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 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
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
Buffalo Technology has announced the launch of the MiniStation Extreme, a ruggedised USB3 portable hard drive. Conforming to the US Military's MIL-STD-810F 516.5 Procedure IV, the shock protection on this drive means that it will survive a fall from over 2 m or 6 ft. And if securing your data against physical damage isn't enough, the MiniStation Extreme also comes
Congratulations to Rich Costin for winning last week's competition for G Data AntiVirus 2012 - his prize will be on its way to him shortly. Disappointingly, the number of responses to the competition was a bit low, though the quality of the response was high, so we're going to try to attract a few more UK GNC readers and listeners