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Testing the World’s First 7200RPM 2.0TB External “Quad Interface” Storage Solution

We just received stock of Hitachi’s new 2.0TB 7200RPM DeskStar 7K2000 Serial ATA Hard Drive. We always test and qualify new products of this nature before releasing them for sale and man, these drives are fast! Rock Solid, High Performance, Quiet too. The only 7200RPM 2.0TB single drive model currently available and by far, the fastest 2.0TB Serial ATA (SATA)...

New Video!!! New Video!!!

We’ve got a new Installation Video this week. This time around, we show you how to install a hard drive in the Newer Technology miniStack. We all love the miniStack. Its small form factor, support for large SATA hard drives,...

Some optical drives are having slight Snow troubles.

Since Snow Leopard’s release a couple of weeks ago, there have been several reports of various optical drives being unable to read the installation DVD. There have also been reports of these same drives being unable to read other DVDs,...

Use your AppleTalk printer with Snow Leopard – UPDATE

It is true that Apple has dropped the AppleTalk LAN protocols as part of the trimming done in 10.6 Snow Leopard.  It doesn't necessarily mean its time to throw out that legacy LaserJet printer that had its printer queue setup...

Snow Leopard Changes the Way We Look at Gigabytes

For a long time, there’s been an interesting discrepancy between the capacity listed on a hard drive’s label and the capacity reported by the computer. For example, attaching a 250GB hard drive would show up in the system as having 232.74GB...

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