Hardware Geeks

Today Western Digital (WD) introduced a new 10,000 RPM, 2.5–inch, 300 GB SATA Hard Drive. The WD VelociRaptor is 35 Percent Faster and offers Twice the Capacity of their previous top of the line drive in the Raptor Series.

“Demand for ever-higher PC performance continues to increase and WD is the leader in this category with the WD Raptor. We created WD VelociRaptor hard drives to lead PC enthusiasts into the next era of PC and Mac storage performance and satisfy their insatiable thirst for computing speed,” said Tom McDorman, vice president and general manager of WD’s enterprise business unit. “The new WD VelociRaptor delivers the greatest performance and reliability of all SATA hard drives currently on the market.”

Today Kingston introduced a secure USB flash drive, so secure the Goverment approves it!

“We are very excited that our DataTraveler BlackBox met all federal requirements established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),” said Mark Akoubian, Flash memory product manager, Kingston®. “This certification, along with other enhanced security features makes the DT BlackBox an ideal way to store and transport confidential documents with the utmost confidence that the data is secure.”

Today Nokia launched Globally the Nokia N-Gage games service with new games and additional compataible devices. Millions of Nokia owners can mpw try out games on their phone, directly from the N-Gage mobile service, they can also connect with other players through the N-Gage Arena Community.

“With N-Gage we’re offering a seamless experience for people around the world to try and buy games that are engaging, accessible and have wide appeal,” said Jaakko Kaidesoja, vice president of games, Nokia. “We’re very excited to get this into the hands of our customers, because with them we will shape the future of mobile gaming.”

The N-Gage platform has a bunch of exclusive titles such as EA Sports Fifa 2008, The Sims 2 Pets, Dogz, Tetris and World Series of Poker Pro challenge just to name a few.

Today Western Digital Introduced the My Book Studio Edition II for Macs. The My Book is an external hard drive with up to 2 TB of storage space.

The new Studio Edition II which are formated specifically for Mac computers and designed in a way that is eco-friendly is currently available at the online Western Digital store (ShopWD.com).

“WD developed the My Book Studio Edition II external drives to satisfy the needs of Mac enthusiasts and creative professionals who require extra-fast performance, but also want it to be as environmentally friendly as possible,” said Jim Welsh, vice president and general manager of WD’s branded products and consumer electronics groups. “Configured with RAID 0 out of the box, photographers, graphic artists, videographers, and others who require large amounts of storage will experience high performance combined with power savings and quiet operation when they use the new My Book Studio Edition II storage system.”

Backing up made easy is exactly what the Maxtor One Touch does for you, and given it’s large hard drive up to 1TB, it has more than enough storage space.

So, for the past month and a half, I have been trying out both the Maxtor One Touch 4 and the Maxtor One Touch 4 Mini, and both are pretty good at doing what they are advertised to do. But what makes them so great is how easy it is to do.

So what exactly do they do? Well of course they give you additional storage, and in this day and age where we have Gigs of Photos and Terabytes of Movies, a large hard drive is needed.

Yesterday March 20th HTC announced the availability of the HTC Shift in the US.

No the HTC Shift is not a phone, it’s an Ultra Mobile PC running Windows Vista (Origami Experience 2.0). The HTC Shift is half the size of a typical notebook PC but delivers all the power of a full notebook.