When Espoo trotted out its “first real Windows Phone,” it did so with a bevy of exclusive features, one of which brought baked-in offline navigation. Since the announcement of that proud product launch, Nokia Drive’s been wrestled free from its polycarbonate chains, but the perks of being a Lumia owner are still incoming. Confirmed to [...]

I have a pile of small USB-powered hard drives that I use to back up various devices. All of them are inexpensive, have somewhat limited storage, and are encased in plastic. The latter feature always makes me apprehensive about traveling with the drives, as they just don’t seem to be sturdy enough for a lot [...]

There’s just something about the phrase “built to strict U.S. military standards” that makes us want to go positively medieval on a rugged device. Sadly, the aforementioned qualifier doesn’t mean that Clickfree’s new C2 Rugged Back-up Drive is capable of withstanding, say, a hail of gunfire, but the rubberized disk will continue to work after [...]

Okay, so the previous record-holder in the world’s thinnest hard drive category was only 1mm fatter, but still! Records! The Seagate GoFlex Slim portable hard drive—first debuted at CES this January but today a real live shipping USB 3.0, 7200RPM storage accessory—measures up at just 9mm thick. That’s 320GB of bonus space in a drive [...]

When Microsoft indicated it was killing off Drive Extender tech for its upcoming Vail release of Windows Home Server, many WHS fans poured a 40 onto the lid of their MediaSmart servers. In response to all the sodden warranty claims HP decided to kill off the series and, well, things were looking dire. Indeed Drive [...]