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LaCie Launches Rugged Thunderbolt 1TB SSD Drive

April 8, 2015 By Eric Reagan

LaCie Rugged SSD Drive

LaCie has announced a new Rugged Thunderbolt external drive with a 1TB SSD inside, which doubles the capacity to the existing Rugged SSD drive. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Storage Tagged With: hard drive, lacie, rugged, SSD, storage

 

LaCie Announces First USB-C Hard Drive for New MacBook

March 10, 2015 By Eric Reagan

LaCie Mobile Drive with USB-C

LaCie looks to be the first company out of the gate with a new USB-C external drive that is compatible with Apple’s new MacBook.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: apple, Gear Tagged With: hard drive, lacie, USB-C

G-Tech G-RAID Thunderbolt 2 and USB 3.0 Drives Unveiled

February 23, 2015 By Eric Reagan

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G-Technology has announced a new G-RAID drive with Thunderbolt 2 and USB 3.0, as well as a unit with just USB 3.0.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: G-RAID, G-Tech, G-Technology, hard drive, raid, Thunderbolt 2

WD 8TB My Book Duo USB 3.0 Hard Drive Review

February 12, 2015 By Eric Reagan

WD 8TB My Book Duo External RAID Stor

The WD 8TB My Book Duo external hard drive is one of the bigger dual drives in the My Book line (but there’s also a 12TB version). It can be configured in RAID 0, 1 or as a JBOD drive.

It is a USB 3.0 interface and comes pre-formatted in NTFS for Windows. However, I use it in a Mac environment and it was very simple to reformat it for Mac OS X. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gear, Reviews Tagged With: 8TB, hard drive, raid, RAID 0, usb 3.0, WD, Western Digital

Best Hard Drive – 2015 Edition

January 22, 2015 By Eric Reagan

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Backblaze just posted its data on failure rates of hard drives that it uses in its data center. At the end of 2014, it had 41,213 drives active for storing all of the data in its unlimited backup service.

It uses a variety of hard drive capacities across HGST (formerly Hitachi), Seagate and Western Digital. There is everything from 1.5TB to 6TB drives in operation. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: data, hard drive, hard drive failure, Hitachi, seagate, WD, Western Digital

Seagate Seven is the Thinnest 500GB Portable Drive

January 15, 2015 By Eric Reagan

Seagate Seven Hard Drive

Seagate released a new 500GB hard drive at CES 2015 called the Seagate Seven. It is a 5mm spinning drive inside a minimalist housing for an overall 7mm thin hard drive. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: CES 2015, hard drive, portable, seagate, usb 3.0

LaCie Mirror External Hard Drive Unveiled

January 14, 2015 By Eric Reagan

LaCie Mirror Portable Hard Drive-3

Along with its new Rugged RAID 4TB Thunderbolt drive, LaCie announced the its less-practical LaCie Mirror portable external drive at CES 2015.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: CES 2015, hard drive, lacie, mirror, usb 3.0

4TB LaCie Rugged RAID with Thunderbolt Unveiled

January 12, 2015 By Eric Reagan

LaCie Rugged RAID 4TB-3

LaCie announced its new Rugged RAID drive at CES 2015 with a Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 interface. The new drive uses two internal hard drives that are preconfigured in hardware RAID 0 for sustained performance of up to 240 MB/s. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: CES 2015, external hard drive, hard drive, lacie, raid, rugged

Crucial SSD Upgrade Made My Old MacBook Pro Better than New

October 13, 2014 By Eric Reagan

Crucial SSD MacBook Pro Swap

I had an aging MacBook Pro. It’s a 2011 model, which I believe is the first model with Thunderbolt. And while the Thunderbolt connectivity has been great, the internal 5400RPM hard drive has gotten slower and slower over the years.

After hearing plenty of reports on the benefits of upgrading to an internal SSD drive in these MacBook models, I finally bit the (surprising affordable) bullet and picked up a Crucial 512GB SSD for a little over $200. [Read more…]

Filed Under: apple Tagged With: apple, hard drive, mac, macbook, macbook pro, solid state drive, SSD, upgrade

LaCie Releases d2 Thunderbolt 2 Drive

September 23, 2014 By Eric Reagan

 

LaCie d2 Thunderbolt 2 Drive

LaCie recently revealed its new d2 Thunderbolt 2 external drive, which features dual Thunderbolt 2 and USB 3.0 connections. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gear Tagged With: hard drive, lacie, Thunderbolt 2

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