Posts Tagged ‘hard drive’
Buffalo MiniStation: Portable hard-as-nails drive
Buffalo Technology has announced the launch of the MiniStation Extreme – a US Military Standard, compact and sophisticated high performance portable hard drive. That’s going to be pretty damn tough, then.\ The MiniStation Extreme combines USB 3.0 and Buffalo TurboPC EX providing data transfer speeds of up to 5G bits per second (bps) making it very useful for all of the important social (and business) norms including the transfer and…
Plextor PX256M2S SSD review
Harddrives ain’t the most glamorous of components; no matter how large or fast they get. SSD harddrives have injected a bit of glamour into the market by dramatically increasing performance, but they’re usually dismissed as toys of rich gamin’ playboys. Then one – the Plextor PX256M2S – landed on our desks and we changed our minds; it was wonderful. Using flash memory – i.e. the kind found in SD cards…
LaCie Porsche design Mobile and Desktop Hard Drives
The brand name Porsche immediately conjures up thoughts of lavishness and luxury, so when Porsche Design – the luxury brand with a focus on technically inspired products – team up with LaCie - a leading manufacturer of storage devices for PC, Apple and Linux that has always prided itself through ‘sleek design and remarkable technical performance’ – to produce LaCie Porsche Design Mobile and Desktop Hard Drives, the result, you…
GoFlex Satellite Mobile Wireless Storage
Seagate – a global leader in hard disk devices and storage solutions – seems to be going from strength to strength, as not only is the company significantly expanding and strengthening strategic relationships with ‘big boys’ such as Samsung, but it is also creating remarkably innovative products within the world of digital data storage, most notably the GoFlex Satellite Mobile Wireless storage, enabling you to expand your media capacity without…
Get Ur Freecom: Freecom Mobile Drive Mg and USBClip
With the launch of the latest Mac Air still fresh in our minds, it’s unsurprising that manufacturers are trying to emulate its svelte proportions and sleek design with peripherals for the Mac. Enter the Freecom Mobile Drive Mg – which its makers claim is the thinnest mobile hard drive available in the world today. Measuring just 10mm in depth and with a casing of ultra-light and strong magnesium, the drive…
Seagate GoFlex Slim hard drive
How many files are clogging up your space on your laptop? Applications, programs, movies and music. They all take up valuable space especially bluray movies. A lot of people combat this problem by having a portable drive. The benefits of this are not only having space freed up but files on the go. Visiting a friend? No problem, plug a portable drive to their HD TV and show your favourite…
Buffalo DriveStation and MiniStation
If you are wanting to store, access, transfer and view documents, files, images and other media collections efficiently, rapidly and ‘stylishly’, you may be interested in Buffalo Technology’s new MiniStation and DriveStation portable devices, both of which enable users to add additional storage to any laptop or computer via a USB port. “Product innovation and engineering excellence”, is, according to Paul Hudson, Sales Director Northern Europe at Buffalo Technology, “at…
Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB 3.0 1.5TB Hard Drive review
Portable Hard Drives aren’t the sexiest of gadgets, but until we manage to move everything into the cloud (which is slowly becoming a Dropbox-based reality) physical hard drives are with us. I don’t use USB keys anymore as it’s pretty easy to move small documents around from my desktop to my smartphone or my tablet (for the second time in this paragraph I have to give a shout out to…
TWIG: Earworms app, Three all-you-can-eat data, J!nx and Seagate Barracuda Green hard drive
The Week in Gadgets: Trying to learn a language – or a least get a feel for a few key phrases. Check out the Earworms “mobile brain trainer app” which uses rhythmic repetitions to anchor key foreign words and phrases into your auditory cortex ready for instant recall. Repetition to musical tracks enhances the memory in a similar way to music, which is why you probably know how to thank…
PQI H560 HDD: Putting the hard in hard drive
It was amusing to learn that there is a bunch of volatile folk out there in the big wide world whose job it is to test the ruggedness of our consumer technology. They drop, throw, bash and molest the products for us so that we may rest assured that, when our clumsy mittens fumble with that brand-spanking new hard drive and it flat-spins its way face first into the tiles,…
