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Episode 1028

17 February 2010, 8:44 am

FreeAgent DockStar
NAS-Dock
Link: Seagate
 
Think Pogoplug (Episode 817) and any HDD docking station such as the Thermaltake BlacX (Episode 667) and that’s roughly what Seagate’s FreeAgent Dockstar is.  You can dock a FreeAgent Go hdd on to the Dockstar, plus up to 3 USB hdds, and you can access any data on those drives via Pogoplug’s engine, [...]

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Episode 975

4 December 2009, 8:30 am

Seagate Pocket Drive
Ultra-portable External HDD
Link: Seagate Press Release
Dick’s Gadget Warehouse
 
Dick’s version of the Seagate Pocket Drive is only 3 years old (the year the Daily Giz Wiz started).  It looked like a hockey puck with a retractable USB cable (reminiscent of the Tornado – Episodes 244 and 488).  By 2006 it offered 6 and 8 [...]

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Episode 974

3 December 2009, 8:50 am

Imation SSD Upgrade Kit
Solid State Drive Upgrade Kit
Link: Imation
 
The Imation SSD Upgrade Kit includes a solid state drive, a USB2 enclosure, SATA connector and power cables, and Acronis True Image HD drive imaging software.  Plug in the new SSD drive, use Acronis to image your existing hard drive, swap the new SSD drive for the [...]

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Episode 963

18 November 2009, 8:17 am

Clickfree C2 Portable Backup
Hard Drive for Automatic Backup
Link: Clickfree
 
Dick has covered many of Clickfree’s products, the first of which was the external hard drive backup solution in Episode 629.  The Clickfree C2 is a new version of their hard drive backup, now with larger capacities (250GB or 500GB), in glossy black or white finishes.  Like [...]

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Episode 940

16 October 2009, 4:00 pm

SanDisk Cruzer (2002)
USB SD-Card Reader
Link: dpreview.com
Dick’s Gadget Warehouse
 
Introduced at CES 2002, the original SanDisk Cruzer hailed itself as “the world’s first personal, pocket-size storage device with removable flash memory cards”.  Essentially it was a USB1.1 SD/MMC card reader, thumb drive style.  The USB plug could be extended and retracted, and when retracted, the removable memory [...]

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