Seagate recently announced its latest external storage drive - the Innov8, which is one of the first to make use of the new USB 3.1 standard (note that this is the faster, more recent Gen 2, not the ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Hope you’re ready for CES’s flood of USB 3.0 drives and accessories. Seagate is the latest manufacturer to announce its initial offering at the trade show. The BlackArmor PS 110 Performance Kit ...

The obvious reason here to be excited about Seagate’s new Black Armor PS110 500-gigabyte portable HDD is because it uses a USB 3.0 connection and transfers 3x faster than current USB 2.0 drives.

Seagate's BlackArmor PS110 is among the first external hard drives to feature a USB 3.0 interface. Although the raw speed of USB 3.0 is nominally ten times that of USB 2.0 (4.8Gbps vs 480Mbps), the ...

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