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Kingston DataTraveler Vault Privacy USB Flash Drive Review

You've probably been able to read time and time again over the past couple of months about all sorts of security breaches that have affected a tremendously large number of people (state authorities simply losing various storage media filled with the citizens' private data, etc.). These situations are extrem...

16 July 2008
01:50 GMT

Kingston DataTraveler Vienna USB Flash Drive Review

Probably just about any football (or soccer) fan out there knows by now that Spain won the Euro 2008 Championship, thus proving to be the best team on the old continent. As expected, this event, one of the most important around the world, has brought about a whole range of related products, from various souvenirs to ...

30 June 2008
02:30 GMT

Imation Rolls out Apollo

Imation, one the leading names in the industry, introduced today its new line of external hard drives meant for the Americas. What the company is trying to do with the new products is to offer its users a reliable high-capacity storage solution, wrapped in a unique, stylish and lightweight design. Taking into conside...

10 June 2008
10:23 GMT

Imation's Nano Flash Drive Is Tiny... Really, Really Tiny

The first thing that comes to almost anyone's mind when hearing the word "Imation" is data storage, or, to be more precise, either floppy disks or those magnetic tapes used for carrying out various backup operations. Nevertheless, the company's area of expertise is much wider, as it has just announced the r...

29 May 2008
01:52 GMT

Sony Rolls Out Colorful MicroVault Flash Drives

As you probably know quite well already, the Japanese electronics' giant, Sony, has the habit of launching products that deliver a very attractive external design, besides the high-end components from within. And this is exactly the case with the company's latest flash-based external storage solutions, the ...

22 May 2008
01:51 GMT

Verbatim's Portable HDD Hits Half-Terabyte Capacities

Verbatim has just announced a new portable hard-disk drive offering in its SmartDrive lineup. The device is touted as the world's first half-Terabyte disk drive in a portable form factor, although we have already seen LaCie's rugged device packing the same storage capacity. The 500GB SmartDisk portable hard...

30 April 2008
03:49 GMT

Buffalo's 500 GB MiniStation TurboUSB

When it comes to having the possibility of carrying with you as much data as you need, we are talking big storage room. This happens especially if you are a person who needs to always have at hand documents, photos, business presentations, high-quality videos or all sorts of other documents and data. A helpful hand f...

11 March 2008
10:08 GMT

Corsair Preps Ultra-Fast 16 GB Voyager "GT" Flash Drive for CeBIT 2008

Corsair's Voyager USB flash drives are quite famous for being among the toughest such portable storage solutions around, but it seems that the company's not about to settle just for a very tough exterior. Thus, Corsair has just announced that it will release at this year's CeBIT 2008 another model from...

29 February 2008
03:40 GMT

Kingston's DataTraveler Micro Reader, the Bastard Child of a Flash Drive and a Card Reader

The competition on the USB flash drives' market has become pretty intense lately and this is the reason why the most important names in the industry are coming out with all sorts of innovative products, designed to draw the customers' attention and to provide an enhanced level of functionality for the users...

12 February 2008
14:46 GMT

Carry Your USB Flash Drive on the Back of Your Mobile Phone

I don't know how many of you have ever owned a luxury mobile phone, but one thing's for sure: when you've purchased a $2,000 Mobiado handset, any and every accessory you might get for it should match both its design and its price tag. And this is the reason why the Bonac Innovation Corp. (makers of the...

17 December 2007
11:06 GMT

Transcend's Got A 16GB SDHC Card Coming Our Way for 139 Euro (200 US Dollars)

It seems that 16 GB is be the new milestone in memory cards nowadays, as every major manufacturer of such memory storage solutions is rolling out its own version. Thus, after we've talked about Ritek and Delkin launching last week their 16 GB UDMA Compact Flash memory cards, Transcend has provided some interesti...

10 December 2007
13:41 GMT

It's Curvy! It's White! It's Got 8 GB! It's the JetFlash V33

The people over at Transcend are very well-known for manufacturing portable storage solutions that provide large capacities as well as rather attractive designs, which makes them more desirable for customers with an enhanced aesthetic sense. And that's also the case with the company's latest product, the Je...

5 December 2007
08:46 GMT

InnoDisk Develops Lighter, Tougher USB Flash Drives

The security (and safety) of one's personal data is an extremely important issue nowadays and this is the reason why it's always a good idea to choose a tough (and a bit more expensive) portable storage solution rather than a cheap one, which might give in to the slightest shocks. And since in the case of U...

23 November 2007
01:51 GMT

Store Up to 2 GB of Data in a Lego-Like Brick

Over the past few years, USB flash drives have become pretty much the most popular type of portable data storage solution there is, as they allow users to carry around a relatively high number of files, documents and various types of multimedia content in a very small and tough package. However, since the basic funct...

19 November 2007
12:51 GMT

Store Your Data Safely in a Portable RAID Array - The World's Smallest!

RAID arrays have proved their worth over time, as they allow a greater level of security for the users' data, even in the case of a system crash. However, said arrays are typically found in networked attached storage solutions (NAS) or external HDDs, which are anything but portable. And this is exactly the reaso...

14 November 2007
09:51 GMT

Maxtor Releases the Superman of Portable HDDs: Both Waterproof and Fireproof

Although Maxtor has suffered quite a serious blow to its brand image after the recent pre-installed virus related scandal, the company keeps rolling out new and improved products, designed to respond to certain specific market demands. And that's pretty much the case with the company's latest announcement, ...

