Toshiba gave its Satellite line a bit of a makeover today and while the finer details of the refresh may have been lost in the whirlwind of E3 news, one model made a big splash: the A665.
With more than 100 MB/s throughput and 500GB of storage capacity for notebooks, Hitachi’s Travelstar 7K500 and the Toshiba MK5056GSY face the established Seagate Momentus 7200.4. Were the two newer drives...
The latest PlayStation 3 Slim offers up to 250 GB of storage on its built-in hard drive. But enthusiasts are better off paying Sony less for a cheaper model and upgrading immediately to a larger hard drive. We...
Notebook drive manufacturers can choose between two drive heights: 9.5 mm and 12.5 mm. At 9.5 mm, most drives are limited to two spinning platters, while 12.5 mm has enough room for three, enabling higher...
The role of 2.5” hard drives is changing. The smaller form factor now provides increased storage density and improved power efficiency compared to 3.5” models, all while delivering the capacities SSDs still...
We recently upgraded our 2010 reference platform, and it should do justice to the latest SATA 6Gb/s drives and the TRIM command. The first part of our spring SSD roundup includes drives from Crucial, Intel,...
You're ready to ditch your notebook because you think it's just too outdated. Well, the latest mobile hard drives offer up to 640GB of capacity to help breathe in a little more life. We show you how to replace...
Eight different portable hard drives, spanning everything from 250GB to 1TB and centering on 2.5” and 1.8” form factors, compete against each other based on design and functionality. Similar though they...