The benefit of a tape backup is mutliple tapes for backups. A hard drive as a backup is like a CD/DVD, better than nothing. Plugging.Unplugging in a hard drive repeated is not wise. Even a hot plug ...

I have a lot of extra hard drives laying around. Some of the drives are SATA and some of them are old IDE drives. I am thinking about getting rack/removable tray to go into one of my 5.25" bays so I ...

Addonics aims to make swapping hard drives as easy as changing floppy disks with its Snap-in SATA Mobile Rack. Mounted in a 5.25″ drive bay, it lets you hot-swap any 3.5-inch SATA hard drive. The rack ...

In March, the CRN Test Center recommended the ARAID 3500, a hot-swap enclosure that converts two 3.5-inch hard disk drives into a RAID 0 or 1 array but appears to the host system as a single hard ...

The Granite Digital SATAVue Hot-Swap has an industrial look. Constructed of heavy aluminum, it feels practically tank-like. However, underneath the heavy shell hides a hare, not a tortoise. The ...

Whereas in the past 2.5-inch drives were the low-speed, low-capacity lesser siblings of the 3.5-inch desktop HDD, recent advances have meant that the latest compact units – such as Western Digital's ...

Icy Dock Launches PCIe Hot-Swappable 2.5-Inch Drive Bay It allows a hard drive or SSD to be plugged into a PCIe slot without any cables cluttering up your case.

Running out of disk space is a bummer, especially on a laptop, where you can’t just add in a second drive. I always seem to be on the edge of filling up the 6GB disk on my 2-year-old Dell Latitude as ...

The past few years have been good to external storage. It’s gone from being uncommon to being a complete fixture in our daily computing lives. Four years ago, flash-based thumb drives were put on an ...