A 320 GB Hard Drive's Landing for Xbox 360 [Xbox]

By Sam Biddle Oct 11, 2011 12:54 PM 6,650 61

If you're running out of room for movies, music, photos, and other things that tend to take up hard drive space in your 360, you might need a bigger hard drive. Hey, here's a brand new 320 GB one.

The drive will set you back $130—keep in mind what a 750 GB hard drive actually costs, by comparison—and will come with a download code for LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars, reports Major Nelson. [Amazon via Major Nelson]

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Memory City Will Turn Your Mountain of Flash Drives into a Byte-Sized Burg [USB]

The flash drives are taking over. They live in your desk drawers, you laptop bag, between your couch cushions and in your pockets. They're taking over. It's out of control. They need a home. Behold, Memory City.

Memory City is like the Land of Toys in Pinocchio. It's a place where thumb drives are free to exist as a critical mass of occasionally-accessed storage, and live a carefree existence. And on the plus side, they won't turn into donkeys and corrupt your data.

With your help, Memory City can grow to contain four USB drives, three USB caps, three SD cards, three mini-SD cards. Sadly though, a home is not a hub, and you'll still have to plug them into your computer, one by one. [Design 3000 via Oh Gizmo! via Holy Cool]

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Archos' G9 Android Tablets Have Superfast Processors and... Hard Drives? [Android]

Archos Android tablets. Typically considered also-rans, but these things do have a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and up to 250GB harddrives.

UPDATE: Archos accidentally sent us a lot of incorrect info on these. Pardon all of the corrections.

The 10-inch G9 "Turbo" are each is packing Texas Instruments 1.5 GHz dual-core OMAP 4 processor, and Archos claims that will make page loading 50 percent faster than competitors tablets (which typically run 1GHz dual-core Nvidia processors). I cannot wait to find out if that's actually true. The 8-inch model also use a dual-core TI OMAP 4, but it will only be clocked to 1GHz.

The biggest point of differentiation is that these guys have the option of gargantuan 250GB harddrives from Seagate. While that's eight times more storage than the more common 32GB tabs, something important to keep in mind is that this isn't SSD, it's a regular old spinning harddrive. Spinning harddrives are bigger, heavier, more fragile, and way more energy-hungry. Not only that, they're slower. Will the spinning harddrive totally hamstring the superfast processor? (To be clear, both tablets come standard with 16GB of flash memory. These larger options are optional with additional cost.) Archos claims that these Seagate drives' special "4GB flash caching system" will make it just as fast as flash. Right. They also note that these drives will spin up only when in use, so it's likely that these tablets contain enough flash storage to run the OS and probably all of your apps, and the 250GB would just be used for storing media.

The G9 80 has an 8-inch, 1024 x 768 4:3 screen, similar to the iPad, aiming more at e-book readers. The G9 101 has a 10.1-inch, 1280 x 800 16:10 screen, similar to other widescreen Android tablets, emphasizing video and multimedia. Both tablets have enhanced video players (more codecs for you sneaky torrenters) and HDMI out, and you should be able to cram 50 hours of 1080p video onto those harddrives. They're both Wi-Fi only out of the box, but you can drop 50 bucks and get an Archos 3G USB dongle, if you so desire. They both run Android 3.2 Honeycomb without any kind of skin.

These suckers are starting at priced to sell at $279 $299 for the eight-incher and $349 $399 for the tenner. Options are the 16GB solid state vs. the 250GB HD, and you can chose to upgrade to a 1.5GHz processor in the 8-inch model, too (see updated price breakdown below). My biggest reservation is the spinning harddrive they've put in these things. While that kind of capacity is neat, do we really need it in a tablet? Further, tablets are portable devices and most standard harddrives don't like to be moved while they're spinning, plus there's heat and energy consumption to think about. Regardless, I like seeing manufacturers differentiating themselves by their hardware, and not by putting a crappy overlay over Android. They will both be available in late September.

