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Back up your data with this 2TB WD portable hard drive for just $60
Best Buy has a great deal on a sizeable portable hard drive from WD.
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Store all the things with this massive 4TB WD hard drive for $85
The WD Blue 4TB 3.5-inch internal hard drive is $85 at Newegg until Monday.
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An 8TB external hard drive is $160 right now
Best Buy has discounted Western Digital's 8TB desktop external hard drive once again.
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Best Buy is selling an 8TB external hard drive for $140
Right now, Western Digital's 8TB Easystore external drive is just $10 more than its all-time low.
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Best Buy is selling a 4TB external hard drive for $70
Best Buy's discount makes this Seagate model one of the cheapest 4TB external drives we've seen.
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Amazon is selling a 2TB WD portable hard drive for $60
Don't need a large hard drive for storage? You're in luck—Amazon and Walmart got into a brief price war, and Amazon's still running its sale.
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Best Buy is selling a 4TB portable drive for $100 today
This WD easystore model offers a whole lot of storage for backups and extra files that won't fit on your main storage drive.
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Amazon is selling a 2.5-inch hard drive enclosure for $7
Whether you're looking to keep an older storage drive in service or put a new one to work, this Aukey hard drive enclosure won't cost you much.News
Best Buy is selling a 1TB portable drive for just $40 right now
Currently, you can get a 1TB WD easystore drive for one of the lowest prices we've seen.News
A Seagate 4TB external hard drive is just $130 today
Retailers are acknowledging World Backup Day with cheap prices on storage.
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Cebit showcases security after Snowden
It's almost four years since Edward Snowden leaked U.S. National Security Agency documents revealing the extent of the organization's surveillance of global internet traffic, but he's still making the headlines in Germany.News
Toshiba’s in chaos, but not quitting PCs—yet
Toshiba is more than a laptop maker, but the vast Japanese conglomerate shrunk on Tuesday under a wave of bad news.News
If you’ve ever owned a PC with a DVD drive, you may get a $10 settlement
A proposed class-action settlement will pay you $10 per DVD drive that you purchased, either separately or as part of a PC, between 2003 and 2008.News
Kingston’s DataTraveler Ultimate Generation flash drive puts 2 terabytes in your pocket
At CES, Kingston debuts the world's largest USB flash drive: the 2TB DataTraveler Ultimate Generation Terabyte drive.News
WD will make a record-breaking 14TB hard drive available next year
Western Digital has developed a monstrous 14TB hard drive that is now shipping for testing to customers.rnNews
Seagate crams a massive 5TB into a portable hard drive
You probably can't fit it in your pocket, but Seagate's 5TB portable hard drive won't weight down your backpack either.News
Seagate drops the world’s largest tiny hard drive
Seagate pushes the 2.5-inch drive needle all the way to 5TB.
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These 5 SMART errors help you predict your hard drive’s death
Want to know if your hard drive is about to fail? These SMART error reports can help.News
Seagate will cut 6,500 staff despite uptick in hard disk demand
Seagate Technology will cut about 6,500 jobs worldwide, or 14 percent of its workforce, it said Monday.rnNews
Used hard drives on eBay, Craigslist are often still ripe with leftover data
Before you throw away that old hard drive, make sure you purge the memory clean. A new study has found that most users are accidentally giving up photos, social security numbers and financial data, by failing to properly delete the files on their recycled hard drives.News
Western Digital’s 8TB hard drives mix helium with mammoth storage
Western Digital's bringing big-time storage to NAS boxes and external drives with new helium-filled 8TB hard drives.News
Marvell, Carnegie Mellon settle patent dispute over hard drive chips
Chip company Marvell Technology Group has settled with Carnegie Mellon University to end a long-standing patent dispute over chips used in hard disk drives.News
Seagate slapped with a class action lawsuit over hard drive failure rates
Seagate faces a lawsuit over allegedly high failure rates in 3 TB consumer hard drives.News
Notebook hard drives are dead: How SSDs will dominate mobile PC storage by 2018
Trends in SSD pricing and laptop sales could kill the mobile hard drive in three years. But don't write off traditional drives entirely just yet.News
Self-encrypting drives are hardly any better than software-based encryption
Two researchers demonstrated attacks against self-encrypting drives used in enterprise environments at the Black Hat Europe conference in Amsterdam.News
Storage shake-up: Western Digital is buying Sandisk for $19 billion
Hard disk drive specialist Western Digital has agreed to buy flash memory vendor Sandisk for $19 billion.News
Western Digital encrypted external hard drives have flaws that can expose data
The hardware-based encryption built into popular Western Digital external hard disk drives has flaws that could allow attackers to recover data without knowing the user password.News
Severe external drive vulnerability prompts Seagate to issue emergency patch
Seagate has a firmware patch that fixes a serious vulnerability for select versions of the company's wireless external hard drives.News
U2 tours with all-flash array to rock latest video effects
A ruggedized EMC VNXe3200 drives giant transparent LED screensNews
Bit by bit, Intel looks to quadruple SSD storage
Intel is looking to cram four bits per cell in an effort to cram more storage into SSDs.
