External Hard Drives

Computing

LaCie Little Big Disk Review: The Future Is Shockingly Super Fast

11:45AM January 31, 2012 | Sam Biddle

The Little Big Disk is simply the fastest way to back up your data, but it’s also, finally, a delivery on Apple’s promise that Thunderbolt would do crazy things to our tech lives. That promise came true. More »

Gadgets

320GB Hard Drives Landing For Xbox 360

3:54AM October 12, 2011 | Sam Biddle

If you’re running out of room for movies, music, photos and other things that tend to take up hard drive space in your Xbox 360, you might need a bigger hard drive. Hey, here’s a brand new 320GB one. More »

Computing

Lacie LaPlug Will Turn Your HDD Into A NAS

7:20AM September 30, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Lacie’s LaPlug is identical to the Pogoplug in concept: plug in any USB HDD and it magically transforms into a Time Machine-compatible NAS drive that’s accessible from outside your home network. This is a product trend I like. More »

Computing

Western Digital’s New Passport Drives Pack Big Space In A Little Place

2:20AM September 23, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Lugging around an external drive that weighs more than your MBA kind of defeats the purpose of buying a lightweight laptop. Luckily, Western Digital’s latest My Passport drives can hold a terabyte of data but tip the scales a less than a pound. More »

Computing

The First Ever Stupid-Fast Thunderbolt External HDD Is Finally Out

4:00AM September 21, 2011 | Sam Biddle

I like the sound of backing up my entire hard drive in several minutes, instead several hours. With LaCie’s Little Big Disk, we might finally be able to do it: dual drives plus Thunderbolt. More »

Computing

Seagate’s New GoFlex Desk Is The First Ever 4TB Hard Drive

11:33PM September 7, 2011 | Kwame Opam

Seagate is still pushing their GoFlex Desk line as hard as they can. After releasing the first 3TB external drive last year, they’re raising the bar with their new 4TB beast. More »

Computing

Seagate’s New GoFlex Turbo Keeps Your Data In A SafetyNet

11:45PM August 8, 2011 | Kwame Opam

The Seagate GoFlex portable hard drive has the amenities you’d expect for its price range. 500GB. USB 3.0. Support for FireWire and eSATA. But what makes it stand out is that it offers full data recovery right out of the box. More »

Software

Seagate’s GoFlex Satellite HDD Finally Gets Android App

12:41AM August 2, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

They sure took their time, but Seagate’s finally gotten around to getting you Android users an app to stream content from its 500GB GoFlex Satellite external HDD. More »

Computing

Aldi Recalls Virus-Infected External Hard Disk

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2:15PM July 29, 2011 | Danny Allen

Oops. Those who picked up Aldi’s $99 Fission 4-in-1 hard drive/DVD drive/card reader combo may have got more than they bargained for. Apparently a small number were sold with malware yesterday, and though free AV software (or a clean format) will nix the issue, Aldi will give a full refund if you return it to the store of purchase.

Computing

LaCie’s Rugged Mini Hard Drive Is Kind Of Begging To Be Abused

3:57AM July 20, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

I’m pretty paranoid about losing my data to a hard drive failure, so the LaCie Rugged Mini drive is at once awesome and terrible for me. It’s great because the thing’s fast and basically indestructible, but I can’t help thinking I’ll just screw with it until I find a way to break it. More »