Build Yourself an HDD Library with Hardbox Enclosures
	One of the most important shortcomings of the digital world is that people don't take time to read printed books anymore. While digital libraries are growing larger and larger, the living-room book-shelves accommodate less and less hardback books. Peripheral manufacturer Sarotech found an ingenious way of blending technology with classic looks in its latest hard-disk drive enclosure. The stylish device can host any 3.5-i ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 09:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Plextor Unveils Next-Gen 1TB Network Attached Storage
	Plextor has just announced an update to its network-attached storage product offering. The two new additions come with a re-engineered unit and interface, and are touted as being the next-generation high performance external storage devices. The Plextor StorX PX-NAS500L comes with a storage capacity of 500GB, while the higher-end PX-NAS1000L sports 1 TB of space. Despite their large capacity size, the units are mostly pitche ... [read more >>]
	10 May 2008, 06:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Transcend Adds Active Cooling to Its eSATA StoreJet HDD
	Transcend has just introduced its new StorageJet 35 Ultra hard disk drive enclosure with eSATA connectivity and active cooling. The external storage solution comes in a sleek aluminum case that acts like a huge heatspreader, carrying the residual heat to the exterior. According to the company, the dual eSATA / USB 2.0 connectivity maximizes compatibility across platforms and at the same time keeps the data transfer rates above ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 10:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Iomega's ScreenPlay Drive Makes Your PC Obsolete
	Iomega has introduced a new portable external hard-disk drive that can substitute an entire computer when it comes to watching high-definition content. The new product comes in 500 GB capacities, and allows enthusiasts to easily share and stream multimedia content to high-definition TV sets and home theater systems. Iomega's new drive comes bundled with a Media Center remote control that works in pair with an extremely e ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 09:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

OWC Introduces 500 GB On-the-Go Portable HDD
	Other World Computing has just introduced a new 500 GB portable hard-disk drive model to its Mercury On-The-Go lineup. The new drive spins at 5,400 rotations per minute and sports three connectivity options to maximize compatibility with the host computer, while delivering the highest possible data transfer rate. The Mercury On-The-Go 500GB comes with FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB 2.0 connections, and can be directly pow ... [read more >>]
	19 April 2008, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Iomega Introduces Gaming Console 160 GB Hard Drive
	Storage specialist Iomega has just introduced its Media Xporter Drive, a portable hard disk drive pitched at the gaming console market. The cross-platform media storage solution is fully compatible with the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles, and allows users to transfer data between the personal computer and the high-end gaming consoles. The new 160 GB Media Xporter Drive comes in an ultra-portable form factor and connects ... [read more >>]
	18 April 2008, 05:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

LaCie Unveils Triple-Interface Neil Poulton External Drive
	Storage specialist LaCie has announced its latest external storage devices signed by industrial design specialist Neil Poulton. The drive comes with a triple interface including USB 2.0, eSATA, and Firewire 400 in order to maximize compatibility with the host system and ensure smooth data transfer rates. The hard-drive enclosure features a glossy, fashioned design in a black mirror finish that wears the personality of the Fran ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2008, 05:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Buffalo's DriveStation External HDD: Four-Interface Beast
	Buffalo Technologies has just announced another external hard-disk drive in its DriveStation external storage lineup, called the DriveStation Combo4 TurboUSB. The new storage device can be regarded as an external hard-disk on steroids, given the fact that it connects via four different types of interfaces to maximize compatibility with the hist system. The drive sports eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0, and the com ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2008, 05:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

LaCie's Rugged All-Terrain Hard Disk: The Drive that Can Face the Apocalypse
	LaCie has started shipping an increased capacity version of its apocalypse-ready Rugged All-Terrain Hard Disk. The new drive now has four times its initial capacity and allows the user to store up to 32 GB of data in a portable and user-friendly form-factor. The drive is the exclusive creation of the world-renown industrial designer Neil Poulton, that has previously contributed to other LaCie products. The designer is especial ... [read more >>]
	18 February 2008, 11:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Buffaloo Dishes Plans for External Solid-State Drives
	Buffalo Technologies announced that the company has no plans of releasing the world's first external storage solution based on NAND flash memory. Called the MiniStation SHD-UHRS, the 100GB device is a solid-state drive enclosed in a polished casing. It seems that the MiniStation SHD-UHRS that ... [read more >>]
	16 February 2008, 05:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Verbatim Introduces a New Generation of Portable Hard Drives
	Verbatim has just launched a whole new line of 2.5-inch portable hard-drives. The external storage media comes as a free space bonus for the notebook and ultra-mobile PC users. The devices allow the user to scale the storage space according to their needs, by adding 120, 160, 250, or 320GB hard-disk drives. The manufacturer has updated its previous models of 2.5-inch external storage devices with a choice of a USB interface or ... [read more >>]
	15 February 2008, 11:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Buffalo Brings 500GB of Storage in the Palm of Your Hand
	Just as I thought that Buffalo's devices could never get better than they are now, the company has announced yet another product to complete its portable storage offering. The new drive comes with 500GB of space and has arrived earlier than Seagate, Maxtor and Hitachi would have estimated. Buffalo's half-a-terabyte disk is visually identical to the other products available in the MiniStation ultra-portable storage fa ... [read more >>]
	15 February 2008, 06:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

EZSecu EZ850: The Keypad-Enabled Hard-Disk Enclosure
	The automated teller machines are hardly new on the market, but nobody thought to port their security system to hard drives enclosures. Well, at least, until now, because a Japanese hard-disk enclosure manufacturer has launched a portable hard drive that features a built-in ATM-like keypad. The EZSecu EZ850 is a 2.5-inch hard-disk drive enclosure that can connect to the computer via a spare USB 2.0 port. It can host a single S ... [read more >>]
	04 February 2008, 12:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Buffalo MiniStation 320GB External Drive: Storage Size XXL
	Japanese storage expert Buffalo is one of the few relatively new companies on the market that managed to impress in a short time. The peripherals manufacturer is especially concerned with producing external storage devices, such as portable hard-disk drives, Blu-ray players, USB flash drives. Buffalo was also the first company ... [read more >>]
	04 February 2008, 10:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

LaCie Featuring Neil Poulton: Classy, Black External HDD
	The days when quality devices were enough for worldwide recognition are long gone, or so it seems. There should be a special category for such devices, such as hardware fashion, or fashionable hardware or whatever. We have talked about Pinafarina having designed an e ... [read more >>]
	06 December 2007, 06:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Aegis Vault – Realtime Encryption Has Become Mainstream
	Apricorn has releaser their Aegis Vault portable storage suite. What strikes most is the very name of the product and the manufacturer has managed to make a somehow redundant statement in terms of security when joining Aegis (the Greek equivalent for protection) and the Vault. In some respects, there is no overstatement, since the portable storage system features AES-128 bit hardware encryption with password protection. This way, the data ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 10:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

TrekStor Hits 1TB of External Storage with The DataStation duo w.u
	As the amounts of data we work with on a daily basis have seriously increased over the past few years, the same phenomenon has applied to the market demand for external storage solutions with very high capacities. And one of the latest companies to join the 1 TB club is TrekStor, which has finally released its DataStation duo w.u model, after announcing it about 1 month ago. As most of the portable HDD-based storage solutions manufactu ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2007, 05:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia