Tag: Hard-Drives

Western Digital (WD) is introducing three new external USB 3.0 hard drives.
The My Passport Essential and My Passport Essential SE are compact, portable hard drives and the My Book Essential, which is available in a 3 TB capacity, is designed for the home or office. Of course, you need a computer that supports USB 3.0 to benefit from the 3x faster transfer rate.
If your computer doesnt support USB 3.0, the new WD drives will work just fine with USB 2.0 ports, theyll just be limited to the standard USB 2.0 transfer speed.

Hard drives gone bad dont always have to end up in the trash. Miguel Rivera, a systems administrator, took a pile of used drives, gutted some and turned them into beautiful sculptures.

The overall concept was to make something out of just hard drive parts and pieces, says Rivera. I wanted it to look solid and heavy so I leaned towards just using metal no plastic or gluing things together.