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Apricorn Aegis Padlock Pro 640GB

by McKinley Noble on 23 August, 2010

Any hard drive can try to break speed barriers when backing up and copying data, but the Aegis Padlock Pro has an ace up its sleeve. Apricorn’s latest portable hard drive isn’t the fastest storage device you can buy, but it might be one of the most secure options you can find.…
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  1. Reviews
    OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Mini

    by Chris Holt on 18 March, 2010

    OWC’s Mercury Pro line of hard drives is among some of the fastest and most versatile we’ve reviewed. From this lineage comes the Mercury Elite-AL Pro Mini, a portable quad-interface bus-powered external hard drive. The 2.5-inch aluminum enclosure is fanless and shock resistant up to 1500G. The Elite-AL Pro Mini is fairly light,…
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  2. Reviews
    New: New Verbatim drives feature built-in status display

    by Peter Cohen on 18 August, 2009

    The drives both feature what Verbatim calls an “Always On display” — a 32 x 128 pixel display that is constantly operational, even when the drive is unplugged from the computer. The display shows the drive’s name, along with the amount of free space remaining. The drives sport internal mechanisms operating…
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  3. Reviews
    New: Seagate rolls out new FreeAgent Mac storage products

    by Peter Cohen on 25 June, 2009

    Seagate on Wednesday introduced a new line-up of mobile and desktop FreeAgent for Mac storage devices. The new products include the FreeAgent Go Drive for Mac, Go Pro for Mac Drive, Go Dock+ and Desk Drive for Mac 2TB. The FreeAgent Go Drive is an external USB 2.0 hard drive, available in 250GB, 320GB…
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    Bugs & Fixes: Winning the clone wars

    by Ted Landau on 1 June, 2009

    Maintaining a clone backup of your startup drive is a good idea. An essential idea, if you want to survive a potential hard drive disaster with a minimum of fuss. But even a great idea can occasionally result in frustration. With backups, the frustration can come if some software on your drive is unable…
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  5. Reviews
    NEW: OWC intros USB 2.0 Display Adapter

    by Peter Cohen on 29 April, 2009

    Other World Computing (OWC) on Tuesday announced the release of the USB 2.0 Display Adapter, a device that makes it possible to connect an additional monitor to your computer using USB 2.0 instead of a display connection. It costs $US99 ($A133). The device supports screen resolutions up to 1600 x 1200 pixels, and works…
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    iPhone keyboard hack uses extreme geekery for heroic means

    by David Dahlquist on 26 March, 2009

    In what must be one of the most unnecessarily complicated hacks in iPhone history, a couple of brainy engineers at Perceptive Development have devised a way to connect an infrared keyboard to an iPhone using a 1200 baud modem that connects to the iPhone via the headphone port. Yeah, my head almost…
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  7. Reviews
    Review: Western Digital My Passport for Mac 500GB

    by Chris Holt on 11 February, 2009

    Western Digital’s My Passport For Mac is a solid, compact, comparatively speedy little USB-only portable hard drive that also happens to be Time Machine–ready and designed for the Mac. With a 500GB capacity, a three-year warranty, and a shock-resistant shell that can withstand your average wear and tear, the My Passport is one of…
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  8. Blogs
    Look before leaping… and formatting hard drives

    by Rob Griffiths on 5 February, 2009

    In the immortal words (to a golf fan, anyway) of Roberto DeVicenzo, “What a stupid I am to be wrong here!” In my case, the ‘stupid’ doesn’t apply to anything nearly as monumental as losing one of golf’s major championships by signing an incorrect scorecard. Instead, my ‘stupid’ relates to hard drives, and the…
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  9. News
    HP unveils Mac compatible home media server

    by Jim Dalrymple on 30 December, 2008

    Hewlett-Packard on Monday introduced the HP MediaSmart Server, the company’s home media server, compatible with both Macs and PCs. The MediaSmart Server allows users to access content like digital music, videos, photos or back-up data from any computer on the network. The server makes the information available over the Internet, as well. Based on…
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  10. News
    My Passport Studio hard drive adds FW 800

    by Peter Cohen on 31 October, 2008

    Western Digital (WD) on Thursday announced the addition of a FireWire 800 interface to its My Passport Studio external portable hard disk drive. The drive is available starting at $US199.99 ($US297). My Passport Studio is aimed specifically at Mac users — it’s a Mac-formatted drive (though it works in Windows too), but up until…
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    Review: Verbatim SmartDisk 120GB FireWire/USB Portable Hard Drive

    by David Braue on 10 October, 2008

    How do you say something simple in 23 languages? Read the manual for Verbatim's 120GB FireWire/USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive, which is an idiot-proof way to add a fair whack of backup or portable storage to your system -- and maybe learn some Estonian along the way. The manual for Verbatim's FireWire/USB 2.0 Portable…
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