Items tagged with External Hard Drives

by Matthew Shaw - Mon, Jan 05, 2009

G-Technology Launches External Solid State Drive

G-Technology, a Fabrik company and manufacturer of premium storage solutions for the Apple® Mac® community, today announced a new family of external drives based on 2.5” solid state drive (SSD) technology – the G-DRIVE mini SSD (120GB and 250GB) and the RAID 0/1 G-RAID mini SSD (250GB and 500GB). Known for delivering performance, style and reliability, G-Technology has married its premium design with state-of-the-art solid state drives, making the new G-DRIVE mini SSD and G-RAID mini SSD the most rugged and durable external drives in the market. As high-performance, plug-and-play storage devices, they are ideal for extreme users who capture, offload and edit digital content in challenging... Read more...

by Daniel A. Begun - Fri, Jan 02, 2009

Verbatim Announces Quad-Interface External HDDs

USB 2.0 might be the present undisputed king of peripheral interfaces, but it certainly is not the only option available, nor is it even the fastest. FireWire 400 (400Mbps), FireWire 800 (800Mbps), and eSATA (300Gbps) are also viable peripheral interfaces found on many desktops and even some laptops--and two of them are even significantly faster than USB 2.0 (480Mbps); which explains why Verbatim has decided to produce a series of external hard drives that include all four interfaces.Not only is Verbatim's goal with its Quad Interface Desktop Hard Drives to cover as many possible user scenarios as possible, but it is also promoting the drives as a simple means of guaranteeing that the drives... Read more...