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    Cool gifts for geeks, 2011: Personal storage tech treasures

    Posted November 26, 2011 - 9:05 am

    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:

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    Hands-on: Seagate's GoFlex Slim drive makes your data more portable

    Posted April 6, 2011 - 6:03 am

    Seagate's new 320GB GoFlex Slim external hard drive offers USB 3.0 performance in a nicely thin case; however, you will pay for the privilege.

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    Hard Drives: Best Places to Buy

    Posted May 24, 2010 - 4:48 pm

    The key factors in buying a hard drive are drive type (internal, external, portable, network-attached, or solid-state) and capacity. Beyond that, most shoppers look at price, not at extra features.

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    Storage smackdown: Hard drives vs. SSDs

    Posted April 19, 2010 - 9:09 am

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

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    HP SimpleSave Portable 320GB Backup Drive

    Posted September 15, 2009 - 9:05 am

    The lightweight hard drives in HP's SimpleSave Portable series use built-in software that is streamlined, straightforward, and easy to navigate.

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    Seagate's Replica: truly set and forget

    Posted May 14, 2009 - 5:10 pm

    Imagine a really small toaster that was flattened, and you get the idea of the size of the Seagate Replica, a 250GB or 500GB hard drive that connects quickly and easily to your PC or notebook to provide instant backup of everything that you've got stored on the computer.

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    Verbatim 1TB Professional Hard Drive

    Posted May 14, 2009 - 4:46 pm

    Verbatim's 1TB Professional Quad-Interface Desktop Hard Drive is a speedy, chic, high-end desktop drive with an affordable price tag.

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    NAS devices offer big storage on small networks

    Posted January 29, 2009 - 11:23 am

    Even in a down economy, the obvious solution to our personal storage needs is to rush out, grab a handful of hard drives (no matter what the sizes) and hook one up to each of your computers -- especially since storage is now really cheap. The better idea, assuming you are networked, is to take a tip from enterprise-level IT and latch on to some network-attached storage (NAS).

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    Uncover Disk Secrets with Drive Manager

    Posted January 21, 2009 - 2:40 pm

    Drive Manager is a nice little utility which becomes more useful the more drives-- including USB keys and the like-- you use regularly.

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    Manual hard drive destroyer

    Posted December 14, 2008 - 1:58 pm

    Bow Industries, Inc. has developed a Manual Hard Drive Destroyer (MHDD).
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