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Toshiba outs Canvio Slim as world’s thinnest 500GB hard drive

Cory Gunther, Sep 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

The folks from Toshiba look to continue the trend of packing tons and tons of storage into an extremely small space. Today they've outed their latest Canvio Slim portable hard drive and are stating it's the "world's thinnest" portable hard drive. Coming in at just 9mm thick offering 500GB of storage for only $115 -- lets take a look. Read The Full Story

WD intros first 2TB My Passport Studio for Macs

Rue Liu, Apr 3rd 2012 Discuss [8]

After recently introducing a 2TB My Passport portable hard drive with USB 3.0 for PC users, Western Digital today announced the 2TB My Passport Studio, its first portable storage drive of such large capacity dedicated for Mac users. It works with Apple Time Machine for streamlined data backup, but offers two FireWire 800 ports and one USB 2.0 port instead of the much faster, but also much more expensive, Thunderbolt. Read The Full Story

Seagate GoFlex Satellite update adds simultaneous WiFi streaming and web

Chris Davies, Mar 21st 2012 Discuss [1]

Seagate has released an update to its GoFlex Satellite WiFi-enabled external drive and its companion iOS and Android apps, adding support for simultaneously connecting via WiFi to the portable HDD and to a separate data network. Announced last May, the GoFlex Satellite is a 500GB drive positioned as a way to offload data from your smartphone and tablet, while still being able to stream it easily. However, until now using the WiFi connection meant your phone or tablet was unable to also connect to a home or office WiFi network. Read The Full Story