This is a “why didn’t I think of that?” idea. [Alec] needed a way to connect an IDE DVD drive using USB. Rather than order a connector he pulled the circuit board out of an old USB hard drive ...

The trouble with conventional hard drive enclosures is that if you just want to hook up a particular drive to quickly grab some files off of it, you have to go through the hassle of unscrewing the ...

This cleverly disguised 2.5-inch RAID enclosure drastically improved the performance of our hard drives in RAID 0. But continuing problems with configuring SSDs leaves us unable to recommend it in ...

You can use external hard drives to back up critical business data or add additional storage to a workstation. However, because external storage devices can cost hundreds of dollars, you can reduce ...

With USB 3.0 quickly gaining acceptance in the mainstream, it's now time for consumers to take advantage of the performance it has to offer. USB 3.0 is literally 10 times faster than USB 2.0 and ...

A quality budget 2.5-inch hard drive enclosure at a rock-bottom price that's also lightweight and well worth a look. The enclosure kit is simple, as it contains the enclosure, a stick-on foam drive ...

I'm looking to build out my storage box a bit with a bunch of old 1TB drives and a 16 port SATA RAID card (3Ware/LSI 9650SE-16ML) I have lying around. My server motherboard has 8x SATA 3 ports which ...

Not everyone needs 4-bay RAID solutions like the Promise R4i, and not everyone needs ridiculously-fast RAID SSD setups like the Sonnet M.2 4×4 PCIe Card. Enter the Promise Pegasus J2i. The Promise ...

External hard drive enclosures are really becoming a dime a dozen, there’s no doubt about that. Because of that, it’s just plain out difficult to be truly impressed when a new one strolls along. For ...

This is a “why didn’t I think of that?” idea. [Alec] needed a way to connect an IDE DVD drive using USB. Rather than order a connector he pulled the circuit board out of an old USB hard drive ...