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storage

Buffalo Claim Fastest USB 3 Drive

The folks over at Buffalo Technology have announced a screamingly fast external drive, the DriveStation DDR. By adding a 1 GB DDR3 cache to a standard SATA drive, they've created a USB3 hard drive with SSD transfer rates. Write speeds are doubled from around 170 MB/s to over 400 MB/s, which is pretty nippy in anyone's book, and read speeds

Flickr Offers a Free Terabyte of Space

Flickr looks a lot different today than how it used to. Yahoo! (which owns Flickr) has given Flickr a makeover that includes a brand new design. What once showed you small thumbnails of photos, with a lot of white, empty, space surrounding them, now features the photos much more prominently. To me, it seems like Flickr's new look resembles that

Copy: Cloud Storage for All Your Files

Copy a competitor to Dropbox became available to the public today. It allows you to upload your files to the Barracuda Network cloud, where you can access them from any device that you have installed the Copy application on. It will work on most platforms including Macs, Windows, Linux, iOs, and Android. According to their press release Windows Mobile is

VidaBox Introduces LiivNAS : Dune Edition with Media Management and NAS Support

If you are not familiar with VidaBox, the company makes some of the best media center computers, extenders and servers in the business. Today the hardware maker announces its latest version of the LiivNAS -- this one co-branded with Dune Player. "LiivNAS: Dune Edition is highly unique as the only archiving and storage solution with official external/NAS storage device support, plus

G-Technology G-Drive Mobile Review

On review today is the G-Technology G-Drive Mobile, a 1 TB mobile external hard drive. Aimed squarely at the Apple MacBook crowd, the brushed aluminium finish and white LED compliments the host machine, and the combination of both USB3 and FireWire 800 show its Mac heritage. Of course the drive can be formatted for Windows or Linux use but the

Rocstor Encrypted External Hard Drives

Rocstor specialise in data storage and secure encryption solutions: that's encrypted external hard drives to you and me, but it's an increasingly important market. Andy and Scott talk to Anthony Rink from Rocstor about how their products can keep your data safe. Rocstor offers a range of external data storage products with real-time encryption built-in as standard. The encrypted drives

Digital Backpack

Interview by Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central for the TechPodcast Network and by Don Baine, the Gadget Professor.