Seagate announced a new feature called the Pimp My Drive today, which allows you to fully customize the look of your external hard drives and storage devices purchased from the company.

Seagate announced a new feature called the Pimp My Drive today, which allows you to fully customize the look of your external hard drives and storage devices purchased from the company.

If only this were a desktop microwave-cum-coffee-machine, ideal for topping up your caffeine levels and heating up your harried lunches, but sadly it’s just Iomega’s latest NAS. The Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d squeezes four SATA-II 3.5-inch drive bays into a reasonably compact footprint, promising RAID 5, 10 or JBOD setups and up to 8TB of standard storage.

Corsair have announced their flagship Extreme Series SSD, a 256GB model that promises read speeds of up to 240MB/s and write speeds of up to 170MB/s. The X256 joins the existing 32 to 128GB SSDs in the Extreme Series, with 64MB of cache and the Indilinx Barefoot controller.

If you’re in constant fear that your data will be compromised for one reason or another, you’ll be pleased to hear Apricorn has just outed their Aegis Padlock Secure Hard Drive.
This portable storage system actually has a keypad with which you can enter a PIN number you set. This way, no one else can access your information without that specific PIN you designate.
Other features include a USB 2.0 cable, AES-128 or 256 bit encryption, ten user IDs and a single administrator to assign permissions, and an omnidirectional shock mounting system, allowing the device to stand up to unexpected bumps. You can get the Aegis Padlock Secure Hard Drive now in 250GB, 320GB and 500GB capacities in either 128-bit or 256-bit versions. Pricing is $100, $110 and $140 for the 128-bit models and $120, $130 and $160 for the 256-bit ones.
Sanrio has teamed up with Mimoco today to announce a brand new line of flash drives called the MIMOBOT. These USB drives will take on the shape of various Sanrio characters, the first of which is a Hello Kitty model.

OCZ announced their latest storage device, the OCZ Solid 2 SATA II 2.5″ Solid State Drive today, which uses Indilinx controller and offers up good performance at a more affordable price.

Backup remains a guilty chore many people avoid, and yet plenty of us are already carrying around a potential backup device. Most people don’t think of it that way, but your iPod is a huge chunk of storage just waiting to be repurposed as a portable hard-drive. Clickfree sent over their latest easy-backup system, the Transformer for iPod, for SlashGear to take a look at.

Verbatim announced a new flash drive today that is seriously small. Dubbed the TUFF ‘N’ TINY, this USB drive is really about the thickness of a penny and measures in at only 1″ by 0.5″.

Verbatim announced their TUFF-CLIP USB drives today which offer up both 4GB and 8GB capacities for people who need a bit of storage while on the go that’s not going to break apart from a slight bump or jostle.
