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Hard disk drive trends for 2025

Rainer W. Kaese, Senior Manager, HDD Business Development at Toshiba Electronics Europe, gives his predictions for hard disk drives in 2025... Hard disk drives, or HDDs, are a well-established technology for storing data. They are known for being able to hold a lot of data and for being relatively inexpensive when you look at how…

4 December 2024 Chris Price Computers, Hard Drives, News

Toshiba introduces personal storage solution for Android phones

Toshiba's Personal Storage Division has announced it is now shipping the ‘CANVIO for Smartphone’, a portable storage device for backing up and charging Android phones. It is estimated that a small minority of smartphone users have backups - and just 8% backup their phones regularly . The CANVIO for Smartphone backs up and charges a connected…

4 January 201722 February 2017 Chris Price Computers, Hard Drives, Uncategorized

Happy Birthday Raspberry Pi! And welcome to the new Pi 3 with built in WiFi and Bluetooth

Raspberry Pi3 is released today, February 29th, 2016, complete with integrated Bluetooth and WiFi Today is the Raspberry Pi’s fourth birthday, and along with birthday wishes, we’re welcoming their newest addition on board, the new Pi 3. The new credit card sized model sized goes on sale today priced $35/£30, the…

29 February 20164 March 2021 Chris Price Computers, Hard Drives, Raspberry Pi

#IFA2015 Toshiba introduces Ultra HD 4K convertible and laptop/tablet Satellite Click 10

Amazingly it's been 30 years since Tosh introduced the world's first mass market laptop. Where does the time go? Things have certainly changed a bit since 1985 with this year's IFA in Berlin seeing the Japanese company introducing the world's first 12.5inch Ultra HD 4K convertible, the Satellite Radius 12. Also new to the line…

3 September 20153 September 2015 Chris Price Computers, Hard Drives, Laptops / Notebooks

WATCH: Hands on with Samsung’s tiny 1TB SSD

Our colleague Holly over at Shiny Shiny has been taking a look at Samsung's impressive new storage - which manages to be both tiny, store a terabyte of data, and be solid state, meaning you can wave it around without risking damaging your data. The T1, as it will be officially known will come in…

7 January 2015 James O'Malley CES 2015, Computers, Hard Drives

REVIEW: Toshiba Store.E Canvio 500GB external hard drive

A tidy, small and speedy USB 3.0 drive, Toshiba's latest Store.E Canvio gets the job done nicely. Read our review for the full lowdown.

15 July 2013 Gerald Lynch Hard Drives, Reviews, Tech Digest news

CES 2013: Lacie Blade Runner 4TB Hard Drive protects from backups lost like tears in rain

External hard drive design is, for the most part, as boring as tech comes. Nondescript black oblongs tucked aside your monitor or laptop, they're nothing much to write home about. Designer Philippe Starck doesn't do nondescript though, and his new…

7 January 2013 Gerald Lynch CES 2013, Hard Drives, Tech Digest news

Western Digital launch 2TB My Passport portable drive

Hot on the heels of their newly-released Thunderbolt drives, Western Digital are launching an updated My Passport portable external hard drive line, pushing the storage capacity up to a generous 2TB. As well as speedy USB 3.0 transfer speeds and…

20 March 20126 February 2017 Gerald Lynch Hard Drives, Tech Digest news

Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo Dual-Drive storage system now shipping.

Western Digital's My Book Thunderbolt Duo Dual-Drive is now up for sale after first being revealed at January's MacWorld 2012 show. Making use of the new superfast Thunderbolt data transfer standard, the My Book Thunderbolt Duo Dual-Drive can be equipped…

15 March 201222 December 2015 Gerald Lynch Apple, Hard Drives, Tech Digest news

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