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  When it comes to selling USB external drives, companies have few selling points to entice consumers. They can lure them on the price front, storage capacity, looks or speed. And Seagate with its GoFlex Slim is targeting users seeking great looks as well as speed. GoFlex Slim is the thinnest in Seagate’s arsenal, measuring [...]

  Seagate has announced its GoFlex Satellite HDD for Indian consumers. This new HDD comes with an integrated battery and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n that allows any Wi-Fi-enabled devices to take advantage of the HDD storage wirelessly. Android and iPhone users can download dedicated apps from respective stores to consume content directly from the hard drive, which [...]

  Portable 3G modem market can be segregated with 3G USB dongles that can share connection with a single computer or a MiFi that creates a Wi-Fi wireless hotspot that can be shared with more than one PC. But what if we get the best of both worlds? D-Link is trying to do just that [...]

  WD has brought its updated external HDD line to the Indian market. They’ve introduced the My Passport Essential, My Passport Essential SE portable hard drive and My Book Essential HDD, all equipped with the latest SuperSpeed USB 3.0. Users will be able to transfer data to USB 3.0-compatible PCs at speeds to up to [...]

  Kingston has announced a new USB flash drive for the Indian market. They’ve launched DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 that supports the new SuperSpeed USB standard, giving up to 10 times faster data transfer than a USB 2.0 supporting pen drive. The DT Ultimate 3.0 claims to give a read/write speed of 80/60 MB per second, [...]

  Samsung has updated its 2.5-inch S2 Portable HDD external hard drive. The S2 Portable 3.0 drive spins at 7,200RPM and features SuperSpeed USB 3.0 that can transfer content at speeds to up to 5Gbps as compared to USB 2.0’s 480Mbps. Additionally, the drive comes with other features like Dynamic Balancing, SilentSeek, NoiseGuard, Auto Backup, [...]

  ADATA has announced a new flash drive for the Indian market that supports both eSATA and USB 2.0 interface. This makes N909 faster than most of USB 2.0-only supporting flash drives in the market. It comes in capacities to up to 64GB and with the help of eSATA, it can read and write data [...]

  SanDisk has announced its smallest USB drive for American and Canadian consumers. The SanDisk Cruzer Blade is not bigger than a paper clip and weighs almost as a penny. Despite the small size, Cruzer Blade can store data ranging from 2GB to up to 16GB. SanDisk Cruzer Blade USB flash drive is available in [...]

  Western Digital has launched a new external hard drive for Mac users that not only performs but also looks good. The My Book Studio LX HDDs come in an aluminum enclosure and integrate a FireWire 800 port for faster data transfer in addition to a USB 2.0 port. The pre-formatted HFS+ drives also boasts [...]

  Taiwan-based A-DATA has introduced a new portable hard drive in the Indian market. The 2.5-inch SH-02 is targeted at fashionistas and is crafted with a 3-dimensional imprint patterns with special surface finishing. The patterns and the finish uses advanced IMF (In-Mold Foil) technology that allows users to feel the design with the fingertips. Additionally, [...]

  With loads of data around us, USB pen drives have now become a ubiquitous part of our lives. The advancement in technology along with the expansion of storage space in this dinky form factor has also led to rise of usage of USB flash drives. Today, we review an 8GB USB flash drive from [...]

  If you’re wary to format your flash drive manually to expand storage for the Xbox 360, SanDisk is now shipping their pre-configured flash drives. Just plug it in and you’re all set to save all your game saves, map packs, downloads etc. on the flash drive. The SanDisk flash drives comes in capacities of [...]

  Samsung has announced SuperSpeed USB 3.0 equipped external drives in its STORY Station portfolio. The new 3.5-inch STORY Station is the fastest STORY Station from Samsung and claims to be 10 times faster than the drives with USB 2.0 interface. The drive with SuperSpeed USB 3.0 transfers content at a speed of 5Gbps, which [...]

  Taiwan’s A-DATA has announced a new portable USB HDD for the Indian market. The 2.5-inch NH01 is now available in India and boasts the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connectivity. The USB 3.0 equipped NH01 is about three times faster than a USB 2.0 drive and has a read/write speed of up to 88/81 MB/s, which [...]

  Just like Samsung did to its S2 Portable HDD, Seagate has also entered into a partnership with Paramount Pictures to pre-load movies on their 2.5-inch FreeAgent Go HDD. A purchase and a quick register to the redemption page, enables users to unlock Star Trek (2009) movie without any additional cost. There are other 20 [...]