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It looks like the recently unveiled external storage device from I-O Data is only one of the products that the company has prepared, as there are actually two others that got officially introduced.When it comes to storage devices, I-O Data is one of those companies that arguably has a tendency towards releasing mult... |
31 March 2011
05:08 GMT |
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Those that were wondering how long it would take for more BDXL drives to show up need wait no longer, as a certain company known as I-O Data has come to challenge Buffalo with an external solution of this very sort.For those that do not know, some months ago, the Blu-ray Disk Association, BDA for short, came up with... |
28 March 2011
06:34 GMT |
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There may be many systems on today's IT market, but only some of them can truly be said to have what it takes to survive in unfriendly environments, one of them having just been launched by NextComputing.There are certain products on the consumer market which are said to be rugged, but the word is usually used ... |
17 March 2011
04:50 GMT |
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Now that it finished unveiling new tablets or whatnot, Toshiba is again looking to other market segments, and its line of storage devices has finally seen the addition of a new collection of portable HDDs.
Those that have been keeping track of the happenings at the MWC 2011 expo will know of how Toshiba revealed ... |
18 February 2011
02:37 GMT |
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Buffalo has long been a supplier of various storage solutions and it seems its most recent one has now made its way out of its maker's labs, bearing the name of HDS-PXVU2.External storage solutions come in various shapes, sizes and types, as many companies are trying to stand out through newer and better invent... |
3 February 2011
03:56 GMT |
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It appears that Gigabyte is not the only company looking to the portable storage market, as I-O Data has also put together a certain device, one that can be seen as fairly unique as far as connectivity goes.Gigabyte's Pure Rock may be looked upon with reservations because, though it has multiple capacity option... |
27 January 2011
05:07 GMT |
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Though one would expect pretty much any new external storage unit to feature USB 3.0, Gigabyte figured that wasn't necessary for its newest portable HDD, the Pure Rock.While at one time floppy disks and optical disks used to be the only means of transporting data between computers, their use for such things has... |
27 January 2011
03:05 GMT |
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Since the USB 3.0 SuperSpeed standard has begun to get quite close to actually displacing USB 2.0 on the mainstream, it was only a matter of time before Packard Bell updated its series of portable HDDs.As consumers know, more and more motherboards with support for the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connection have been released... |
26 January 2011
08:22 GMT |
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I-O Data's HDPC-U collection of portable hard disk drives may not be an entirely new one, but it seems that some new members have now been added to its ranks, all of them with the same capacity. Normally, when increasing the number of products available in a storage solutions line, companies usually give their ... |
19 January 2011
04:32 GMT |
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Blu-ray may be on track to becoming mainstream, but it is still some way off, especially on the portable ODD market, where DVD drives, like the ones just released by Plextor, still reign supreme, so to speak.The market for external and/or portable optical disk drives has now received its latest member.Over the past ... |
17 January 2011
11:02 GMT |
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As one would expect, OWC is bringing out the big guns this CES, one of them being a very particular hard disk drive that, instead of one or two connectivity options, has four.It seems that the heavy influx of new product announcements has begun for real and will keep going for as long as CES lasts and beyond.Now tha... |
5 January 2011
03:29 GMT |
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It appears that Transcend is not content with just expanding its portfolio of solid state drives, the company having also prepared several new hard disk drives of the portable variety.Some might have thought that Transcend's series of StoreJet portable hard disk drives would go a while without any new addition.... |
22 December 2010
10:02 GMT |
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With all the gadgets that the modern man has to carry around, charging them all, quickly becomes a chore, so an universal power adapter could prove to be just the right tool for the job, especially if this is as compact and versatile as Innergie's mCube Slim or mCube Mini 90 Auto/Air chargers.
