Over the years I have owned a number of devices that allowed me to connect a bare drive to a computer. I have box full of these types of devices as they where always one off solutions. This past week I have had been reviewing the WiebeTech UltraDock v5. This dock is incredible! I can connect to bare 3.5 &
Mike Mihalik from LaCie shows off their new Thunderbolt-connected hard drives for the Apple Macs, including the previously announced Little Big Disk and the new 2big, which has two internal 3.5" drives. Also announced was the eSata Dock, a docking station that connects legacy SATA devices via Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt offers seriously quick data transfer speeds with write speeds of 252 Mb/s and
To describe the Buffalo DriveStation Quad as merely an external hard drive would be doing it a considerable injustice and likely to miss the point. This is an external drive on steroids and with attitude. To start with, you'd be hard pushed to call it portable. It's 14.9 cm wide, 15.4 high, 23.3 cm deep and weighs somewhere in the
I told myself a long time ago that I would only upgrade my main computer if a new one could triple the performance. It would be so I don't sit and waste money every year just to buy a machine that was a few MHz faster than the previous one. I know I can get by with an increase in