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The Best Web Apps and Online Services: Get the Most Out of the Cloud
By using Web-based applications and storing your files online, you can work from anywhere, on any device, for next to nothing.News
500GB Seagate Hard Drive Streams to 3 iPads
The battery-powered external hard drive lets you stream video and audio content to three different mobile devices at once, making long car trips with the family a bit more bearable.News
The 10 Best Free Hard Drive Utilities
Take control of your hard drive and data with these free and effective utilities.News
10 Biggest Tech Cover-Ups: Shut Up and Act Like Nothing’s Wrong
The list of tech companies that made business mistakes and didn't address them immediately includes Amazon, Apple, Dell, HP, Intel, and Sony, among others.News
Hitachi GST Expands Portable Storage Drives to Cloud
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies on Tuesday introduced new Touro storage offerings that package local and online storage so data can be accessed locally or…News
Samsung to Sell HDD Unit to Seagate in $1.4B Deal
Samsung Electronics will sell its hard-disk drive operations to Seagate Technology in a US$1.375 billion deal that will create strong links between the two…News
Intel and Micron Shrink NAND Flash
Intel and Micron Technology on Thursday said they had shrunk NAND flash memory in size, which could help add more storage and features to smartphones or tablets…News
Toshiba’s New Self-Erasing Hard Drives: The Ultimate in Data Security
When one of these intelligent hard disk drives is connected to an unknown host, it can erase itself, or a variety of other protective functions.News
Seagate Shipping World’s Slimmest Portable External Hard Drive
Seagate is now shipping what they claim is the world's slimmest portable external hard drive, which is as thin as a regular No. 2 pencil.News
Intel 320 Series SSD Boosts Capacity, Drops Cost
Test results for Intel 320 Series SSD show the third-generation drive benefits from new controller, adding reliability, security, and speed.News
Experts See Wide Use of Flash-hard Disk Hybrids by 2016
A quarter of new laptops and half of new desktop PCs will adopt an emerging data storage method by 2016, pairing flash memory with traditional hard disk drives…News
The Optical Drive: Appendix of the Modern PC
Once a core component of every laptop and desktop PC, the silver spinning disc is rapidly going the way of the floppy.News
IoSafe: Extreme Drive Testing
Watch as ioSafe's rugged portable hard drive survives gravity, water, and even firearms.News
Hard Drive Withstands Drops, Submersion, Shotgun Blasts
ioSafe's Rugged Portable hard drive launched at the Consumer Electronics Show this week withstood drops, submersion and even blasts from a 12-gauge shotgun.News
Speedy USB 3.0 Spec Quickly Becomes a Consumer Reality
Expect parity in pricing with USB 2.0 and for USB 3.0 everywhere in 2011.News
Seagate Shows Super-Slim External Hard Drive
Seagate's newest external drive is only about as thick as a smartphone.News
Hitachi-LG Data Storage Shows Off Hybrid Optical Drive
Optical drive concept could help boost system performance, too.News
Rocstor Embraces USB 3.0 for New Hard Drives
Rocstor adds USB 3.0 to two of its storage drive ranges in time for CES.News
Seagate Debuts Fast Green Drive
Seventy percent of the materials in the new drives can be recycled, and the drives use components low in halogen and have a super-low power consumption.News
Fearing More Wikileaks, Military Bans DVDs, Thumb Drives
The U.S. government, concerned of more 'Wikileaks', banned CDs, DVDs and USB drives from classified military computers.News
Playboy Releases Back Issues on Hard Disk
Just in time for the holidays–56 years of Playboy on a 250GB hard drive.News
Delorean Hard Drive Is Perfect For Time Machine
Great Scott! Back To The Future fans can store their files in style with their very own Delorean Hard Drive.News
Super-Slim SSD Promises Super Speeds
What's less than half a centimeter thick, has a smaller footprint than a credit card, and stores up to 400GB of data? It's the latest line of SSDs from Foremay.News
Storage and Useful Gadgets: Best of 2010
Our picks for serious storage–like the 3TB Western Digital MyBook Essential and the Iomega eGo SuperSpeed USB 3.0–mix here with innovative mice such as the Microsoft Arc Touch, and easy networking in the form of Cisco's M20 Valet Plus.News
Best Tech Products 2010: Full List, 1-100
PCWorld scanned the entire universe of technology this year–HDTVs, phones, tablets, PCs, e-book readers, storage, software, services, apps, digital cameras, camcorders, printers, and more–and picked the 100 best. Here's how we ranked them.News
Russian Hacker Builds 70 Terabyte Home Computer
Super rig holds sixty hard drives and forty fans.News
Western Digital Announces 2.5 and 3 Terabyte Hard Drives
The new SATA drives are part of the Caviar Green line and can be used as external storage devices or as internal disks on select systems.News
Iomega’s External SSD Boasts USB 3.0
Iomega USB 3.0 External SSD Flash Drive arrives in early November, but not many PC chipsets yet support its speed.News
Verbatim Introduces New USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Line
Verbatim's new portable hard drive line is super fast with USB 3.0.News
First 12TB Network Storage Server From Seagate, Chock-Full of 3TB Drives
Need more storage space in your network servers? Seagate has announced the BlackArmor NAS, a four-bay network storage server filled with 3TB drives for up to a whopping 12TB of storage.News
Bright Colors, Snazzy Style Highlight Holiday High-Tech Goodies
From retro-handsets you could crack a walnut with, to stylish digital music players, and $100k bluetooth headsets made from pearls here is a sneak peek at colorful 2010 holiday gear.News
Google Voice Failures: Lost in Transcription
Google’s Web-based phone service sends voicemail transcripts to your inbox. Whether they make any sense is another matter entirely.News
Dell Revamps Hardware Testing in Wake of Malware Issue
Dell has revamped its hardware testing process after discovered its servers had motherboards with malware.News
Sharp Unveils 100GB Blu-ray Disc
New discs, drives are the first to support BDXL specs, but rewritable 100GB and write-once 128GB BDXL will follow.News
Seagate GoFlex Home Aims to Broaden Network Storage
New drive strives to make sharing a drive easy.News
Lab Notes: Kingston vs. VelociRaptor Storage Smackdown
Our analysts do a little rogue performance testing after hours to figure out how a high-performance HDD like the VelociRaptor stacks up against a simple RAM upgrade.News
How Netgear’s ReadyNAS Ultra Redefines the Role of Network Storage
New network-attached storage redefines the concept of entertainment storage with TiVo support.News
Big Seagate 3TB Drive Ups Storage Ante
The external FreeAgent GoFlex Desk drive is the first hard drive to reach 3TB capacity.News
Apple’s New Mac Mini Is a Small Business Server Too
The new Mac Mini may achieve greater success as a small business server than as a living room media center.News
Samsung Lays Claim to World’s Fastest Blu-ray Drive
New 12X Blu-ray drive sets speed standard, external DVD writer slims down and new hard disk squeezes more data into less space.News
Hitachi LG Develops Blu-ray Drive With Built-in SSD
Hitachi LG Data Storage Korea is presenting a first-of-its-kind product at Computex this week, an Blu-ray Disc optical drive that combines a solid-state drive.News
Seagate Momentus XT Pairs SSD and HDD with Impressive Results
Seagate delivers performance at a low price with hybrid SSD/HDD combo drive.News
The Best and Worst of Our More Than 200 Research Calls
After calling branches of six chain stores about dozens of electronics products, we recount some of our most memorable experiences with the sales associates.News
5 Things You’ll Actually Like About the New Hotmail
Microsoft will launch an update of its e-mail service this summer with some innovative and useful features.News