Seagate has announced the availability of its slimmest portable hard drives to date at a press conference in Mumbai today. Unveiled at CES this year, these drives are just 9mm thick, about the same thickness as a pencil. The 2.5-inch GoFlex Slim drive spins at 7200 RPM, and supports USB 3.0 Continue Reading »

Hitachi GST has expanded its Touro family of external storage drives across the mobile and desktop range, with an offer that bundles 3GB of cloud storage with every purchase. Continue Reading »

Imation Corporation has launched the Defender H200 Biometric portable hard-drive with 500 GB capacity and dual-security layer against data access with unpleasant consequences. Access to the data is blocked by password and biometric authentication and the data itself is encrypted using 256-bit AES via a dedicated cryptographic processor. Continue Reading »

Storage solution provider Western Digital has introduced a couple of network drives that are designed to be used as central media servers in home networks. To be able to accommodate sizeable amount of high-definition content, these drives by Western Digital (My Book Live) are available in capacities of one and two terabytes. Continue Reading »

Storage device specialists Western Digital have released a series of high-capacity, USB 3.0 based external hard-drives for Windows and Mac OSX based computers. The capacity of the drives in this series ranges from 750GB to 3TB and each of them come bundles with the company’s data backup software called WD SmatWare. Continue Reading »

Toshiba has unveiled industry’s first, 1.8” hard drives with low-insertion force SATA connectors. The MKxx39GSL series of hard drives are specifically designed for handheld devices and in that respect Toshiba claims that these new drives outperform the 2.5” variety in terms of vibration resistance, power consumption and quiet operation. Continue Reading »

LaCie has launched two new portable hard drives in India that focus on style as much as they do about substance. Lacie Petit Hard Disk, and the The LaCie Starck Mobile Hard Drive. nBoth the drives work on Windows or Mac; come with a USB Boost feature; and are available in 320 and 500 GB capacities. Continue Reading »