Apartment Therapy: hard drives

Brinell Purestorage Drives Are a Touch of Class

If Tom Ford was to carry a portable hard drive, we think it might be one of the luxurious Brinell Purestorage drives. Clad in either stainless steel, exotic wood like genuine Macassar wood, nappa le...

LaCie & Starck Mobile Hard Drive Collaboration

LaCie continues to bring out the star designer treatment, this time for a line of new hard drives designed by that lovable blowhard of iconic design, Philippe Starck. The aluminum sheathed USB hard ...

Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player

The Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player is a case of "close but no cigar". The system revolves around a concept not unlike gaming cartridges of yore, except now the "cartridges" consist of Seaga...

WiFi HD Turns Your iPhone and iPod Touch into a Wireless Hard Drive

What did you do this weekend? Oh yah. Cool. Well, I found the coolest iPhone/Touch app ever. Swear to God. WiFi HD uses your wireless network to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into an external hard ...

NES Cartridge External HD: An Homage to Old School Games

Just like a lot of people, we had Nintendo Entertainment Systems at home. It was the first console that started it all for a lot of game players. The others just followed this 8-bit wonder. Well, as a...

Aegis Secure Hard Drive: When Security Software Isn't Enough

If there's one thing that needs to be secure, it's your data. Sure, some of us don't have any essential information on our computers, but lots of people store valuable data on their hard drives. It's ...

Verbatim InSight Hard Drive Displays How Much Space Available

Despite the small army of hard drives we own, we're always a little concerned how much space remains ever since we switched from a multi-drive tower to a laptop that requires an external drive for med...

How Many External Hard Drives Do You Own?

Yeah, that there is the small community of external hard drives I use to backup or store files; a few files are saved in triplicate because of their importance, while one of the drives is never used b...

Bamboo Hard Drive: Uses Wood to Cool Down

We've learned by experience that not having any fans on external USB drives is a bad idea. These HDs get very hot. If they have no way of dissipating the heat they generate, they break. It's an easy p...

ClickFree Traveler: The Credit Card Backup Solution

In this data laden world, whenever our hard drives crash, we are in deep trouble. We can easily lose months of data without really thinking about it. Once it's gone, there is a good chance that you wo...

Seagate: Replica Hard Drive Does What It Says, In Style

Some things just look so much sexier in aluminum, no? And we're not just talking about soda pop here, we're talking about shiny accessories to complement your adored PC or Mac. Accessories like Seagat...

DIY Project Foldaway Home Editing Suite

click for more pics Tony Fasciano is a documentary filmmaker who works on two laptops and a desktop in his home editing office. The set-up makes it possible for Tony to multitask, "I can play music t...

Flickr Finds: Fifteen Year Old's Impressive Bedroom Office

We don't know about you, but when we were 15 we could barely save up for a video game, let alone an entire workstation. Maybe we should have taken some lessons from this kid. Found on Flickr, Lewspei...

Mediaphiles, Rejoice! WD ShareSpace NAS Gets Upgraded

Lovers of media - whether it be MP3s, Blu-ray rips, or photographers who enjoy doing it RAW - we have good news for you. Western Digital just announced they upgrading their ShareSpace network attached...

News: 2 Terabyte Hard Drives And Beyond

While the rest of us are still playing catch up, Western Digital is already taking their hard drive game into overdrive with their third-generation GreenPower drives, offering a whopping 2 terabytes o...

The State of Solid-State Drives
We Weigh In The Pros and Cons

Looking for a new laptop? Perhaps a notably cool "netbook" may be on your list. You may have also started to notice a new hard drive option called, "solid-state drive" (or SSD for short) when you're c...

Flash Drive Band: Wear Your Files

Now here is a flash drive that I could actually see myself carrying around....because I wouldn't actually be carrying it, but wearing it. While there is no shortage of flash drives masquerading as lip...

Tech Tour: Americana With a Silicon Valley Twist via Sweden

Names: Henrik Nyh and Johanna Öst Location: Stockholm, Sweden. Size: The entire home (a condo) is 63 square metres/678 square feet. Years Lived In:: Just over one year now. >>Enter Slideshow We fe...

HP MediaSmart Server: Do You Really Need It?

While the Windows Home Server operating system has been available for consumers for quite some time, it's been relatively hard to market the device to normal, everyday consumers. Surely, a media serve...

NewerTech Voyager Hard Drive Docking Solution

Our home office is littered with once-internally installed SATA hard drives that were yanked out of previous desktop machines. We've been swapping them in and out of an external hard drive enclosure i...

What a Difference a Flat Screen Makes

Kelly, who lives in Gurnee, Illinois, has quite the living room. Not only does she have an xBox and a Wii, but she's got an old school, coin-operated, Donkey Kong arcade system! What we love about Ke...

FreeAgent Go Portable Hard Drive Offers Tech Color Therapy

The folks at Seagate just dropped us a line about their FreeAgent Go Portable Hard Drive. They're now offering 10 different colourways of their portable drive, which comes in 250-500GB storage sizes, ...

Good Questions: Small Portable Hard Drive Recommendations?

Dear Unplggd, I just upgraded to a new laptop after owning a desktop for several years. I love my new MacBook but I've quickly realized that the downside of switching to a portable computer is the har...

An External Hard Drive Hanging On For Dear Life

Having an external hard drive to back up all your data is a good idea. You never know what could happen at any moment. But it's tougher for us laptop-wielding nomads. With such a portable computer, we...

Look! TV Mounted Above Fireplace

There are lots of places to place a flat screen when you're willing to look to your walls for support. Jonathan Craddock and his wife decided the empty spot above their fireplace was the best place f...

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