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Elgato Thunderbolt SSD hands-on

Chris Davies — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:41:42 +0000

Thunderbolt has plenty of speed, you can’t argue with that, but so far things to actually plug into the super-fast connection have been in short supply. Elgato has weighed into that rarefied company with the Thunderbolt SSD, a portable drive that delivers exactly what the name suggests. Capable of running from bus power, it’s a

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OCZ Lightfoot SSD packs Thunderbolt

Chris Davies — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:50:41 +0000

OCZ has jumped on the Thunderbolt bandwagon with its latest external SSD, the OCZ Lightfoot, a compact drive offering up to 1TB of high-speed storage. Previewed ahead of CES this week, the Lightfoot is the successor to OCZ’s Enyo USB 3.0 SSD, boosting transfer rates to up to 750 MB/s according to the company. Capacities are

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Xbox 360 branded harddrive a maniacal deal

Chris Burns — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:55:00 +0000

And what are those Star Wars characters doing there in the picture? Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen – the cost and the characters have to do with one another, but they certainly don’t seem to be equalling out. First, you may have seen this harddrive before – the same device comes in packs

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Seagate GoFlex Cinema promises expandable Full HD entertainment

Chris Davies — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:55:02 +0000

Seagate has launched its latest home entertainment storage center, the Seagate GoFlex Cinema multimedia drive, packing up to 3TB of internal storage and the ability to extend that by docking the company’s GoFlex removable drives. Capable of connecting directly to your HDTV or projector via a choice of HDMI or composite video outputs, and with

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Seagate GoFlex Turbo packs USB 3.0 and SafetyNet recovery

Chris Davies — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:19:08 +0000

Seagate has outed its latest GoFlex Turbo external hard-drive range, and as well as promising a high-speed USB 3.0 way of getting your data onto the disk, there’s also some reassurance that you’ll be able to get it off again should things not go to plan. Seagate is bundling its SafetyNet data recovery service with the

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Fake hard-drive has short-term memory not 500GB

Chris Davies — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:45:58 +0000

Whenever there’s a deal that seems too good to be true, there’s always the risk that you’re getting ripped off. Still, if you’re going to lose your money on a dud, it may as well be a surprisingly well-planned dud. As the story goes, a Russian repair center was asked to look at an “insanely

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Buffalo Launches Sleek and Fast MiniStation and DriveStation

Samia Perkins — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:31:12 +0000

Buffalo has just launched the new piano-black MiniStation and DriveStation external hard drives. The MiniStation is USB powered, so there is no need for an additional power cable. It is available in 500GB or 1TB. The DriveStation comes in both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 versions, and offers 1, 2, or 3TBs of storage. Both

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OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2: 12TB of super-flexible storage

Chris Davies — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:16:09 +0000

OWC knows how to tease us: slap a huge amount of speedy storage into a shiny aluminum box, and give it a glamorous name. The OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 is a good example, up to 12TB of RAID storage, four SATA-I/II bays and up to 300MB/s data transfer rates with four different ports to

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Sabio DM2-PT packs 2TB of RAID into tiny aluminum chassis

Chris Davies — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:25:01 +0000

Sabio has announced its latest external drive, and the Sabio DM2-PT manages to fit a dual-disc RAID array into a 6-inch square. Offering up to 2TB of capacity and a choice of RAID 0, 1, JBOD and span options, the DM2-PT has a trio of connectivity options: eSATA, Firewire 800 and USB 2.0. There’s also

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Iomega eGo 1TB USB 3.0 HDD Review

Chris Davies — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:12:24 +0000

We’re spoiled for choice when it comes to external hard drives, and given a large number of people base their decision primarily on price-per-gigabyte, a manufacturer has to offer something compelling if they want to stand out from the crowd. Iomega’s latest eGo drive offers both 1TB and USB 3.0, complete with a semi-ruggedized chassis.

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LaCie Starck Mobile USB 3.0 hard-drive is 500GB of curvy storage

Chris Davies — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:22:29 +0000

LaCie has outed its latest external hard-drive, and rather than use regular designer Neil Poulton, they’ve handed the crayons over to Philippe Starck. The LaCie Starck Mobile USB 3.0 is, as the name suggests, a USB 3.0 drive, with 500GB capacity and a 2mm-thick aluminum shell. It comes with a copy of LaCie Backup Assistant and a

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Iomega USB 3.0 SSD drives offer performance at a price

Chris Davies — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:38:31 +0000

Iomega has launched a range of new USB 3.0 portable SSD drives, promising high performance and rugged resilience, though you’ll need reasonably deep pockets to afford them. Three models in the (rather boringly named) Iomega External SSD Flash Drive USB 3.0 series will be available: 64GB for $229, 128GB for $399, and 256GB for $749.

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Toshiba Canvio 3.0 portable HDDs get USB 3.0 update

Chris Davies — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:00:09 +0000

Toshiba is the latest firm to jump into the USB 3.0 external storage market, introducing the Toshiba Canvio 3.0 with capacities ranging from 500GB to 1TB. As we’ve seen with rival models, there’s not a huge amount differentiating the Canvio 3.0 from previous USB 2.0 versions, beyond the faster, SuperSpeed interface. Still, if you’re storing

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Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB Review

Chris Davies — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:15:59 +0000

The Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5TB portable drive isn’t the first of the company’s modular external storage we’ve reviewed, but it’s certainly the largest. Proudly billed as the industry’s first 1.5TB portable external drive, the new FreeAgent also boasts a speedy USB 3.0 interface for faster data shuffling. Thanks to GoFlex, meanwhile, you can also switch

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