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This Circuit Board Makes Your SSD Sound Like an Old Hard Drive

This Circuit Board Makes Your SSD Sound Like an Old Hard Drive
The brainchild of Matthias Werner, the HDD Clicker 2.0 is a tiny computer board that attaches to your solid state drive (SSD) and makes it sound like an old platter-style hard disk drive (HDD). And it doesn’t just make the sounds all willy-nilly either; it only does it when your hard drive is actually reading or writing.

Icy Dock ToughArmor MB872MP-B Can Fit 12 SATA SSDs in a 5.25″ Drive Bay: Super Saiyan Drive Super Saiyan

Icy Dock ToughArmor MB872MP-B Can Fit 12 SATA SSDs in a 5.25″ Drive Bay: Super Saiyan Drive Super Saiyan
The M.2 storage drive specification has been one of the best new additions to PCs in recent years, allowing for extremely compact and easy-to-install SSDs. These days it’s often used by incredibly fast NVMe SSDs, giving you the best of both worlds – small footprint and lightning speeds – at reasonable prices.

Supercharge Your System with WD Blue + Green SSDs

Supercharge Your System with WD Blue + Green SSDs
If you’re still running traditional hard drives or first generation SSDs on your computer, you owe it to yourself to upgrade to a new SSD. Today’s solid state drives are dramatically faster than hard drives, and early SSDs.

Link Wireless SSD Wristband: 1TB on Your Wrist. Technology is Awesome.

Link Wireless SSD Wristband: 1TB on Your Wrist. Technology is Awesome.
I have a couple of external hard drives that I bought just a couple of years ago. Together, they’re large enough to use as a foot rest. But now we have this. The Fasetto Link is a wireless external SSD encased in a rugged wristband that’s just a tad larger than a watch.

Authothysis Self-Destructing Solid State Drives Have Separation Anxiety

Authothysis Self-Destructing Solid State Drives Have Separation Anxiety
Last year we checked out Caleb Kraft’s self-destructing hard drive and laptop. If you’re looking for a professional (and non-flammable) equivalent, check out SecureDrives’ Authothysis series. These 128GB solid state drives can self-destruct based on a variety of parameters.

DIY PS4 HDD or SSD Upgrades Add More Storage and Performance

DIY PS4 HDD or SSD Upgrades Add More Storage and Performance
It seems like each time I get a new game console or computer it feels like I will never use all the storage space on the hard drive. Then before I know it, I am having to decide what I want to ditch to get enough space on the drive for new items.

LaCie Portable Thunderbolt SSD: Fasted Rugged HD Available?

LaCie Portable Thunderbolt SSD: Fasted Rugged HD Available?
Sure, Thunderbolt is fast, but there aren’t many devices that you can buy that work with it, leaving Apple fanboys crying in their closets. LaCie has released a new Thunderbolt-compatible portable drive, that uses a speedy solid-state drive for that extra special cherry on top.

SandForce Unveils New SSD Controller That Lets Your Ultrabook Run an Extra Hour

SandForce Unveils New SSD Controller That Lets Your Ultrabook Run an Extra Hour
Unless you’re a hardcore computer geek, you may not have any idea what an SSD controller actually is. Theses processors are used for connecting and communicating with today’s modern solid-state drives. One of the biggest companies that makes controllers for solid-state storage devices is SandForce and the company has announced a new family of controllers called the SF-2200/2100 Client Flash Storage Processors.

Fusion-io Unveils ioDrive2 SSD Card with Insane Data Speeds

Fusion-io Unveils ioDrive2 SSD Card with Insane Data Speeds
If you are the sort that has to have whatever the fastest storage is on the market – be it in the business setting or at home, the ioDrive2 is among the fastest you will find.

Addonics 6-Slot CF & CFast Drive Bays: Compact Platform for Compact Flash

Addonics 6-Slot CF & CFast Drive Bays: Compact Platform for Compact Flash
If you frequently use CF or CFast cards or have a bunch of them lying around unused, you should check out these CF & CFast drives from Addonics. Using these drives you can access up to 6 cards simultaneously, either as individual disks, as a single boot drive or a combination of both.

OCZ Technology Vertex 3 SSDs are FAST

OCZ Technology Vertex 3 SSDs are FAST
OCZ may be vacating many of the markets it used to be in, but it is taking their extra resources and putting those towards making cool gear like the new line of Vertex 3 SSDs. These solid state drives are so fast, the word fast seems too slow.

Micron RealSSD C400 Drives Speed Up, Double Capacity

Micron RealSSD C400 Drives Speed Up, Double Capacity
As expected, some new solid-state drives are being showcased at this week’s CES. Micron was the first to show things off with their RealSSD C400 drives – based upon a 25-nanometer NAND flash die-based drive.

LaCie Float Concept External HDD Doubles as a Trackpad

LaCie Float Concept External HDD Doubles as a Trackpad
I think that all computer users need an external HDD to back their data up to. If you are like me and haven’t taken a picture on film in years, you probably have a drive inside your computer full of pics that you can’t replace if they get lost in a crash.

Owc Data Doubler Adds Extra Hard Drive to Your iMac or Mac Mini

Owc Data Doubler Adds Extra Hard Drive to Your iMac or Mac Mini
It took me a while to come to grips with using a netbook or ultra portable without an optical drive. At first, I worried that I would miss the drive all the time, and on occasion I do.

Seagate Momentus Xt Hybrid Hard Drive: Solid (State) Performance

Seagate Momentus Xt Hybrid Hard Drive: Solid (State) Performance
Seagate’s new Momentus XT hard drive has most of the benefits of a pure solid state drive without most of the cons. The Momentus XT’s hard disk drive comes in three capacities – 250 GB, 320 GB and 500 GB.

USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure Welcomes Your Old Hard Drive to 2010

USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure Welcomes Your Old Hard Drive to 2010
Have any spare 2.5″ SATA drives? Don’t throw them away just yet: Century is selling hard drive/solid state drive enclosures which provide USB 3.0 compatibility.