Latest External hard drive News

250GB hard disk for Xbox 360 on horizon

Posted at 11:04, 04 Feb 2010

Release of 250GB hard disk for Xbox 360 now a near certainty

LaCie announces USB3 RAID hard disk

Posted at 12:15, 21 Dec 2009

LaCie's first USB3 RAID hard disk coming in 2010

An SDHC card that gives your camera WiFi

Posted at 15:48, 19 Oct 2009

The Eye-Fi is a wireless memory card that combines the storage of a normal SDHC memory card with a tiny wireless networking adaptor.

Verbatim's 500GB golden hard disk

Posted at 12:01, 31 Jul 2009

Storage company Verbatim is marking the 40th anniversary of its foundation with the release of a golden 500GB portable USB hard disk, the Portable Hard Drive Anniversary Edition.

First Look: Leyio portable storage

Posted at 17:30, 24 Apr 2009

The Leyio is a portable 16GB secure storage and file-sharing device that lets you transfer data wirelessly to other Leyio owners. It uses a short-range 5GHz Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) signal with a maximum transfer rate of 10Mbit/s. The range extends up to 10m but you have to be nearer than that to establish communication. That you do by pointing two Leyios at each other and holding down a button on both simultaneously. As well as wireless transfers, the Leyio has a detachable 2GB USB drive and a USB interface for connection to a PC.

Maxell unveils “world-first” external SSD drive

Posted at 10:07, 28 Nov 2008

Maxell has unveiled what it claims is the first external solid state drive (SSD) to offer both USB connectivity and the emerging—and much faster—eSata standard.

Flash memory prices in freefall

Posted at 10:04, 05 Nov 2008

Apple is set to benefit from falling prices for the NAND flash memory that it uses in the iPhone and nearly all its iPod models.

CDs may provide material for more durable flash

Posted at 13:17, 17 Jul 2008

Technology used to get data onto CDs and DVDs may prove to hold the key to developing even smaller and more durable flash memory chips for devices such as phones and compact laptops.

First Look: Buffalo MediaStation BRHC-6316U2

Posted at 11:09, 07 Apr 2008

The MediaStation is Buffalo's first external optical drive, and one of the first we've seen that can play both Blu-ray and HD-DVD movies. This isn't as enticing now that Blu-ray has triumphed over HD-DVD in the high-definition disc format war, but it's still a useful feature if you already have a collection of HD-DVD movies.