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First-Ever External USB 3.0 Hard Drive Presented by Buffalo

Since early this year, hardware experts and the enthusiasts among end-users have been anxious to see the USB 3.0 out in the open, eager to test its capabilities and see whether the alleged 10 times faster data transfer was for real. Although motherboards with this technology are still quite hard to come by, other pro...

26 November 2009
02:54 GMT

QuickerTek Powers Your MacBook On The Go

QuickerTek has announced the MacBook Battery and Charger Lite for owners of an Apple MacBook. Customers will gain up to five hours of additional battery power, according to the company, whose offerings include all kinds of battery chargers for MacBooks, iPhone and iPod touch. “It's [sic.] small size is d...

8 July 2009
08:56 GMT

Fujitsu Offers 500GB of External Storage Space

Fujitsu, one of the worldwide leading manufacturers of storage solutions, has recently announced its newest travel-ready HandyDrive additions, offering the world's highest capacity 2.5-inch external hard disk drive, with up to 500GB of storage space. The new product has been designed to offer a sleek and ultrapo...

15 July 2008
05:12 GMT

Lite-On IT Working on USB External DVD Burners

One of the biggest product releases that was displayed at this year's Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan, was undoubtedly ASUS' Eee PC. Even more, a number of other important manufacturers like MSI, Acer or Gigabyte have released their own version of an Eee PC-like portable computer. And these products have se...

9 June 2008
09:51 GMT

New 320GB HDD for Macbooks Features eSATA-Enabled Enclosure

MacBook owners looking to increase their storage space will be glad to hear that MCE Technologies has just introduced its 320GB MobileStor Performance hard disk drive upgrade for both MacBook and MacBook Pro. At $349, the 320GB HDD operates at 5400RPM, featuring a maximum sustained transfer rate of above 75MB/sec. Bu...

30 January 2008
07:01 GMT

Iomega to Showcase New Models of eGo Portable Hard Drives

Iomega has announced the availability of two new members in their portable eGo hard drive line. The new hard-disks will feature higher storage capacities, as well as a new FireWire connector. They will be showcased during the Macworld Conference & Expo starting today.The newest Iomega drives come in capacities of 160...

15 January 2008
06:34 GMT

Western Digital Seems to Hate Multimedia

People usually buy external hard drives to complete their inefficient storage space. By inefficient, we usually mean 60 or 80 GB as most of the actual notebooks still carry. Well, talking about inefficiency, an 80 GB hard disk drive can easily carry the whole Library of Congress in textfiles. Not quite inefficient ri...

8 December 2007
06:22 GMT

Google External Hard Disks Released

Google is rumored to be secretly working on an operating system but no one was willing to fully deny or confirm it. A "not yet" is all I could come up with as an answer after asking somebody working there and that will never be good enough.But it seems that Google is going to the hardware market before that, and the ...

1 December 2007
02:31 GMT

Portable Storage Devices with Style

Western Digital just announced a storage capacity increase in its line of external storage devices, the Passport range of products that now comes with a maximum of 250GB, a serious boost from the previous 160GB capability. While there are hardware producing companies out there that are taking the design and finish of...

3 October 2007
06:58 GMT

Transcend Launches Its 160GB External Storage Solution

Transcend announced the launch of its new external storage device that comes packed in a small form factor for increased portability and ease of use. This new product from Transcend is available now under the commercial name of StoreJet and it combines a stylishly designed, polished aluminum case with the performance...

2 October 2007
09:43 GMT

G-Tech's Fast and Spacious External Storage Devices

G-Tech announced the launch of a new line of external storage devices that are offering fast data transferring speeds, generous storage space as well as ease of deployment and of use. The new line of products is called the G-Speed eS and it comes equipped with a fast external Serial ATA interface, data protection by ...

2 October 2007
04:40 GMT

LaCie Intros a Personal Media Server

LaCie announced yet another external network attached storage system that is aimed for use in homes and small offices - the groundbreaking Ethernet Disk mini - Home Edition, that offers users a generous 500GB storage space as well as the ability to save, retrieve, sync and share personal files over a network. Apart f...

27 September 2007
06:37 GMT

Buffalo's External HDD with TurboUSB

Buffalo Technology is one of the computer hardware manufacturing companies that is focused almost exclusively on the portable storage hard disk drive solutions as these devices are becoming very popular and widely used. The Japanese company recently announced the launch of a new product that is aimed at computer user...

26 September 2007
08:51 GMT

Western Digital Launches a New Line of My Book Drives

The computer hardware manufacturing company Western Digital today announced the launch of a new product line that comes as a continuation of its external storage solutions, the My Book family. This product family is composed of several solutions which are specially designed for different fields and uses like the My B...

20 September 2007
11:27 GMT

LaCie's 2big Line of Professional RAID Drives

While the external storage market for home of small office is in full swing, the professionals need big storage solutions too and the latest RAID-based system from LaCie is going to satisfy all needs for more capacity and scalability. Unlike the external Golden drive aimed at home users that the manufacturing company...

13 September 2007
06:13 GMT

LaCie's 4TB of Storage Space

A lot of storage solutions appeared these days with capacities in excess of 1TB but devices going above that limit are not really out of the ordinary. What is out of the ordinary is a device from the accessory and peripheral maker LaCie which can store up to 4TB of information: meet the new Biggest Quadra RAID. Desig...

5 September 2007
08:08 GMT

The Wooden External Hard Drive

Unlike most external storage solutions, be them based on a hard disk drive or a flash memory stick, the Suissa external hard drive drops the new and slick plastic or metal casing for a more unusual but very appealing design. The unique Suissa external storage box comes encapsulated in maple wood and it features a rou...

22 August 2007
09:44 GMT

The USB Ports Spell Trouble

The Universal Serial Bus or USB for short is a very popular port today as there are maybe a million computer hardware parts that connect to the host system using it. Among those parts, or better said peripherals, there are mice, keyboards, external storage devices, webcams flash memory sticks and so on. The USB port ...

18 August 2007
06:33 GMT

Buffalo's External Storage Drives

Buffalo Technologies has just announced the launch of two brand new versions of its MiniStation and DriveStation families of external storage hard disk drives. The DriveStation features an integrated SATA hard disk drive that connects externally over an USB port for maximum compatibility with all existing computing p...

6 August 2007
11:53 GMT

Toshiba Introduces The Biggest External Hard Drive

As a computer user, I've found myself many times in the position when I needed an external storage device to transfer information between point A and point B. First I used CDs, then switched to DVDs, but, both are very sensitive storage media and so I bought a pendrive, a 1GB model, considering that it would be ...

18 April 2007
06:04 GMT

Asus Readies External Graphics Card for Notebooks

Notebook users will soon be able to take full advantage of powerful dedicated graphics cards. Even though NVIDIA's and ATI's latest mobile GPUs deliver decent frame-rates and good overall image quality, they can't really compete with dedicated graphics cards that usually belong in a PC. Asus is ready t...

5 March 2007
06:53 GMT


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