More Storage Hardware In Depth

Crucial Adrenaline review: SSD cache drive speeds up your PC

The Crucial Adrenaline SSD cache drive will enable you to easily improve your PC's performance for less than $100.

What to ask when choosing a new storage platform

If you want to know what to buy, talk to people who've adopted the technology you're eyeing. Here are key questions to ask. Insider (registration required)

The Cloud, Day 25: The Cloud Is Becoming Mandatory

30 Days With the Cloud: Day 25

Image gallery: 5 online backup services keep your data safe

Backing up can be easier if you send your data to the cloud. We look at 5 of the most well-known online backup services to see how they compare.

Sanitize your hard drives with Drive eRazer Ultra

Drive eRazer Ultra can wipe your hard drives in a variety of ways to make sure that any data that resided on it is completely and unalterably gone.

Need More Storage? Reach for the Cloud

When you start out with a fresh new hard drive, it may seem like it has virtually unlimited capacity. The reality, though, is that it won't take nearly as long to max out that drive as you might think, and you will need to find some way to expand your storage.

Need More Storage? Expand with External Drives

Face it. Emails, digital pictures, video clips, and other data can quickly fill up hundreds of gigabytes of space. As your remaining space dwindles to nothing, you have a decision to make in terms of how you're going to expand capacity.

Review: Encrypted solid state drives protect laptop data

Vendors are touting solid state replacement drives as a way to protect corporate data in the event of a laptop being lost or stolen, and to boost performance at the same time.

Tech That Should Be on Your Company's Radar for 2012

There are a variety of new technologies advancing in 2012 that you should investigate, if you aren't already doing so, to give your small business a leg up on the competition. These recent technologies are beginning to be widely adopted and will continue to drive business forward.

Hands-on: The ReadyNAS NV+ provides serious storage for prosumers

Netgear's ReadyNAS NV+ device includes storage for up to four 1TB hard drives along with three levels of RAID synchronization. Insider (registration required)

Hands-on: The Velocity Solo offers an easy upgrade to SATA 3.0

Apricorn's Velocity Solo upgrade kit gives older Windows PCs the ability to read SATA 3.0 hard drive and SSDs.

Hands on: StarTech's drive imager as simple as it gets

StarTech has released two devices for duplicating hard drives (or SSDs) to create exact bootable drive copies in about half the time of more traditional methods.

Build Your Own Network-Attached Storage System

With cheap storage readily available, the temptation to build vast libraries of music, movies, photos, and documents is ever present. But when each PC in your home is packed to its aluminum gills with gigabytes upon gigabytes of digital goods, managing all of that data can be a hassle.

Western Digital's new drives expand laptop storage to 1TB

Western Digital breaks new ground with its 1TB Scorpio Blue internal SATA hard drives for laptop computers.

Extreme Storage

At some of the most recognizable institutions and corporate behemoths in the country, handling massive amounts of data requires using some innovative approaches.

Recoup with data dedupe

Backing up servers and workstations to tape can be a cumbersome process, and restoring data from tape even more so. While backing up to disk-based storage is faster and easier, and probably more reliable, it can also be more expensive. Insider (registration required)

Are costly SSDs worth the money? Enterprise users say absolutely

Solid-state storage based on NAND flash can be a pricey option to install in a data center, but I/O-hungry applications such as server and desktop virtualization are prompting IT managers to install them -- with the caveat that they must be strategically placed for the best, most cost-effective results.

SSD drives promise to enhance storage performance, but a new host-interface-standard holds the key

Flash-memory-based solid-state disks (SSDs) provide faster random access and data transfer rates than electromechanical drives and today can often serve as rotating-disk replacements, but the host interface to SSDs remains a performance bottleneck. PCI Express (PCIe)-based SSDs together with an emerging standard called NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory express) promises to solve the interface bottleneck.

BootMed Teaches You How to Save Ailing PCs

BootMed is not a program, it's an Ubuntu-based boot disc tailored (or "remixed," in BootMed jargon) with the idea of recovering failed or malware-infected Windows PC installations. More than that, it's also aimed at helping less tech-savvy users through the process. The first thing BootMed (free/donationware) does after booting is open Firefox and browse to the BootMed site to display help and advice on recovery operations. It has versions for 32-bit and 64-bit PCs.

Drive Power Manager Saves Energy, Hushes Noise

In an era of increasing software bloat there's something to be said for a small, efficient application that goes about its business without fanfare or distraction. Drive Power Manager ($15, 21-day free trial) weighs in at a mere 1.5 MB fully installed and has a single function: To provide component level access to hard disks and optical storage devices, allowing highly granular control of power usage, performance, standby, and noise settings. The interface is simplicity itself, with all functions available via a single window per drive. Drive Power Manager applies changes immediately, with no rebooting required.