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SATA 3.5″ Betamax style case

December 05, 2009 By: George Category: Storage

With great media stations and docks that use bare SATA Disks we now are having loose disk lying around colecting dust and falling of desks.

This of course is not the ideal way of dealing with you movies and other important files.

But now we found some cool cases that will deal with that problem. Store you 3.5″ SATA disk in one of those Betamax style cases and you data is safe and you can organize it better to.

Check out the Betamax style cases at ThinkGeek.com.

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USB Grenade Flash Drive

November 27, 2009 By: George Category: Flash drives

Need some other cool Flash Drive?

Now you can have one that looks like a Grenade but don’t worry it will not make you data explode.

8Gb of sensitive data can be stored safely on this cool flash drive.

Go check out all the info and pictures of the Grenade Flash Drive 8GB

SATA Hard Drive copy station

November 24, 2009 By: George Category: Storage

2x SATA Stand Alone Hard Drive Duplicator with Docking Station
So of use like me know how much pain it can be to copy hard drives most times they take wires and software and time.

But why not just get a copy station? They are way more affordable then you think and it will pay it selves back before you know it.

Look for instance at this Stand Alone Copy Station from StarTech. You can Copy 2.5 and 3.5 Sata and Sata II disks at a rate of 72MB a second. And that means everything gets copied. Partitions, boot sectors, operating system and yes even user Data.

Now you can just plug the disks in and you are ready to go.

Check out the 2x SATA Stand Alone Hard Drive Duplicator with Docking Station just to see if it could help you.

Iomega 250MB ZIP drive

November 15, 2009 By: George Category: Storage

Iomega Zip 250 Zip Drive
I know a zip drive is nothing new is it.

But did you know that you can still get the drives. For instance you can still buy this 250MB ZIP drive and it even comes with 3 disks.

Why do you want to buy it? Good question you probably don’t want a 250MB drive but maybe you still have some ZIP disks lying around but lost / Broke you drive and then getting a new one could be a live saver.

Go check out this Iomega Zip 250 Zip Drive and many other Iomega ZIP products before they really dispear.

Star Wars 4GB Flash Drive

November 11, 2009 By: George Category: Flash drives, Star Wars

Like Star Wars? I guess you do when you read this post.

What would be a beter way then showing how much you like Star Wars then by carring around a 4GB Star Wars Flash Drive.

You can choose from Darth Vade, Yoda, Boba Fett and Strom Trooper or you can just get the complete set so that you can have a different flash drive for a different kind of files. Movies on Yoda and work file on Darth Vader, I guess you get wath I mean.

Go see how this Star Wars 4GB Flash Drive works and get one before they sell out.

Apple Time Capsule

March 20, 2008 By: George Category: Networking, Storage

Our beloved Apple did it again they made the Time Capsule and you may wonder what is a Time Capsule now let me tell you. The Time Capsule is a wireless router and to be precise an 802.11n router and it has more it has the option for you to connect your printer to it so you can print wireless from any where around you home.

But that is not all. The Time Capsule has storage build in. You can get the Time Capsule with a 500GB or 1TB storage space and that makes it a great addition to your Mac (also works with pc’s) because now you can wireless backup your date with the Time Machine (build in to Leopard) so no worries any more about loosing you data.

I would say if you are in the market for a new router or external storage then check out the Time Capsule it can be the ultimate extension to your home office.

PQI Colorfull Memorystick

January 24, 2008 By: George Category: Flash drives

PQI memory stick

Everybody has a pen drive these days but most of them are kinda boring. If you want something cool and hip then you should have a look at the cool sticks from PQI.

The PQI memory stick is extremely small and support USB 2.0 for fast file transfers. It even uses very little power so maybe even your battery life of your laptop will last longer.

USB Storage Watch

January 17, 2008 By: George Category: Clocks / Watches, Flash drives

2gb storeage wrist watch for easy transport of your data

Need some storage for on the go? This 2gb wrist watch could be of use. The watch has a USB 2.0 connection but unfortunately doesn’t get to the maximum USB 2.0 speed but still fast enough for carrying your data around.

The watch is water proof till 20 meters but be careful with using it before the USB connector is dry.

If you are on the go a lot and don’t ways want to think about carrying your data around then this watch could be the solution.

Check this watch out at our friends at ThinkGeek