Scorpio Blue: Big Notebook HDDs Go Mainstream By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos While two other 500 GB mobile hard drives have been available for a while, WD is the first to release this capacity in a model using the standard 9.5 mm height with two platters.
SSDs Replacing HDDs Soon? Not A Chance By Tuan An Nguyen Some say 2010 and even 2009 will be the year of SSDs. We think not.
Synology DS207+: Getting NAS Into Your Home By Marcel Binder Synology really impressed us with the performance of its Disk Station DS408. Can the same company do it again with its Disk Station DS207+?
Tom's Holiday Buyer's Guide 2008, Part 4 By Chris Angelini, Ed Tittel, Thomas Soderstrom Welcome to part four of our Holiday Gift Guide coverage. This time around, the Tom's Hardware staff picks its favorite components for your wish list rounding out 2008.
Synology's DS408 Reviewed: Fast NAS For Pros By Marcel Binder Does a NAS device with high data transfer rate and a Web interface that is easy to configure actually exist? Synology shows how it should be done. But the enclosure is not without its faults, either.
Five Multimedia Notebooks, Tested By Ed Tittel and Toby Digby Bigger is still better among new multimedia notebooks, where heft and battery life aren't as important as bright screens and video wizardry.
Round Up: Five Powerful, Light Ultraportables By Rachel Rosmarin Executives, road warriors, and gadget geeks all lust after ultraportable notebooks. Five of these amazing machines battle it out in this roundup.
Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda: Bigger And Better? By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos Seagate is the first hard drive vendor to offer a 1.5 TB drive in the 3.5” form factor. Meanwhile, WD sent us its RAID Edition 3 (RE3) drive. We tell you which is the best HDD choice today.
Two Hard Drive Coolers Compared By Bill Lake The Vigor iSurf II Hard Drive Cooler battles Sytrin's HD Cooler to see which works better. Both take similar approaches to cooling your HDD. They both work, but which is worth the price?