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LaCie Porsche Mobile Hard Drive USB 2.0/FireWire review
Reviews The drive's sleek lines are broken only by a power/activity light on the front and USB, FireWire and AC ports on the black-coloured back panel. Installing the LaCie Mobile Hard Drive is as simple as plugging it in to the USB 1.1 or 2.0 or FireWire...
[January 4, 2005, 9:15]
Tackling The Threat From Portable Storage Devices
News Portable devices include any kind of pocket-sized portable FireWire hard drive, like those from LaCie or Toshiba, or USB hard drive or keychain drive, such as M-Systems' DiskOnKey. High data capacity and transfer rates, and broad platform support...
[July 5, 2004, 17:10]
Microsoft Disconnects Intel Pet Project
News For the last year and a half or so, Intel has been pushing USB 2.0 as the future for peripherals and high-speed devices such as video cameras and storage, hoping it would relegate standards such as IEEE 1394 (also known as FireWire) to consumer...
[April 18, 2001, 16:12]
Maxtor Creates One-touch Backup
News The units come with built-in USB 2.0/1.1 and FireWire interfaces, along with 3.5-inch hard drives, the same type used in desktop PCs. The $399.95 (£240) 5000XT comes with a 250GB hard drive and FireWire and USB 2.0 interfaces.
[October 11, 2002, 10:50]
StorPac SP40 review
Reviews Then connect either the FireWire or USB 2.0 cable -- both are included -- and the device becomes a block of storage; exactly how that works depends on your OS. Aimed at the backup market, the system can connect to individual PCs or servers via USB...
[April 14, 2005, 9:35]
LaCie Ethernet Disk review
Reviews However, LaCie envisages other Ethernet Disks being daisy-chained together, although this would really have to be achieved via the FireWire port and not the slow USB ports -- quite why LaCie didn’t install USB 2.0 supports beats us.
[November 24, 2003, 9:10]
Nuggets: Storage Just Got Sexy(ish)
News Primary Storage claim maximum transfer rates of 2MB/sec for PC Card file transfer, 1MB/sec for USB and a speedy 10MB/sec for FireWire. And, thanks to the versatility of the SlimStor it can connect through a PC Card, FireWire or USB interface.
[July 25, 2000, 12:07]
Does Zip Have A Future?
News Iomega has launched a new Zip 750 drive in a version that supports USB (universal serial bus) 2.0 connections and plans to unveil a FireWire model at next month's Apple Expo in Paris. But going with USB 2.0 initially and delivering FireWire later...
[August 15, 2002, 10:43]
Alienware MJ-12 8550i review
Reviews Most noticeably, the case has a lockable front panel with a small door to access the front-mounted FireWire and USB ports. Most connectivity bases are covered: the MJ-12 8550i provides four high-speed USB ports and three analogue jacks to go with...
[June 27, 2007, 10:31]
Third Parties Line Up New Mac Gear
News The $399 PocketDrive, which also can be used with PCs, has a 4X write, 4X rewrite and 24X read speed and sports USB and IEEE 1394, or FireWire, connectors USB and FireWire models will be available first, with USB 2.0 and SCSI versions coming later
[January 9, 2001, 15:41]
Apple Power Mac G5 (dual 2.7GHz) review
Reviews Plug in a mouse and a keyboard, and you'll use up two of those USB ports; however, if you use the Apple keyboard and monitor, you'll gain two USB 2.0 and two FireWire ports on the back of the monitor and two USB 1.1 ports on the keyboard.
[June 10, 2005, 12:35]
Shuttle SD39P2 review
Reviews The XPC SD39P2 has easy-to-reach USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 ports at the front of the system. The front of the machine is fairly minimalist, which we like, offering just two USB 2.0 ports, 4-pin FireWire, microphone-in and headphone-out ports...
[July 31, 2007, 14:17]
Intel Touts A New Kind Of PC
News For one thing, Intel is intent on pushing an emerging connection platform called USB 2.0 for devices such as Web cams, storage devices and other peripherals, even though the rival FireWire (also known as IEEE 1394) is beginning to look like a de...
[April 25, 2001, 6:17]
Poweroid 1200 review
Reviews The P4C800 Deluxe provides integrated Gigabit Ethernet, a Promise Serial-ATA RAID controller, along with FireWire (IEEE 1394) and USB 2.0 support. There's a good mix of up-to-date and legacy I/O ports: parallel, serial, PS/2 (2), USB (4 rear, 2...
[March 26, 2004, 11:50]
GFI LANguard Portable Storage Control 2.0
White Papers To limit a company's exposure to the risks that portable storage devices pose, GFI Software's GFI LANguard Portable Storage Control (P.S.C.lets a person control the user access to three classes of storage device: diskette drives; CD-ROM and DVD...
[September 21, 2006, 1:00]
IPods Are Security Risk, Warns Analyst
News Another potential danger is that the devices -- that typically make use of USB and FireWire -- could be used to steal large amounts of company data as they are faster to download to than CDs. Businesses must ensure that the right procedures and...
[July 5, 2004, 17:30]
Removable Disks Reach A 'Peerless' 20Gb
News The drive can be fitted with USB 1.1, SCSI or FireWire interfaces, and will take removable 5GB, 10GB or 20GB disk cartridges, allowing professional users to back up entire systems on a single disk. Peerless -- Iomega's latest addition to its range...
[March 23, 2001, 10:43]
Devicepro
Downloads The following devices are supported: Floppy Disc, CD/DVD-Rom, USB Mass Storage, SD/MMC Cards, Infrared, Bluetooth, WiFi, FireWire, Parallel Port, Serial Port, PCMCIA-Cards.This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[July 18, 2008, 18:16]
Acronis True Image 11 Home
Blog You can make the backup on just about any kind of media that you can imagine - CD, DVD, USB/FireWire hard drives, Zip/Jaz drives, network shared disks, and even FTP servers. I have a laptop computer and my partner has a desktop, and we are both...
[February 27, 2008, 11:39]
Q&A: Adaptec's Silver On FireWire
News Although Universal Serial Bus (USB) has been 1996's headline-grabbing bus, IEEE 1394, more glamorously known as FireWire, could have a more radical effect on the desktop. PCDN: Perhaps one of the reasons that FireWire hasn't commanded the mindshare...
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