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LG BD590 Is The First Blu-ray Player With An Integrated Hard Drive

You’d be forgiven for making the jump from “LG’s new Blu-ray player has a hard drive” to “LG’s new Blu-ray player can rip and store your movies”, but you’d definitely be wrong. Still, the BD590 has its charms.

January 6, 2010

Seagate Black Armor PS110 Is A Portable USB 3.0 HDD

The obvious reason here to be excited about Seagate’s new Black Armor PS110 500GB portable HDD is because it uses a USB 3.0 connection and transfers 3x faster than current USB 2.0 drives.

December 30, 2009
Entertainment

Get Every Issue Of The National Geographic On A HDD For $US200

The importance and relevance of the National Geographic magazine can never be argued against, particularly with their nod to the dawn of a new decade in the form of a HDD pre-loaded with every issue ever published.

November 8, 2009

Building A NAS? Skip The Performance Drives

A while ago I was considering putting low-powered 5400rpm drives into a NAS. I was worried about performance, but Tom’s Hardware shows us that drive speed isn’t the bottleneck, and how slower drives can even beat faster ones.

October 19, 2009

Origin Data Locker Backs Rugged Looks With AES Hardware Encryption

The Origin Data Locker: For the paranoid geek who lives with his parents in their fortified underground bunker.

October 13, 2009

Are Apple Time Capsules Short Lived?

Apple’s Time Capsule allows you to back up all the computers in your house. But what’s the point of a network backup server that stays alive for only 17 months and 17 days?

October 11, 2009

Quick Test: Seagate’s 1TB Portable FreeAgent Go

The season of the 1TB bus-powered USB drive is upon us. WD was first; now Seagate is shipping the FreeAgent Go, a chunky SOB — three platters worth of storage powered and connected by one skinny cable.

October 8, 2009

Buffalo’s HD-HU3 Poised To Be The First USB 3.0 Hard Drive

Buffalo is set to cross the USB 3.0 finish line first with their HD-HU3 hard drive. They also plan on offering NEC’s IFC-PCIE2U3 2-port PCI Expressx1 host controller with the drive so you can, you know, use it.

October 7, 2009

The Silver Surfer Probably Uses LaCie Starck Drives

I like the new LaCie Starck drives. I look at that all that melty chrome and all I want is to dunk a toast in it and eat. It’s hard to find a storage that you actually want to lick.

October 6, 2009

WD Puts E-Labels On My Book Elite/Studio, Passport Elite Gets Dock

Hard drives have become so generic and commoditised, manufacturers are always trying to draw attention to their products in new ways. WD’s My Book desktop drives now get an ebook-like screen, while the portable My Passport Elite gets a dock.

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