Sometimes there comes along a gadget so simple, you have to stop for a moment and go ‘huh…’. Such is the case with the BackPack by Twelve South. Designed to clip onto the back of your iMac or Apple Cinema Displays monitor, it’s basically just a heavy gauge steel shelf for, well, anything you fancy plugging into your computer.
The cost of storage per gigabyte (or should we now say per terabyte) is always falling and is at an all time low. But at the same time the amount of data we generate is growing and this data needs to be backed up. In years gone by we could save our few documents to a floppy disk but now we have photos, music and films occupying gigabytes of space on our hard disks.
Fortunately for us all, getting and connecting an external hard drive has never been easier or cheaper. Windows, Apple and Linux all support external USB drives and I have compiled a list of 10 huge external hard drives to help you backup your data.
With Summer just around the corner and the desire to take our laptops alfresco soon upon us, we thought it might be sensible to pick up a storage device that can rough-it a bit and still keep on truckin’. So we’ve rounded up 5 consumer-level rugged external hard-drives for your perusal. Here we look at the: Lacie Rugged XL 1TB, Buffalo MiniStation TurboUSB, Transcend StoreJet 25 Mobile, Freecom ToughDrive Sport and the Iomega eGo Portable BlackBelt 250GB
