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Buffalo's MiniStation portable USB 3.0 hard drive is a 500 GB SATA 2.5" HDD in a small and not unattractive package. Coming in crystal white (and piano black), it will certainly appeal to those who want to match their white Apple products without wanting to pay for the Apple logo. Size-wise, it's very pocketable, measuring just 114 x 77 x
If your laptop is like mine and pre-dates USB 3 but you want to use USB 3 devices at their full speed, then you might be interested in the Buffalo USB 3.0 Interface ExpressCard (IFC-EC2U3/UC). It's an ExpressCard/34 size device, with two USB 3.0 ports on the side. The card will also plug into in ExpressCard/54 slot. If needed for
Buffalo Technology has had a busy month with updates to the TeraStation, LinkStation, DriveStation and MiniStation ranges. Starting out at the beginning of the month, the new TeraStation NAS range was announced consisting of the Duo, 4 bay, 6 bay and 8 bay versions, all now powered by Intel's Atom D510 processor. The new models also come with two USB
I just started using Wuala a secure online storage available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Wuala is developed and run by LaCie a French provider of external storage. All your files are encrypted directly on your computer before its sent on line. Your password never leaves your computer, not even Wuala has it, so it is important that you keep
Buffalo Technology have upgraded their DriveStation Duo and DriveStation Quad external hard drives to USB 3.0 while bumping their capacities at the same time. This makes some serious storage available at high data transfer rates. The DriveStation Duo holds two drives that can be configured as a RAID 0, 1 or as a standard external drive. It's available in 2
Andy McCasky and Esbjorn Larsen spoke to Alisa Hicks from the SD Card Association, a standards body for SD cards. They make sure that SD cards work in all devices. SD stands for secure-digital. The cards are created with copyrights protection (CPRM) installed. So that content providers are willing to allow their creations on the cards. Right now the cards
Solid-State Drives (SSDs) haven't ousted spinning hard drives from the average PC, but they have made significant inroads in the netbook market where the performance of the SSD compensates for the weaker performance of the CPU. Andy McCaskey talks to Larry O'Connor, founder and CEO of Other World Computing (OWC) on how OWC got started, what makes OWC special and
Harry Diamantopoulos of HSTI presents the Wireless Media Stick™. The Wireless Media Stick™ is able to deliver to playback devices the files stored in PC, Mac and NAS (network attached storage) devices. For example, plug the Wireless Media Stick™ into your HDTV's USB port and watch a movie or view digital photos stored elsewhere on your WiFi home network. The
Grant Dahlke from Other World Computing aka MacSales.com introduces Sandforce processor-based high capacity, high-performance SSD (solid state drive) hard drives for computers such as Apple's Macbook Air that are up to three times larger and up to 22% faster than the drive than Apple's OEM drive. They also have a line of drives for older IDE and ATA machines, which
HSTi's Wireless Media Stick is a Wifi dongle that converts almost anything that can read USB storage into a media streamer. Instead of reading files direct from the disk, the files from network shares are read as if they were local. It's perhaps easier if you think of an example. Let's say you've got a PVR or DVD player that
CES 2011 has been taking place this week in LAS Vegas, NV. This is the show where anybody who is anybody in consumer electronics is. That includes everyone from those who sell giant plasma TVs like Sony down to those who sell usb drives like Victorinox. At one time everyone carried a Swiss Army knife with them at all times.
Ipads and Iphones are cool but no matter how much storage they have there is never enough storage. You could of course carry an extra hard drive with you, but that sort of misses the point of the Ipad. Kingston has solution that doesn't require you to carry an extra drive with you. Kingston which is known for memory products,
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