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Synology Diskstation DS212j
Network storage has come a long way in recent years, with advanced features now on offer – from even modest devices. Synology’s Diskstation DS212j is another good example, offering some industrial-strength capabilities, in an affordable two-bay enclosure. With its white all-plastic case, it looks quite stylish, but it needs to be dismantled in order…
LaCie CloudBox
For those who bother to back up at all, the choices are simple – local backup to one or more hard drives which may then be physically removed from the premises for safe-keeping, or online, cloud-based storage. There are advantages and disadvantages to both: local storage is likely to be much quicker but subject to…
Western Digital Scorpio Blue 1TB (WD10JPVT)
While SSDs get all the plaudits for speed, the good old mechanical hard disk drive still can outdo its flashier cousins when it comes to offering huge capacities at a reasonable cost – which in turn means very low cost per gigabyte. A prime example of this is the latest member of Western Digital’s Scorpio…
Corsair Force F120 SSD
The original Force series of SSDs is no longer Corsair’s flagship range, but it’s arguably the quickest product from the previous generation of solid state drives – so while it can’t quite boast the performance of drives like OCZ’s new Vertex 3, which smashed our storage speed records last week, it doesn’t come with the…
OCZ Technology Vertex 3 120GB SSD
Solid-state disks (SSDs) are one of the most important recent innovations in computing, largely eliminating the biggest bottleneck in a PC’s performance created by traditional hard disk storage. The performance of SSDs has improved at a breakneck pace, with chipset provider SandForce leading the pack. The OCZ Vertex 3 is based around SandForce’s latest SF-2281…
Wuala by LaCie
Taking advantage of the rise in popularity of cloud storage, Wuala is a secure online solution from LaCie that promises to offer fast and easy backup, synchronisation and sharing of files between a range of devices and locations, rivalling solutions such as Dropbox with some interesting features. Versatile backup and restoreAfter a brief installation routine,…
Western Digital WD TV Live Hub Media Center 1TB
Media player clients that sit beneath your television and pick up content from network devices such as NAS drives are nothing new. But with its WD TV Live Hub Media Center, Western Digital has pushed things a little further. It’s a smaller piece of kit than you may be used to that comes with a…
Iomega eGo Portable 500GB
Iomega has clearly worked on the styling of its eGo Portable external hard drive, and the results are surprisingly easy on the eye. It’s not often we find ourselves being complimentary about the looks of a product as potentially dull as a chunk of storage. At the device’s heart is a 5,400rpm, 2.5in laptop hard…
Corsair 256GB Performance 3 SSD
Solid state drives are one of the biggest things to happen to the PC industry in a decade. If you analyse how far processors have come in the past ten years, you’d be looking at a near 50-fold increase in performance. Today’s 7,200rpm hard drives, on the other hand, are only around twice as fast…