And at last it is here, Microsoft revealed in the dark of night its latest XBOX 360 bundle which will include a new 250GB Xbox 360 slim console, Kinect motion-control camera and a copy of Kinect Adventures for $399 US (or £300 for our UK friends). The in-your-hands delivery date is slated for November 4th, more »

For those constantly cursing the amount of storage available with your portable advices, more specifically the iPad, well Sanho is here to change that. Today they have released the Sanho HyperDrive iPad Hard Drive with crazy amounts of storage options: 120GB ($300), 160GB ($350), 250GB ($400), 320GB ($450), 500GB ($500), 640GB ($550) and the Mount more »

Tarun here to fill you in on the geekiest of the geeky. Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego surpassed the illusive “terabyte barrier” when they sorted a terabyte (which is 1,000 GB) of data in just sixty seconds. UC computer scientists also tied a world record for fastest data sorting rate in more »

If you live in Europe, are a fan of Michael Jackson and need a storage device, check out the new Samsung S2 Portable HDD. This special edition external drive is preloaded with Michael Jackson’s “This is It”, timed with the release of the DVD and Blu-ray Disc release on February 22nd. Samsung did not release more »

Samsung has just updated its EcoGreen HDD line with a new green hard drive called the EcoGreen F3EG, boasting a massive capacity of 2TB with a 3Gbps SATA interface and 16MB or 32MB buffer memory. It has 4 platters of 500GB each, totaling up to its 2TB capacity. What’s green about this HDD is that more »

Grabbing a hard drive for video can be somewhat confusing. Do you go with a 5400RPM or 7200RPM drive? Will that hard drive spin be so loud that I’ll have to turn up the volume to 11? Hitachi is trying to reach that consumer who wants to get hard drives for video with its CinemaStar more »

Carrying around your collection of videos, music, photos, and maybe even work documents got even easier today as two 640GB 2.5-inch hard drives were unveiled from Samsung and Western Digital. Both units spin at 5400RPM and cost $149.99 and claim to be very quiet (Samsung has its “SilentSeek” and “Noiseguard” and Western Digital has its more »

There hasn’t been a whole lot of improvements in hard drive technology in the past few years aside from increasing capacities. Sure, there’s the advent of the SSD, but it’s still way too expensive for most people. For the most part we’ve been using SATA 2 connections with upwards of 1TB drives. It’s about time more »

Verbatim announced their new 500GB and 1 TB hard disk drive aimed at those of us with large libraries of photos and music. The new units feature 4 different interface options: “USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and eSATA II (external Serial ATA II)” for Mac and PC. This means whichever port you happen to have vacant, it will probably work with these drives.

Protected by an aluminum housing, the drives are small and easily transported from desk to desk and their large size can eliminate multiple smaller HDDs. The drives also include Nero for automatic Windows machine backups.

Removable hard drives are great, allowing you to take loads of files from one place to another, easily and efficiently with a reduced chance of you losing anything. However they do have a few flaws: they are easily stolen, and easily hacked.

So, what can a manufacturer do? Well they can’t stop you losing it (although coloring them something other than black, gray and silver might help) but they can make them more secure and that is what Levono have done with their new product: the Vault. As its name suggests, it is not about storage (although it does have 160GB/320GB) or about looks, it is about security.