Up on the review block today I’ve got a 3.5” SATA hard drive enclosure, the Max 4 from Thermaltake. This enclosure features both eSATA and USB connections along with a built-in 80mm cooling fan and an aluminum housing to make sure things keep …

Love those SSD drives, and Kingston has got a nice fast, new one for us! Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced a new addition to its SSDNow line of solid-state drives. Shipping immediately, the SSDNow V+ features capacities up to 256GB, higher input and output operations per …

and we have a new player in the external HDD market, Toshiba! Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., today announced the availability of a new Toshiba 3.5-inch External HDD, marking Toshiba’s first entry into the 3.5-inch external HDD business. The product offers digital consumers and business professionals a …

New hard drives are nice.. WD the world’s leader in external storage solutions, today introduced its new one terabyte (TB) and 750 gigabyte (GB) capacity My Passport(TM) Essential(TM) SE Portable USB Drives. Available now at WD’s online store (www.shopwd.com), the new drives feature a titanium silver finish and put massive storage capacity in the palm …

Ok… I need one of these… WD today announced two new mobile hard drives that reach new capacity extremes. The highlight is a one terabyte model — the industry’s highest-capacity 2.5-inch drive available. Industry-leading 333 GB-per-platter technology enables the new WD Scorpio Blue(TM) SATA 2.5-inch hard drives to offer mobile storage device and notebook users …

Who says bigger is better? Strengthening its line up of portable 1.8” hard drives for external storage markets, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced its 250 Gigabyte (GB) 1.8 inch hard disk drive, the Spinpoint N3U which incorporates a native USB controller on its printed circuit board. This optimized design results in a smaller foot …

About a week ago Seagate announced their new BlackArmor series of External Hard Drives, and they sent me two of them for review, the PS 110 and the WS 110. I posted a brief look at them HERE when they arrived. The BlackArmor series of drives are aimed at professionals and business users, but …

New from Thecus!   Introducing the Thecus® N7700SAS NAS ServerBrand new 7-bay NAS with powerful business-class performance and expandability 06/30/2009 – Thecus®, the leader in digital storage, today announced the availability of its latest 7-bay NAS server, the N7700SAS. Offering massive storage capacity and cutting-edge technology, the N7700SAS is an enterprise class NAS server …

External hard drive enclosures are nice products, but they can be a hassle, taking them apart all of the time just to transfer files, especially if you’ve got several hard drives floating around. You’ll either need to take the enclosure apart all of the time or invest in an enclosure for each drive you …

So, yesterday we reported here that Seagate just introduced new additions to their BlackArmor family of external storage solutions for small businesses, today they arrived on my doorstep courtesy of UPS. So I figured why not give you guys a quick look at a the two they sent me over for review. The …

ooo… these look nice… me want! Strengthening its external storage portfolio for small business Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today announced three additional BlackArmor(R) product offerings: the BlackArmor(R) NAS 220 storage server, the BlackArmor(R) WS 110 external drive workstation and the BlackArmor(R) PS 110 portable drive. Joining the existing network attached storage line up – the BlackArmor(R) NAS …

Another day, another SSD drive hits the market… this one is from our friends over at OCZ, and it looks to be rather fast with read speeds of 230MB and 135MB write speeds…   San Jose, CA—June 9, 2009—OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance …

and more storage from Imation, they seem to have quite a bit coming out soon.. Highlights storage solutions available on its GSA schedules for government agencies’ data storage, backup, archival and security needs GSA Expo 2009 SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN) will showcase its suite of storage products available on …

Bigger is better right? Then 4tb should be enough… New My Book Studio Edition Dual-drive External Storage Systems Deliver a Perfect Blend of High Performance and Power Conservation LAKE FOREST, Calif., June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — WD(R) (NYSE:WDC) , the world’s leader in external storage solutions, today introduced its new 4 terabyte …

There are many external drive cases on the market today, and I’ve taken a look at a lot of them, a couple from Geeks.com in the past actually. Usually with cases though you’ve got to provide your own HDDs, whether it be SATA or IDE hard drives, but I feel …

Geeks.com carries many external hard drives, and most are the same with a standard hard drive inside of them and they’ll all perform as you might expect. Today I’ve got a Cavalry branded 500GB USB 2.0 and eSATA External hard drive from them, this drive though is a …

2.5" hard drives seem to be getting larger and larger all of the time, not long ago I reviewed a 500gig one in fact, and not long ago a 500gig 2.5" hard drive seemed like a dream. Now of course I’ve got several …

We all need more storage, in the form of a hard drive, personally I don’t like having them always running inside of my computer so I have several external enclosures for my storage, they’re used for backups mainly, so they don’t always have to be running and I feel it reduces wear and tear on …

Hard drive enclosures come in many shapes, sizes and styles and they’re all pretty much the same really, you put a hard drive in them and you’re ready to take your data with you wherever you go, but they don’t offer much in the way of security. Yes they’re nice for their portability and ease …

Manufacturer: Imation Product Name: Imation Apollo 500GB 2.5" Portable Hard Drive Review Date: 10/03/08 Author: Kristofer Brozio A few days ago I took a look at a Verbatim 160GB 2.5" portable hard drive and I found it to be a decent little product, …

Manufacturer: Verbatim Product Name: 160GB FireWire/USB Portable Hard Drive Review Date: 09/22/08 Author: Kristofer Brozio Flash drives are nice, but they’re not large enough yet to take huge amounts of data with us, so that’s where portable hard drives come in handy. Of course you can get  a large 3.5″ hard drive, but when portability is a factor …