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Samsung chip could bring 128GB storage to cheaper phones
The flash storage module is aimed at mass market devicesNews
Want a reliable hard drive? Splurge for 4TB, study of 40,000-plus HDDs finds
Cloud backup firm Backblaze finds remarkably low failure rates in 4TB HDDs from Seagate and HGST.News
External hard drives? Pfah! Samsung just launched external SSDs
Samsung's Portable SSD T1 offers storage from 250GB to 1TB, and starts at $199News
Seagate aims to make common hard drives uncommonly artistic
Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest hard drive of all? Seagate thinks its new drives are the answer, with mirror-like sheens and expensive wooden stands to complement more prosaic wirelessly connected drives.
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Are PC hard drives destined to die at the hand of the cloud? Maybe, analysts say
Are hard drives in PCs and consumer devices on their way out? Analysts had mixed opinions, leaving open the option that it could happen.News
SanDisk announces the Ultra II series of SSDs, targets mainstream upgraders
Available in capacities ranging from 120- to 960GB, with the 240GB model selling for $115.News
SSD prices for hybrids, ultrathin laptops to flatten next year
A shortage may stall SSD prices, but the cost-per-gigabyte will continue to declineNews
Western Digital’s $299 6TB WD Red is a big hard drive for small(ish) budgets
Western Digital has shipped the 6TB WD Red and WD Green modelsBehind the Spec Sheet
Cloud storage vs. external hard drives: Which really offers the best bang for your buck?
We break down the cost per gigabyte for different ranges of storage. The answer may surprise you.News
HP says its all-flash array now matches fast disks on price
The 3Par StoreServ 7450 is getting new SSDs and softwareNews
Intel revs up enterprise flash drives with PCIe
A line of SSDs will use the high-speed interface and the emerging NVMe specification for high performance, Intel saysNews
Sanho’s iStick bridges iOS/OS X gap to ease file transfer
The storage device features both USB and Lightning connectorsNews
IBM and Fujifilm show super dense storage tape for big data work
With IBM and Fujifilm technology, tomorrow's LTO tape cartridges could store up to 154TB of data eachNews
Sony develops tape tech that could lead to 185 TB cartridges
Sony has created a magnetic tape material that can store up to 74 times more data per unit area than materials in use todayNews
Lost Andy Warhol art recovered from 1980’s Amiga floppy disks
And it all started with a YouTube video.News
Micron ups endurance, capacity of SSDs to meet data center demand
Micron ships M500DC SATA SSDs with capacities from 120GB to 800GB, priced at $1 per gigabyte
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HP talks up faster speed of Z Turbo Drive PCI-Express SSDs
HP's new SSDs will offer up to 512GB of storage and ship in May.News
VMware launches virtual SAN software
VMware's vSAN software harvests unused storage space on servers to park virtual disksNews
Seagate preps large-capacity storage drives for tablets
Seagate CFO Pat O'Malley says high-capacity storage will make it to some tablets this yearNews