| Hands-on with Spire's GigaPod VIII: Cheap Storage Space for Your PC |
 | We came across Spire's GigaPod VIII SP105B hard-disk enclosure during one of our raids in the supermarket. The GigaPod enclosure is a budget solution that is heavily discounted these days. We managed to snatch a unit at just $25.08, which is quite a bargain if you have a spare ATA hard-disk drive.
Introduction
Spire is mostly known for its case and cooling products that are mostly designed by Ferrari ... [read more >>] |
| 12 May 2008, 03:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| NewerTech Introduces All-In-One USB 2.0 Adapter |
 | NewerTech announced a new USB 2.0 drive adapter to connect any type of drive to the computer via a USB 2.0 interface. The company has a long tradition in producing performance upgrades and accessories for the popular Macintosh, iPod and iPhone devices.
The first time I saw the USB adapter, I mistook it for a sophisticated portable media player that can handle a SATA hard-disk drive. Much of my confusion is due to the fact that ... [read more >>] |
| 15 January 2008, 04:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IDE Data Transfer Interfaces Are Obsolete |
 | Parallel ATA or IDE data transfer interfaces have been around for some years now and they are slowly but steadily driven to extinction by the ever increasing adoption of the fast and more manageable Serial ATA interfaces. As more and more computer hardware manufacturing companies are abandoning the use of the old standards, the IDE interface may soon be completely replaced and in the near future we may see computers that are offering no su ... [read more >>] |
| 24 September 2007, 08:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The IDE Connector Is Not Dead, Yet |
 | In a strange twist of events, apparently old-school hardware geeks aren't the only ones who still have a thing for IDE drives. As much as the industry is trying to wipe them out completely, by limiting the number of IDE channels that are available on the new hype, cool, trendy motherboards, the little buggers still have some kick left in them and are fighting back. The same thing happened with the floppy disk drive, it was the first s ... [read more >>] |
| 05 April 2007, 06:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
