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Western Digital’s My Book Studio Goes Full Metal

Once formed from plastic, Western Digital’s My Book Studio line of hard drives are now made of brushed aluminium. The Firewire/USB-equipped drives come in 1TB, 2TB and 3TB sizes for $US150, $US200 and $US250, respectively. [Western Digital]

June 29, 2011
Computing

Every Hard Drive Should Be As Minimal As LaCie’s Porsche Drives

A weird quirk of LaCie drives: The desktop models feel like cheap crap, from the materials to the electronics (I’m particularly thinking of Neil Poulton’s drive), but their portable drives are solid. This Porsche-designed drive feels like it just might stop bullets.

June 25, 2011
Computing

Hard Drives Are Going To The Cloud Before Going To Hell

One day, the hard drive as we know it will be completely dead, replaced by local cache memory and storage on the internet. Until that time comes, however, you will have things like the new LaCie CloudBox.

June 22, 2011
Computing

Hitachi G-Connect: A Wireless Hard Drive And Router For Your iPhone And iPad

Like the Seagate GoFlex Satellite hard drive before it, Hitachi’s G-Connect can act as expandable wireless storage for your mobile device. It can store 500 gigs and even has an Ethernet port to turn itself into a router.

June 21, 2011
Computing

Time Capsule Upgraded; Airport, Macbook Air Refreshes Close?

There’s been a lot of speculation about all three of these products, but Apple is putting some of them to rest by making with the upgrades. That’s right; Apple finally bumped Time Capsule to 3TB. How much longer until cheaper Airport Extremes and Sandy Bridges MBAs?

May 16, 2011
Computing

Seagate’s New Hard Drive Transfers Media Over Wi-Fi

It must be scary, offering traditional storage in these cloud-based times. Seagate’s obviously thought long and hard over this one, and whacked Wi-Fi into their new GoFlex 500GB drive, so you can store/draw from your data-bank, using your phone.

April 14, 2011
Computing

Self-Erasing Toshiba Drive Foils Thieves And Forgetful Owners

I applaud the logic behind Toshiba’s self-erasing drives, which uses encryption to recognise which machine it’s in. If taken out and used in another PC, the encryption keys destroy the data, and voila, no one can see all those photos and video you’ve meticulously stored away.

April 8, 2011
Computing

Evil Knock-Off External Hard Drive Is Far From 500GB

We shouldn’t laugh – I mean, think of all that lost data! – but there is something so comical about thinking you’re backing up those precious files to a 500GB Samsung hard drive… only to discover it’s a knock-off, weighed down with nuts.

April 6, 2011
Computing

Seagate Chalks Up Thinnest External Hard Drive Yet

OK, so the previous record holder in the world’s thinnest hard drive category was only 1mm fatter, but still! Records!

March 18, 2011
Computing

WD My Book Studio Edition II Goes To A Whopping 6TB Now

Western Digital’s My Book Studio Edition II was already at the top of the leaderboard, with four interfaces (FireWire 800/400, eSATA, USB 2.0) and 4TB of storage. But now that the external hard drive comes in 6TB – for a relatively reasonably $US550 – and adds Apple Time Machine compatibility – it’s a pro-level Mac user’s dream. Assuming you don’t have anything better to dream about than external hard drives.

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