Category: Hard Drives
Freecom's Mobile Drive XXS – the world's smallest 2.5" external hard drive
This one’s so small the official size comes in millimetres – and even decimal places of millimetres, whatever they’ve called. Billimeteres or something, probably. The Freecom XXS, which we would imagine stands for Extra Extra Small, measures just 109.8mm x 79.5mm x 13.5mm. That’s small.
We hired a scanning electron microscope to take the following photograph which illustrates precisely how small.
Not that small compared to an MP3 player, really, but small compared to other 2.5″ external hard drives – which Freecom says…
LG makes portable hard drives stylish
These are LG’s brand new XD1 portable hard drives – for the person who combines sophistication, style and portable hard disk storage all at once. They are so stylish, you might even believe a rare snake died so that LG could make it for you.
Drobo 16TB HDD – a whole lot of space for whole lot of funny
From the people who brought you the first “self-aware” hard drive comes the latest Drobo external storage unit with more space to stack your file junk than you can shake a whole forest of sticks at.
Why anyone needs to store up to 16TB…
Hitachi working on 5TB hard drives, values human brain at 10TB capacity
Hitachi is continuing to push on the limits of hard disc drive technology, despite the continual threat from solid state memory devices, and expects to have a five terabyte HDD available by 2010.
If you care how, it’s apparently to do with “current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistance” (CPP-GMR), which allows data density to go above one terabyte per square inch…
LaCie launches 1TB Little Big Disk Quadra
It has a small form, but the LaCie Little Big Disk Quadra packs 1TB of storage…
Take amazing macro photos like this dew-soaked bee for £931 using a Nikon D200
No, this blog isn’t turning into Flickr, don’t worry! I spotted this photo and wondered what camera photographer Martin Amm used for this amazing macro. In case you’re wondering too, it’s a Nikon D200, using a Schneider-Kreuznach 50 mm-f/2.8 lens.
If you’d like to attempt a similar photo, the body will cost you £798, with the lens just £133. Of course, it’s not just the equipment you use, it’s also the skills of the photographer which result in a photo like this. Marvellous…
The disk reader to end all disk readers – SATA, USB & memory card 3-in-1
Externalising your hard drive may seem like a silly idea and in a way, it is but if instead you use this 3-in-1 disk reader as an opportunity for a second large drive, then it's a stroke of genius. This…
Sarotech offers book-like styling for the WIZPLAT W-31 external drive
Remember the book-like looks of the Western Digital My Book? Well, Korean-based firm Sarotech has taken the disguised drive a step further with the WIZPLAT W-31…
Planex DigiJuke NAS – downloads YouTube and BitTorrent video and makes it easy to transfer
The record and film labels are doing everything in their power to scare us away from piracy – but the tech companies keep making it easier. None more so than Planex with its DigiJuke NAS…
LaCie launches 500GB Rugged Hard Disk: supersize data on the go
LaCie has extended its Rugged Hard Disk range with the addition of a 500GB model. The Hitachi Travelstar 5K500 2.5-inch drive is protected by a scratch-resistant aluminum shell and a shock-resistant rubber bumper, and comes in two versions — both with USB 2.0 connector but one adding a FireWire 400/800…
