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Patriot Aero 1TB Wireless Mobile Drive Review

Most portable hard drives lack glamour. They’re tiny workhorses, useful for doing backups and transporting large files and little else. Patriot’s Aero goes way beyond those basics, offering WiFi connectivity, tablet...
WD’s HGST Lifts Curtain on 1.5TB Laptop Hard Disk

Western Digital subsidiary HGST this week unveiled a 1.5TB hard disk drive (HDD) for laptop PCs, which it is touting as offering the “highest storage density of any HDD today.” The...
Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB Review

he Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB is the fastest internal solid-state drive we’ve tested, and comes with a 5-year-warranty. (4 out of 5) Editor’s Choice Pros Best SSD performance we’ve seen...
SSD vs HDD: What’s the Difference?

Until recently, PC buyers had very little choice for what kind of file storage they got with their laptop or desktop. If you bought a netbook or ultraportable, you likely had...
Western Digital My Passport Ultra (1TB) Review

The Western Digital My Passport Ultra packs a 1TB USB 3.0 hard drive into a small and light package. (4 out of 5) Between built-in Wi-Fi and SSD caches, external hard...
WD My Passport Ultra Portable Hard Drive

Western Digital today announced new USB 3.0 portable hard drives which have built-in WD SmartWare Pro backup software with Dropbox integration, hardware encryption and password protection to safeguard against unauthorized drive...
Seagate Unveils New Solid State Drive Lineup

Seagate today introduced a new lineup of solid state drives (SSDs), including its first client SSDs and next-generation enterprise drives. The new lineup, built to provide ultra-fast speed and high data...
Seagate 600 / Pro and 1200 SSD Drives

Seagate today announced the 600 SSD, 600 Pro SSD, and the 1200 SSD drives, which are engineered to deliver ultra-fast speed and high data integrity. Rounding out the portfolio, Seagate also...
Buffalo DriveStation DDR Review

The Buffalo DriveStation DDR uses a 1GB RAM cache to make this USB 3.0 hard drive the fastest we’ve tested. (4.5 out of 5) One of the latest advancements in notebook...
Corsair Voyager Air Review

Despite Apple recently adding a 128GB option to the iPad 4, storage space on iOS devices is still a problem for people who love to watch HD movies on the go....
Toshiba Canvio Connect Portable Hard Drive

Toshiba just announced Canvio Connect, a portable external hard drive that offers the ability to access, share and backup files from virtually anywhere. So you can back up videos and photos...
LaCie 5big 20TB Review

The Lacie 5big drive marries five hard disks in a 20TB volume which, thanks to the capabilities of Thunderbolt, work together at wildly fast speeds. In tests with very small files,...
Buffalo MiniStation Air Review

The Buffalo MiniStation Air HDW-PU3 isn’t a unique product – we’ve seen wireless external hard drives such as the Kingston Wi-Drive and Seagate GoFlex Satellite use Wi-Fi connections as a means...
WD Ships First 5mm, 2.5-Inch Hard Drive

Western Digital today began shipping the world’s first ultra-slim hard drive and its solid-state hybrid drive counterpart. The new WD Blue hard drive and WD Black SSHD were designed for integration...
G-DRIVE PRO with Thunderbolt Hard Drive

G-Technology just announced the G-DRIVE PRO with Thunderbolt, a compact, desktop external hard drive that delivers hard drive capacity with SSD-like performance, taking full advantage of the speed and power of...
LaCie Blade Runner 4TB Review

LaCie is known for striking hard drive designs, but the industrial-looking Blade Runner takes our breath away. Its aluminium body is cut away to look like a parallel series of vertically...
Samsung 840 Series 250GB Review

The Samsung 840 Series is an excellent SSD for those on a budget. Early reliability concerns regarding TLC NAND are apparently unwarranted. (4 out of 5) Editor’s Choice Pros Best price...
Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 120GB MKNSSDCR120GB-DX Review

The Mushkin 120GB Chronos Deluxe is another great SSD option for cost-conscious buyers. (3.5 out of 5) Pros Great price/performance ratio Supports SATA 6G Cons Older SF-2281 loses speed in random...
OCZ Vector 128GB Review

Our very own Jeremy Laird has already taken a look at the latest SSD offering from OCZ – the Vector, in its 256GB capacity guise – and found it to be...
HP Pocket Playlist Review

The HP Pocket Playlist is a wireless media drive that can share 32GB of movies, music, and photos with a small group of friends. It’s not bad if all you need...