Just in: Buffalo LinkStation mini

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

This is by far the smallest NAS drive that I, or any of the handful of PC Pro staffers I’ve shoved it in front of have ever seen. Inside lives two 500GB 2.5in laptop hard disks, giving a massive total of 1TB storage.

The case is just 135 x 40 x 81mm – that’s just 437 cubic centimetres – that’s over 2GB per cubic centimetre – that’s amazing. If data was a liquid, you could pour 600GB into the mug sitting on my desk. In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m impressed.

A full review will be on the way just as soon as I stop wasting my time on these sums.

The mini Flash marvel

Friday, May 30th, 2008

When a Corsair rep turned up at Dennis Towers yesterday he told us he’d brought something pretty special to show off. We were therefore distinctly underwhelmed when he said it was…a flash drive.

But this flash drive needs seeing to be believed. It’s been passed all round the office, where it’s invariably been greeted with ooohs and aaaahs of grinning appreciation, and it’s already been suggested that we buy up a job lot of them to use in the Labs.

The reason for all the fuss?

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