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External iPad Hard Drives – Airstash vs. iUSBPort

January 22, 2014

[UPDATE: Feb 18, 2014] This is not a bad device, but it has some kinks. The first is that the iPad doesn't always connect to it right away. It's best to use the iOS App from the manufacturer to make sure that the connection is working. The App also allows you to safely disconnect and connect other hard drives without powering down the device. Nevertheless, I found myself ...

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Filed Under: mobile computing, Road Warrior Tagged With: hard drive, iPad, storage

Thunderbolt/USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Buffalo 1TB

August 29, 2012

I recently upgraded to a Retina MacBook Pro laptop and wanted to find a Thundberbolt compatible hard drive to take with me on the road for Time Machine backups, photo storage, iTunes music and ripped DVDs. There wasn't a lot of choice out there, despite the fact that Thunderbolt has been in the market for awhile. Given the lack of choice, I went with the 1TB Buffalo ...

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Filed Under: Gifts and Gift Ideas, Gifts for Men, mobile computing, Road Warrior Tagged With: hard drive, thunderbolt

Airstash – WiFi Flash Memory Stick Targets iPad

April 4, 2012

[UPDATE: This article was modified on April 12, 2012 to correct some errors after we received and tested our own AirStash] [also, check out our post on the iUSBPort and how it compares to the Airstash] Given that Apple refuses to allow users to easily attach flash memory to upgrade the storage capacity of its products, there have been many work-arounds. For example, the ...

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Filed Under: Gifts and Gift Ideas, Gifts for Men, mobile computing, Road Warrior Tagged With: digital audio, digital cameras, Good to Go, hard drive, hardware, iPad, iPhone

Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter for Hard Drives

March 30, 2012

After giving an ETA of late 2012, Seagate has jumped ahead of expectation and delivered its Thunderbolt adapter for GoFlex. If you're unfamiliar with the GoFlex range, they are basically Seagate hard drives that can be docked to different adapters that support different forms of connectivity: SATA, Firewire, USB and, now, Thunderbolt. Initial performance reviews seem to be ...

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Filed Under: mobile computing, Road Warrior Tagged With: hard drive, hardware

iPad HardDrives [REVIEW] – Hyperdrive vs. Wi-Drive

January 5, 2012

[May 2012 UPDATE: Check out the Airstash - our current favourite!] There are a number of hard drive for iPad solutions in the market, notably the Hypershop Hyperdrive, the Seagate GoFlex Satellite and the Kingston Wi-Drive. In this article, we take a look at two iPad harddrives: the Hyperdrive and the Wi-Drive and find ourselves preferring the Wi-Drive. Before the ...

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Filed Under: mobile computing, Road Warrior Tagged With: Good to Go, hard drive, hardware, iPad, product review

Use iPhone as Hard Drive, Put Docs in The Cloud – Avalon Air Sharing App

October 6, 2011

Cloud computing services are hitting streets like raindrops in a storm. Avalon has been at this for awhile but they've improved their game with support for more services and more file formats for their iPhone/iPad App. The Air Sharing App allows you to access Cloud storage from a variety of services - GoogleDocs, DropBox, MobileMe, FilesAnywhere, MyDisk.se, WebDav Servers, ...

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Filed Under: mobile computing, Road Warrior Tagged With: hard drive, iPad, iPhone

Seagate GoFlex Desk 4TB – store even more crap than ever before

September 7, 2011

Remember when 1GB sounded like an obscene amount of storage? No? Okay, then, I'm showing my age. It didn't take long before we ran out of space for our ripped DVD library, bittorrent rubbish, thousands of photos from visits to the beach and family dinners, iTunes nonsense including backups of TV series' that we will probably never ever watch again but felt compelled to keep ...

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Filed Under: mobile computing, Road Warrior Tagged With: hard drive, hardware

Thunderbolt External Hard Drive – 12TB Promise Pegasus RAID Array

August 13, 2011

Thunderbolt external hard drives are still rare on the ground, even though there have been announcements from the likes of La Cie. You know they are coming... it's just a question of 'when'. Well, it seems that Promise has beat their competitors to the punch - offering a gob-smacking 12TB of storage in a portable RAID array. Here's how you take 12TB of RAID storage with ...

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Freecom Mobile Mg USB 3.0 Hard Disk Drive [REVIEW]

August 4, 2011

USB 3.0 External Hard Drives are starting to pop up more and more now that Microsoft and others are standardising on the USB 3.0 Hard Drive interface. Here's a really slick looking drive from Freecom (Mobile Mg) that comes in a magnesium case echoing the style of a MacBook. Not only does it have a USB 3.0 hard drive interface but it feels feather-weight in your hands. Here's ...

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Filed Under: Gifts and Gift Ideas, Gifts for Men, mobile computing, Road Warrior Tagged With: hard drive, product review

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