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G-Drive Slim SSD 500GB review: Speedy storage at a reasonable price

External drives are getting faster, smaller and larger in storage capacity every year. With so many options to choose from, it can be difficult to narrow down the right one for you. The G-Drive Slim SSD by G-Technology has a few things going for it: a nice design, fast storage, a light/compact form factor and…

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iStorage diskAshur Pro hard drive review: PIN-protected, portable storage

The Good: The diskAshur Pro has an unassuming design (which is good in this case), good layers of security and is easy to use. The Bad: It will cost you significantly more than a standard USB 3.0 hard drive, but that’s the price for extra security. The Bottom Line: If the Cloud or a personal hard drive doesn’t…

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WD My Passport Wireless Hard Drive Review

The Good: Strong plastic build and the SD card slot makes it nice and easy to offload media. Works really well as a backup drive for your smartphone & tablet content too. The Bad: The app needs work. Viewing photos can be a real pain with very slow speeds. The Bottom Line: As a backup device or…

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Toshiba TransMemory ID USB Stick (64GB) Review

The Good: Impressive read performance of over 130 MB/s, with a simplistic design. Also comes with a 5 year warranty. The Bad: The TransMemory USB stick’s write performance isn’t great for a USB 3.0 drive, at under 15 MB/s. The Bottom Line: Despite its low write performance, a price tag under £30 makes the Toshiba TransMemory USB a decent purchase. Toshiba has…

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WD Launches My Passport Wireless: A Wireless Hard Drive With Up To 2TB Of Storage

Western Digital make some really great portable hard drives, and particularly with their most recent My Passport Pro — a Thunderbolt drive targeted at creative professionals — I was really impressed by the solid build and speedy performance on offer.

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Microsoft Upgrades OneDrive Storage To 1TB for Office 365 Users

If you’re a user of Office 365, this news is bound to put a big smile on your face. Microsoft yesterday announced that they’re increasing OneDrive’s base-level storage from 20GB to a whopping 1TB.

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SanDisk Connect Wireless Flash Drive: Straightforward Portable Storage

Unfortunately, you have to take your files offline sometimes, and the built-in storage of most phones and tablets doesn’t stretch very far. SanDisk’s Connect Wireless Flash Drive is designed to fix this problem

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WD Black² Dual Drive Review: A Convenient Combination Of SSD Performance & Storage

The WD Black2 excels in it’s ability to combine a significant performance boost with plenty of storage in a single drive. If that’s a combo you’ll value; this may be the hard drive upgrade for you.

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WD My Cloud NAS Drive (2TB) Review: Personal Cloud Storage For Your Home

Working with cloud services like Dropbox or Google Drive is easy, fast and efficient, but for a while now there have been concerns about levels of data privacy & security. As a solution, Western Digital launched My Cloud, a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device that lets you have your own personal

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Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 G3 Review

The 64GB DataTraveler USB is an inexpensive yet very fast pocket data storage unit. Priced at an average of £0.78 per GB and featuring a sleek aluminium outer shell, it’s not hard to tell why it is one of the more appealing choices in the market.