Macworld.com - Yesterday, LaCie announced its new external hard drives developed in collaboration with designer Philippe Starck. The Starck Desktop Hard Drive and the Starck Mobile Hard Drive are stylish, Mac-friendly aluminum USB drives that feature sturdy aluminum exteriors, unconventionally slick curves, and a wealth of enticing features that should excite hardware enthusiasts this fall.

Macworld.com - If you’ve been feeling like your Mac’s performance hasn’t been up to par of late, you may be thinking that Apple’s just-released Performance Update 1.0 will solve your problems. Alas, that’s not the case—Performance Update 1.0 only addresses intermittent hard drive related pauses in certain Macs.

Macworld.com - Western Digital on Monday announced the newest member of its popular Passport series of bus-powered, portable hard drives, the My Passport Studio. The new drive features FireWire 800, USB 2.0, and an e-label display that can be seen even when the drives is powered down.

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DriveSavers has been the go-to company for data recovery since 1985, when I used to read about them in Apple ][ magazines. They have saved the bacon (and jobs) of many people over the ensuing years. When all else fails, DriveSavers can be counted on to retrieve your data -- whether it's on a hard drive, memory card, iPod, iPhone, or just about any type of storage media. It seems that their he...

LAS VEGAS – Here’s something I bet you didn’t know. Every portable hard drive sold in Apple’s retail stores must include a Firewire port. I found this out while getting a demo of Buffalo Technology’s Dualie, a combination iPhone/iPod dock and 500-Gbyte dockable hard drive. Featuring two USB ports, the $249 Dualie just went on sale exclusively

The Pogoplug from CloudEngines looks like a boring power adapter, but its a fantastic little gizmo that turns any USB hard drive into your own little cloud server accessible over the Internet. Just stick a router and USB hard drive into the $99 Pogoplug, plug it into the wall and baboom — instant cloud. Which means

Weve written about a number of incidents where a waterproof iPhone would come in handy, including accidental pool dunking and a few protective devices. But do you really need a USB hard drive thatll pass military water-proof and shock-proof tests? Thats seems to be the selling point of A-Datas SH93. The SH93 (no price yet)

Macworld.com - Hard drive manufacturer Western Digital unveiled redesigns for its My Passport for Mac and My Book for Mac hard drives. The My Passport portable drive is now about 20 percent smaller than the previous My Passport. The My Book features a slimmer design, and the Morse-code cutouts that were used as air vents have been replaced.

Taiwanese company A-DATA Technology introduced a new portable hard drive CH94, which looks like a pocket diary. This device has a thickness of less than 20 mm and is equipped with a built-in USB-cable. External HDD CH94 is available in four colors: black, white, pink and sky blue. Users can personalize your calendar CH94 with stickers included. He has a different memory sizes from 250GB to... [