I’m not exactly a “pack rat” per say. But if you stopped by my house and took a peek inside my desk drawers, you’d final all kinds of miscellaneous computer parts, cords, and adapters. I’ve amassed quite the collection. Naturally, upgrading a computer here and there will result in a few extra hard drives. In the case of upgrading laptop hard drives more than is usual, I have a couple collecting dust. Why not put them to good use? Normally...
Who doesn’t want a faster computer? When I help people out with computer issues, the thing I hear most often is “how can you make my computer faster?” A hard alone isn’t going to do much, unfortunately. But it is one area that in the near future that will make at least a small noticeable difference, especially with 6Gbps SATA 3.0 on board. Whipping around at 7200RPM’s, Seagate bills their new 2TB Constellation ES monster drives as...
Even though Windows 7 is the current go-to option for Windows OS’s, may people for many reasons still rely on XP day in and day out to get their work done. Being the fact that XP itself is inching towards a decade old, at some point compatibility issues will arise. And speak of the devil, a new issue is in fact cropping up. It all has to do with hard drives and hard drive formats. It’s really a pretty simple thing — new hard drives have 4k sectors, old...
I’m one for unique, creative, and downright “your jaw hit’s the floor it’s so cool” gadgets. When someone takes the time to blend various objects or modify gadgets into new things that are completely off the wall, it’s a testament to how much of a nerd they really are. Say someone were to take your normal spinning hard drive, place a few LED’s behind the spinning platter, cut out some numbers, and time it all so the LED’s lit...
SSD hard drives are great and all, but there’s still one big roadblock as far as ultimate speed is concerned. Some of the high-end SSD’s easily eclipse the throughput that USB 2.0 can muster. Kind of negates the point of an SSD now doesn’t it? Thankfully, speed have a crutch to fall back on by way of Active Media Products’ “Aviator-2 USB 3.0 SSD. Available in 64GB and 128GB capacities, expect to hit 230MB read times for both and 130/120 MB/s...
