Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
Around the same time I published the recent ioSafe Extreme Rugged hard drive review, ioSafe had its own in-office disaster when a sprinkler pipe broke and flooded its office. Fortunately, they were using their own ioSafe waterproof drives throughout the offices and didn’t lose any data.
Check out their account of the rather ironic disaster below. [Read more…]
Western Digital’s new My Book VelociRaptor Duo is a new 2TB Thunderbolt drive that sports two 1TB 10,000 RPM VelociRaptor drives. It includes two Thunderbolt ports for connecting multiple Thunderbolt devices, including daisy-chaining additional My Book VelociRaptor drives for insane RAID 0 speeds. [Read more…]
The ioSafe Extreme is a portable, bus-powered hard drive that is built like a tank. It is available in 500GB or 1TB capacities with a 5400RPM spinning drive, or with a SSD drive from 120GB-600GB capacities. The latest models are USB 3.0 only; however, the model that I reviewed was a FW800 with a 5400RPM 1TB drive inside.
The enclosure is a solid aluminum enclosure that matches up nicely with current generation Mac products. Moreover, the aluminum enclosure is crush resistant up to 2500 lbs, while the available titanium enclosure is crush proof up to 5000 lbs. Essentially, you can run over these things with a car and it will still function properly. [Read more…]
The latest bus-powered compact drives are available in capacities up to 2TB. If there’s one thing that photo and video shooters can’t get enough of, it’s storage space for the growing file sizes we’re dealing with.
The new Western Digital My Passport Studio drives for Mac users sleek and compact (particularly when you consider we’re getting 2TB of storage). WD recently sent me a pair of the new drives to try out. The drive’s external shell is mix of silver and black aluminum, which goes along nicely with the current MacBook motif.
As with with recent iterations of Western Digital’s FireWire 800 drives, the new My Passport Studio drives sport dual FW800 ports, allowing you to daisy chain multiple devices and only use a single port on your computer. [Read more…]
The ToughTech Duo from CRU-Dataport is a portable and robust little RAID hard drive. It has connectivity options for FireWire 800, eSATA and USB 2.0. The drive is bus powered over FireWire 800. [Read more…]
Western Digital’s My Passport drives are now available in sizes up to 2TB. These drives support the USB 3.0 interface and are bus-powered for portability.
The line of My Passport drives range in size from 500GB to 2TB and retail between $130 and $250. Check availability at B&H Photo, Amazon and WD’s website.
I caught up with Western Digital at CES 2012 for a look at the new My Book Live Duo and My Book Thunderbolt RAID drives. [Read more…]
NEXTO DI backup drives offer the ability to back up memory cards in the field without the need to fire up a laptop. [Read more…]
I caught up with Matt Bennion at PhotoPlus 2011 and talked to him about some of the recent products from Western Digital.
I’m very excited about the My Book Live, which I talked about when the WD 2go App was announced a couple months ago. The update through the WD 2go App for the MyBook Live drives gives us so much power to freely share large files without the need of some middleman charging us for another storage or transfer service. [Read more…]
Amazon has a Seagate 2TB USB 3.0 external HD for $80 right now. The last time this deal was up, it only lasted for a day.
If you’re still only sporting USB 2.0, you’ll be OK since USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with it too.