Ever wonder what would happen if you were to replace that slow 5400RPM laptop hard drive in your Playstation 3 with something a little bit beefier? Say, something like a $650 256GB Solid State Drive from Samsung? Gamespot does the DIY dance and reveals for us the truth behind the performance gains (if any) when upgrading something like your PS3 to a next generation hard drive. More

The newest edition to LaCie's hard drive lineup is the Internet Space 2. The 1TB drive is designed by Neil Poulton, whose other work with LaCie includes the sharp looking Sound2 speakers. The clean sleek design of the Internet Space 2 is quite similar to the hard drives designed by, continuing Poulton's signature style for LaCie introduced last year. More

Name: Toshiba External Hard Drive
Price: $159.99
Rating: Recommend*
After a week of using the Toshiba portable hard drive for transporting files between work, home and school, my first impression, that this is one light & solid drive, remains true. See the entire review, after the jump.
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The newly revamped Pogoplug looks really amazing, but that's not all it does. It enables you to push some of your data into your own personal cloud computer, thanks to internet connectivity, and stream it to anyone in the world, while leaving your data on your hard drives at all times. More

Most external hard drives don't really look that great. They're basically enclosures for hard drives and they serve that purpose. There are thousands of different enclosure designs. Hitachi just released their updated SimpleDrives, which look pretty different from anything else we've seen. More

If Tom Ford was to carry a portable hard drive, we think it might be one of the luxurious Brinell Purestorage drives. Clad in either stainless steel, exotic wood like genuine Macassar wood, nappa leather or carbon, the check sized drives hold up to 500 GB of your precious digital information..

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LaCie continues to bring out the star designer treatment, this time for a line of new hard drives designed by that lovable blowhard of iconic design, Philippe Starck. The aluminum sheathed USB hard drives come in two sizes and offer two notable features: Starck's signature symbol/design and a touch-enabled shiny front that allows for 1-touch application launching... More

The Seagate FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player is a case of "close but no cigar". The system revolves around a concept not unlike gaming cartridges of yore, except now the "cartridges" consist of Seagate FreeAgent Go portable hard drives, and instead of games, the system now plays back all your digital video, music and photo content... More

What did you do this weekend? Oh yah. Cool. Well, I found the coolest iPhone/Touch app ever. Swear to God.

WiFi HD uses your wireless network to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into an external hard drive. This came in handy when I realized I had a video on my MacBook I wanted to watch on the big screen via the Mac Mini connected to my flat screen.

I didn't want to wait for Quicktime to convert my video to an iTunes friendly file that could then be shared between my two computers' iTunes apps, and I didn't have a USB dongle that had enough storage space to save the file and move it to the mini, so I decided to try out WiFi HD... More

Just like a lot of people, we had Nintendo Entertainment Systems at home. It was the first console that started it all for a lot of game players. The others just followed this 8-bit wonder. Well, as a testament to the NES, the guys over at 8-Bit Memory will convert NES cartridge games to fully functional external hard drives. More