Storage
Tosh shows off snazzy external drive
Toshiba has introduced a snazzy-looking but oddly named line of external drives called STOR.E ART 4, with a 1.5TB model coming. There are four announced products, all using 2.5-inch drives, with 500, 640, and 750GB capacities and a 1TB range topper. They come in glossy black cases with capacity-coded colour accents: red for …
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Green is the colour
Sounds the best value for money at 6540Gb capacity.
<Pedant mode now off>.
Encryption - but how is it supported?
All very well having built-in encryption - great for a backup disk, etc, but how do you actually use it?
I.e. how is the key configured, how secure is that to a compromised PC, etc? If they have some utility for managing the key, what OS are supported?
Come on, do some investigating!
I'll take the green 6540Gb one please
Wonder how many platters that will have!!
Dosh for Tosh?
Sprinting ahead of Apple- they've got a white one!
Software is key on this sort of thing.
My wife bought a drive (Seagte, I think) and it's virtually impossible to work out whether a backup has happened and trying to get stuff back is a nightmare. They've "streamlined" the software so much (complete with pretty pictures) that there's almost no user interface left!
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