Slated to be re... |
16 December 2010
10:41 GMT |
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Now here's a special Christmas present for all of you Linux enthusiasts out there, as Mandriva announced the availability of its portable USB Mandriva Flash Drive. It is based on the KDE4 Edition of the Mandriva Linux 2010 distribution (released on July 8th, 2010) and it's available as an 8GB USB flash driv... |
16 December 2010
09:00 GMT |
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As it happens, certain products sometimes take months to actually reach stores after their initial introduction, and it seems that one such device, courtesy of Team Group, has finally done so.Back at Computex, Taipei this past summer, quite a number of different PCs and PC components were showcased, among other thin... |
25 November 2010
06:22 GMT |
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While the industry is focused on the new video cards and updates on upcoming processors, other companies decided to release products of their own, such as Apacer, whose HDD collection has just been expanded.While the majority of hard disk drives are still 3.5-inch models meant to be placed inside desktops, various o... |
11 November 2010
05:22 GMT |
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With all the attention focused around NVIDIA's and AMD's recent announcements, OWC thought it might as well try and offer some variety, so it announced the appearance of a new portable hard disk drive.Most recently, the consumer base has been largely focused on the several updates that NVIDIA and Advanced ... |
10 November 2010
06:11 GMT |
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While NVIDIA is about to release its GeForce GTX 580, other companies have no problems with launching devices of their own, and Samsung seems to have done just that with the S2 line of storage units.While the market is eagerly waiting for NVIDIA to break the silence and officially release the GeForce GTX 580 card, o... |
9 November 2010
05:31 GMT |
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Seeking to propagate the appeal of portable hard disk drives, G-Technology, one of Hitachi's business units, has unveiled its newest G-Drive, based on the technology used in the Travelstar Z5K320. The Travelstar Z5K320 is a hard drive developed by Hitachi which has now been turned into a unit with a casing that... |
2 November 2010
06:04 GMT |
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Since solid state drives are known for their ability to achieve high read and write speeds, portable ones always depend on a fast connection, so Iomega took the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard and implemented it into its newest, 1.8-inch models.While the 2.5-inch form factor was, for a time, the most compact size that S... |
16 October 2010
03:19 GMT |
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Microsoft is pretty thrilled about its new Windows Phone 7 operating system, which was launched yesterday, and revealed a few things about its gaming capabilities, and how it considers the new platform a whole new games console.Windows Phone 7 will enter the ring of mobile operating systems and face off against Apple... |
12 October 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Even though it is known for being the world's top supplier of personal computers, HP is, apparently, intent on catering to the needs of other market segments as well, as is made obvious by how it just made three hard drives available for pre-order.Although it may not have taken a break from its PC and printer s... |
11 October 2010
08:31 GMT |
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Portable media players (PMPs) often come in handy when someone is traveling light and not exactly in a position to access media streaming sites, and Cowon has just started shipping, in South Korea at least, the X7.Since it is meant to be easy to carry around, Cowon used a screen with a diagonal of 4.3 inches and whi... |
8 October 2010
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With laptops focusing on portability and compactness, they sometimes fail to actually include an optical drive of their own, this being the basis for the external ODD market, a market which Samsung and Logitech have now both addressed.Logitech has reportedly come up with the LDR-PME8U2V, a DVD writer which measures ... |
8 October 2010
05:36 GMT |
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While Acer is busy promoting its media player, Sony decided it was time for one of its external optical storage devices to get acquainted with foreign lands, so it sent the BDX-S500U to the US, where its 6x writing speed is expected to stir interest.Basically, the product is a compact, external Blu-ray writer that d... |
22 September 2010
06:36 GMT |
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Though not likely to match Seagate's 1.5TB portable beast any time soon, Toshiba is still bound to cause a few ripples with the latest Canvio Basics models, which use the USB 2.0 interface and are supposedly aimed at the masses.Once again, a hardware maker has unleashed a number of portable storage solutions th... |
21 September 2010
09:38 GMT |
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After months during which the portable hard disk drive market was limited, capacity-wise, to 1TB, Seagate is proud to announce a model that exceeds that barrier by half, namely a new FreeAgent GoFlex with a storage space of 1.5TB.Since end-users seem to like storage solutions of high capacity, and are willing to pa... |
21 September 2010
08:33 GMT |
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Though it usually seems content with stealth, Memorex has broken the silence just recently in order to unleash a portable hard disk drive of its own, the so-called Mirror for Photos, with an USB connection and capacity of up to 640 GB.Storage units come in all shapes and sizes, but in the case of external hard drive... |
17 September 2010
09:55 GMT |
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Though it has not gotten any updates since it was launched at CES this year, the Apollo series of hard drives from Imation has finally been expanded, the hardware maker unveiling two portable versions and two not so portable but still external models.The two portable HDDs that Imation prepared are the Apollo Expert ... |
14 September 2010
09:38 GMT |
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Buffalo has been dealing in portable hard disk drives for quite some time, and it seems that its MiniStation collection has just welcomed several new members, all clad in similarly glossy enclosure and with capacities of 320 GB, 500 GB and 640 GB, respectively.Portable hard disk drives, as opposed to regular 3.5-inc... |
8 September 2010
07:53 GMT |
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After supplying new products for the PC and peripheral markets, ASUS has decided to make a move on the portable optical storage market, so it brought out the 'Extreme Slim' external DVD-RW drive, which is intended as a companion product for the many ODD-less laptops currently available.Mostly, ASUS tried t... |
26 August 2010
10:51 GMT |
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Taking a break from the rugged storage solutions development, hard drive maker LaCie has stepped into the spotlight in order to present tis latest portable HDD, the Rikiki Go, a new device with 500GB or 1TB of storage housed inside a durable aluminum shell. LaCie's latest storage solution, the Rikiki Go, is an ... |
