The Easy Way to Replace a Dying Notebook Hard Drive

Published on November 14, 2006 to Notebooks and Laptops

Very little is as daunting as replacing a hard disk drive that is dying. Calvin Chu takes a relaxed look at these issues and shows you how easy it can be to make your notebook sing again. Read more

MP3 Hard Drive To Portability

Published on June 27, 2002 to Home Theater

The race is on to create a Windows-compatible, hard drive-based MP3 player to cash in on the success of the Apple iPod. Lower prices are something that people want, and the D-Link does deliver a bargin, but are you willing put up with a few idiosyncrasies in order to get a hard drive-based MP3 player for half the price of an iPod? Read more

Hard Disk Drive Video Players Hit The Mainstream

Published on August 29, 2005 to Networking

Until now, DVD players with DivX support have been a good alternative to the noisy living room PC. Now the first multimedia boxes based on hard drives have arrived. They can store hundreds of gigabytes of video and play it directly from the hard drive, yet are hardly bigger than a paperback novel. Read more

Avoiding the Heartbreak of Notebook Hard Drive Failure

Published on November 15, 2006 to Notebooks and Laptops

Your notebook's hard disk drive will fail some time and there's nothing you can do about it. Calvin Chu tells you what you, hard disk designers and operating system architects can do to lessen the impact of drive failure. Read more

Modix HD-3510: The USB hard drive box becomes a DVD player!

Published on January 6, 2005 to Networking

The HD-3510 USB box for hard disks can be used not only to save data, but to play back DVD, DivX and MP3 files directly on your TV set. Film audio tracks are played back by the SPDIF output as real 5.1 Dolby Digital or DTS signals. The drive box is also designed to play back HDTV in both 1080i or 720p formats. Read more