Seagate recently announced its latest external storage drive - the Innov8, which is one of the first to make use of the new USB 3.1 standard (note that this is the faster, more recent Gen 2, not the ...

While Windows 8 enables hard drives with a simple plug-and-play recognition, some older Windows versions require software drivers to configure and operate them ...

The future is here, everyone. Let’s check out the just-announced Seagate BlackArmor PS110 Performance kit. It’s Seagate’s first USB 3.0 product and it’s noice — where noice is slang for nice, and for ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Seagate's BlackArmor PS110 is among the first external hard drives to feature a USB 3.0 interface. Although the raw speed of USB 3.0 is nominally ten times that of USB 2.0 (4.8Gbps vs 480Mbps), the ...

The obvious reason here to be excited about Seagate’s new Black Armor PS110 500-gigabyte portable HDD is because it uses a USB 3.0 connection and transfers 3x faster than current USB 2.0 drives.