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 ...

Do you remember the good old, bad old days, when a floppy disk was seen as the ideal solution to the problem of transporting data manually from computer to computer? Since then we've seen the rise ...

There are three effective ways of carrying data around with you: for small amounts, say up to a couple of gigabytes, you can use flash drives, and for up to five gigabytes there are rewritable DVDs, ...

Hitachi has released a new family of SATA hard drives, and right at the top of the tree we have the 7K500 which uses five platters and ten read/write heads to achieve an enormous capacity of ...

Maxtor's OneTouch II is designed to take the headache out of backing up your computers and it does so very well. The device itself is solid and pleasing to look at. Its metal casing means that ...

The new range of Seagate 7200.9 hard drives is available in a range of capacities that start at 80GB and work up through 120GB, 160GB, 200GB, 250GB, 300GB and 400GB to the top of the heap ...

USB key drives are everywhere these days, and there's a number of ways in which manufacturers try to make theirs special. Swissbit has come up with what has to be one of the best ideas ever; ...

Samsung has released four new hard drives in its SpinPoint P120 series. We'll ignore two of them as they're Parallel ATA models which use the old ribbon cable, but the other two use the new SATA-II ...

The Fujitsu HandyDrive is an external, pocket-sized hard drive designed to easily expand the storage capacity of your computer, or to backup files or transfer large quantities of data between computers. It is powered from the ...

At first glance this little unit looks just like any other USB flash drive. It's small and light, pulls apart into two sections to reveal the USB connector, and is available in a range of storage ...

Serial ATA, or SATA, is fast becoming the standard for high-speed hard drive interfaces in PCs. It's faster and uses simpler cabling than its older, parallel ATA counterpart. However, until now, virtually all SATA drives have ...

You can add extra fixed storage to a PC in one of two ways. You can open it up, slide in an internal hard drive, secure it with four screws, connect up a data cable and ...

One of the only drawbacks to digital photography, compared with conventional film photography, is storage. It's easy enough to carry a couple of spare films around with you, but if you have to carry a couple ...

Could the days of the flash drive already be numbered? That's one conclusion you could draw from Sony's new Micro Vault Pro. Slightly smaller than a cigarette packet, the device is a 2GB portable storage solution ...

There's nothing that new about the principles of network attached storage (NAS). However, Ximeta is one of several companies offering a new pack of NAS products that are specifically targeting small and home networks, and with ...

The demise of the floppy drive has been predicted for about ten years now, and PCs without floppies are finally becoming more common. The replacement is the memory drive (flash disk, pen drive, call it what ...