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As the days and months passes by, there is always some innovation be it in an existing technology or a totally new one. Well, about a decade ago, I had a PC that had a 100MB Hard Drive. At that time, I thought it was a huge space (we used 1.44 Floppy Drive). When you think of it now, it is a really low space. Back then, a game would fit in a couple of floppy drives and now it has started to even outgrow DVD drive’s space. A couple of years back, I got a new PC and it had an 80GB PATA Hard Drive, I thought that was more than enough space but now that hard drive is full and even my Laptop’s hard drive is about to reach its limits (160GB). I will be buying a new internal hard drive for my desktop soon.

Well, here is a great deal on an internal hard drive. Fry.com has a Maxtor 500GB Serial ATA Internal Hard Drive for just $90. It is a great deal if you consider the space and the speed of the Maxtor Serial ATA Internal Hard Drive. Here are some of the features included in the Maxtor Serial ATA Internal Hard Drive:

• 500 GB of storage capacity
• Spins at 7200 RPM and has 16MB of cache for fast data access
• Ultimate drive performance with SATA/300
• Whisper-quiet FDB motor
• Seek Time of <9.0ms

This Maxtor 500GB Serial ATA Internal Hard Drive has a thin-easy plug cable for improved airflow so it will help keep your hard drive cool even while in heavy use. It is also very easy to install this hard drive as it offers easy, no-jumper installation. You will find a MaxBlast software (for intelligent formatting and partitioning), SATA cable, power adapter, screws and a guide inside the box. Also comes with a three years manufacturers warranty which is another plus. The Maxtor Serial ATA Internal Hard Drive are in limited quantity so you might want to hurry up and grab yours and also one person will only be able to purchase one Hard drive.

When I first started using a computer, I used to have a 500MB hard drive and that was a lot, I mean a lot of space at that time. There was no CD’s and CD writers back then and we used to transfer files using a 1.44MB diskette. Now these numbers are a joke. We can”t even fit in a full CD into a 500MB hard drive and as time goes on, file size will start to increase (in games as well as movies and other files). Right now I have a 160GB Hard Drive and that too is almost full as I have a lot of songs, movies, videos, pictures and games on it. I am almost out of disk space.

I don’t live in the US so can’t get in on this great deal from Newegg. Well, Newegg has a 1TB AcomData External Hard Drive on a great price. The price of this AcomData 1TB External Hard Drive used to be $300 but newegg have dropped $50 off its original price. Now you can get the AcomData 1TB External SATA Hard Drive for even less cost if you use this coupon code (COUPON: EMCADAHAF). This coupon will cut the price of the AcomData 1TB External Hard Drive to another $50 less (So the price of AcomData 1TB External Hard Drive is not cut down to $200 with the $50 off coupon). Wait, there is more on offer here, there is another $20 mail-in rebate offer. This cuts the cost of the AcomData 1TB External Hard Drive to $180. If you buy this AcomData External Hard Drive, you will have to pay an extra fee of $8 for shipping and handling. And the total cost of this AcomData External Hard Drive is $188. Great price if you consider the extra space you will have. 1TB of storage is not a joke.

Here are the specifications for AcomData External Hard Drive:

• Obviously, 1TB of storage capacity
• Uses USB 2.0 / eSATA for connecting to a computer
• 16MB Cache for faster data access
• Spins @ 7200 RPM
• Average data seek time is 8.5ms

This AcomData External Hard Drive is not that bulky. The dimensions of this external hard drive is 7.4″ x 4.4″ x 1.3″. AcomData 1TB External Hard Drive also comes with a vertical and horizontal stackable case. This product is out of stock as of now but do check back as it will be available at newegg again very soon and you won’t want to miss this kind of offer.

Hard Drives has been with us for a long long time now and it is about time our regular hard drives are replaced by something more reliable, less power hungry, smaller in size and has a faster data transfer rate. We are used to the old PATA hard drives and its successor, SATA which basically transfers data a lot faster than the old one. Well some the above traits are found in a Flash Drive but the one thing that is keeping it from replacing a Hard drive is its size limitation.

Now SanDisk and Toshiba have teamed up on a project for a new 43-nanometer SSD manufacturing process. The SSD ( Solid State Drive) will have the same capability as a regular 2.5″ hard drives we use. The advantages of a solid state drives are

• Less power consumption
• Smaller in size
• Generates less heat compared to a Hard Drive
• Faster data transfer rate

The solid state drives can be used on a ultra small and thin notebooks, in fact this has already happened. The MacBook Air and the Asus Eee PC. While the MacBook Air comes with an option to choose a 64GB flash based solid state drives, the Asus Eee PC provides SSD by default. There is one defect in a flash based solid state drives, the write cycle is limited so eventually, a SSD will wear out. If this issue can be fixed, SSD will definitely replace the old, bulky hard drives we use today.

Solid State Drives are kind of a new thing and obviously it is going to be quite expensive and it is so. A MacBook Air with a 64GB SSD costs $3098 while a MacBook Air with the regular hard drive costs $1799. You can see the huge price difference right!

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The Tempo External Recycle bin is a cool device that could be added to any computer. Actually this is not literally a recycle bin. The design of this external storage device is made out to resemble a recycle bin. This is not just a cool looking useless gadget, you can put it to a lot of good use. When you delete a file from your internal hard drive, the external recycle bin will automatically keep a backup of the deleted files from your internal hard drive. This will help prevent the accidental deletion of files by the users as anything the user deletes is automatically backed up on the external recycle bin. If your computer has a bluetooth, Tempo External Recycle bin will work on it. There are absolutely no need for any wires as all the backup and file transfers are done using bluetooth.

Tempo External Recycle bin can also be uses as any other external hard drive to store or backup your data. There is another cool visible feature to this gadget, as the External recycle bin’s fills up with data, LED indicators will light up from bottom to up to indicate how much storage space is still available or how much space is used up. The size of the hard drive inside the external recycle bin is 250 GB and external recycle bin is compatible with both PC and Mac computers.

This is just s concept and it hasn’t been put into mass production and the date is still not set as when Tempo External Recycle Bin will be available for purchase in the market.