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Seagate eSATA External Hard Drive

Josh Norem — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:47:56 -0500

We’ve been waiting several years for eSATA (external SATA, that is) to show up. This month we’re happy to see the first eSATA drive actually arrive to market. If you’re looking for an external backup drive that’s much faster than a standard USB or FireWire drive, Christmas has come early.

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Maxtor One Touch III 100GB

Josh Norem — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:40:37 -0500

Maxtor has downsized its awesome One Touch Turbo desktop backup drive into this 100GB Mini model. It looks exactly the same as the Turbo, and it comes with the same excellent software.

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Western Digital Passport 120GB

The Maximum PC Staff — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:46:50 -0500

WD’s Passport is an all-around decent product, with a lot of storage and handy software, but fails to distinguish itself from similar Maxtor and Seagate products in any meaningful way.

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Seagate Barracuda 750GB

Josh Norem — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 02:00:01 -0500

Big companies rarely take chances, and Seagate—the world’s largest drive maker—is no exception. It has always played second fiddle to Hitachi when it comes to the 7,200rpm hard drive capacity war, and even though Seagate drives are reliable and semi-speedy, they’ve never delivered industry-leading or even outstanding performance. Well, those days are over.

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Western Digital MyBook PE 500GB

Josh Norem — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:45:02 -0500

Most people don’t keep up with the backup drive game, and we don’t blame them. It’s about as exciting as a “You’ll never believe what happened to me last night in Oblivion” story. The Cliff Notes overview is that WD’s Dual-Option Media Center drive has ruled the roost for a long time. We loved its high capacity and somewhat-easy-to-use software, but what really set it apart from the competition was its front-mounted USB port and 8-in-1 media reader.

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How To: Back Up Your Hard Drive

Michael Brown — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:00:48 -0500

What invaluable data is on your hard drive? Wedding photos? Financial records? Your saved games from Oblivion? Here’s how to preserve and recover those files in the wake of a disaster.

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Maxtor One Touch III Turbo

Josh Norem — Tue, 23 May 2006 14:24:49 -0500

Backup drives are usually pretty bland and uninteresting, consisting of just a drive mounted inside a plastic shell. Not this time! Maxtor has managed to tickle our Geek-spot by wedging two 500GB drives inside a sexy rubber lunchbox, and adding a dash of RAID for spice. It all amounts to one hell of a drive, and it’s the new end-all, be-all backup drive as far as we’re concerned.

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Hitachi Notebook Upgrade Kit

Josh Norem — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:08:44 -0600

Every notebook user has confronted capacity issues at some point: The dinky 20GB or 40GB drive that seemed big enough when you bought your laptop fills up, and you need more storage. You could buy an external USB/FireWire drive, but then you’d have to lug it around with you. Or you could upgrade the internal hard drive in your notebook, but what would you do with the old drive?

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