September 27, 2009 by John M. Guilfoil  
Filed under Hardware

As ease of use goes, it’s as good as it gets

An ideal storage upgrade situation.

Big. Fast.

Because every portable device we carry around with you says something about who you are — you know you judge every iPhone user — Iomega believes that your portable hard drive should as well, and from what we see, they seem to have delivered. The Iomega eGo portable hard drives are sleek [...]

Iomega, a company under the wing of local tech and storage giant EMC Corporation, announced Wednesday that they have released a New England Patriots-themed portable hard drive.
The Iomega eGo Patriots edition is decked out with the team logo above a 2.5″ 250 GB hard drive.
The tiny drive is a USB 2.0 product and retails for [...]

By the way, 500 GB can hold 220 hours of DVD video, 125,000 MP3s, or 142,000 high-resolution photos.

Don’t shake it unless you have to.

Western Digital added 750GB and 1TB SATA drives with up to 32MB cache and enhanced vibration and shock tolerance.
Hawt.
Translation: Huge drive. Fits your music, movies, pics, games, docs, and about 1,600 full-length MPEG/Divx movies or hundreds of uncompressed DVD movies. Huge cache. Lets you access them fast. Shock protection. You could walk around shaking it [...]

Who said they were all about cassette tapes?
Memorex just announced the Essential TravelDrive, a 2.5″ USB hard disk that maxes out at 320GB with several bright and shiny colors that fits right in your pocket, purse, laptop bag, etc.
The TravelDrive comes in 160, 250 and 320 gigabyte models, great for photos, video, audio and tons [...]

It seems like everybody is going green lately, and now we’re seeing that trend emerge in the saturated world of external hard drives.
Storage solutions provider Fabrik announced the SimpleTech [re]drive, a 500GB external hard drive that they are dubbing the world’s most energy-efficient, resource-conscious external drive.
The [re]drive is made from sustainable bamboo wood and recycled [...]