SFGate Review: Portable drives to back up your data
Cnet rating: 4 stars out of 5 (excellent) The good: Great flexibility; USB 3.0; large amount of storage; works with both Macs and PCs without having to be reformatted. Read the full article
Cnet rating: 4 stars out of 5 (excellent) The good: Great flexibility; USB 3.0; large amount of storage; works with both Macs and PCs without having to be reformatted. Read the full article
Ultra-thin anodized case to resist against damage while transporting. It is only about as thick as a pencil. Easy to slide it in a computer case, backpack or pocket so you can take your content anywhere and everywhere. Read the full article
A colleague of mine used this quote in his keynote speech at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara last August. “If you want to be incrementally better: be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: be cooperative.” Source unknown. Truth is there are a lot of SSD and “SSD-like Hybrid” options in the [...]
We are all aware of how Steve Jobs (and his innovative Apple team) changed our computing lifestyles, but what we may not fully appreciate is how well Steve and Apple also challenged their eco-system of suppliers to innovate and design technology that reaches beyond the norm. One example of this is how the popularity of [...]
A battery-powered 500GB hard drive that wirelessly beams video and audio to your iPad, iPhone, or Android phone—anywhere The Seagate GoFlex Satellite is a simple idea: take a big hard drive with you, wherever you want to go, that doesn’t need any advanced setup, that doesn’t need to be connected to a Wi-Fi network, and [...]
Seeing as Wintel fans will soon join in on the Thunderbolt fun, how about a smorgasbord of devices toting the interconnect, conveniently laid out in a two pane vitrine here at IDF? Alongside the usual suspects — such as LaCie’s Little Big Disk, Promise’s Pegasus and the Sonnet’s Echo — are a few devices we’ve never seen before, namely Belkin’s Express [...]
After reading The Best of Both Worlds: An SSD and a HDD, George McCluney asked if it’s possible to combine both drives on a laptop. When I finished researching that article, I looked at my numbers and wished my main PC was a desktop. Installing both an SSD and a conventional internal hard drive into [...]
As we go about our increasingly digital lives, we amass an ever-larger—and not to mention, scattered—stash of important data. Some of it, such as family photos, home movies, and work files, is irreplaceable. The rest of it (say, media files and software) might not be quite as important, but you certainly wouldn’t be pleased to [...]
Solid State storage was everywhere at the Flash Memory Event but just a handful of SSD vendors were talking about encryption in SSDs. Yes, it’s true everyone wants Solid State but is Solid State ready for everyone? If you need security where your data lives most of the time – on your…
The Seagate GoFlex Satellite provides portable wireless storage for iOS and Android devices. The 500GB hard drive features its own Wi-Fi connection, letting you access files and stream media from the drive to iOS and Android devices, where space is presumably at a premium. All that is required, other than $200 of your hard-earned money [...]
New Design, New Capacity, and a New Home for the Media You Love CUPERTINO, Calif. – September 7, 2011 – Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today announced it is shipping a new 4TB GoFlex® Desk external hard drive – the highest capacity hard drive in the industry. This latest addition to the GoFlex Family of external hard drives [...]
Seagate to Showcase Momentus® XT Drives at Flash Memory Summit CUPERTINO, Calif. – August 9, 2011 – Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) has shipped its one millionth solid state hybrid drive for laptop PCs after launching the product – Momentus® XT – in spring 2010. Major computer makers including Alienware, ASUS, Dell, Sony and Toshiba now offer laptops [...]