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Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme 1TB

Seagate's Xtreme has some extremely good speeds, but it's also extremely ordinary to look at.

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Western Digital My Book Premium ES Edition (500GB)

With only a one year warranty and no included eSATA cable, it's worth checking out the My Book Premium ES Edition's competition.

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Fujitsu Lifebook E8420

Fujitsu's foray into Centrino 2 laptops is solid, but the competition is offering more features at a lower price.

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Toshiba Portege R600

Toshiba's Portege R600 is one of the best ultraportables on the market, if you're willing to pay the price.

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HP Pavilion DV3540TX Special Edition

HP's latest Special Edition laptop just misses the mark due to some odd design decisions, and poor battery life.

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Centrino 2 launches in Australia

Centrino 2 is among us — with three laptops already on the shelves, and significantly more due by August.

Seagate announces 500GB notebook drive

Seagate last week unveiled a 500GB 2.5-inch notebook drive as well as a 1.5TB desktop hard drive, claiming industry firsts for both.

Aussie TiVo to go on sale next week

TiVo will be available for sale in Australia on 1 July with a price of AU$700, after being beaten to the punch by Foxtel's new HD+ service by almost a month.

Intel to launch 160GB SSD drive this year

Intel has confirmed plans to launch solid state drives (SSD) this week at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, and claimed SSDs will beat their hard disk drive equivalents on failure rates.

CompactFlash revamp aimed at cameras

A higher-performance revamp of CompactFlash could start arriving in cameras in 2009. But it's not compatible with today's standard, so prepare to toss your old cards.

Laptop lowdown: 25 things you need to know to buy the perfect notebook

In the market for a new notebook? Check out our list of 25 things you need to consider before you hit the shops.

Renovating? Don't forget to network

Been doing a bit of renovating? Before you install the plasterboard and start painting, consider spending an afternoon to run a local area network (LAN) through your house.

The best ways to back up your data

Backing up your hard drive is something you should do regularly, but because of forgetfulness, the unpleasantness, or just plain laziness, you put it off. Before you know it, the drive takes a dive, and all your files are gone for good.

DIY: Double up your data

RAID arrays aren't just for big businesses. Back up your data and boost your storage with these tips.

DVD burner shopping checklist

If you want bigger-than-CD capacity storage, DVDs are the next best choice. A single DVD can hold up to 4.7GB of data and prices of DVD writers are rapidly plummeting, making them more affordable than ever.

Our favourite laptops of 2008

With the year coming to a close, we collect up our favourite laptops of 2008.

Top portable storage devices

If you're looking to transport data between PCs, you're going to need a portable storage solution.

How to upgrade your PlayStation 3 Hard Drive

Find out how to upgrade the hard drive on your PlayStation 3.

Blu-ray & HD DVD reach Australia, sort of

Next-generation DVD players are finally washing up on Australian shores. Trouble is, there's no content to go with them. Asher Moses gives you the low-down.

Dual-core desktop CPU bout: AMD vs. Intel

AMD and Intel both have dual-core CPUs out on the market, but which chip maker's technology is truly the best?

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UltraBootCD

Transfer files from hard disk to USB devices and vice versa.

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Windows FAT Data Recovery 4.8.3.1

Recover data from corrupted MFT, MBR, and DBR disk drives.

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Tape Imaging Software 1.0.2

Create dumps from tape devices.

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SMARTReporter 2.3.8

Receive warnings for some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen with this tool.

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Super Fdisk Bootable CD

Create, delete, and format partitions on IDE/ATA/SATA/SCSI hard disk drives without destroying data under DOS system.