With as much digital junk as we amass these days, it’s a good idea to pick up a spare drive or four. They’re readily available and they can be found super cheap. While you really don’t need any more options in the way of portable hard drives, Gigabyte has two more offerings to add to your selection. The Pure Classic and Pure Classic 3.0 both come in 320 GB, 500 GB, 640 GB, and 720 GB capacities as well as ship with a handy little carrying bag. The...

Previous rumors of Apple opening up their own streaming/online locker service just received another healthy boost. The company is reported to have purchased 12 petabytes (12,000 terabyte…which equals 12,000,000 gigabytes) of storage from Isilon Systems, a Seattle, Washington-based manufacturer of storage products. iTunes could simply be requiring more servers for daily operations, but with previous online streaming services such as LaLa being gobbled up by Apple as...

Hardware giant, Western Digital, is about to get a bit more muscle in the fight against competing hard drive manufacturer, Seagate. Today, March 7th, 2011, WD announced that they were purchasing Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for ~$4.3 billion USD. In total, $3.5 billion in cash as well as $750 million worth of shares will trade hands. According to Western Digital CEO, John Coyne, scale is the sole source behind the purchase, citing the need for more size and...

As February rolls into March, the PC enthusiast sector is primed and ready for a slew of new hardware, with the most exciting being a slew of next gen SSDs from leading manufacturers. While OCZ’s Vertex 3 Pro may be the speed demon according to early previews, Intel in particular has something very interesting lurking within their new 510 series as well. If you know anything about Intel’s current line of SSDs, you know that compared to other higher end SSDs,...

As we impatiently wait for new SATA III 6.0 Gbps SSDs to hit the market, Plextor drops a gem on our laps. The MS2 line of solid state drives have a little something for everyone and come in 64GB, 128 GB, and 256GB capacities. Speeds for the 64GB drive comes in at 370MB/110MB per second read/write while the 128GB drive tops out at 420MB/210MB per second read/write. Finally, the top end 240GB drive rockets through the 1′s and 0′s at 480MB/s read and 330MB/s...