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We’ve already covered a fair few USB 3.0 touting devices here at TFTS but it looks as though buffalo are set to get the jump on everyone thanks to officially confirming that the Buffalo HD-HU3 USB 3.0 Hard Disk is set to become available as of this month in Japan.

Western Digital has decided to teach its external hard drives some new tricks. The new My Book Elite and Studio will both get a digital label while the My Passport Elite portable drive gets a dock. The question is, do we really need new accessories for our external hard drives?

LaCie have paied up with renowned designer Philippe Starck once again to produce their just unveiled LaCie Starck Desktop Hard Drive series of external USB hard disks that, apart from topping out at 2TB capacity, come with what LaCie term as an ‘intelligent touch-sensitive surface’.

Following on from out heads up yesterday concerning the newly unveiled Active Media Aviator 312 SuperSpeed SSDs today Super Talent have announced their new Toshiba co-branded UltraDrive DS SSD series which boast a number of security enhancements to ensure your data remains uncompromised.

Active Media Products have unveiled their first range of USB 3.0 external USB SSDs in the form of their Aviator 312 SuperSpeed SSD series which  boast data transfer speeds of up to an astounding 4.8Gbits/sec (which makes them 10x faster than USB 2.0 based solid state drives) whilst still retaining …

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? …