Data Transfer Test: DIGISTOR 250GB Portable Hard Drive

We just unboxed our newest gadget, a 250GB DIGISTOR Portable Hard Drive. When we got it, it was pre-formatted for Mac OS. Also, it would be good to note that this model is multi-interface — able to connect through USB 2.0, FireWire 400 or FireWire 800.

The DIGISTOR Portable Hard Drive connected to

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Unboxing: DIGISTOR 250GB Mac-formatted portable Hard Drive

It took a while, but our DIGISTOR Portable Hard Drive finally arrived in the mail today. We got ourselves a 250GB Mac-formatted external hard drive, with multi-interface – USB 2.0/FireWire 400/FireWire 800. It’s sleek, white, and absolutely Mac-beautiful.

Our very own DIGISTOR Portable Hard Drive – Mac-formatted, 250GB, Multi-interface

Sleek, white, Mac-beautiful.

It’s a known fact

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Samsung’s S2 Portable Hard rive has MJ’s “This Is It” pre-loaded

Right up there in the vein of radical (not necessarily cool, but radical) device promos, is Samsung’s launch of it’s 500GB S2 Portable, a portable external hard drive — preloaded with the late great Michael Jackson’s last money-making venture “This Is It“. Saw this at TrendyNetNews.com:

Samsung announced the Samsung S2 Portable, a fully transportable

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Xbox 360 gets a 250GB external hard drive

Ok, MacPCWiz people don’t Xbox that much. But for those of you who do, this might be a bit of good news for you — especially with all those software, TV shows, games and other stuff that you download off the Xbox Live community market. Good thing Microsoft realized the need for a 250GB bump

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Cross-platform use of External Hard Drives – Mac and Windows PC

Ok, so we ask the obvious question here: What if, after I format my external hard drive, I realize that I need to use my portable hard drive for both Mac and Windows PC? As you would probably now guess, this is a dilemma of sorts. Mac OS X will recognize an NTFS drive, but

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How to format an External Hard Drive

We’ve been on a portable hard drive binge lately, and it shows no signs of stopping. MacPCWiz now gives you the lowdown on how to properly format your external hard disk, optimizing it for whatever operating system you might be using. Hold on and enjoy the ride.

DIGISTOR's all new Portable Hard Drives for Mac

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Data Security for Mobile devices

For people on the go, those who live a mobile lifestyle, portability is the name of the game. If you live a mobile lifestyle, then you think small, you think portable, you think lightweight. Unfortunately, the smaller they are, the less data they carry (relatively).

Living the Mobile Lifestyle: you portable much?

MacPCWiz now brings you

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The Hard Drive Capacity dilemma

“Why doesn’t my hard drive show the full capacity that it should have?”

How many times have we heard this before? You buy a 40GB hard drive and when you set it all up, the operating system shows something a little (or a lot) less than what you expect it would be. Well, don’t fret. Really,

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DIGISTOR launches new portable hard drives for Mac and PC

We included this latest tidbit on DIGISTOR in our weekly MacPCWiz Gadget Update, but we’d like to make it official. We supported DIGISTOR for their very nice USB DVD drives and external Blu-ray burners. We’re glad to say that they now have included in their product line equally nice external hard drives for all of

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Seagate Momentus: World’s Thinnest 2.5 Hard Drive

To add fuel to a netbook-induced craze that has gripped the computer-buying public these holidays, hard drive manufacturer Seagate has released an ultra-thin 2.5-inch hard disk drive obviously targeted at netbooks and ultra-portables. Found this via NetbookChoice.com:

Seagate has announced a new hard-disk drive that it claims is the world’s thinnest at 7mm. The Seagate Momentus

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