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There’s a lot of shiny and flashy gadgets and home entertainment devices that will entice most of the population during the holidays – cameras, music players, camcorders and tablets are sure to be this season’s top sellers once again. But once gift recipients start to create content, listen to music, download apps or record videos, they will eventually need a good, safe and reliable digital place to store their stuff. That’s where storage comes in – it’s not always the sexiest product category, but there’s a lot of new innovations in storage that we think will make good gifts as well:

Before the proposed buyout by Western Digital is complete, Hitachi GSTs CEO said the future of its hard drive business rests squarely in the cloud and mobile market.

Seagate today announced its first 3TB internal hard disk drive, the 3.5-in Barracuda XT, which uses free software driver in order to allow legacy OSes, such as Windows XP, to access its full capacity.

Hitachi is not the first storage vendor to bring a 3TB drive to market. However, it is the first to introduce an internal 3TB drive reliable enough for hardcore business use.

To prove how rugged their new portable hard drive is, the folks at ioSafe host a bunch of journalists at a Las Vegas shooting range for the chance to fire a shotgun at the hard drive. Keith Shaw takes his best shot at destroying the drive.

Seagate has introduced a new high-speed, eco-friendly hard drive for low-power personal computers. The 3.5-inch desktop drive spins at 5900 RPM and includes the company's SmartAlign technology.

Apple's decision to use SSD technology rather than a hard drive in the new Macbook Air -- and Steve Jobs' pronouncement that it represents the future of notebooks -- could hasten the replacement of traditional drives with NAND flash technology.

Seagate and Iomega have announced new high-capacity portable drives; both support the USB SuperSpeed protocol.

The 64GB of storage space on the top-of-the-line iPad might be enough to appease most casual users, but those of us who routinely watch high-definition videos, or other disk-hogging media can blaze through that 64GB limit before lunchtime. Sanho's new HyperDrive, a hard drive specifically designed for the iPad, can help you get around the iPad's storage limits by letting you access video and photo files directly from the drive without the need of a computer.

Samsung today said it will begin selling three new drives next month, each representing higher performance or the smallest form factor for a product.

Solid state drives offer substantial benefits over traditional hard drives – they are faster, more reliable, use less energy and are quieter.

Raidon on Monday unveiled the HyBrid Disk, a storage device that features both a solid-state drive (SSD) and a hard drive in one mechanism.