Despite the benefits of network attached storage with RAID and QNAP’s recent attempt to bring the technology to the home user, consumers generally still seem to prefer external USB hard drives for additional storage capacity and data backup, due mainly to the convenience, ease, and cost of these devices. For those employing multiple external hard [...]
Posts Tagged ‘USB’
Western Digital My Book External HDD’s Get A Spine
October 6th, 2009
Posted in Hard Drives, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, Storage, USB 
Tags: backup, hard drive, My Book, storage, USB, WD, Western Digital 
2 Comments »DoubleSight monitors will have you seeing double!
September 30th, 2009
I’ve never been a huge fan of dual desktop display configurations. Placing two 17″ or larger LCD displays side by side with their bezels slicing right through my continuous Windows Desktop space is annoying, distracting, and takes up too much real desktop space.
I do like the emerging trend of smaller, USB based auxiliary displays, such as Mimo’s [...]
Posted in Displays, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, USB Tags: display, DoubleSight, LCD, monitor, USB No Comments »Freecom releases first USB 3.0 external HDD
September 26th, 2009
Oh, how the USB standard has changed the world. Gone are the days of finicky 9-pin serial port connections requiring proprietary driver installations that never seemed to work correctly. Having thus far truly lived up to its name, the Universal Serial Bus standard has become as ubiquitous as the computer itself thanks to its ease of use, [...]
Posted in Hard Drives, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, Storage, USB Tags: eSATA, Firewire, Freecom, hard drive, storage, USB 2 Comments »iTwin Cableless Remote PC Connection
September 14th, 2009
As if there weren’t enough products with a lowercase “i” as the first letter of their name, today iTwin debuted its cableless remote USB PC connection solution. Connecting two remote computers via the Internet for the purpose of file sharing typically falls on the shoulders of software, such as the Remote Desktop protocol or the [...]
Posted in Internet, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, Storage Tags: iTwin, remote desktop, sharing, USB No Comments »LG and WD introduce consumer directed storage solutions
September 10th, 2009
Having previously touched on the vast amounts of data the average consumer is generating these days thanks mostly to the wide variety of digital cameras, camcorders, iPods, and other personal media players available, I thought it might be interesting to look at a few consumer level backup storage devices released today.
First up is the LG [...]
Posted in Hard Drives, NAS, PCs and Laptops, Storage Tags: backup, LG, NAS, networking, storage, USB, WD 1 Comment »Mimo Monitors 720-S Portable Touchscreen USB Display
August 24th, 2009
With the onset of social networking, instant messaging, financial tickers, news feeds, media players, and countless other “always on” PC applications, screen space management can be an issue for even the largest displays. While the concept of a smaller, auxiliary monitor isn’t new, Mimo’s new 720-S offers several noteworty features that deserve some attention.
The [...]
Tech Clicker Giveaway #1: 2GB USB Pen Drive
August 17th, 2009
Ok, in the first official Tech Clicker giveaway, we’re offering a 2GB PQI Traveling Disk USB pen drive. All you have to do is be the first member to get to 300 points, as outlined here. So read our posts and if you like what we’re talking about, sign up for an account, but most [...]
World’s Fastest 128GB Flash Drive
August 13th, 2009
One of the more interesting (and less useful) projects I undertook a few years back involved creating a bootable USB flashdrive. The concept was simple…install a version of Linux (via PenDriveLinux) to a USB flash drive and carry your entire computer and files with you in your pocket. Then, simply plugging the flash drive into [...]
Posted in Flash Memory, PCs and Laptops, Storage Tags: computer, flash, memory, PC, USB 6 Comments »