Updated pricing breakdown:
• ARCHOS 80 G9 8GB – 1 GHZ at $299
• ARCHOS 80 G9 16GB - 1.5 GHz at $329
• ARCHOS 80 G9 250GB – 1.5 GHz at $369
• ARCHOS 101 G9 16GB – 1.5 GHz at $399
• ARCHOS 101 G9 250GB – 1.5 GHz at $469

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Tripoli Was Brought Down By a Caterer With a Bunch of Flash Drives [Libya]

In reporting on the Fall of Tripoli, Reuters tells the inside story of Abdel Majid Mlegta, a caterer who supplied the victuals for Gaddafi's regime. Putting key inside information on a series of memory sticks, this man was instrumental in bringing Gaddafi down.

In the days and weeks that followed the August 20th uprising, rebel forces were able to capture or topple many major operation rooms of Gaddafi's forces. That information was collected by Mlegta, who had built up good relations with his superiors before defecting, and secretly leaked to NATO and rebel leaders on three flash drives. According to Reuters:

After presenting the rebels' plan "from A to Z", Mlegta handed NATO officials three memory cards: the one packed with information about regime strongholds in Tripoli; another with updated information on regime sites as well as details of 65 Gaddafi officers sympathetic to the rebels who had been secretly supplied with NATO radiophones; and a third which contained the plot to take Tripoli.

So confident were they in the revolution, that they didn't even make the plot a secret. That plot would go on to be known as Operation: Mermaid Dawn. And they were ready. Follow Mlegta's story and how it all went down on Reuters.

Photo Credit: AP Photo/Balint Szlanko

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Best 2.5-inch External Hard Drives

Every PC or laptop requires an internal drive to host its operating system, data and files. The hard drives are available in variable options from storage size to their speed with affordability of price.

Also external hard drives came into existence to provide users who require more space and also it can support portability which makes it existing. You can use your external hard drives as an internal hard drive by simply plugging in to your computer. We have also gone through the best 5 2 TB hard drives last time.

Generally external hard drives are connected to the computer using three types of connections namely – USB 2.0, USB 3.0, FireWire and eSata. Here is the list of the current favorites 2.5 inches external hard drives.

Freecom ToughDrive

The Freecom ToughDrive external hard drive is plenty for the users who want to have simple back and few files to be saved. Its provides 250 GB of hard drive space and has got rubbery coating on drives to give you extra confidence that your data will be safe from physical damage.

The Freecom ToughDrive 2.5 inch is USB 2.0 compatible and it’s priced at $ 70 with two years warranty by manufacturer.

Buffalo Mini station

The Mini Station by Buffalo offers 1 Terra Byte of external storage with compact, sleek and light weight storage solution. It provides 1 GB of data storage and it’s portable with a weight of 170 grams. It will transfer data at a speed of 480 Mbps making it easy to quickly copy files.

It uses a 2.5 power and it’s compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Mac OS. It’s priced at $ 80 and available on Amazon too.

Toshiba 1 TB Hard Drive

The Toshiba ART 4 is an external hard drive which can be added to PC or laptop to provide extra space of up to 750 GB. It is compatible with high speed USB 3.0 standard and USB 2.0 standard as well.

With plug and play option the Toshiba 1 Tera byte external hard drive are at its best. It’s priced from $ 80 to $ 100 and available for online purchase on Amazon.

Seagate 500 GB External Hard Drive

The Seagate ST905004EXA101-RK is a 500 GB 2.5 inches external hard drive. It measures a 0.69 inches thickness and weight less than 160 grams. It comes with USB 2.0 interface for faster data transfer speed of up to 480 Mbps with plug and play feature. Its comes with built in power management so that it significantly reduces power consumption.

The ST905004EXA101-RK from Seagate is priced at $ 80.

Oyen Digital External Hard Drive

The Oyen Digital with model number UN2 is a 2.5 inches external hard drive with USB 2.0 interface which provides faster and easy way to add more storage. With USB 2.0 interface it provides a data transfer rate of 480 Mbps.

The Oyen Digital External Hard Drive is priced at $ 68 and its available for online purchase.

Yogesh Patel is a writer of technology gadgets, digital products like mobile phones, tablets PC, laptops & notebooks & on anything that is related to the gadgets which makes the daily lifestyle easier.

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