Exactly as expected, more USB 3.0 gadgets are going to miraculously appear in the following period. After we’ve seen the first USB 3.0 external hard drive, the Freecom XS 3.0, we now have the second (we will eventually stop counting them) USB 3.0 external drive! The Buffalo DriveStation HD-HXU3 is …
For those who’d like to smash their portable hard drives to the sidewalks or wave them in the rain without fearing data loss or any other issues, A-DATA has a new toy you can play with. Dubbed A-DATA SH93, the external HDDs are encased in an innovative molded rubber-plastic material …
If you were wondering when those USB 3.0 hard drives are going to pop up on the market, it’s going to happen sooner than you expected, as today, Freecom have taken the wraps off the new XS 3.0 HDD. Slated as the world’s first USB 3.0 to run on the …
Here we go again. We’ve had another swimmer jump into the waters of the network attached storage (NAS) pool and this time it looks like something straight out of an episode of Buck Rogers. You know, the one where Buck argues with Twiki and Dr. Theopolis about how dangerous and …
Network Attached Storage, or NAS, is still a relative newcomer to the technology scene. What used to be the realm of corporate IT engineers is now making its way into the consumer market. People want the ability to access and store their multimedia files on a centrally located HDD that …
Today is the day that hard drive makers worldwide are placed on notice. Seagate has fired the shot heard ‘round the world and it has data storage architects scrambling to find their footing. So what’s the big deal, you ask? How about the HDD equivalent of the first sonic boom? …
Of late OCZ have certainly been doing their part to push down the pricing of solid state drives – and are to be commended for doing so – but, if you’re looking for a high-performance SSD, such as their just released Z-Drive PCI-Express SSD, there’s simply no getting away from …
Those who’d like a faster laptop hard drive have where to choose from, and the latest to grab one from is Toshiba who have just recently announced their 2.5-inch MKxx56GSY 7200rpm laptop HDD that features a top-end half-terabyte storage capacity.
It’s all about sharing. People want to share their lives with anyone that’ll listen and sites like YouTube and FaceBook are a testament to this personal media exodus. On top of this, we all want to be able to access our data and information no matter where we are on …
The days of the old spinning platter hard drives may soon be numbered. The gap in both price and performance between hard disk drives (HDDs) and the up-and-coming solid-state disk (SSD) technology is getting razor thin and we may soon see a point of parity that could spell the death …
Only just last week we offered you a heads up concerning OWC’s latest 750GB Mercury On-The-Go portable HDD (the highest capacity to grace their Mercury On-The-Go line-up to date) and now OWC have followed up with the a new range of Mercury On-The-Go portable SSD units that, like its aforementioned …
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