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Toshiba StorE Art 3 USB hard-drives pack up to 1TB

Chris Davies, Apr 16th 2010 Discuss [0]

Toshiba's last new products this week are a pair of external hard-drives, in the shape of the new StorE Art 3 series. The two drives hook up via USB 2.0 and pack 750GB or 1TB using a 2.5-inch HDD with an internal shock protection sensor and rubber edging for bump-resistance. Read The Full Story

LaCie Rugged eSATA 500GB hard-drive on sale

Tamara Lapiers, Feb 12th 2010 Discuss [1]

LaCie have unveiled a new rugged external hard-drive, and it's apparently the first on the market with a Power eSATA port. The LaCie Rugged eSATA not only supports transfer speeds of up to 90MB/s, but - if used with a powered USB-eSATA combo connection - can hook up with a single cable. Read The Full Story

Samsung announces 500GB S2 external HDD with Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT pre-loaded

Shane McGlaun, Feb 8th 2010 Discuss [1]

Samsung unveiled its S2 portable external hard drive back in September of 2009. The drive has been around for a while now and Samsung has now announced a new special edition version of the S2 HDD. Read The Full Story

Buffalo HD-AV500U2/SC and HD-CL500U2/SC PS3-certified 500GB hard-drives hit Japan

Chris Davies, Feb 3rd 2010 Discuss [0]

Remember Sony's PS3-compatible labelling for external hard-drives, which the company tipped was incoming at the Japanese Torne TV tuner launch? The first fruits of that scheme have now been revealed, in the shape of two Buffalo drives. The Buffalo HD-AV500U2/SC and HD-CL500U2/SC are each certified to play nicely with the new digital TV tuner, and each offer to boost PS3 storage by 500GB. Read The Full Story

Imation unveils Pro WX wireless external USB hard drive

Shane McGlaun, Nov 20th 2009 Discuss [0]

There are hoards of external hard drives on the market that connect to your computer via USB. This is far form a new product category. Imation has announced a new external hard drive that connects via USB that does have something new. The Pro WX external hard drive is the world's first external USB derive to use wireless USB technology. Read The Full Story

Umazone UMA-ISO automatically mounts your DVD images

Chris Davies, Nov 17th 2009 Discuss [1]

Japanese accessory manufacturer Umazone have outdone themselves with a hard-drive caddy that will likely strike a chord with anyone doing regular software installs. The Umazone UMA-ISO looks like a regular 2.5-inch HDD drive enclosure; however it also has a small display and, on the side, a jog wheel, which can be used to flick through ISO CD and DVD images stored on the drive inside. Once selected, plugging the UMA-ISO into a host computer is pretty much the same as dropping the original disc into a CD/DVD drive. Read The Full Story

Origin unveils 1TB and 750GB Data Locker external HDDs

Shane McGlaun, Oct 16th 2009 Discuss [0]

External storage solutions are great for backing up data, but if that data is sensitive, you have to protect it from theft and in the event that the drive is lost. The way to do this is with encryption of some sort. Origin (PDF) has announced a couple new high capacity DataLocker external storage solutions with powerful encryption. Read The Full Story

Reviews

Seagate FreeAgent DockStar review

Chris Davies, Oct 16th 2009 Discuss [1]

Most digital libraries flourishing and ubiquitous connectivity spreading, having access to our personal data and media wherever we are is looking all the more appealing. NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices have had the ability to share via broadband for years, but most owners don’t take advantage of it; into the mixture steps Seagate, whose new FreeAgent DockStar takes the company’s FreeAgent Go USB hard-drive and makes remotely sharing its content incredibly easy. Obvious addition to every home network, or is there a sting in the tail? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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Western Digital reveals My Passport Elite external HDD

Shane McGlaun, Oct 6th 2009 Discuss [0]

Western Digital has unveiled the latest addition to its My Passport line of external storage solutions. The new drive is called the Western Digital My Passport Elite. The external hard drive is small and has some new and interesting features to make it more usable including a new grab-and-go dock. Read The Full Story

Samsung adds S3 Station and S2 portable external HDDs to line

Shane McGlaun, Sep 4th 2009 Discuss [0]

Every computer user really needs external storage for making backups. Many computer users never back up their data and have no way to get their important documents back if the computer fails unexpectedly. External storage is needed to allow users to back their data up. Read The Full Story