Here at GNC we've always been fans of Cloud Engines' Pogoplug and at CES, they've unveiled the latest version, the Pogoplug Video, which adds video streaming to your personal cloud. If you aren't familiar with the Pogoplug, it's a small gadget which you put on your network connected into your router. You then plug in a USB harddrive (or two)
If you're the kind of person who has to have the fastest processor, the quickest memory and the nippiest hard drive, then you might as well stop reading this review and simply go out and buy a Buffalo MicroStation SSD. Because it's fast. Probably not the fastest SSD out there, but in comparison to a spinning hard disk drive, it's
Freecom announced the Mobile Drive CLS concept back in July as a new way of storing and organising the vast amounts of data that all of us now seem to collect through our daily digital lives. The CLS stands for Collect, Label and Store and fundamentally it's about using 2.5" portable drives to store data according to type or use.
Buffalo Technology has announced updates to its LinkStation range of NAS devices in the shape of the LinkStation Pro and LinkStation Pro Duo. Part of the new V-series, these offer additional features that will be of interest to business users. The LinkStation Pro (LS-VL) retains the familiar LinkStation and DriveStation shape but the addition of a faster processor boosts file transfers
Lexar Media has added a 1.8" range of SSDs to its Crucial RealSSD C300 product line. These solid state drives (SSDs) are ideal for netbooks, ultrathin laptops and tablets or anywhere that 2.5" drives are too big. Amazingly, these 1.8" versions perform just as well as their 2.5" siblings, with read speeds of up to 355MB/s and write speeds up
Shortly after getting my HTC Evo phone, one of the initial apps I downloaded from the Android Marketplace was the Amazon Kindle app with the idea I’d probably check it out at some point. Weeks went by, and I pretty much ignored the app. Yesterday I was talking to a good friend that is in the process of formatting e-books
Andy McCaskey of SDR News and Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine had a rare honor as we got to interview Steve Wozniak - now Chief Scientist over at Fusion IO - a company that works with NAND memory for high speed / High Capacity storage. There are two parts to the interview. The first one, Jeffrey talks about Fusion IO, Steve's
What are you doing to back up your data? CD/DVDs, external hard drive, cloud backup, or nothing at all? We have all heard stories about someone losing their data because of fire, flood, or computer failure. Generally it's not that business proposal or the letter to Aunt Maude they were working on that they get upset about, but the loss