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LaCie announces Thunderbolt external hard drive
Intel announced a completely new I/O peripheral protocol today called Thunderbolt, which had previously gone by the code name Light Peak. In a nutshell, Thunderbolt is a superfast peripheral standard with the speed of 10Gbps (1.25GBps) and almost no overhead. This means devices can be connected at a real-word throughput speed of around 1.25GBps. Thunderbolt [...]
Hitachi’s LifeStudio External Hard Drive Family Goes Stylish
It seems that the whole world is trying out new external HDD designs. We know that’s not true at all, but being in this business, it sure feels like it. Western Digital has their My Book line, and even Seagate has recently produced some rather striking external designs. Now, it’s Hitachi’s turn. They’re attempting to [...]
Seagate Announces Its 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk External Drive
Folks who are forever running out of hard drive space will be glad to hear that Seagate has just announced its 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk drive, which packs a single 3TB hard drive inside, and is huge enough to store about 120HD movies. Aside from its massive capacity, the drive sports USB 2.0 support, but [...]
Huge Seagate GoFlex Storage Update Emphasizes Flexibility
Seagate on Tuesday launched the next generation of its FreeAgent hard drives, an innovative GoFlex family that combines interchangeable cables with a number of storage and external connectivity solutions. Seagate’s new FreeAgent GoFlex family is made up of three components: ultra-portable and desktop drives; storage system devices, which include an HD media player, network sharing [...]
PQI H566 – USB external hard drive: First 3.0-ready 2.5-inch portable unit
The company PQI announced the launch of a new product that is supposedly intended to be the first 2.5-inch portable hard drive in the market incorporating the new standard for connection of peripherals: USB 3.0 (Superspeed). Inside a metallic case with a minimal size and with a theoretical maximum data transfer rate of 5Gbps (10 [...]