Reviews of Hard Drives

As the world continues to go wireless, Apple is keeping up the pace with their new Apple Time Capsule 1TB MB277LL/A external hard drive. The new Apple Time Capsule provides you with a wireless hard drive, AirPort Extreme Base Station (with 802.11n) and a USB port for connecting a USB printer or another USB external hard drive.

As an external hard drive, the LaCie Golden Disk 1TB 301192U is a nice combination of sophistication with a professional sleek design. You will be pleasantly surprised with how small and quite this external hard drive is; it is perfect for home and small businesses (supports both Microsoft Windows Vista/ 2000 /XP and MacOS X 10.3 or later operating systems).

The SimpleTech SimpleDrive Desktop 750GB SP-UF35/750 external hard drive is compact and stylish. Designed by famous Ferrari design house, Pininfarina, this slim and sleek external hard drive can fit anywhere on your desk and blend right in. As the manufacturer name implies this hard drive is a simple as plugging it in to your power source and hitting your preloaded One-Click backup button.

What we would really like to be incorporated in hybrid drives is the flash component becoming a much larger piece of the cake than the current 256MB in Momentus 5400 PSD, perhaps 2 to 4GB.

While Toshiba was the first to announce a 320GB hard disk for notebook PC’s, it’s Western Digital that has actually hit the market with a 320GB disk coming from it’s Scorpio series.

Once incorporated by notebook manufacturers in their systems, it would be exciting to see this hard drive in action.

Offering a high capacity, easily portable, and with a shelf life that other PC components should envy, Iomega's new 70GB Rev disks have plenty going for them. But with users' data growing at exponential rates, is the new size worth buying into? Or are hard drives, optical media, or tape still the way to go? We take a look.

As expected there were lots of items on sale the day after Christmas and one of them was this Maxtor 300GB hard drive. The regular retail price for this hard drive is about 200 bucks, and yesterday I purchased it for about 80 dollars after rebates. If you go to CompUSA.com and type in "Maxtor 300" you will see this drive for $79.99. But just did not want to get another internal hard drive; in fact, I wanted an external for my backup needs. So I bought one of those internal to external converter kits by Acomdata for $50 and I was ready to go for half the price of retail external drivers.

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We examine the Hitachi T7K250, Samsung's SP2504C, Western Digital's Caviar RE 320GB and Seagate's brand-spankin' new 7200.10 300GB -- all situated near the intersection of cost and capability. Which comes out on top to be named the best drive for your dollar?

"Today we're taking a look at one of Western Digital's latest hard drives to hit the market. The WD2500JS is a 250GB hard drive with a 7,200RPM spindle motor which supports the new SATA-II interface allowing for a theoretical maximum 300MB/s transfer speeds. Read on as take a close look at the drive and compare it against a high-performing SATA-150 drive to find out the performance differences between SATA and SATA-II."