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by jeff goldman on March 15, 2010
Paraben has introduced a new USB drive that detects porn on a user's PC.
"The Porn Detection Stick... is a $100 thumb drive stuffed with Windows-compatible image detection software," wr...
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by jeff goldman on February 26, 2010
Raidon has announced the HyBrid Disk, a storage device that includes both a solid state drive and a traditional disk drive for backup.
"The device writes to an SSD while mirroring data to a 3.5-...
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by jeff goldman on February 26, 2010
ThinkGeek is now selling a set of lightsaber USB flash drives, imported from Japan, for $19.99 each.
"These official Lucasfilm licensed USB products come in both Darth Vader's red design [an...
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by jeff goldman on February 16, 2010
SanDisk has introduced the SanDisk iNAND 64GB, the company's first 64GB smartphone chip.
"The new flash drive is designed to allow the phone maker to install the OS, system code, and can be ...
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by jeff goldman on February 14, 2010
LaCie has introduced the LaCie Rugged eSATA drive.
"For the first time on a LaCie drive, you can have the speed of eSATA connectivity in an easy-to-transport portable drive," writes PCWorld...
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by jeff goldman on February 3, 2010
Kingston has announced the DataTraveler 5000 USB Flash drive, a FIPS 140-2 certified drive with 256-bit AES encryption.
"The DataTraveler 5000 delivers unsurpassed levels of security and encrypt...
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by jeff goldman on January 24, 2010
Lockheed Martin and IronKey have announced an advanced USB flash drive called IronClad.
"The brand new IronClad raises the bar of expectation for flash drives by shrinking a laptop's hard dr...
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by jeff goldman on January 18, 2010
Buffalo Technology has introduced the $250 Dualie, a 500 GB portable hard drive that also serves as an iPhone or iPod dock.
"I got a sneak peek at this device last year and I was very impressed ...
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by jeff goldman on January 11, 2010
This past week at CES, LaCie introduced a range of new CooKey and WhizKey key-shaped USB drives.
"Both the CooKey and WhizKey are available in capacities ranging from 4GB ($20) to 32GB ($100),&q...
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by jeff goldman on December 20, 2009
LaCie has introduced the tiny LaCie Rikiki hard drive, with capacities of up to 640 GB.
"We are part of a generation that wants more from our electronics, but in the smallest form factor possibl...
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by jeff goldman on December 5, 2009
Other World Computing (OWC) has introduced a new Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini line of portable hard drives.
"The Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini Hard Drive offers up to 300MB/s data transfer speeds in ...
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by jeff goldman on November 28, 2009
Imation Corp. has introduced the 1.5 TB Imation Pro WX Wireless USB Hard Drive, the world's first Wireless USB external drive.
"The hard drive works just like any other USB hard drive, with on...
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by jeff goldman on November 27, 2009
Buffalo Technology has introduced the first USB 3.0 external hard drive, the DriveStation HD-HXU3, offering data transfer rates up to 625 MB per second (or five Gbits per second).
"The drive ...
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by jeff goldman on October 16, 2009
Corsair today introduced a 64GB version of its ultra-durable Flash Survivor USB drive.
"The drive is ensconced in an extremely strong CNC-milled, anodized aircraft-grade aluminum to protect yo...
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by jeff goldman on October 14, 2009
Pretec claims that its new flash drive, the i-Disk Tango 266x, is the world's fastest USB flash drive, with read speeds of 40 MB/s and write speeds of 30 MB/s.
"The theoretical maximum for USB...
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by jeff goldman on September 29, 2009
Freecom has introduced the first USB 3.0 portable hard drive.
"The Hard Drive XS 3.0... is one of the earliest devices to be released based on the USB 3.0 standard, which transfers data between ...
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by jeff goldman on September 1, 2009
Verbatim recently introduced its new InSight Portable USB Hard Drives, available in two configurations: 320GB for $120, and 500GB for $150.
"What's most attractive is the piano-black finish...
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by jeff goldman on August 24, 2009
Apricorn has introduced the Aegis Padlock Secure Drive, a keypad-protected portable USB drive.
"The drive weighs six ounces and integrates a USB cable," writes Macworld's Peter Cohen. &...
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by jeff goldman on August 14, 2009
Verbatim this week introduced its new TUFF-'N'-TINY USB drives, measuring 1" x 1/2" (and the thickness of a penny) and boasting capacities of 2GB (for $20), 4GB ($30), and 8GB ($50...
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by jeff goldman on August 9, 2009
A one-of-a-kind WALL-E USB drive was made available on Etsy this week... and almost immediately sold out.
"The flash drive stores 8GB of data, which is definitely not too shabby," writes Al...
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by jeff goldman on June 12, 2009
WD (a.k.a. Western Digital) this week introduced its new 4TB My Book Studio Edition II dual-drive storage system designed specifically for the Mac.
"While it's no looker, it does features a R...
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by jeff goldman on June 5, 2009
Iomega this week released the new Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive for the Mac, which boasts multiple interfaces and up to 500GB of capacity.
"Featuring both flavors of FireWire and USB 2.0 connect...
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by jeff goldman on May 2, 2009
Seagate this week introduced the Seagate Replica, an automated backup system for Windows.
"Seagate's new Replica drive aims to be for PC users what Time Machine is for Macs (in fact, there&#...
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by jeff goldman on April 25, 2009
Western Digital this week released My DVR Expander, an external hard drive specifically designed for use with TiVo DVRs. Two versions are available: a 1 TB drive for $200 (or $167.70 on Amazon), and a...
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by jeff goldman on April 12, 2009
Data Robotics, Inc. this week introduced DroboPro, an upgraded version of the company's Drobo storage product.
"Start-up Data Robotics gained wide notoriety about 18 months ago when it unveil...
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by jeff goldman on April 3, 2009
Corsair this week introduced the Voyager Port, a USB flash drive docking station which supports push-button backup with the help of the included NovaBackup 10 backup and recovery software.
"With ...
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by jeff goldman on March 7, 2009
Western Digital this week introduced an 8 TB (terabyte) WD ShareSpace network storage system with up to 30 percent faster transfer speeds than previous versions.
"This is really good news if the ...
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by jeff goldman on February 21, 2009
Western Digital this week introduced a redesigned My Book World Edition network storage drive, available in one- and two-terabyte capacities.
"The drive plugs into a network router and can begin ...
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by jeff goldman on February 18, 2009
Hitachi last week introduced the CinemaStar C5K500, a 2.5" hard drive that's designed specifically for low-power operation.
"The CinemaStar C5K500... is a 500 GB hard drive that uses 22 ...
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by jeff goldman on February 8, 2009
The online backup service IDrive has introduced IDrive Portable, a $120 ultrathin 320GB portable hard drive.
"The IDrive Portable actually does differentiate itself from the masses in one particu...
