Seagate have announced their third-generation of portable hard-drives, the Seagate GoFlex Storage System, which debuts a system of interchangeable connection adapters that can be used to turn a ...

IO Data Device has come up with another hum-dinger. If you were to put an enormous hard drive inside a USB 2.0/FireWire casing, give it some blue LEDs, and add a USB port, you’d end up with the 400GB ...

Sometimes also called IEEE-1394, the FireWire standard allows for high-speed connections to external drives. FireWire 400 is roughly comparable to USB 2.0, and drives and ports using FireWire 800 are ...

Though it's a solution we've mentioned before in the course of troubleshooting various USB and FireWire device issues, it is oft-overlooked and bears repeating: bad cables can be to blame for ...

With the combination of a high performance 3.5" SATA I/II hard drive along with a NewerTech Voyager docking station, consumers can enjoy the same type of convenience as a flash memory or USB key, but ...

External hard disks are one of the most universally useful gadgets known to techkind. And they’re all pretty similar: For the most part, differences involve the quantity of gigabytes you get for your ...

FirewireDirect today introduced today its new Spark II Pro hard disk drive. The new 2.5-inch drive supports both FireWire and USB interfaces. According to FirewireDirect, the Spark II Pro is the first ...

Years ago, when Apple shipped its first Macs with 1GB hard drives, I remember asking myself, “Who would ever need that much storage?” It didn’t take me long to figure out who, especially now that the ...

As previously reported, some retractable FireWire cables offered by IOGEAR and other manufacturers may not be suitable for use with portable hard drives because they usually aren't shielded. We've now ...

Of all the designs and inventions Apple patents and trademarks every week, some are really interesting and provide good indication of things to come in Macs and iOS devices. Whilst we’ve recently seen ...

The Iomega HDD 250GB USB 2.0/ FireWire External Desktop Hard Drive gets high marks for software design but mediocre grades for physical design and performance. If you value ease of use over speed and ...

Current Situation - <BR><BR>Our networking geniuses here let one of our file servers run out of space and our only solution is to get an external hard drive until our SAN arrives. <BR><BR>The data ...