LaCie, maker of both tiny and rugged hard drives has finally decided to combine the two features into one external hard drive. That new hard drive is LaCie’s new Rugged Mini external hard drive. The Rugged Mini is small enough to fit in your back pocket, and tough enough to not break if sat upon. more »

With the dawn of USB 3.0, many companies have started creating products that most end users can’t even use tot heir full potential yet. Adoption of USB 3.0 has been fairly slow so far, despite just how fast the spec is. It’s fast enough that disc-based drives can’t even read and write data at the more »

If you’re looking for a distinctive style, huge capacities and great speed in an external hard drive, the Sarotech Hardbox will not let you down. The Hardbox boasts capacities of 1TB all the way to 3TB, coupled with USB 3.0 giving you incredible transfer speeds to better utilize your massive hard drive capacity. To top more »

USB 3.0 so far is till in the beginning stages of being rolled out. There are some companies such as LaCie, Seagate and Western Digital already producing USB 3.0 external drives. For the most part, however, it has been difficult to find a computer with hardware for the updated spec, with companies just now announcing more »

USB 3.0 is slowly becoming mainstream in the gadget world. But we haven’t yet seen a 3.0 flash drive until now. Power Quotient International Co., Ltd (PQI) is making three versions of its U366 flash drive, 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB. It comes in an aluminum casing with a plastic cover and will ship in either more »

Yes, you read that right; this baby can be as large as 4TB’s. Now, how many people really need 4TB’s of external storage, I’m not sure. But if you do, it’s there. This new external is a new dual-drive 2Big USB 3.0 RAID drive developed by LaCie in partnership with Symwave. And another thing, this more »

Plenty of people halted their purchase of a new PC in anticipation of Windows 7. Microsoft officially launched Windows 7 yesterday, but there may be another reason to hold off on that purchase. USB 3.0 is just around the corner. With a theoretical speed of 5Gbps, USB 3.0 will be able to handle incredibly fast more »

At Intel’s Developer Forum, companies Point Grey and Fresco Logic are showing off the world’s first USB 3.0 streaming HD video camera. The unit streams 1920 x 1080 video at 60 frames per second and streams uncompressed from the Point Grey camera to the Fresco Logic controller. Clearly, USB 3.0 is fast. “We are very more »