The Freecom Mobile Drive Mg is no ordinary 2.5" external drive. It's a thing of beauty. Intended to complement Apple's MacBooks, the slimline Mobile Drive has a magnesium body that looks and feels great. The icing on the cake is that it's USB 3. I've seen lots of external drives but this is the one you want. Even the packaging
LaCie's Hard Disk is a USB2 3.5" external hard drive unit. Designed by Neil Poulton, it definitely comes from the minimalist school of design as it's a shiny black box with a blue LED. The exterior is marred only by a discrete LaCie logo on one side; USB connector, power socket and on/off switch at the back. You don't even see
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
Andy McCaskey invites Ian Collins of Clickfree into the booth to talk about ClickFree's automatic backup solution. I think all of us know that we're supposed to backup our hard drives and memory cards, but how many of us actually do it? Not many going by the number of times friends have phoned me up to see if I can
Andy speaks to Philip of LaCie on the latest USB 3.0 devices from LaCie, including the new highspeed FastKey USB3 SSD memory stick which comes in 30GB, 60GB and 120GB sizes - yes, that's 120GB in a memory stick, so don't lose it! Also on show were USB3 upgrades across the range, including ruggedised external drives and designer models. Interview by Andy