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If you want a complete rundown on the best portable hard drives on the market, check out our exhaustive post - "Best Portable External Hard Drives for Urban Nomads". What follows here is a shortlist of some of the newer products that have come onto the market that you might have missed. Ultra portability - Portable External SSD Drives If ultra portability is important to you, ...
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Transcend SSD Thunderbolt [ALERT]
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We purchased a Transcend 1TB SSD external drive with combined Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 interfaces. The speed of the Thunderbolt interface was significantly faster and we used the drive to backup and catalog 60,000 photos in Lightroom. Unfortunately, the Transcend drive kept disconnecting itself intermittently and we got the dreaded Mac alert that the drive had not been ...
iXpand Flash Drive for iPad / iPhone 128GB [REVIEW]
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The iXpand is the latest in a long line of attempts to help iOS users extend the memory capacity of their iPhones and iPads. It is a portable flash drive that comes in capacities from 32GB up to 128GB. It comes with both a USB port (to transfer files from a PC and charge the device) and a thunderbolt port to insert directly into the latest iOS devices. Unlike other external ...
Thunderbolt/USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Buffalo 1TB
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 ...
