• 5 Cool Hacks for Your Entertainment Gadgets

  
  Add external storage to your TiVo, beef up your Xbox 360, rip DVDs to your media player, play your iTunes purchases on any device, and use your standard cable remote to skip commercials.

• Apricorn 160GB Aegis Mini Hard Drive

  
  Apricorn's new minidrive may not be faster than the competition, but it's one of the most portable.
• Times are Good for Storage Vendors
• How I Upgraded My Laptop's Hard Drive and Almost Lost My Mind
• Profile: DriveSavers Stays True to Data-recovery Roots
• Solid-State Disk Lackluster for Laptops, PCs
• 15 Great Gadgets for the Back-to-School Crowd
• Imation Announces New Solid-State Drives
• Top 10 External Hard Drives
• Three New Western Digital Drives Hit Top Speeds

Editor's Hard Drives Picks

• Top 10 External Hard Drives External hard drives aren't as fast as internal models, but they are great for backups and are easy to install. Ratings and rankings can change due to pricing and technology changes, so check back frequently for the latest info.

Hard Drives News

• Apricorn 160GB Aegis Mini Hard Drive Apricorn's new minidrive may not be faster than the competition, but it's one of the most portable.
• Times are Good for Storage Vendors Digital documents and paperless offices are driving demand for storage capacity in businesses and homes.
• Profile: DriveSavers Stays True to Data-recovery Roots Profile: DriveSavers can unseal and open up hard drives for diagnosis and repair without dust-borne contamination in its new facility.
• Solid-State Disk Lackluster for Laptops, PCs Laptops, desktops won't see a cost/benefit advantage in SSD for about two years.
• 15 Great Gadgets for the Back-to-School Crowd Devices that can help you at work or play, in the classroom or the dorm.

Hard Drives Playing in PCW Video

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  Storage Breakthroughs at Computex Solid state drives and the first HD DVD writer were on display in Taipei.
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  CES Networking Gems New gear from Buffalo and Zyxel.
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  Storage Shenanigans Keith brings in a Cool Tools guest to play the "Guess the Storage Capacity" game.

Hard Drives How-Tos

• 5 Cool Hacks for Your Entertainment Gadgets Add external storage to your TiVo, beef up your Xbox 360, rip DVDs to your media player, play your iTunes purchases on any device, and use your standard cable remote to skip commercials.
• How I Upgraded My Laptop's Hard Drive and Almost Lost My Mind In which a simple hardware upgrade allows me to channel my inner Laurel and Hardy.
• How to Prevent a Data Disaster If a natural disaster wipes out your hard drive, it will probably destroy your local backups, too. Here's a backup plan that will get you through even the worst-case scenario.