Posts tagged with hard drives
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New From Drobo, The Doctor for Big Data Storage (Videos)
Posted by Dr. Iz on March 9, 2011
RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. Until 2010, this term was strictly business. It meant that several hard drives could be linked together and teamed for massive data storage needs. Now, with the availability of high-definition movie downloads and other graphic assets off the web, arrays of drives are more common at home.
An array is like a shelf or cabinet for placing several hard drives. Drobo provides these cabinets along with the firmware that helps you manage storage from your PC or Mac computer. You place your hard drives in your Drobo and you’ve got control of massive information as if it were stored on one huge drive. Like the Three Musketeers, it’s one for all and all for one!
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Google Errors and the Importance of Back-up
Posted by RNYK on March 8, 2011
On Sunday 2/27, according to The Huffington Post, a bunch of Gmail users signed in and found that their accounts had been effectively wiped clean. Due to an internal error, 150,000 gmail accounts were erased. People lost emails and vital storage.
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The New Western Digital 4 TB My Book Studio II
Posted by Atane on June 12, 2009
Western Digital recently released a 4TB version of the My Book Studio external drive. The new My Book is both Mac and Windows compatible. The eco-friendly My Book runs cooler and quieter, while using less energy than comparable drives. With a Firewire 800 connection, speeds are lighting fast. Of course, Firewire 400 and USB 2.0 connections are also available making it very flexible.
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LaCie’s 1TB External Hard Drive is for Packrats
Posted by Adam on May 2, 2007Are you a digital packrat? Do you refuse to delete things, just in case you might need them later? Sure, you’ve had those N’SYNC MP3s since high school and haven’t listened to them once in years, but maybe you’ll rediscover them someday! You never know, after all. And why delete all those games you’ve installed [...]
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Hard Drives: For Once, Something That’s Gotten Cheaper Over Time
Posted by Adam on March 15, 2007Completely unlike the current housing market, the hard drive market is rife with huge, spacious products for prices that are far, far lower than they were a few years ago. Back in the 90’s, you could spend $500 on a 10GB hard drive and you’d think you were one savvy shopper. These days, they don’t even make iPods that are 10GBs any more and the first 1000GB (or 1TB) hard drive just went on sale. Has the whole world gone mad?! Who cares? All that matters is that you can get lots of space for all of your music, movies, photos, and documents for less than a dinner for two at Nobu.
How much space are you looking for? You can go from a measly 80GBs to 500GBs, nearly 6 times the space, for less than twice the price. And if you’re feeling really crazy, you can even get a 750GB drive for not much more. Sure, it’s not as exciting as finding a 1500 square foot apartment near Union Square for under market, but what the hell do you want from us here? Just buy a hard drive and be happy with the little things.
