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LaCinema Classic streams media to your TV

Shawn Farner, Jan 7th 2009 Discuss [0]

LaCie is rolling out a new external hard drive called the LaCinema Classic, offering media lovers a simple way to consume their movies, music and photos - through their TV. All the user has to do is hook the device up to their computer via USB, copy files onto the Classic and then hook it up to their TV via composite or HDMI. Read The Full Story

SanDisk Ultra Backup USB drive & redesigned Cruzers show up at CES

Chris Davies, Jan 5th 2009 Discuss [0]

SanDisk have announced their latest USB flash memory stick, the Ultra Backup USB, which features both the company's sliding retractable USB plug and a dedicated backup button. Available in capacities up to 64GB, a press of the backup button triggers an automatic sweep of specified folders for new files, which are also encrypted with password-protected access control and ultra-secure AES hardware-based encryption. Read The Full Story

Phantom Keystroker V2 makes office pranks affordable

Staff Editor, Dec 18th 2008 Discuss [0]

How many of you work in an office and can not keep yourself from playing practical jokes at every given opportunity? The Phantom Keystroker was designed with you in mind. This tiny USB thumb drive thoroughly annoys your co-workers by causing their computers to malfunction. Read The Full Story

Portable GreenHouse Pocket drive provides external SSD with USB connectivity

Daniel Lim, Dec 18th 2008 Discuss [0]

A waste of technology but there are occasions one seeks for durability than performance in external storage. The Greenhouse Pocket SSD GH-SSDEGU-M doesn’t promise blisteringly fast transfer speeds, but the use of solid state MLC technology has level of ruggedness and durability which is simply unmatched with moving-part hard disk drives devices. Read The Full Story

16GB Buffalo USB drive measures 8mm in thickness

Daniel Lim, Dec 17th 2008 Discuss [0]

Manufacturer seems to be coming with peculiar USB flash drives in creative design and interesting shapes. If you can’t fabricate one likes a bottle opener, or a no-punt-intended’s thumb drive, or a luxury 80 carat gold’s Super Talent, then you have to be creative with physical appearance. Read The Full Story

Sony releasing movies and music on USB flash drives

Staff Editor, Dec 16th 2008 Discuss [1]

Lately large entertainment companies have been pushing virtual copies of their movies for portable media players (PMP) such as Apple’s iPod Touch. Sony has announced another way that they are going to distribute these virtual copies to consumers. Read The Full Story

Sony to sell MicroVault USB drives with preloaded content

Daniel Lim, Dec 15th 2008 Discuss [0]

There isn’t much you can do to push the USB drives that have slowly turned into a commodity. Giving it up free to promote other products or do what other storage makers have been doing for sometimes- repackage the drives with preloaded special edition movies or music contents. That’s what Sony did with their Microvault USB flash drives. The company has unveiled number of movies title available in their MicroVault USB drives, introduced some of the top music and movie titles in entertainment history to consumers in a simple, one-click-to-play portable USB drive. Read The Full Story

OCZ boasts Thumb Drive speed with eSATA Interface

Daniel Lim, Dec 5th 2008 Discuss [0]

USB thumb drive is convenient. The interface is standard with most computers made in the last decade and almost guarantee to work in any platforms. The only downturn is its speed remains an area for improvement. OCZ engineer looks to break the tradition, their new line of ultra fast thumb drive has an eSATA interface instead of a conventional USB ones. The result is sensational; the new integration boasts an astonishing transfer speeds of 90MB/s in reading and 30MB/s in writing. The OCZ Throttle eSATA drive family ranges from 8GB, 16GB to 32GB capacities. Like the USB with plug-and-play capability, the Throttle allows instantaneously data access from any computer without the need to install any additional hardware or drivers. Product availability and pricing have not yet announced.

SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise gains OSX support

Daniel Lim, Dec 4th 2008 Discuss [0]

A higher cost external drive or USB-based flash storage usually comes equipped with a encryption to protect its data against theft or loss of the drive. Unfortunately most of them only work conjunction in Windows platform; but not anymore, Sandisk has announced the Industry first Secure USB drive to fully support OS X system. Read The Full Story

Offers from SuperTalent you can’t refuse

Daniel Lim, Dec 3rd 2008 Discuss [0]

You can get thumb drives for dirt-cheap these days. Last time I purchased a pair of desktop memory, the manufacturer threw in a 2GB flash drive for free. Yeah, they are commodity items like the double A battery at the grocery checkout counter. But what you got are two-bit vanilla production; SuperTalent will soon market a Godfather imprinted USB drives for the gang of Don Corleones. Read The Full Story

LaCie CurrenKey flash drive announced

Brenda Stokes, Dec 1st 2008 Discuss [0]

If you're one for taking your information with you on the go, then you might be interested in the latest USB drive from LaCie. The LaCie CurrenKey is a USB 2.0 drive that looks like a coin. Yes, you read that correctly. It actually looks like a coin. Read The Full Story

IEEE 1667 format makes for cross-platform USB drive security

Brenda Stokes, Nov 25th 2008 Discuss [0]

There have been a lot of problems caused by people bringing in storage devices from home to their workplace. While most people who do this bring in clean drives, others might bring in those with viruses or those that are improperly formatted. Things like this can cause problems on the network and pose a security risk. But with the new IEEE 1667 format standard, things should be getting better. Read The Full Story