External hard drives have been around for ages, but in today's climate of virus attacks and other data-corrupting evils, they are an important weapon to have in your armoury to protect your data. And with the ...

Not so long ago, a drive of this capacity - 250GB - would have been deemed an enterprise drive, used only in servers, network storage devices and similar systems. Not so now, with the advent of ...

In the heavy computer users' world, there's rarely a time when storage of some form isn't at a premium. Likewise, when it comes to undertaking effective backups, even a 4.7GB capacity DVD drive can struggle to ...

Jadetec specialises in miniature PCs and gadgets for them, like this memory drive. Memory drives have proved increasingly popular for storing medium-sized files and transferring them from machine to machine. This new ClipDrive is one such ...

When introduced at the end of 2002, Serial ATA (SATA) disks helped simplify cabling but did little for performance. But now there's the Raptor from Western Digital, the first 10,000rpm SATA drive capable of taking full ...

If you're looking for fast external storage, to supplement existing internal drives, to provide quick and reliable backup or to transfer large amounts of data from one PC to another, you should look at a plug-in, ...

It may come as a surprise to some, but Samsung has been in the hard drive business for many years. Not for it the flashy, fast drives; instead the company concentrates on what are probably the ...

For almost 20 years the Parallel ATA interface (or IDE as we all know it) has been the dominant connection type for mass storage data transfer in PCs. Now it's reaching its performance limit, the time ...

How refreshing to review a product whose name nicely sums up its major properties. The FireWire 120 from Western Digital is a 120GB external hard drive that connects... wait for it... via the FireWire port. We've ...

Whoever said that size doesn't matter clearly wasn't talking about a hard drive. There is almost nothing as frustrating (at least where computers are concerned) as running out of hard drive space and having to decide ...

In this third iteration of the Zip drive, Iomega has pushed capacity up to 750MB, representing a healthy tripling of capacity since the previous move from 100MB to 250MB. It's a healthy progression and it positions ...

Before Serial ATA finally makes an appearance later this year, hard disk manufacturers are squeezing the last drop of performance and capacity out of the IDE drive format. Previously only found in its huge 100GB and ...

Amacom Technologies has been making external hard drive solutions for many years, originally with the FlipDisk drive, which was convenient for backing up notebook and desktop PCs. This latest drive has been designed for a similar ...

Taking your documents wherever you go, on a small backup device, makes good sense (even if it is a bit nerdy). Taking the contents of your entire hard drive, though, is another matter entirely. Yet that's ...

Strictly speaking, this isn't actually a disk drive, but it behaves like one. It's a very small device that plugs into your PC's USB port and can be used to store data. Like other devices of ...

The original LS-120 Superdisk drive (reviewed here), which could read, write and format 120MB disks using its optical tracking technology, was a minor success, overshadowed in its heyday by Iomega's Zip. The Superdisk's main strength was ...

In the last few months, IDE hard drive capacity has come close to the limitations of the venerable 28-bit LBA standard that limits ATA drives to 137GB. Now Maxtor has moved way past this with the ...

You may recognise 'ABS' as a safety device for your car, but according to Mountain Solutions, it's also a safety product for your notebook PC. ABS, in Mountain Solutions parlance, means Automatic Backup System. The company ...

External hard drives offer a convenient way of storing your data, but they typically transfer data a lot slower than internal IDE or SCSI drives. By using the latest USB 2.0 protocol, Maxtor has attempted to ...

Data backup is a pain in the neck, which is why so few individual users bother with it, relying instead on their IT department to manage such tedious tasks. Given the prevalence of viruses, dodgy software ...