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  • External, But How? Mobile Storage Solutions Compared
    September 15, 2003 – 1:02 PM
    The number of external storage devices on the market continues to proliferate, but not all of them are user-friendly, flexible and affordable. We compared HighPoint external serial ATA products with both common and unusual USB and FireWire devices from Fujitsu, Maxtor, Western Digital, WiebeTech and Transcend.
  • Go External: FireWire 800
    April 2, 2004 – 1:00 PM
    USB 2.0 is far from good enough for high-speed data transfer applications. Vendors are now pushing FireWire 800 to the plate for applications such as high-speed hard disk backup. We look at FireWire's robustness, its performance as a LAN network protocol and its data-transfer future.
  • External Sound: Creative Labs Extigy
    April 5, 2002 – 1:07 PM in INTEL
    Although there is a growing tendency to integrate sound chipsets on the mother board, Creative Labs is offering removal of the sound card from the PC and connection to the USB port. The Extigy is a hybrid, a halfway point between the Audigy and an external AC-3 decoder. Here's how it's done...
  • External Storage With RAID: Proware DP-405CI
    April 12, 2005 – 1:03 PM
    Simple external hard drives often don't live up to the requirements of secure data storage. Proware offers attractively priced external storage units that house a RAID array and are connected via USB/FireWire.
  • 500 GB External Drives Tested
    August 17, 2007 – 7:38 AM
    500 GB External Drives Tested Forget about boosting storage capacity with old-fashioned hard drives. External devices are the way to go. We look at four 500 GB products from LaCie, Western Digital and Wiebetech.
  • Sub-Terabyte External Hard Drives
    January 7, 2008 – 5:48 AM
    Sub-Terabyte External Hard Drives Buffalo, Maxtor, Seagate and SimpleTech sent us their latest external premium hard drives. They all offer 750 to 1000 GB of storage along with USB 2.0 and other interfaces, but their software, design and performance differ.
  • External Storage With A Mac Design
    October 20, 2005 – 1:06 PM
    External Storage With A Mac Design It may look like an Apple Mac Mini, but Macpower's M9-DX Mini Pod is a powerful 400 GB external storage device for both Macs and PCs.
  • The TeraByte Drives Redefine External Storage
    February 3, 2006 – 6:07 AM
    The TeraByte Drives Redefine External Storage TeraByte drives do not need to be slim and sexy, because their capacity of almost 1,000 GB speaks for itself. We looked under the hood of two amazing storage mammoths by LaCie and Maxtor.
  • External Hard Drives with Trimmings Aplenty
    August 4, 2005 – 1:05 PM
    External hard drive capacities continue to grow and their prices certainly don't break the bank. Now, vendors such as Fastora, Maxtor and Smartdisk are designing in value-added features that make these devices that much more exciting.
  • Locking Down Your Data with Cipher Shield External Hard Drive Encryption
    September 16, 2004 – 1:01 PM
    External hard drives are sitting ducks for data thieves if lost or stolen. Cipher Shield offers a 2.5" device that encrypts external hard drive data. But is the solution worth a base price of $300?
  • Seagate 500 GB External Hard Drive Goes eSATA
    August 24, 2006 – 7:14 AM
    Seagate 500 GB External Hard Drive Goes eSATA Seagate enters the external SATA market with a bang: the 500 GB model has lots of capacity, and better performance than any USB or Firewire drive.
  • External RAID Storage
    May 2, 2008 – 1:00 AM in Business Servers
    External RAID Storage iSCSI and SAS storage are flexible and powerful — but expensive. We looked at two direct attached storage solution kits from Accusys and AMCC/3Ware.
  • 2.5" External HDD Spring Fever
    April 12, 2007 – 9:14 AM
    2.5 Along with spring comes new storage products. Seagate and Toshiba sent us their latest external drives while Hitachi offered an upgrade kit for notebook hard disks.
  • Thecus Brings SATA to External Storage
    April 17, 2006 – 6:07 AM
    Thecus Brings SATA to External Storage You can begin to forget about USB or Firewire: there is no substitute for SATA as a fast, reliable and relatively inexpensive external storage solution. Thecus' N2050 storage box, which uses eSATA to hook up two SATA drives externally, makes it happen.
  • Buffalo Boosts External Hard Drive Power
    March 20, 2006 – 5:37 AM
    Buffalo Boosts External Hard Drive Power Energy supply can be an issue for external hard drives. Buffalo wanted to get rid of the usual bulky and heavy PSUs, so it ships its current external drive with a novel USB power unit. How well does it work?

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