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An Apple patent application shows off a more rugged hard drive enclosure, presumably for external hard drives or maybe a portable Time Capsule.
The ruggedness is achieved by angling a 3.5″ hard drive inside an enclosure and putting dampened wedges on each corner of the drive. Apple says this will increase the hard drive’s ability to take a fall and keep on running.
Check out the full patent application, along with several images of the invention, below. [click to continue…]
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Amazon has a good Gold Box deal today with this Seagate Barracuda 1TB, 7,200 RPM, 32 MB cache, 3.5 inch hard drive at $46.99 and free shipping.
Also worth mentioning here is the Seagate Barracuda 2TB, 7,200 RPM, 64 MB cache, 3.5 inch hard drive for $74.99 and free shipping. No Gold Box deal here, but that’s double the storage and cache rate for only $28 more.
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CRU-DataPort’s DriveBoxes make that stack of bare hard drives sitting on your desk a little safer for the drives and more aesthetically pleasing for your eyes. They make it easier to stack multiple drives on a shelf and are generally healthier for your stored drives over long periods of time.
These anti-static drive cases are available for 2.5″ and 3.5″ hard drives. Starting at $5.50 a piece, they aren’t too tough on your wallet. You can buy them in bulk packs on Amazon.
More details over at CRU-DataPort’s website.
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Hot on the heels of the new MacBook Pro models with Thunderbolt, LaCie has introduced a dedicated Thunderbolt-compatible external drive. The Little Big Disk should be available this summer and will pack two 250GB Intel 510 Series SSDs that are preconfigured as a Striped RAID Set.
When LaCie showed off a prototype of the Little Big Disk at the Intel Developer Forum last September, it was churning over a 700MB/s constant data transfer rate at the end of a daisy chain that also included a DisplayPort monitor.
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Hitachi is rolling out a new 10,000 rpm hard drive dubbed and the Ultrastar C10K600 and is available in 300GB, 450GB and 600Gb capacities. Because this drive is a 2.5 inch form factor the power consumption will be substantially less a 3.5 inch drive not to mention the space saving. Hitachi is claiming that this drive is most energy efficient in the class. Read more in the press release after the break.
Check Amazon for availability. [click to continue…]
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Lacie has you covered with USB 3.0 hard-drives. Lacie has just introduce the Rikiki and Minimus USB 3.0 hard-drives and if sleek and small is the ticket for, then look no farther. Lacie claims the worlds smallest desktop and portable hard-drives are right here. [click to continue…]
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Seagate has rolled out a new storage solution named GoFlex Home, a wireless backup hard drive that should prove great for portable devises like laptops and netbooks. Not only can files be backed up wirelessly, but movies music and photos can stream wirelessly to connected devices like the GoFlex TV HD media player or game consoles. [click to continue…]
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Amazon has got a solid deal on this Western Digital 1TB external hard drive. It’s $86 and ships free through June 6.
[via Amazon]
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LaCie announced the new Rugged Safe today, which offers multiple layers of data protection by combining 128-bit AES hardware encryption, biometric fingerprint access and a shock-proof Rugged enclosure. It’s bus-powered through USB 2.0 and FireWire 800 and is PC/Mac compatible. The Rugged Safe is also the first encryption-based mobile hard drive to offer 1TB capacity. 500GB drives run $190, while a 1TB drive will set you back $300.
More info in the press release below. [click to continue…]
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LaCie has dropped some new eSATA-equipped hard drives to its ‘Rugged’ line. The eSATA connector allows for transfer speeds up to 90MB/s. The only model currently available is a 500GB version, which runs $159.99 retail.
More details in the press release below. [click to continue…]
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