I-Star T5F-SS Hot-Swap Hard Drive Bay Review
I love storage. It doesn’t matter what kind. I have stock in those plastic dresser-style drawers, and I keep ‘em chock full of crap I’ll never use or at the most very rarely. Any time I look at a...
View ArticleGlacialTech Altair A381 Home Theater Case
We review so many Home Theater PC cases that sometimes they all start to look alike. Many of them try to mimic the look of either a home theater amplifier or DVD player. Due to size constraints, many...
View ArticleWhy You Should Wipe Free Disk Space
Computers have found very many applications in today’s world, in almost every field of human activity. Offices, schools, libraries, and other organizations that need to keep track of and organize huge...
View ArticleSansDigital MobileStor MS2UTN+ RAID Enclosure Review
Sometimes setting up a RAID array can be a pain in the butt. For one, professional RAID cards can be expensive. Two, many “easy RAID” features of motherboards are closed solutions. Three: cheaper...
View ArticleFix: Hard Drive goes to sleep even in High Performance Power Profile
I have a desktop PC running Vista Ultimate, and I want it running at its full potential. I have several hard drives, and notice that they do a “hard click” after a while, turning themselves off. I...
View ArticleSunbeamTech SATA Dock
I’ve always been an advocate of external devices. Except for HDD enclosures - the lack of heat dissipation on most of them makes me shudder in my Spiderman jammies. But other stuff, like thousands of...
View ArticleHow to Clean CD and DVD Drives
When your CD or DVD (disc) drive starts giving you problems, your first thought may be to replace it or take it to the repair shop, but a good cleaning may be all it needs. Below are three methods to...
View ArticleVerbatim BD-R and BD-RE BluRay Media Review
Let’s face it: DVD is on the way out as a data storage medium. Don’t believe me? Do you remember when writable CDs were all the rage? I do, and I have a receipt for the $1000 2x drive to prove it....
View ArticleVerbatim Quad-Interface eHDD
I don’t know how many times I’ve needed to back up my hard drive for a reinstall of my OS and been left wanting because I didn’t have any place to put all my pictures and data. I’ve had to rewrite...
View ArticleVerbatim Store n Go Micro 4GB Flash Drive Review
Nearly everyone in modern society has need for portable digital storage, and therefore carry some sort of USB flash drive. They have replaced the floppy drive in terms of portable ubiquity (even...
View ArticleVerbatim Tuff Clip 8GB Flash Drive Review
Nearly everyone has a USB drive today, but the one demographic that seems to have the most of them are students. Life would have been a lot different if I could carry around a 1-ounce piece of plastic...
View ArticlePurchasing a DVD Recorder
DVD (“Digital Versatile Disk”) players and recorders have all but replaced the VCR (“Video Cassette Recorder”) and its associated analogue technology, at the heart of home entertainment systems. A DVD...
View ArticleVerbatim Insight 500GB Portable Hard Drive Review
This year, give your loved one a little space. Storage space, that is. Christmas is just around the corner, and there’s no better gift for that nerd in your family than external storage for all those...
View ArticleEnermax Phoenix Neo Case
A generation ago the only way to tell the difference between a high end gaming PC and a beige office box was by looking inside. Today PC gamers want to brand their gear as fashionable as gaming...
View ArticleVantec SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCI-e Host Card Review
Computer technology never stands still for long. It wasn’t that long ago that USB took over as the de facto standard for PC computer peripherals, and has evolved into the standard data path for hard...
View ArticleRosewill RX358 USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure
SuperSpeed USB (otherwise known as USB 3.0) is a new standard for PC peripheral connectivity. Although Intel has been hesitant to make this interface truly standard, more and more vendors are...
View ArticleVantec NexStar3 NST-380S3 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Enclosure
SuperSpeed USB emerged onto the scene as an answer to the limited bandwidth of today’s current popular connectivity interface. The additional throughput is a boon for external hard drives, but most...
View Article8TB NAS – Upgrading the Primary Synology NAS Volume
Digital media is so common in today’s modern society. Even people who would not be considered “tech nerds” have many gigabytes of personal data. Be it MP3s, digital photos, eBooks, or documents, people...
View ArticleCooler Master Elite 310 Case Review
I’ll say it like it is, The Cooler Master Elite 310 is not the case you’re going to be selecting for your next powerful gaming rig. However, it still a solid case that would be suitable for a budget...
View ArticleWestern Digital MyPassport 1TB USB 3.0 Hard Drive
Western Digital’s MyPassport 1TB hard drive could be the answer you’re looking for. Not only does it offer a ton of storage, but comes in a small form factor and is equipped with USB 3.0 technology.
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