26 August 2010
08:23 GMT |
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Hardware makers have been developing portable hard disks for years, but while most such hard drives are just regular storage solutions with support for external connectivity, they don't normally boast any unusual feature, and I-O Data aims to remedy this with the HDPN-U500/V, a HDD capable of video playback, am... |
26 August 2010
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The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface standard has once again struck, this time scoring a plus with Samsung, which has just finished making the official introduction of the S2 Portable 3.0, a line of fast, portable hard disk drives that are expected to start selling in the European Union sometime this month.Like all port... |
19 August 2010
03:00 GMT |
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Buffalo released quite a number of products over the past months, and it seems like the company has a penchant for external and/or portable storage units with moderate to high capacities. Already the outfit is selling a variety of devices as part of the MiniStation series, even models of 1TB. Now, Buffalo appears to ... |
9 August 2010
06:35 GMT |
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Western Digital appears to be especially pleased with having retained hard drive shipment dominance over the past FY quarter, as it decided to pay some more attention to the small things that make external/portable hard drives appealing. When making a regular storage device, aesthetic value is the last thing on the m... |
22 July 2010
08:54 GMT |
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Like all of its rivals on the storage market, A-Data has been quite active and has offered some product or another for every consumer segment, such as SATA 6.0 Gbps SSDs or USB 3.0 external hard drives. Now, the company has decided to follow up with another solid state drive, making a point of adding enough functiona... |
19 July 2010
08:31 GMT |
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Though companies usually like to focus on a specific business outlet, some actually like to address the needs of multiple market segments. Kingmax, for instance, provides products for the storage and memory markets alike, even though it could simply focus on one of these areas. As such, the market is well supplied w... |
17 July 2010
03:23 GMT |
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Buffalo has a long history of launching various storage solutions, whether optical disk drives, external desk drives or portable hard drives. The latest plan it has unveiled is of the third type and, though it has not yet come to fruition, will soon materialize into a new line of hard disks. Said product family goes... |
16 July 2010
04:51 GMT |
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Lian Li launched a great many computer casings over the past few months, each meant for a certain type of computer, whether small form factor, HTPC-type or full-sized gaming rigs. The company, naturally, has no intention of stopping the flow of releases now. Still, it has no problems with changing the overall flavor... |
14 July 2010
10:25 GMT |
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Apricorn often makes a point of giving its customers as high a level of security as possible. As such, its products come with various security features. In the case of storage units, the Californian company doesn't remain oblivious to the obligatory hardware-based encryption. Neither does it restrict itself to ... |
14 July 2010
09:57 GMT |
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Three months ago, Toshiba came out and turned a few heads, or more, by unveiling the Canvio series of portable hard disk drives. These storage devices were interesting, and still are in fact, because they have high capacities, at least compared to competing products. Now, their maker has decided to expand the series ... |
13 July 2010
10:21 GMT |
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Flash drives may rank highest on the portability list, among consumer-oriented storage solutions, but they don't even come close to matching portable hard drives in terms of capacity. Also, considering that the latter units themselves usually fit inside pockets, they can make excellent traveling companions for a... |
2 July 2010
04:32 GMT |
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EMTEC may have been trying to stay more or less covert recently, but it definitely hasn't been slacking off. In fact, it looks as it was just waiting for the right time when all the other big players finished up their own product releases. Now that the long string of new PCs has seemingly calmed down, the c... |
30 June 2010
08:29 GMT |
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Samsung has already made its mark on the world, at least for today, by launching a pair of storage solutions. To be precise, the company unveiled not just a new line of hard disk drives, but also an internal Blu-ray combo that seeks to satisfy both in terms of performance as well as aesthetic value. Nevertheless, Sam... |
15 June 2010
06:20 GMT |
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Much technological advancement has been made over the past few years, even in spite of the struggling economy. Six-core CPUs have come to market, DirectX 11 graphics are running rampant and even tablets and e-readers have practically carved their own niche. These products and technologies, however, will only service ... |
31 May 2010
09:34 GMT |
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Late last month, LaCie seemed quite enthusiastic when it announced plans to release a Rugged USB 3.0 hard disk drive. Designed by Neil Poulton, said device came with a shock and scratch-resistant chassis wrought of aluminum. Being equipped with next-generation parts, however, it had no chance of being accessible to a... |
26 May 2010
08:25 GMT |
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Buffalo released a substantial number of storage units over the past few months, each meant to address the needs of a particular market segment. There were compact, portable drives, ultra-fast USB 3.0 devices and even models with as much storage capacity as one could ever need. Coming to expand its collection of mobi... |
21 May 2010
09:52 GMT |
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When it comes to most storage units, especially those that end up on the inside of a desktop or laptops, hardware makers are hardly concerned with aesthetics. When it comes to external devices, however, especially those meant to be portable, good looks are quite relevant in end-users’ decision to buy or not acq... |
19 May 2010
03:10 GMT |
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Over the past couple of months, Buffalo has unveiled several external storage solutions that do their best to reach as small a form factor as possible while retaining all performance specifications that users take into account when deciding on a purchase. Now that the USB 3.0 interface is picking up speed, Buffalo de... |
28 April 2010
06:26 GMT |
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