Flash drives are a must-have in this day and age, and with capacities increasing they're no longer just to be used for documents and small files. Kingston has always been pretty active in the memory market, ...

If you're looking for the most economical external storage solution on the market, there's a strong chance that it isn't going to be a LaCie unit. While not known for exorbitant prices, LaCie is a brand ...

Thanks to recent advancements in portable storage it's now pretty easy to carry important documents or data around with you on the move. Micro-sized flash drives usually offer enough capacity for most, but if you're working ...

External hard drives have the distinct advantage that you don't need to break into your PC to install them. With XP and Vista both happy to recognise and work with a USB-linked drive, you can even ...

Convenient and easy to use, USB flash memory or 'thumb' drives are an increasingly popular means of storing and transporting data. Lose one, however, and anyone can access the files they contain unless you routinely encrypt ...

There are plenty of portable, external hard drives around, so what does Buffalo's new MiniStation offer that its competition doesn't? Its main claim to fame is a technology called TurboUSB, which Buffalo has measured at up ...

Memorex has produced a few tidy little portable storage devices in the past, recently updating its Traveldrive range with the Ultra version, a mid-capacity mini-drive available in capacities ranging from the 80GB model on test here ...

It's not often that we get sent a product, plug it in and find that it just works. But that's exactly what happened when we tested the Imation Odyssey, a removable hard disk storage device designed ...

Freecom brings the latest in high-speed connectivity to the portable storage market with its new 500GB Hard Drive Pro. Sporting lightning fast 3,000Mbps eSata as standard, you have a choice of USB 2.0 or Firewire 400/800 ...

External hard drives tend to be the sort of components that are inherently useful, but rarely differ much in terms of features or functionality. Pounds per megabyte is surely the most important consideration, and while performance ...

Perhaps the fastest moving technology when it comes to computers is capacity. Computer memory, hard drive space and most recently portable storage such as flash drives are constantly being refined and improved, and considering the increasing ...

Kingston's new 1GB flash drive is one of the first in an expected onslaught of such devices that proclaim themselves 'ReadyBoost Ready'. It's unsurprising, as ReadyBoost is a great-on-paper feature within Windows Vista that allows you ...

Sweex's latest gadget cleverly plugs into a couple of expanding trends in the PC marketplace. First there's the growth in hard disk recorders, spearheaded by Sky+ boxes, but with plenty of others hanging onto their coat ...

When it came to backup, tape used to be the only really affordable technology. Until, that is, disk prices started to plummet with - as well as fixed drive solutions - a number of removable disk ...

With today's plethora of downloadable media, whether it be music or films, the need for large capacity drives is growing and will only get greater. Its OK having a large capacity drive in your system but ...

PNY has built its considerable reputation on flash memory and drives, as well as high-end memory upgrades and, more recently, NVIDIA Quadro graphics boards. So when a new USB 2.0 drive appears it pays to take ...

It's not too long since we last met the Iomega Rev drive, and we were impressed enough to give the 35GB version our backing, albeit with caveats over pricing, earlier this year. The Rev is a ...

Memory cards and flash drives go up to around 2GB in capacity, 2.5-inch hard drives kick in at around 30GB, but there's a gap in the middle around the 5GB mark which is not well served, ...

There are cheaper ways to back up your data than with Iomega's Rev drive. Selling for just north of £200, and with a 35GB cartridge disk coming in at around the price of a 40GB hard ...

USB flash drives are great, aren't they? You pop your files onto one, drop it into your pocket, and then get to the files from any computer with a USB port. Unless, of course, you happen ...