Your hard drive is full of sensitive data. The emails, photos and browsing history scattered across its disks present an intimate portrait of your daily life. An identity thief would love to get their hands on it, so it’s vital that you take extra care when disposing of old drives. Read our Destroy an old … Read more
Seagate Personal Cloud 4TB Review – Seagate makes a NAS box for those who don’t live and breathe computers. Not everyone wants total control when it comes to personal storage. Many people want a plug-and-play solution with the technical aspect, and the Seagate Personal Cloud is built just for them. Seagate makes the Personal Cloud … Read more
Seagate BarraCuda Pro 6TB Review – Seagate and Western Digital both offer two main choices of normal PC hard drive: one range is optimised for lower power and one range is optimized for speed. The BarraCuda Pro is Seagate’s high-speed option, which is designed to provide responsive performance for high demand situations without worrying too much … Read more
Toshiba unleashes yet more Canvio products on an unsuspecting world With Seagate and Western Digital knocking seven sorts of SATA out of each other, this should be a good time for the Toshiba to make more of its hard drive business. Its Canvio range of external USB storage devices has generally been solid, if somewhat … Read more
WD revamps a classic with some innovative new features Opening this package from Western Digital, I was wearing my typically weary face of cyclic experience. Surely I’ve seen enough external drives to last a Time Lord’s lifetime? But – and a rare occurrence this is – the changes Western Digital has to this product are … Read more
The D3 Station range from Samsung is a little misleading. Although it clearly states Samsung on the top of the drive and on the box too, the D3 Station range of external drives are actually manufactured by Seagate.The issue of joint ownership when it comes to support of a product is one that often rears … Read more
Transcend StoreJet 25H3 Review – Transcend has over the years proved itself to be quite the formidable player in the external storage market. The StoreJet range of portable drives are one such example and have won just about every award going. [wpsm_toplist] The Transcend StoreJet 25H3 is an impressive looking external hard drive with a number of features … Read more
A reasonably priced, and sizeable backup solution This is the seventh generation of the popular My Passport Ultra product range, Western Digital has kept the line going for quite some time now, and it shows no signs of getting long in the tooth either. With a redesigned USB 3.0 bus powered interface and a flashy … Read more
Slim and sturdy external storage for laptops and other devices Toshiba Canvio Advance 2TB Review – Toshiba’s Canvio Advance is an external hard drive that comes in 1TB, 2TB and 3TB capacities. This is not a drive to buy if raw performance is the main concern. However, it does offer a lot of storage for … Read more
ST2000LM007 review – Seagate play devil’s advocate for those comparing speed and capacity Seagate has something of a battle on its hands with laptop users, because once you’ve used one with an SSD, it’s difficult to go back to using a mechanical hard drive. But as its latest laptop storage designs show, it still has … Read more
Slim and speedy external storage The latest external SSD to arrive at APC Towers is this slimline stick that’s pretty Mac-like, with its metal body and gentle curves. The design is attractive and the USB-C port supports USB 3.1 Gen 2 connection to PCs and Macs that are capable of that (theoretical) 10 Gbps bandwidth. … Read more
Don’t wait for disaster to strike: get your PC backups storage sorted now with our annual super guide. Portable hard drives are the most popular way to get more digital storage and their compact size means they’re easy to take with you. We tested 12. DESPITE MANY OF us relying heavily on the cloud these … Read more