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Awesome Hard Drives

SHARGE Disk Pocket SSD Enclosure

SHARGE Disk Pocket SSD Enclosure
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This tiny enclosure puts a high-speed, solid-state drive in the palm of your hand. It’s compatible with an M.2 NVMe 2230 SSD for transfer speeds up to 10 Gbps and has a tiny cooling fan built in. It connects to all kinds of computers, mobile, and gaming devices via a USB-C port. Its wrist lanyard doubles as a cable. Drive not included.

Making a Laser Projector from a Hard Drive

Making a Laser Projector from a Hard Drive

There are many projectors that use a laser diode to display big images. But they generally have a very short range. Ben Makes Everything used a bright green laser to project images that can be seen from a much greater distance. His design relies on an old hard drive to create a persistence of vision illusion and can only display primitive text and numbers.

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Fantom G-Force 3 Pro 4TB HDD

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Bump up your storage space with this huge 4 terabyte external hard drive from Fantom. The G-Force 3 Pro has a 7200 RPM hard drive, and connects easily to any USB port for transfer speeds up to 5Gbps. Save 24% off the list price in The Awesomer Shop.

Fantom PS4 Hard Drive Upgrade Kit

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Give your PlayStation 4 the extra storage space it deserves with Fantom Drives’ 2TB upgrade kit. The kit includes an external enclosure, a speedy Seagate Firecuda Gaming hybrid drive, a micro USB 3.0 cable, screwdriver, 16GB flash drive for OS transfer, and installation guide. Save 29% in The Awesomer Shop. (PS4 not included.)

Lexar NS100 SSD

Lexar NS100 SSD

The age of affordable SSDs is finally upon us. Coming later this year, Lexar’s NS100 SSDs will start at just $30 for the 120GB capacity model. There’s also a $50 240GB model and a $90 480 GB model. The SSDs promise up to 550MB/s read speeds.

Seagate Barracuda Pro 14TB Drive

Seagate Barracuda Pro 14TB Drive
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Boost your desktop computer’s storage with the latest edition of Seagate’s Barracuda Pro hard drive. The 7200rpm drive has a massive 14TB capacity and is the fastest 3.5″ drive on the market, with a 256mb/s transfer rate and a 256MB cache.

ASUS FX External Hard Drive

ASUS FX External Hard Drive

ASUS’ upcoming FX HDD is for the PC enthusiast who’s addicted to RGB lighting. This 2.5″ external hard drive has colorful LEDs that can be synced with your other ASUS peripherals and components. It will be available in 1 TB and 2 TB capacities.

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Samsung T5 Portable SSD

Samsung T5 Portable SSD

The latest version of Samsung’s dependable portable solid state drives. The T5 is as fast as they come, providing up to 540MB/s transfer speeds. It’s still tiny, light, and shockproof. It comes with both USB-C to USB-C and USB-C to USB-A cables.

Seagate 8TB Game Drive Hub

Seagate 8TB Game Drive Hub
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Seagate’s external hard drives for video game consoles now go up to 8TB. The Game Drive Hub also has two USB 3.0 ports for charging and connecting controllers and other accessories. It matches the Xbox One S’ style, but it should work with the PS4 as well.

Hydraulic Press vs. Data

Hydraulic Press vs. Data

The Hydraulic Press Channel teamed up with tech company F-Secure to demonstrate how to permanently erase the data on various devices – by crushing them to smithereens. While it’s likely to thwart most data thieves, it isn’t an effective method for compressing data.

Seagate Barracuda Pro 10TB Drive

Seagate Barracuda Pro 10TB Drive

Seagate’s new Barracuda Pro hard drives includes the world’s first consumer-grade 10TB drive. The 3.5″ HDD runs at 7200rpm, has a 256MB cache and a transfer rate of up to 220MB/s. Gamers should also consider the Firecuda hybrid SSHD.

Seagate Innov8 USB Hard Drive

Seagate Innov8 USB Hard Drive

Despite its tacky name, the Seagate Innov8 does represent a leap forward in external hard drive technology. The 8TB drive uses just a single USB-C cable for both data transfer and power. It measures 8″x 5″x 1″ and weighs 0.33lb. Drops 4/2016 for $350.

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Lenovo ThinkPad Stack

Lenovo ThinkPad Stack

A modular series of computer peripherals. The Stack consists of a 1TB external drive, a Bluetooth speaker, a battery and a Wi-Fi access point. When stacked on top of each other, you only need one cable to power them all.

LaCie Mirror

LaCie Mirror

The LaCie Mirror is an external hard drive encased in polished Gorilla Glass 3, giving it a mirrored finish. And soon, a pattern of your fingerprints. The 1TB USB 3.0 drive comes with an ebony wood display stand and pen holder.

WD My Passport Wireless

WD My Passport Wireless

Like Seagate’s Wireless Plus, Western Digital’s My Passport Wireless lets you stream media to or manage files from different devices. But it also has an SD card slot and can act as a Wi-Fi hotspot. Available in 1TB-2TB; 500GB coming soon.

2014 Lacie Thunderbolt Series

2014 Lacie Thunderbolt Series
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LaCie now uses a 5TB 7200rpm hard drive in their desktop Thunderbolt external drives. The voluminous storage device is available in the single drive d2, the dual-bay RAID 2big and the five-bay RAID 5big with up to 25TB.

Seagate 4TB Portable Drive

Seagate 4TB Portable Drive
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The Backup Plus Fast is a USB 3.0 portable hard drive with a massive 4TB of storage – the highest capacity external drive that doesn’t need a power supply. It also comes with user-friendly backup software.

WD My Passport Ultra

WD My Passport Ultra

The Western Digital My Passport Ultra is a USB 3.0 portable drive with an easy to use backup software, fast transfer speeds and a durable enclosure that’s just 0.5″ thick. Comes in 500GB & 1TB, with a 2TB model coming soon.

Seagate Wireless Plus

Seagate Wireless Plus

The Seagate Wireless Plus is a 1TB external hard drive that can stream media to multiple mobile devices at once and has a 10-hour battery life. It’s also compatible with AirPlay and DLNA.

Toshiba Canvio Slim

Toshiba Canvio Slim
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At just 4.2″ x 3″ x 0.35″, the Canvio Slim is the world’s thinnest 500GB portable hard drive and is as slim and light as modern smartphones. It’s USB 3.0 compliant and has an NTFS driver for Mac.

WD My Passport 2TB

WD My Passport 2TB
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The new 2TB My Passport portable hard drive from Western Digital has twice the capacity but is almost the same size as the 1TB variant. It has USB 3.0 compatibility and hardware encryption.

Victorinox 1TB Pocket SSD

Victorinox 1TB Pocket SSD

Put 1TB in your pocket with this Swiss Army knife. Works with USB 3.0 or eSATA ports and has two cases – one with a blade, scissors, screwdriver and one that’s bare. Too bad it will cost $3K. Ouch.

Seagate 4TB GoFlex Desk

Seagate 4TB GoFlex Desk

The newest member of Seagate’s GoFlex Desk series is the world’s first 4TB desktop external hard drive. It measures about 6.2″x 4.9″ x 1.7″, has a 7200rpm HDD and USB 3.0 connectivity.

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