Category: Hard Drives
Portable HDD – shaped like a chocolate bar
Knowing how many people graze away at their desks, a portable HDD shaped like a chocolate bar might well cause a few broken teeth. But it’s certainly an eye-catcher.
LaCie unveils The Hard Disk – designer add-on by Neil Poulton
No longer the functional item for backing up your data, the external drive has gone designer, courtesy of The Hard Disk from LaCie.
Shiny Video Review: SimpleTech Pininfarina External Hard drive
Alex has been busy reviewing external hard drives like they’re going out of fashion, and in this video, takes a sneak…
Buffalo first to market with portable 320GB hard drive
Remember when hard drives were counted in terms of a Megabyte rather than a Gigabyte? it wasn’t that long ago – and now that GB count has jumped up even further on portable drives with the advent of the latest Buffalo MiniStation TurboUSB 5400rpm drive.
Philips launches SPD5130 1TB hard drive with fast eSATA interface
Philips has announced the availability of its SPD5130 hard drive, boasting a massive one terabyte of storage and able to connect to a computer using either USB 2.0 or the new eSATA interface. eSATA is around six times faster…
Fujitsu claims to have the world's largest capacity mobile hard drive, at 300GB
If there’s anyone out there reading this, who hasn’t yet moved to storing their music and photo libraries on external hard drives, I recommend you do so as soon as possible. I recently transferred most of my data to one, and the extra speed I’ve received after departing with 90GB of photos and music is amazing.
Fujitsu is here to save the day with what they’ve dubbed the world’s largest capacity external mobile hard…
LaCie unveils Ethernet Disk Mini Home Edition Personal Media Server
If you are short of room for our digital media, the newly-launched LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini Home Edition with a 500GB of storage should make things a little easier. It's claimed to be the first commercial device to combine remote…
Shiny Video Review: Polaroid Click Free Media Backup – Photo Edition
Have friends who take a lot of photos and want to make backups but are a bit nervous of the whole drag and drop nature of most backup drives? Or they’re worried that they’ll forget to include something important? Well, this is the low-to-no intervention solution. It’s available exclusively at Boots the Chemist, for £89…
Buffalo intros TurboUSB-charged USB hard drives, speedy file transfer and performance
Buffalo Technology has announced the availability of an enhanced range of MiniStation and DriveStation products, now featuring TurboUSB technology which is supposed to significantly improve the speed of file transfers and overall performance.
The TurboUSB MiniStation is a portable, shock-resistant USB 2.0 external hard drive, offering up to 64% better file transfer rates than traditional USB 2.0 hard drives. It features a wrap-around cable, tough armoured outer case, and shock-absorbent internal design, and is able to draw its power from the PC via a powered USB port or hub. It will come in 80GB, 120GB, 160GB, 250GB, and 300GB capacities.
Buffalo’s TurboUSB DriveStation is intended for users who want to easily back up their files, and boosts file transfer speeds by up to 37%. It comes in capacities of 250GB, 320GB, 500GB, 750GB, and 1TB. The unit features an auto-setup function, auto power-on, and auto-backup scheduling.
IFA 07: LG DVR Pause and Play TV and PC users
For those of you into your pause and play TV, LG also had new 160GB DVRs with dual digital tuners on display. Each will naturally allow you to watch one program while recording another. They’ve got Freeview Playback Certification from the UK’s Digital TV group, so you can record subtitles and closed captions, in addition to video and audio, as well as intelligently schedule recording times in case a TV programme over-runs.
