External storage is a big business, look around and you’ll see all sorts of flash drives and portable hard drives for sale. People use them for everything from backups to transferring files to media uses and they all work well,…
External Hard Drives
by Kristofer Brozio • October 12, 2010 •
Review of Seagate 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk External Drive
by Kristofer Brozio • October 5, 2010 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
Seagate just released what is probably the largest external hard drive on the market today, a 3TB desktop drive called the FreeAgent GoFlex Desk. Like other GoFlex products it’s, for lack of a better word, flexible. The GoFlex comes with…
Review of Cirago CST6000 250gb USB 3.0 Hard Drive
by Kristofer Brozio • September 25, 2010 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews, USB 3.0
Cirago has decided to further join the USB 3.0 revolution with the introduction of their new CST6000 portable hard drive. It’s a 250gb 2.5” drive that runs on the USB 3.0 interface so it should achieve some decent speeds for…
Review of Seagate FreeAgent Go 500Gb Portable Hard Drive
by Kristofer Brozio • September 9, 2010 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
Today for review Seagate has sent me over one of their FreeAgent Go drives, specifically the 500gb version. I’ve taken a look at quite a few Seagate products in the past and I’ve always liked them, the same goes for…
Review of Seagate GoFlex Home Network Storage System
by Tomas Ratas • August 26, 2010 •
External Hard Drives, NAS Network Attached Storage, Product Reviews
During the past few months Kris has reviewed several products from the Seagate’s GoFlex line. I could not let Kris have all the fun so today I will be looking at the Seagate Free Agent GoFlex Home network storage system.…
Review of Siig SuperSpeed USB 3.0 to SATA Hard Drive Dock with Fan
by Kristofer Brozio • July 4, 2010 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews, USB 3.0
External hard drives are nice for their portability but when you’re not going anywhere and you need to transfer files there’s nothing better than a dock to do that. Docks are easy to use, there’s no messing around with installing…
Review of Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Net STAK100
by Kristofer Brozio • June 30, 2010 •
External Hard Drives, NAS Network Attached Storage, Product Reviews
Up on the review block today I’ve got another part of the GoFlex system from Seagate, this one is the GoFlex Net which enables you to use your GoFlex hard drive on your network. It’s much more than that tough,…
Review of Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 500Gb Ultra-portable Drive
by Kristofer Brozio • June 24, 2010 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
Seagate recently released the FreeAgent GoFlex series of products that put a unique spin on portable hard drives and how we can use them. The GoFlex series is meant to be, as the name suggests, flexible and they are in…
Review of Vantec NexStar 3 2.5” SATA to USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure
by Kristofer Brozio • June 19, 2010 •
External Hard Drive Cases, External Hard Drives
Portable hard drive are great, but did you ever notice it’s cheaper to get the hard and buy the enclosure separately? it seems there’s a premium price when they put it together for you, then again a lo of companies…
Review of Clickfree C2N Automatic Home Network Backup
by Kristofer Brozio • May 2, 2010 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
Backups are important and not long ago I looked at a product from Clickfree called the Traveler that worked well, today for review I’ve got another one from Clickfree but this one is very unique in that it works on…
Review of 16gb Clickfree Traveler Automatic Backup Solution
by Kristofer Brozio • April 7, 2010 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
Our computers have become much more than just something to surf the net or play games, for a lot of us they are our main source of income and if something happens to them we’ll be in a world of…
Review of Vantec NexStar 3 SuperSpeed 3.5” SATA to USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure
by Kristofer Brozio • March 28, 2010 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews, USB 3.0
It’s been a while since I’ve taken a look at any USB 3.0 products here at TestFreaks, but today I’ve got one that I think is worthy of a review. It’s a 3.5” SATA HDD enclosure from Vantec called the…
Review of Seagate BlackArmor 500GB PS 110 USB 3.0 Performance Kit
by Kristofer Brozio • February 22, 2010 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews, USB 3.0
Happy Monday to you all! Today for review I’ve got another USB3.0 enabled product, this time it’s actually a kit from Seagate. This kit includes the new BlackArmor PS110 500gb 2.5” portable hard drive that is equipped with a 7200RPM…
Review of USB 3.0 2.5" SATA HDD Enclosure
by Kristofer Brozio • February 20, 2010 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews, USB 3.0
…and I’m back with the second review for today, or it could be considered part two of the earlier review I posted today. I couldn’t exactly test a USB3.0 PCIE card without something that was USB3.0, so I used a…
Review of Seagate FreeAgent DockStar
by Tomas Ratas • February 8, 2010 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
When I first came across the FreeAgent DockStar at last year’s Pepcom show I thought it was a unique device with lots of potential. Now after testing it out and playing with it I am even more impressed. This device…
Verbatim 500GB InSight USB Portable Hard Drive with "Always On" Display
by Kristofer Brozio • December 9, 2009 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
Last week I took a look at the Verbatim Clon Portable Hard drive, this week I’ve got another Verbatim portable HDD called the InSight. It’s a 500gb capacity drive that’s 2.5” in size, but what makes it special is the…
Verbatim CLŌN 320 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive
by Kristofer Brozio • December 1, 2009 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
Today for review I’ve got the new Verbatim CLŌN 320GB portable hard drive. It’s a 2.5” drive encased in a black plastic shell, it’s one of the smallest I’ve had the please of reviewing and one of the fastest as…
Seagate FreeAgent Go Dock+
by Tomas Ratas • November 14, 2009 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
Recently I reviewed the Seagate FreeAgent Go portable external hard drive. Today I will look at a handy accessory designed specially for this drive that makes transferring data to and from your desktop a breeze. The dock allows the transfer…
Vantec NexStar Universal Storage Adapter
by Kristofer Brozio • November 8, 2009 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
Today for review I’ve got the Vantec NexStar Universal Storage Adapter, it’s a long name but it can do quite a bit. This product will allow you to access both SATA and IDE 2.5” and 3.5” drives along with 5.25” SATA and IDE Optical drives and even 66 types of memory cards, so it does live up to it’s name or being a universal adapter.
Cirago CST5250 250GB Portable USB Hard Drive 2.5"
by Kristofer Brozio • October 6, 2009 •
External Hard Drives, Product Reviews
Yesterday I posted a review of a 2.5” hard drive enclosure, today I figured I would follow it with a 2.5” external hard drive review. Today I have the Cirago 250GB Portable USB Hard Drive for review. The CST5250 is…



