Seagate took a pretty novel approach to its latest range of portable hard drives – they let you swap out the connections, so you can connect the same drive to your different machines using whichever connection you prefer. They like the idea so much they want to give you guys the chance to win one of five 500GB GoFlex Ultra drives.
When it comes to external hard drives, it’s OK to be a little superficial. WD’s new My Book Studio LX will keep you stealing glances with its aluminium, Mac-matching body and handy customisable e-label.
Ignoring for a moment that Hitachi appears to have used a male model with fake fingernails, this Z-series HDD boasts the privilege of (currently) being the fastest 7mm drive around – and comes in capacities of 160GB, 250GB and 320GB.
LaCie’s new Rugged Safe HDD is for the super-paranoid: it offers 128-bit AES hardware encryption, biometric fingerprint access and a shockproof enclosure. Your high school papers and pirated SNES ROMs will be downright untouchable.
Offering 250GB, 320GB and 500GB options, Seagate’s hybrid Momentus XT HDD is allegedly the world’s fastest 2.5-inch drive for laptops (breaking their previous record), and it comes in at a shade over 100 bucks.
Seagate’s senior product manager Barbara Craig confirmed rumours that the company will be releasing a monster 3TB drive later this year. That’s a lot of disk space! But sorry XP users, the drive will require a 64-bit OS.
Current hard-disk drives are up against their ceiling: a few hundred GB per inch. But a combination of two unique writing methods could lead to new HDDs that pack 10 times as much data in the same space.
I can’t be the only one who’s wondered – even stabilised by several screws in metal mounts – how can hard drives sift through so much minuscule data amidst minuscule vibrations? A new study suggests what we’ve long suspected: They can’t.
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The iPad Camera Connection Kit may be selling itself short with its name; turns out you can also use it to hook your iPad up to an external hard drive. Here’s how it’s done.
