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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 US [...]

 
Seagate’s world’s first 3TB external hard drive has been announced for the Indian market. For starters, 3TB of space can hold up to 120 HD movies, 1,500 games and innumerable music and images.
Seagate’s GoFlesk Desk range boasts a special feature that makes it compatible with the latest interface. It predominantly supports USB 2.0 interface [...]

 
Seagate has finally announced its rumored 3TB hard drive. The world’s first 3TB drive has been added to its FreeAgent GoFlex Desk range that allow users to store up to 120 HD movies, 1,500 games or thousands of images and music.
Although the drive supports USB 2.0, with the help of an additional adapter you can [...]

 
Samsung had started selling its first USB-based 4G-only modems for TeliaSonera in December last year and promised to launch 2G/3G supporting modem in first half of 2010. Well, they’ve delivered it with the launch of GT-B3730 that will give the same blistering speeds while connected to a 4G network or 2G/3G in case of no [...]

 
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 continuous backup [...]

 
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, the [...]

 
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 the [...]

 
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 8 [...]

 
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 means a [...]

 
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 movies [...]

 
Samsung has announced a new edition of its 2.5-inch S2 Portable hard drive. The Korean giant has collaborated with KBS Media to pre-load Full House, a TV show from South Korea. In addition to the show, the drive will also feature interviews from the director and the cast. It will sell in July in at [...]

 
It’s official. Microsoft will be rolling out a system update starting April 6 that will bring USB flash support to Xbox 360. The drive will be able to store gamer profiles, saves, demos etc. Users will be able to use any flash or USB HDD having more than 1GB of space. However, as we already [...]

 
It’s always good to see products being launched in India soon after they get their official unveiling in the international market. Couple of weeks back Western Digital announced a portable HDD optimized for audio and video storage/playback and now it’s available for the Indian consumers. The My Passport AV HDD comes in 320GB capacity and [...]

 
LG has announced a classy designed XD6 USB HDD to lure the fairer sex. The 2.5-inch XD6 Jewelry HDD was made in collaboration with Nelly Rodi and the drive features a cubic pattern on a clean aluminum body and comes with a leather pouch.
As for its technical prowess, the drive come in capacities of [...]

 
Western Digital has added another Mac friendly hard drive to its portfolio. The My Passport SE comes in capacities of 750GB and 1TB and is pre-formatted in HFS+ to support Macs out-of-the-box. The drives are USB 2.0 powered and WD says they draw power from the computer instead of the external power supply.
Additionally, the [...]