external hard drives

Hardware

LG’s N2R1 Wi-Fi NAS Shares 1TB Of Media For $US299

12:05AM Mark Wilson | Anyone who owns a Time Capsule can tell you that while Wi-Fi storage isn’t the fastest solution, it’s certainly convenient. And LG’s N2R1 network attached storage device More »
Hardware

WD’s Ever-Smaller External Hard Drives Bring New Features

10:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Western Digital’s new line of hard drives have the expected upgrades (higher capacity, smaller size) but also feature tough-as-nails hardware security and incremental backups. More »
Peripherals

LaCie Offers Unlimited Online Backups For a Year With Hard Drive Purchase

6:30AM Sean Fallon | LaCie, designers of some of the best looking hard drives around, are offering one full year of unlimited online data backup free of charge when you purchase any one of their external drives. Each drive will be bundled with Carbonite’s storage technology that promises to automatically back up the LaCie drive (when the computer is idle) “by finding new and modified files, encrypting them twice before leaving the original workstation, then transmitting them by HTTPS (SSL) to a secure data centre, where the information remains encrypted.” All-in-all, the package represents a $US50 value. The promotion is applicable to all drives purchased after October 15th and customers can start taking advantage the free online storage beginning next month. More »