Posts Tagged ‘HDD’
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…
Seagate GoFlex Cinema: Helping your TV multitask
The TV seems to be the focus for many a technology company at the moment, and Seagate is the latest to turn its attention on the old gogglebox as a means for watching not only EastEnders and endless repeats, but also for all your digital multimedia content. I guess it makes sense to bring all your entertainment into one space and make the whole experience more sociable, rather than sitting…
Sony HD-PG5 hard drives: Reliable data storage coupled with home entertainment
We can always rely on Sony to come up with quality and stylish goods and none more so it seems than its first ever range of external hard drives known as the HD-PG5 series. Providing an ample 500GB of data storage capacity, the HD-PG5 series offers a generous space to protect your documents, music, videos, photos and other digital media. Although in typical Sony fashion, its new range of hard…
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…
Hitachi Touro Pro Desktop and Mobile Drives: Extend your personal cloud
In the modern mobile world, linking local personal storage with online storage is crucial. Hitachi’s intelligent storage solutions means your personal content and the public cloud converge conveniently, enabling you to access what you want from anywhere – your tablet, laptop, smartphone, online or from an external drive. In short, the new Touro Pro line provides an all-in-one solution to store, transport and protect your precious digital content, including music,…
Rebit 5: Beautiful and beautifully simple hard drive back up software
If you want to back-up your computer without hassle, buy Rebit 5. No, this isn’t a poorly veiled advertorial, it is our findings after playing around the back-up software. It has its faults (soon to be listed), but as far as overall experiences go, this is the iPhone of back-up software. Rebit takes two key inspirations from Apple: it’s beautiful, and it’s beautifully simple. It begins with the installation process,…
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…
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…
Virgin Media’s TiVo-powered Hd/3D set-top box: Virgin Megastorage
Prior to the arrival of the “golden age” of digital technology the world has found itself in, it would only be the more technologically-minded amongst us who would understand about internal drive sizes and measurements such as megabytes and gigabytes. Nowadays children as young as five are not only aware, but are questioning the internal data of technological devices. Although it has to be said, the term ‘terabyte’ is not…
Freecom’s World first USB 3.0 external HDD
Once upon you would have had to knock up a few extra shelves to house your growing collection of movies, music and important documents; but thankfully with the increasing digitisation of our day to day lives, you can now fit an entire library’s worth of information onto the smallest hard drives and storage devices. The problem is however that with ever-increasing file sizes the standard USB 2.0 connection is seeming…