14 November 2007
06:06 GMT

G-Tech Intros Triple-Interface G-Drive mini Portable HDDs

Although USB 2.0 remains the most popular connectivity interface around, there are certain users who would rather go for something a little faster, due to the fact that they work with data-intensive applications that require faster data transfer rates. And this is exactly the reason why G-Technology has decided to up...

2 November 2007
04:36 GMT

Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Others Join Forces on Next-Generation Flash Memory Card Standard

Flash-based storage solutions are extremely popular nowadays, due to the fact that they provide relatively large storage spaces in a very portable form factor. However, when it comes to memory cards, the number of formats and sizes is so big that users have to be quite careful when purchasing such an item and check t...

17 September 2007
03:31 GMT

SanDisk Goes Purple in the Fight Against Alzheimer's

The Alzheimer's Disease (also known as A.D or simply Alzheimer's) is one of the worst debilitating conditions that very seriously affect the elderly population, leading to such symptoms as memory loss or dementia. Although there's no cure for it, at least for the time being, quite a lot of associations...

13 September 2007
09:46 GMT

A-DATA's New Memory Cards Are Roomier than Old HDDs

Flash-based memory cards have become extremely popular over the past few years, as they provide very large data storage capacities in extremely small and portable form factors. And that seems to be exactly the case with A-DATA's latest offering, a trio of memory cards that provide huge storage spaces, even accor...

5 September 2007
08:26 GMT

Pretec Announces Very Posh i-Disk Swing Line of USB Flash Drives

Although it's not as well-known as Corsair, Transcend, SanDisk or Imation, the Pretec company has launched quite a few USB flash drives over time, each of them providing rather unique features, as for example the bulletproof model, reviewed last year by Softpedia. And the company's latest announcement, made...

4 September 2007
12:16 GMT

OCZ Launches Its Own Line of microSD Cards - Up to 66X Transfer Speeds

It's becoming somewhat of a trend among memory makers to come up with their own Flash-based memory storage devices, including here USB drives or memory cards. And it seems that the people over at OCZ have decided to join this very competitive market, as they've just announced the release of their microSD me...

28 August 2007
09:21 GMT

Kanguru's Eco Drive Boasts to Be the World's Most Eco-Friendly Portable HDD

Everyone's concerned about the environment nowadays and this applies especially for the various manufacturers of electronic equipments, whose products require electrical power both during normal operation as well as during the manufacturing process, thus indirectly affecting the surrounding environment. This is ...

20 July 2007
11:31 GMT

Kingston Rolls Out Two New 8 GB USB Flash Drives

It seems that 8 GB flash drives are becoming increasingly popular nowadays, as more and more manufacturers roll out new versions of their previous offerings that provide exactly this storage capacity. And one of the latest additions to the market comes from Kingston, which has just started shipping the 8 GB versions ...

17 July 2007
06:11 GMT

Verbatim Goes for an Even Bigger Chunk of the Storage Solutions' Market

Verbatim is one of the best known brands on the storage solutions' market, as it has launched over the years quite a huge number of storage media, ranging from floppy disks to DVDs. However, the company's involvement in the field of external HDDs wasn't exactly very solid up until recently and this is ...

10 July 2007
08:41 GMT

SanDisk Launches World's First 6 and 8 GB microSDHC Memory Cards

It seems that the competition on the memory cards' market is getting tougher and tougher, as manufacturers rush to roll out such storage solutions with increasingly high capacities, reaching limits that seemed to be just fiction only a few years ago. And the latest announcement of this type comes from SanDisk, w...

28 June 2007
15:56 GMT

Trekstor Rolls Out the 250 GB DataStation pocket t.ub

Portable data storage solutions have become extremely popular nowadays, considering the fact that the amounts of data we have to carry around with us on a daily basis are significantly larger now than they were in the past. After we've showed you yesterday the portable HDD from Iomega, now it's time to take...

28 June 2007
06:06 GMT

Iomega Ships the eGo 160GB Portable HDD at $1 per GB

Iomega is one of the best-known manufacturers of HDD-based portable data storage solutions, offering users quite an impressive line-up of such products in several specific ranges. And one of the company's latest offerings is the Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive USB 2.0, a device that provides 160 GB of storage spa...

27 June 2007
11:11 GMT

Memorex Revamps Its TravelDrive M-Flyer Line, Launches M-Flyer Pilot Flash Drive

Memorex is one of the best-known names on the data storage products' market, especially in the area of optical media. However, Imation's brand has also launched quite an extensive line-up of USB Flash Drives, the latest addition to this already large family being the M-Flyer Pilots, a portable storage solut...

27 June 2007
04:46 GMT

The 4GB and 8GB SanDisk Cruzer Contour Flash Drives Are Finally Here!

Although SanDisk has been teasing the users with their new, ultra-sleek and innovative Cruzer Contour USB flash drive since back in January, they had some problems delivering on their promise. However, things have finally changed, as the company announced that it has started shipping the 4GB and 8GB versions of the d...

26 June 2007
07:36 GMT

The Ultimate Bling USB Flash Drive: 14K Gold and Diamonds for $2,000

For some unknown reason, quite a lot of people can't simply go for a normal USB flash drive and are ready and willing to pay huge amounts of money for a device whose only merit is to have a blinged-out external casing. And that's the case with the 14k Gold Disk On Key Set With Diamond presented by the Israe...

19 June 2007
09:31 GMT




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