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“Seagate delivers a pocketsize powerhouse with their excellent new Momentus 7200.4 laptop hard drive, offering outstanding capacity and speed as well as an energy savings over your standard 5400rpm drive. What does this mean for performance? Quicker boot times, faster access, and a longer battery life for your laptop. Are there any negatives to this seemingly wonder drive? Read our review to find out.”

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Hard drive bays come in all shapes, sizes, features, and functions. What exactly are important in a good external hard drive adapter? Especially when considering the smaller 2.5″ hard drives. Of course you’re looking for something that will obviously connect your hard drive and transfer data, but what about the other aspects that push the experience beyond average? Today we look at the Eagle 2.5″ External to see how it performs.

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When it comes to storing and transporting your data there are a few options. Unfortunately floppy discs just don’t work well with the needs of people today. USB Flash drives continue to grow reaching up to 128Gb’s for a price (a 256gb model was just announced also) . But at least for now the only way to keep all of your photos with you are portable hard drives. When it comes to hard drives Seagate is obviously one of the big names, and with their Free Agent product line you can get just about any size and color that you would like. Today I will be taking a look at their FreeAgent Go 320 Gb drive, one of their portable hard drives.

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There are a lot of reasons one may have use for a docking station such as this: simply having multiple hard drives, having data stored on a smaller 2.5″ drive that needs accessed, or simply not enough room to install another drive in a case or laptop itself. The EZ-Dock provides solutions for all the above, including access to data and files without the trouble of physically installing a single piece of hardware (unless your case is absent an eSATA port, in which case Icy Dock has provided a quick fix). With such an involved piece of hardware, there are several instances in which a company can go wrong, and with such a micro-managed field technology is, even the smallest quirk can cause problems. Today, we take a look at Icy Dock’s EZ-Dock to see how well it performs under the stress of data access.

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In the past few years SSD’s or Solid State Drives have been slowly gaining popularity in the marketplace specifically in the enthusiast crowd. Of course with this growing market due to most SSD’s being in the 2.5 inch form factor some people have a need for 2.5 inch mounting options in their case. Unfortunately most current cases don’t have any, and obviously older cases don’t have them. Our friends at Icy Dock recognized this problem and took their knowledge of hard drive enclosures and produced a 2.5inch to 3.5 inch adapter. The adapters official name is the MB882SP-1S, considering our past experiences with Icy Dock I am excited to see how well it will perform. Lets dive in!

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“The Western Digital RE2 750GB SATA hard drive is now two generations removed from being the latest and greatest in their family of enterprise class hard drives, but it didn’t show its age when tested for use at home. While it performed well in typical desktop benchmarks, I can also see it being well suited to NAS duty, as a stand alone drive or in a RAID array.”

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“The Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB hard drive appears to be a good, solid performer. It runs cool, is quiet, and quite fast considering its slower spindle speed and meager cache size… With all things considered, the Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB SATA hard drive is a great buy and a great alternative for laptop and MicroPC storage.”

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“Years ago I never imagined I would “need” a terabyte of storage. Fast forward to today with the explosion of digital media and it is easy to justify such a need. Once you do acquire such a large drive you may worry about reliability, as 1TB of data is a lot to lose. Today we will test the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB hard drive in terms of speed, reliability, and value.”

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When shopping for a hard drive, most people don’t consider anything more than the amount of space you’re going to get for the lowest price. I will admit I’ve been guilty of this in the past. Of course as with anything else, there is a lot more to consider if you are looking to get a fast and reliable hard drive for your high end rig. Seagate is well known in the business and personal hard drive market. We happened to come upon two of Seagate’s ES-2 1 terabyte hard drives. Being a business class hard drive I was curious to see what differentiates the ES-2 compared to the Barracuda line.

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“Most hard drive enclosures look like just that, hard drive enclosures. InWin took quite a different approach with the ‘NA and what they have is a hard drive enclosure that brings some style to enclosures. The ceramic plate obviously sets it apart and can act as a place to set your keys (who hasn’t misplaced their keys before?) or other items like USB flash drives.”

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“Western Digital is one of the big names in hard drives, and one of their latest releases puts a much stronger emphasis on the word big. Model number WD20EADS is a 3.5″ SATA 3Gbps hard drive from their “eco-friendly” Caviar Green series that sports 32MB of cache memory and an industry leading 2TB of storage capacity.”

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There are quite a few reasons why a person would need a new 360 hard drive shell, which is essentially an enclosure in the console gaming world. One may be simply that the factory shell has broke, another may be that you simply don’t like the color of your current shell. But the third, and perhaps the instance where XCM holds value, is for system mods; no where on this shell do you see the company’s name, advertisements, numbers, or writing of any kind. It is simply a blank shell, ready to serve whatever your purpose may be.

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Integral P2NMAX is the complete solution for external usage of 2.5″ IDE, SATA, and Solid State Hard drives. Compatible with standard 9.5mm and the deeper 12.5mm hard drives. 12.5mm is a common depth for retro IDE and latest high capacity sata hard drives. Dual connection provides choice of fast and convenient USB2.0 or blazingly fast eSATA interface.

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