drive project fix have a look at these hard drive projects.

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