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Mac users looking for additional disk storage for their laptops and desktops can now check out Seagate’s FreeAgent Desk and Go drives specifically for the Mac. These external hard drives have been preformatted using Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, include Firewire ports and match the brushed aluminum style of Macbooks and iMacs. Let’s check them […]

Recently, I have been concerned with the scenario of a potential hard drive failure on my family’s main computer. The memories captured in thousands of digital photos, the hours spent ripping music and the miscellaneous critical files lost due to any numbers of reasons that cause a computer’s hard drive to crash.

I have been considering upgrading my backup external hard drive for quite some time now. The difficult decision was choosing between a larger (in both physical size and capacity) 3.5 inch drive and a smaller 2.5 inch drive (that would take up less space, not need a separate power cable, and is nearly silent). After a good amount of research and tech-soul-searching, I decided on the 320gb MiniStation TurboUSB Portable hard drive by Buffalo.

Today I want to tell you about the morespace external USB hard drive from Hammer Storage. This is probably a company that you’ve never heard of before. I know that I was not familiar with them until I received an email asking if I might like to check out one of their drives. As I’m always in need of more file space, I didn’t have to think about my response very long. I said sure, they shipped me the drive and now you can learn more about it…

I’m still using the last external hard drive that I had the opportunity to review back in July of 2005. That was the Seagate Portable USB 2.0 drive. It’s been my 100gb backup drive for my desktop computer (iMac) all this time. Today I’m going to tell you about Seagate’s latest portable USB drive called the FreeAgent Go.

One of my regularly watched television shows is the Discovery Channel’s It Takes a Thief. The point of the show is to demonstrate how easy it is for a thief to break into someone’s house and steal everything with any value; the show aims to educate people on better ways to protect themselves from being a victim. On one of last season’s episodes, they featured a grandmother who had transferred all of her family photos and documents to her computer’s hard drive. During the course of that particular show’s staged robbery, the thief emptied the grandmother’s silver drawer, jewelry box and medicine cabinet, and then he picked up her computer tower and casually carried it out the door. Had the robbery been real, all of her carefully collected family photos and documents would have been gone forever. Even though the “victim” knew she would be getting all of her possessions back at the end of the show, I still couldn’t help but feel sorry for her as she agonized over the idea of losing her digital treasures.

Adding extra file storage capacity to a desktop or laptop computer used to be a task that involved a screw driver and a blood sacrifice to the computer gods. That is definitely not the case these days, as the external hard drive market is booming. Instead of digging into the inner bowels of your computer

Product Requirements: Hardware Requirements: PC Users: Available USB 2.0 or USB 1.1 port or available Windows-certified IEEE 1394a (FireWire) port, Microsoft Windows XP, Me, 2000 or 98SE. Mac Users: Available USB 2.0 or USB 1.1 port or available Windows-certified IEEE 1394a (FireWire) port, Mac OS X, Mac OS 9.x, Mac OS 8 (backup software does

Product Requirements: USB 2.0 computer port, Plug and Play with Macintosh OS X, Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows Me There are so many reasons why having a portable hard drive makes sense, but finding the one that fits your needs – or your wallet – is not always a simple thing to do. The