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Alan Lu

Alan Lu is currently external communications manager at Vodafone UK and has a background in corporate communications and media writing. An alumnus of The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), he has previously served as reviews editor for IT Pro and Computeractive.

Recent articles by Alan Lu

Seagate GoFlex Satellite
Seagate GoFlex Satellite review
NAS drives

The Seagate GoFlex Satellite is a nicely designed portable NAS for tablet and smartphone owners

£170 inc VAT
Kingston Wi-Drive 16GB
Kingston Wi-Drive 16GB review
NAS drives

The Kingston Wi-Drive is a clever way of accessing and sharing lots of media files between multiple iOS devices, but its limitations make it a niche product rather than a must-have

£65 inc VAT
Hitachi Touro Mobile Pro 500GB
Hitachi Touro Mobile Pro 500GB review
External hard drives

The Touro Mobile Pro is a good value hard disk and online storage combo, although the online storage service needs refinement

£55 inc VAT
Synology DiskStation DS411j
Synology DiskStation DS411j review
NAS drives

The fast and well-equipped DS411j may be expensive, but it's the best four-disk NAS enclosure you can get

£262 inc VAT
iTwin 2
iTwin review
Cloud storage Technology

iTwin is a clever dongle-based, password-free online file sharing service

£100 inc VAT
Buffalo LinkStation Pro Quad 4TB
Buffalo LinkStation Pro Quad 4TB review
NAS drives

The LinkStation Pro Quad has lots of storage and features at a very reasonable price, but you'll have to put up with some slow small file transfer speeds

£357 inc VAT
StarTech USB to IDE SATA Standalone Hard Drive Duplicator Dock
StarTech USB to IDE SATA Duplicator review
Technology

More features than you'll ever need in a hard disk cloner, and you'll need to use them all to justify the high price

£132 inc VAT
Freecom Dual Drive Network Center 2TB
Freecom Dual Drive Network Center 2TB review
NAS drives

Freecom's Dual Drive Network Center isn't a bad NAS, but it's not especially fast and there are better value alternatives available

£233 inc VAT
LiveKive
AVG Technologies LiveKive review
Software

LiveKive is good value and there are some useful options, but the idiosyncratic interface makes it a frustrating service to use

£35 inc VAT
Wuala interface
LaCie Wuala review
Software

Wuala has promise, but some unusual design choices make it frustrating to use. It's also not particularly good value compared to the competition.

£17 inc VAT