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Buffalo MiniStation Thunderbolt Review

The Buffalo MiniStation Thunderbolt/USB portable HDD is a relatively inexpensive way of carrying a lot of data in a small package without having to worry too much about how you’re going to connect it to your computer. It was previewed last summer and is clearly aimed at Mac notebook users with its styling, the fact

Consumer  ◇  Portable Storage

Lenovo ThinkPad USB 3.0 Secure Hard Drive Review (1TB)

Last year we reviewed the USB 3.0 Lenovo ThinkPad that was available in capacities of 500 GB and 750 GB. Today, we are taking a look at their newer 1TB USB 3.0 enabled hard drive. The 1TB USB 3.0 drive is highlighted by the same security, as we saw last year – a ten digital number pad

Consumer  ◇  Portable Storage

WD My Passport Edge for PC Review (WDBK6Z5000ATT)

Last month WD released a pair of thin portable hard drives that constitute the My Passport Edge family. We recently reviewed the My Passport Edge for Mac, which like its PC brother offers 500GB of hard drive storage and USB 3.0. My Passport Edge for PC though, uses a different enclosure design, opting for decorated plastic

Enterprise  ◇  Portable Storage  ◇  SSD

Media Management in Solid State Drives: Multistep WRITE Operations

Between 2010 and 2015, IDC predicts that shipments of Solid State Drives are expected to increase by a compound annual growth rate of 52 percent on a global basis. The corresponding surge in enterprise server and storage adoption means that a deeper understanding of critical components such as media management and the use of new

Consumer  ◇  Portable Storage

WD My Passport Edge for Mac Review (WDBJBH5000ABK)

The 500GB WD My Passport Edge portable hard drive for Mac users picks up on Western Digital’s revised design for their portable drives. Over the last year Western Digital has been busy redefining the design of their entire external portable hard drive line, none more evident than the sleek new metal bodies given to their My

Consumer  ◇  Portable Storage

Acronis Backup & Recovery Update Announced

Acronis, provider of disaster recovery and data protection solutions, has announced its latest release of Acronis Backup & Recovery: a unified platform from which organizations can centrally manage data protection and disaster recovery tasks for physical, virtual and cloud environments from a single management console, and move data between environments quickly and easily. It also

Consumer  ◇  Portable Storage

Toshiba Launches Canvio Personal Cloud NAS Device

Toshiba’s Digital Products Division has announced the Canvio Personal Cloud, its entry into the market cloud-enabled home storage devices. The Canvio Personal Cloud will be available with either 2TB or 3TB of internal storage plus a USB port for expansion, and allows users to access and stream files outside the home across the internet.

Consumer  ◇  Portable Storage

EMC Project X Hands-On

At VMworld 2012 this week, StorageReview was part of a private briefing by EMC that showed off Project X and the updated v1.5 of VFCache. Project X is the code name for the first output of the XtremIO acquisition, which pairs two 1U Intel-based storage nodes with a 2U flash-storage enclosure. The 4U arrays are

Consumer  ◇  Portable Storage  ◇  SSD

Dell Ventures Announces Dell Fluid Data Storage Investment Fund

At Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Michael Dell announced the Dell Fluid Data Storage Fund, a new $60 million early stage investment fund. This fund is part of Dell Ventures and offers a strategic complement to Dell’s existing M&A, R&D, and partnership channels for the development and monetization of new storage intellectual property.