Mac PC Wiz » External Hard Drives http://macpcwiz.com/blog Mac and PC computer support wizards answer questions and offer tips, tutorials, videos for Apple and Windows desktops, servers, laptops, netbooks and minis. Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:53:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Stealth HD Bio External Hard Drive by MXI Security http://macpcwiz.com/blog/external-hard-drives/stealth-hd-bio-external-hard-drive-by-mxi-security-2010-05-19.php http://macpcwiz.com/blog/external-hard-drives/stealth-hd-bio-external-hard-drive-by-mxi-security-2010-05-19.php#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 11:03:16 +0000 Sean John http://macpcwiz.com/blog/?p=839 Oi! After something of a hiatus, MacPCWiz is back in the saddle again. And we open up things with this new external hard drive from relative newcomers into the external storage industry — MXI Security. Found this at Ubergizmo.com:

…MXI Security has announced its Stealth HD line of secure hard drives that now offer storage capacities

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]]> http://macpcwiz.com/blog/external-hard-drives/stealth-hd-bio-external-hard-drive-by-mxi-security-2010-05-19.php/feed 0 Raidon Hybrid SSD backs up your data automatically http://macpcwiz.com/blog/external-hard-drives/raidon-hybrid-ssd-backs-up-your-data-automatically-2010-03-16.php http://macpcwiz.com/blog/external-hard-drives/raidon-hybrid-ssd-backs-up-your-data-automatically-2010-03-16.php#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:10:42 +0000 Sean John http://macpcwiz.com/blog/?p=707 Just last month, Taiwan-based data and backup specialist Raidon launched the Hybrid Disk. This internal storage solution features a solid state Drive (SSD) and a hard disk drive (HDD) in one mechanism. We saw this first via Macworld.com:

Designed to replace 3.5-inch hard drive mechanisms, users read and write files to the SSD while the

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]]> http://macpcwiz.com/blog/external-hard-drives/raidon-hybrid-ssd-backs-up-your-data-automatically-2010-03-16.php/feed 0 Data Transfer Test: DIGISTOR 250GB Portable Hard Drive http://macpcwiz.com/blog/uncategorized/data-transfer-test-digistor-250gb-portable-hard-drive-2010-03-09.php http://macpcwiz.com/blog/uncategorized/data-transfer-test-digistor-250gb-portable-hard-drive-2010-03-09.php#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:22:40 +0000 Sean John http://macpcwiz.com/blog/?p=680 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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]]> http://macpcwiz.com/blog/uncategorized/data-transfer-test-digistor-250gb-portable-hard-drive-2010-03-09.php/feed 0 Unboxing: DIGISTOR 250GB Mac-formatted portable Hard Drive http://macpcwiz.com/blog/external-hard-drives/unboxing-digistor-250gb-mac-formatted-portable-hard-drive-2010-03-08.php http://macpcwiz.com/blog/external-hard-drives/unboxing-digistor-250gb-mac-formatted-portable-hard-drive-2010-03-08.php#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:00:42 +0000 Sean John http://macpcwiz.com/blog/?p=672 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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]]> http://macpcwiz.com/blog/external-hard-drives/unboxing-digistor-250gb-mac-formatted-portable-hard-drive-2010-03-08.php/feed 0 Samsung’s S2 Portable Hard rive has MJ’s “This Is It” pre-loaded http://macpcwiz.com/blog/external-hard-drives/samsungs-s2-portable-hard-drive-has-mjs-this-is-it-pre-loaded-2010-02-10.php http://macpcwiz.com/blog/external-hard-drives/samsungs-s2-portable-hard-drive-has-mjs-this-is-it-pre-loaded-2010-02-10.php#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:27:03 +0000 Sean John http://macpcwiz.com/blog/?p=573 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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