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Umazone UMA-ISO automatically mounts your DVD images

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 17th 2009 1 Comment

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.

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Seagate FreeAgent DockStar review

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 16th 2009 1 Comment

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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Clickfree C2 backup drives get scheduling, hardware encryption, more

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Oct 13th 2009 No Comments

We’ve a soft spot for Clickfree’s straightforward backup drives, ever since playing with some of the early hardware back in March and discovering it was simple enough even to get a lazy SlashGear editor (i.e. me) to regularly backup. Now Clickfree are back with their next-gen drives, the C2 series. As well as basic usability improvements – there’s now an attached USB cable that tucks away in a cut-out on the back, meaning forgetting the cord is no longer a valid excuse – the Clickfree C2 also adds in some more advanced functionality.

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Active Media Aviator 312 SSDs use SuperSpeed USB 3.0

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 5th 2009 No Comments

“SuperSpeed” USB 3.0 isn’t expected to make a mark on shipping devices until next year, but that hasn’t stopped Active Media from unveiling their latest range of external SSDs. As you might imagine, the Active Media Aviator 312 line each supports USB 3.0 connectivity, as well as offering 16, 32 or 64GB of high-speed storage space.

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Verbatim InSight HDD with permanent status display

By Chris Davies on Monday, Aug 17th 2009 No Comments

Verbatim have announced a new external hard-drive, though you’d be forgiven for mistaking it for a set of kitchen scales. The InSight USB Portable Hard Drive has an always-on LCD which permanently displays the drive’s name and its capacity; it’s updated every time the InSight is connected or disconnected from the host PC or Mac.

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Sanrio MIMOBOT USB Drives announced

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Aug 13th 2009 No Comments

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.

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Corsair 128GB Flash Voyager GT: pointlessly fast?

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Aug 13th 2009 No Comments

Corsair’s new 128GB Flash Voyager GT thumb-drive is, the company claims, so speedy that its throughput is effectively limited by the capacity of a USB 2.0 port. That either means that USB 3.0 can’t come quickly enough, or that Corsair’s engineers basically wasted their time and could’ve slacked off in the latter stages of the Voyager GT’s development.

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Clickfree Transformer for iPod Review – Turns your iPod into a Backup Storage

By Satsuki Then on Wednesday, Aug 12th 2009 No Comments

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.

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Verbatim TUFF ‘N’ TUNY USB drive is super small

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Aug 11th 2009 No Comments

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″.

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Verbatim TUFF-CLIP USB Drives now shipping

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, Aug 10th 2009 No Comments

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.

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