Want a gadget to nominate in the “gadget/invention of the year” award? Look no further than the HDDBOOST. It’s a super simple concept: a small box that has SATA connections for SSD and traditional spinning drives. The beauty of it is that the SSD you plug in (32GB recommended) acts as a big buffer to the slower, spinning hard drive, allowing you to only access the old giant when you need to directly access files. The pro’s are of course added...

It was bound to happen sooner or later — old “spinning” hard drives would eventually get replaced by non-moving storage variants. So far however, the last several years have seen countless flash based hard drives come about albeit at generally prohibitive costs and rather measly storage capacities. The former (cost) will always be a sticking point in new technologies. The latter however will finally be closer to it’s monetary worth thanks to a new...

In the world of consumer electronics, spinning hard drives and flash memory dominate. It’s been a long, long time since we’ve cared about magnetic tape storage. While the newer technologies such as actual spinning pieces of metal or static pieces of silicon have plenty of pros over magnetic tape, there is one big feature that the later two simply can’t beat — price. Magnetic tape storage is cheaper than cheap. So it isn’t too surprising to...

In the world of high end gaming and custom rigs, the general public always sees the higher-end Dell, Gateway, Asus, Alienware, etc. A rather unknown yet experienced custom computer manufacturer, “MinWin”, has quite the collection of gadgets to entice. The first juicy tidbit is their military grade 2.5″ USB 2.0 external hard drive. With USB 3.0 now on the verge of going mainstream, why go 2.0? Well, this particular USB 2.0 drive features shock protection...

I’m not even going to try and hide it — I have a goldfish memory. I can’t remember anything no matter how hard I try. To top it off, my mind wonders so fa… Often times notes are useless as I merely misplace them or forget to look at them. It kind of sucks really. But somehow I’ve managed to get this far so obviously I’ve figured out some working formula. As soon as I remember what it is I’ll let you know… With so many...