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Regular readers will recall that I was quite taken with the integration of Pogoplug into the Buffalo CloudStation Duo, so I was very interested to hear that Pogoplug have released a new device, the Series 4. If you aren't familiar with the Pogoplug device, it's a network gadget that makes attached USB devices available across the Internet. In short, you
For a while now we have been hearing about the coming hard drive shortage due to issues in the far east (mainly the flooding in Thailand), but before those problems reach the world, Hitachi is going to go for gold. Maximum PC is reporting that Hitachi has released the first 4 TB internal hard drive for sale in Japan. For
On test here is the 2 TB version of Buffalo's CloudStation Duo, a RAID-capable NAS with built-in Pogoplug, giving the user their own personal cloud. The CloudStation Duo is squarely aimed at the prosumer market, both in terms of the hardware and the software on-board. For the hardware, it is equipped with two 1 TB drives and the unit can
The Buffalo DriveStation Velocity is a 2 TB USB 3 external drive, and given the size and the interface, it's aimed at people who want lots of data and want it quickly. Let's get the external features of the device out of the way and then check how quick it is. In the box, there's only the drive, the power
Storage, both HDD and SSD, is growing in capacity and shrinking in price all of the time. With hard drives currently as large as 2 TB available, and promises of even bigger ones coming it seems there is almost more storage already than anyone of needs. Plus, for those willing to pay a premium, there are SSD's, which are smaller
Just a quickie....if you liked the sound of the Freecom Mobile Drive Mg that I reviewed recently and you need a further incentive to buy one, from 1 August to 31 October 2011, every 100th customer to buy and register a Mobile Drive Mg from either an Apple Store, an Apple Premium Reseller, the Apple Online Store or from the Freecom
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