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• Seagate Accidentally Shipped 1,800 Trojan-Horse Tainted Drives [Security]

  Published: November 13, 2007, 11:06 am

  Tags: External Hard Drives, Hard Disk Drives, Hard Drives, Maxtor, Peripherals, Seagate, Security, Trojan Horse, Virus

  1,800 external drives manufactured by Seagate were infected with a Trojan horse virus that sent personal information back to China, according to the Taipei Times. The disk drives, sold at retail in Taiwan, were presumably messed with when they were in the possession of one of Seagate's Chinese subcontractors. The situation has been locked

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• Norazza puts a RAID 1 drive in your pocket

  Published: November 13, 2007, 4:09 pm

  Tags: Storage, External Hard Drives, Norazza

  the world’s smallest external RAID 1 system. It starts at around $440 for 160GB of storage, going up from there to a maximum size of 320GB. The Norazza PocketRAID weights around 1.9 pounds and measures a small 5″ x 3″ x 1.5″. It’s configured for RAID 1 style storage, sporting two compact hard drives in its body.

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• Maxtor & Sentry Group create fire resistant drives

  Published: November 16, 2007, 2:09 pm

  Tags: Hard Drives, Security, External Hard Drives

  is why we humans have a hard candy shell wrapped around our brain. If our gooey info-centers were just exposed on top of our heads, we would be in big trouble. And it’s not like you can back up grey matter. Luckily hard drives can be backed up, though truthfully not very many people actually do it. Let’s say you back up all of

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• Seagate Halts Hard-Drive Poisoner, Hardens Prevention Measures (Full Story) [Virus Lockdown]

  Published: November 17, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Basics 3200, External Hard Drives, Feature, Hard Drives, Hdds, Kaspersky, Kaspersky Labs, Maxtor, Maxtor Basics, Mcafee, Norton, Peripherals, Ps 3200, Seagate, Security, Top, Trojan Horse, Virus, Virus Lockdown

  Trojan-horse-infected Maxtor hard drives at retail. I checked in with the company to learn the details, and see if they busted the perp. The official word:The internal investigation by the contract manufacturer determined that the virus was accidentally transferred by one of its employees and not a malicious act. But accident, schmaccident:

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• Seagate Fingers Hard-Drive Poisoning Employee, Hardens Prevention Measures (Full Story) [Virus Lockdown]

  Published: November 17, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Basics 3200, External Hard Drives, Feature, Hard Drives, Hdds, Kaspersky, Kaspersky Labs, Maxtor, Maxtor Basics, Mcafee, Norton, Peripherals, Ps 3200, Seagate, Security, Top, Trojan Horse, Virus, Virus Lockdown

  Trojan-horse-infected Maxtor hard drives at retail. I checked in with the company to learn the details, and see if they busted the perp. The official word:The internal investigation by the contract manufacturer determined that the virus was accidentally transferred by one of its employees and not a malicious act. But accident, schmaccident:

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• Keep your data safe with the Maria USB drive

  Published: November 30, 2007, 12:06 pm

  Tags: Usb, External Hard Drives

  Finally, a USB drive for geeks who want to put some religion into their USB port and their lives. Normally it’s only after you’ve lost your important data that you would pray to Holy Mary, Mother Of God. Now you can do it at your leisure and hopefully she will listen and keep your data safe. It will act as a good reminder to geeks to

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• Aegis Vault HDD does hardware encryption

  Published: November 30, 2007, 3:11 pm

  Tags: External Hard Drives, Apricorn

  to computer users a new external hard drive solution which is secured via hardware encryption. The new Aegis Vault line is available in sizes ranging from 80GB to 250GB and is priced at around $140 to $270 respectively. The Aegis Vault from Apricorn uses AES-128 bit hardware encryption with password protection to secure data. It can be

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• Western Digital 1TB MyBook Drives Infested With DRM?

  Published: December 7, 2007, 1:20 pm

  Tags: Peripherals, Esata, External, Hard Drives, Mybook, Western Digital

  1TB MyBook World Edition external hard drives "won't share media files over network connections". That got us worried, since we just acquired one of the 1TB three-way (eSATA, FireWire and USB) Home Edition drives to plug into our eSATA ports, looking forward to sharing some DivX, XviD and various audio files over our home network. But never

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• External HD Concept Helps You Visualise Your Data Usage

  Published: December 17, 2007, 8:40 pm

  Tags: Hardware, Concept, External, Hard Drives, Oled

  external hard drive concept entitled "IVY" adds an interesting new aesthetic to a plain old drive via an OLED screen that visualises the content of the hard disk. Inspired by Sequoiaview visualisation software, IVY starts out life as a rather plain looking disk. As you fill it up, the design changes in sync with the content. In essence, you

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• Iomega 1.5TB drive offers fancy backup option

  Published: December 20, 2007, 4:30 pm

  Tags: Iomega, External Hard Drives

  some new eSATA desktop hard drives with a new system protection program that combines total system backups with instant system recovery. The drive catching our eye the most is the 1.5TB UltraMax Pro Desktop Hard Drive eSATA 3GBits/USB 2.0, priced at around $600. The Iomega 1.5TB UltraMax Pro Desktop Hard Drive eSATA 3GBits/USB 2.0 features

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• OWC now offers 320GB portable FireWire hard drives

  Published: January 16, 2008, 2:02 pm

  Tags: External Hard Drives, Macworld 2008

  PCs. OWC says these Mercury drives are Time Machine ready and ship with carrying case, necessary cables and backup software. The OWC Mercury On-The-Go 320GB, 5400RPM is available for purchase now. OWC Mercury On-The-Go 320GB,

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• G-Tech unveils portable 1TB external drive

  Published: January 15, 2008, 6:58 pm

  Tags: G Technology, External Hard Drives, Macworld 2008

  showcasing at MacWorld a 1TB external hard drive which offers RAID 0 configuration. It is called the G-Tech G-RAID mini and it should be available in March. G-Technology said the G-Tech G-RAID mini is a full sized RAID 0 solution set into a portable solution. It features a triple FireWire 400/800/USB 2.0 interface and is designed to work right

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• Buffalo Technology adds 500GB portable hard drive

  Published: March 11, 2008, 3:24 pm

  Tags: External Hard Drives, Buffalo Technology, Usb 2 0

  of its MiniStation TurboUSB external hard drives. The new Buffalo Technology 500GB MiniStation TurboUSB is priced at around $330. The Buffalo Technology 500GB MiniStation TurboUSB is, like most other external hard drives these days, USB 2.0 compliant. It works with both PCs and Macs and reportedly offers up to 30 percent faster data transfer

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• LaCie pops out new 1TB external HDD

  Published: March 11, 2008, 2:33 pm

  Tags: External Hard Drives, Lacie, Usb 2 0

  reporting about new LaCie external hard drives - they are typically very cool looking. It is a no-brainer therefore to let you know about the company’s quiet release of some new models, with the one grabbing our eye the most being the LaCie Desktop Hard Disk 1TB model. The 1TB LaCie Desktop Hard Disk isn’t the best looking external

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• Iomega Screenplay Mediaplayer HDD Does HD Upscaling

  Published: April 23, 2008, 11:25 am

  Tags: Peripherals, External, Hard Drives, Hdd, Home Entertainment, Iomega, Peripherals, Storage

  Iomega's new Screenplay HD Multimedia drive promises that you can "leave the PC behind" since it stores your movies, pics and tunes and connects directly to your HDTV. You simply save them via the USB2.0 connection, and it's standalone from there on. It can upscale to to 720p and 1080i, plays a wide bunch of formats and connects via HDMI, SCART,

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