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Macworld.com - Western Digital on Tuesday announced a new, updated version of its Mac-centric external desktop hard drive, the My Book Studio. Available in capacities up to 2TB, the drive has both FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 connections, and comes pre-formatted for the Mac. A FireWire 800 to FireWire 400 connector is included for compatibility with older Macs.

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 - Raidon on Monday unveiled the HyBrid Disk, a storage device that features both a solid-state drive (SSD) and a hard drive in one mechanism.

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

So, you dont need speakers in your dock, but quite like the idea of more hard drive storage?  Youre in luck, as Buffalo Technology have released the Dualie, an iPhone/iPod dock with a 500GB hard drive mounted on it.  The disc is pre-configured for use with a Mac and the dock is happy to accept

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.

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... [

Samsung continues its commitment towards producing eco-friendly devices for the consumer market. Now it offers an eco-friendly hard drive with the release of the EcoGreen F3EG HDD. This latest Samsung HDD boasts of a 2TB capacity which should be enough to hold 500,000 MP3s or about 880 hours of DVD videos. On the eco-friendly side,

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)