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• External Storage: Terabyte Drives Compared*
  Monday 20 October 2008 – 05:40
  These external hard drives are all designed to offer 1 TB of storage, but the bundles, performance, and power consumption reveal significant differentiators. A clear winner emerges.
• External, But How? Mobile Storage Solutions Compared*
  Monday 15 September 2003 – 07:00
  The number of external storage devices on the market continues to proliferate, but not all of them are user-friendly, flexible and affordable. We compared HighPoint external serial ATA products with both common and unusual USB and FireWire devices from Fujitsu, Maxtor, Western Digital, WiebeTech and Transcend.
• Go External: FireWire 800*
  Friday 2 April 2004 – 07:00
  USB 2.0 is far from good enough for high-speed data transfer applications. Vendors are now pushing FireWire 800 to the plate for applications such as high-speed hard disk backup. We look at FireWire's robustness, its performance as a LAN network protocol and its data-transfer future.
• 500 GB External Storage Tested*
  Friday 17 August 2007 – 02:43 in Hardware
  The hard drive as we know it has changed. It is still a small box of iron casting with rotating platters inside, but it is no longer just the place where you install your operating system and some applications. The hard drive is shifting towards the cen
• External Sound: Creative Labs Extigy*
  Friday 5 April 2002 – 07:00
  Although there is a growing tendency to integrate sound chipsets on the mother board, Creative Labs is offering removal of the sound card from the PC and connection to the USB port. The Extigy is a hybrid, a halfway point between the Audigy and an external AC-3 decoder. Here's how it's done...
• CES 2007: Asus shows off external graphics for notebooks*
  Sunday 7 January 2007 – 05:48
  Asus's big product at CES Unveiled was their XG Station, an external graphics solution which turns a run-of-the-mill notebook into a gaming machine.
• Four Sub-Terabyte External Hard Drives*
  Tuesday 8 January 2008 – 10:00 in Hardware
  Buffalo, Maxtor, Seagate and SimpleTech sent us their latest external premium hard drives. They all offer 750 to 1000 GB of storage along with USB 2.0 and other interfaces, but their software, design and performance is what sets them apart.
• External Storage With A Mac Design*
  Thursday 20 October 2005 – 07:00
  It may look like an Apple Mac Mini, but Macpower's M9-DX Mini Pod is a powerful 400 GB external storage device for both Macs and PCs.
• External Storage With RAID: Proware DP-405CI*
  Tuesday 12 April 2005 – 07:00
  Simple external hard drives often don't live up to the requirements of secure data storage. Proware offers attractively priced external storage units that house a RAID array and are connected via USB/FireWire.
• 2.5" External HDD Spring Fever*
  Thursday 12 April 2007 – 11:24
  Along with spring comes new storage products. Seagate and Toshiba sent us their latest external drives while Hitachi offered an upgrade kit for notebook hard disks.
• Thecus Brings SATA to External Storage*
  Monday 17 April 2006 – 01:20
  You can begin to forget about USB or Firewire: there is no substitute for SATA as a fast, reliable and relatively-inexpensive external storage solution. Thecus' N2050 storage box, which uses eSATA to hook up two SATA drives externally, makes it happen.
• Buffalo Boosts External Hard Drive Power*
  Monday 20 March 2006 – 12:59
  Energy supply can be an issue for external hard drives. Buffalo wanted to get rid of the usual bulky and heavy PSUs, so it ships its current external drive with a novel USB power unit. How well does it work?
• The TeraByte Drives Redefine External Storage*
  Thursday 2 February 2006 – 01:53
  TeraByte drives do not need to be slim and sexy, because their capacity of almost 1,000 GB speaks for itself. We looked under the hood of two amazing storage mammoths by LaCie and Maxtor.
• External Hard Drives with Trimmings Aplenty*
  Thursday 4 August 2005 – 07:00
  External hard drive capacities continue to grow and their prices certainly don't break the bank. Now, vendors such as Fastora, Maxtor and Smartdisk are designing in value-added features that make these devices that much more exciting.
• Comparing External RAID Housings*
  Thursday 14 August 2008 – 05:40
  For as much as we love Blu-ray, it's totally unsuited for full hard drive backups. Well, what could be easier than saving your data by simply copying the contents of an internal drive to an external one?