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Review: Intel's X25-E SSD runs circles around rival drives
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Trouble With an Incompatible Laptop Hard Drive
My laptop needed a roomier hard drive; and on NewEgg.com, I found a great deal on a 256GB solid-state drive from Patriot. After three days or so, I noticed that my laptop intermittently froze. I did some research and found that some SSDs have serious problems that are significantly more prominent when they're installed in certain laptops. NewEgg appears to have a policy of not offering a refund or store credit on this product. This is a $600 product and I cannot use it with my laptop. NewEgg approved a replacement, but if it doesn't work on my laptop, I don't want another!

SpaceSniffer Identifies Hard Drive Hogs
"Where did all my space go?" This question has been asked by every computer user since the days of the 5.25" floppy (probably since the days of the ENIAC), and SpaceSniffer is a fast, free, easy, way to answer it. While SpaceSniffer in itself does nothing to reclaim space, it does provide you with a very good overview of what's occupying the nether reaches of your hard disk.

A Look at Gov't Data Loses
The U.S. government says it's lost -- yes, lost -- an entire hard drive full of sensitive data. The external drive, stored at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, held personal data from the Clinton era, including information about White House staff and visitors and electronic storage tapes from the Executive Office of the President.

Keep Your Files in the Cloud with ZumoDrive
Not enough space on your iPhone for all your music? Need more storage for your tiny netbook hard drive? ZumoDrive promises to solve conundrums like these by keeping your files in the cloud but making them accessible in real-time, just as though they were local. Inother words, it's a virtual hard drive that lives online.

Review: SanDisk one-touch backup drive offers simplicity, sophistication
SanDisk's Ultra Backup USB Flash Drive combines a physical backup button with sophisticated backup tools to make the little device convenient and easy to use.

NAS Devices From WD, Buffalo, and Iomega
With burgeoning data requirements in even the smallest of businesses, simplifying access to it becomes a major headache. Obviously, dumping data on a PC's internal hard drive and forming a cluster of shared folders sprawled all over the network isn't a viable option anymore, if the shared data has to be accessed frequently. The complexity increases with the advent of devices like laptops, smartphones and PDAs, hooking up to the LAN and trying to access data conveniently through a central location.

Seagate Replica (500GB)
The Seagate Replica external hard drive has lots going for it: Slim design, a nifty docking base (only with the US$200 500GB multi-PC version; a $130 250GB version is available, too), and super-simple software for continuous system backups. In some scenarios, the Replica can perform backups with ease. But unfortunately, in my tests the Replica fell short of its promised simplified backups.

Review: Seagate's Replica 500GB copies whole PC
The Seagate Replica external hard drive has lots going for it: a slim design, a nifty docking base and super-simple software for continuous system backups.

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