Posts Tagged ‘sata’

There’s a rumor spreading like wildfire across the web that the Zune will be used as a secondary hard drive for game and content purchases on the Xbox 360. I’ll outline why it’s a bogus rumor. See, the rumor started because of a survey. Essentially, the user was asked what they connected to their Xbox [...]

SimpleTech is well known for releasing high-end notebook hard drives in USB 2.0 enclosures… for less than the competition. Well, this time around, SimpleTech is beating the competition to the punch on the top-tier drive. Starting today, you can get a 500 GB 2.5-inch SATA drive from Best Buy for only $199.99. (The product pages [...]

Best Buy is once again selling the Western Digital Passport 320 GB 2.5-inch USB 2.0 hard drive for $149.99. Use a 10% Off Coupon to bring the price down to $134.99. This is a very good deal for a couple of reasons. First, it’s a small hard drive with huge capacity. It only needs a [...]

I’ll admit it, when I use an external drive enclosure, I tend to go cheap. That means those funky dual-USB connectors to suck power from the system, the high failure rates, and yadda yadda. If you’ve used them, you know what I’m saying. Here’s a lesson on why that’s a bad idea with Windows Home [...]

If you upgraded to Leopard, and found your eSATA (or SATA) card stopped working… install the 10.5.1 update. My eSATA card (like many others) stopped working upon being updated to Leopard, and 10.5.1 has fixed that. It appears Apple re-added third-party SATA drivers that were removed in 10.5.0.