Computer storage
Christmas gift guide
We've got round-ups of the best products in each category to help you make the right choice for every person on your list. Enjoy, and Happy Holidays from the CNET Australia team.
WD My Passport Elite 500GB
Desktop users who need a portable drive will find the My Passport Elite endearing, although the dock could stand to be a little more user friendly.
Articles
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Top 10 NAS units
Whether you need to keep data safe, or if you're just looking for an easy way to share files across a network, a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device is a good way to achieve both goals.
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Format a drive for Mac OS X and Windows
If you move a hard drive between the two operating systems, here's what you need to know.
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LaCie's key-shaped USB drives
Storage maker LaCie has taken the term memory key to a new level with a range of USB flash drives that actually look like your average house key.
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Western Digital releases 2TB hard drive
Western Digital has gained the honour of releasing the first two-terabyte drives in the market, with units turning up on Australian shelves.
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Seagate releases 7200.11 fix – again
Seagate has released an updated fix for some of its hard drives, the previous version having "bricked" the 500GB capacity Barracuda 7200.11 drives.
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Carry an ox (USB) for good luck in 2009
Kung Hei Fat Choy! Check out our list of red products for good fortune in the upcoming Chinese New Year.
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Seagate offers fix for faulty 7200.11 hard drives
Seagate yesterday released a fix to a bug in its current generation of drives that caused them to become undetectable by a computer. Users have found, however, that the fix breaks 500GB drives — the fix has since been retracted.
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D-Link announces surveillance-centric NAS servers
On Thursday, D-Link announced two NAS servers that work more like internet-based surveillance products — or network video recorders (NVRs) — than storage devices. They are the DNS-722-4 and DNS-726-4.
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Iomega announces Home Media Network Drive
This year's CES saw the release of Iomega's Home Media Network Drive, a new addition to its line of external storage devices with a few simple changes.
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Seagate Pipeline DVR hard drives bump up to 1TB capacity
Seagate has announced two new additions to the Pipeline group of hard drives, made to fit in digital video recorders (DVRs).
Reviews
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WD My Passport Essential SE 1TB
Western Digital's 1TB Passport drive isn't pretty or cheap, but its bland look belies the storage and backup goodies within.
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LaCie Starck Mobile
LaCie clearly spent a lot of time designing the look and feel of the Starck Mobile Hard Drive, but it trips up on the basic essentials like weight, ease of use, cost per gigabyte and transfer speed.
Specs: USB 2.0 , Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7/Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 or higher , 60 Mbps
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LaCie Starck
External hard drives get trendy, with the fashion touch of famed French designer Philippe Starck.
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Seagate Barracuda XT
The Barracuda XT is a 7200rpm 3.5-inch desktop drive featuring 2TB of storage capacity and a fast Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second interface.
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Netgear Stora NAS
Netgear is having a crack at making an easy-to-use internet-connected network attached storage (NAS) device for home photos, music and movie files.
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HP SimpleSave Portable 320GB
HP's SimpleSave portable drive does make backups simple, as long as your file names aren't too long.
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Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000
Hitachi's 3.5-inch Deskstar 7K2000 is a 2TB, 7200rpm hard disk drive aimed at power users and gamers.
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Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440
Although Seagate BlackArmor is difficult to use for networking novices, it is a good choice for small business and advanced users.
The Explain Series
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Microsoft Windows® 7. Your PC, simplified.
Windows® 7 has been designed to be more reliable, more responsive, and to make the things you do every day easier.
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Whereis® maps
If you’d like to get to know more of Australia, and do it safely, then check out Whereis® maps.
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Commonwealth Bank Mobile Banking
Bank anywhere, anytime. Learn more.
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Nokia Navigation
The introduction of GPS adds a new dimension of 'social navigation'.
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Round-ups
| Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB | 35 plans |  4% |
| Apple iPhone 3GS 32GB | 35 plans |  1% |
| Nokia N97 | 42 plans | 2% |
| Sony Ericsson Satio | 6 plans | 1% |
| Nokia 5800 XpressMusic | 35 plans | 1% |
| Apple mobile phones | 4% |
| Nokia mobile phones | 4% |
| Sony Ericsson mobile phones | 1% |
| Samsung mobile phones | 1% |
| Blackberry mobile phones | 1% |
