Hey look, another wireless external drive for iOS devices! We’re not really complaining; in fact, we love these things. Like stuffing peanut butter into chocolate bars, we can’t get over how much of a good idea wireless mobile drives are. Kingston just announced the Wi-Drive, a portable drive with a built-in wireless connection specifically made for adding storage to Apple’s iOS devices. Which makes sense, since just about every other brand offers a microSD card slot.
Mobile hard drives: everyone who regularly uses a computer needs ‘em, a lot of companies make them, and they’re well worth it if you consider the price per gigabyte you can bring with you. They’re all pretty straightforward storage devices, differing only on interfaces, designs, and capacity, but this really stands out from the rest of the bunch. LaCie worked with designer Philippe Starck again on this one, and the result is a really slick drive that’s wrapped in a brushed aluminum shell.
LaCie just upped their Rikki Go portable hard drive’s capacity to 1TB, which is a good way to go if you’re looking for a portable drive that looks like it can handle a beating. The slim drive’s encased in aluminum to keep it tough and light, and features a very handy feature that seems to be on every portable device coming out right now: a built-in, swing-out USB cable that handily clips back on to the body for portability.
Western Digital just cooked a way to spice up the mobile hard drive market by releasing five My Passport Essential drives with limited edition designs. Labeled as Boom Box, Black Hole, Cityscape, Fuschia Leaf and Wave, the patterns were created by design students at the California State University and slapped on top of WD’s shiny vanilla My Passport Essential drives.
Toshiba just released a version of their Canvio portable drives that specifically targets Mac users. Simply named the ‘Canvio for Mac’ (just so there’s no confusion), the new drives come preloaded with NTI Shadow 5 for Mac for doing easy backup and syncs. Aside from that and the Mac-matching colors (they’re available in white or silver shells) they’re still pretty much your standard drive that connects via standard USB 2.0. They’re available now in three capacities: 500GB ($120), 750GB ($140) and 1TB (190).
