Neowin News Feed for: External

First 4 TB external hard drive announced from Seagate

John Callaham — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:18:30 +0100

Seagate has announced it plans to release the first ever external PC and Mac hard drive that holds a massive 4 terabytes of data, or 2,000 high definition movies later this month. Read more...

OCZ releases USB 3.0/SSD external hard drive

Tzvi Friedman — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:38:02 +0100

OCZ seems to be leading the fight to kill the spinning hard drive as of late. After releasing the first 1TB Solid State Drive, TweakTown reports that OCZ is giving the external hard drive market... Read more...

Office 14 heads into external alpha testing

Tom Warren — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:51:56 +0000

Microsoft has begun providing external companies with early access to alpha versions of its Office 14 server components. According to Mary Jo Foley some external testers say they've now got access to documentation outlining what's... Read more...

Mobile users offered first external SSD

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:19:27 +0100

Networking company Buffalo Technology has finally launched its external SSD drives at prices that promise to steal a share of the portable market from old-world 2.5-inch hard drives. The capacities of the new MicroStation drives... Read more...

Zotac Intros External Controller for Gfx Cards Overclocking

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:22:40 +0100

Zotac, a supplier of graphics cards that belongs to PC Partner holding, on Monday announced a special external hardware device that will simplify overclocking for both novices and performance enthusiasts. Zotac Nitro hardware overclocking controller... Read more...

External SATA Devices To Drop Power Cables

EL1TE — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:32:07 +0000

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The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) has announced that it is working on a new specification that will provide power to external SATA (eSATA) devices without the need for a separate power connection. Called "Power... Read more...

CES2008: Crucial External SSD Kit

Doug Bemis — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:15:21 +0000

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At CES, there were several booths showing off functioning solid state disks (SSD). One that caught our eye was the Crucial SK01 External Drive Kit. This kit gives you the benefits of having... Read more...

External PCI-Express Cabling Spec Now Official

Slimy — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:33:14 +0000

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After many years of slow development and support for external PCI-Express device, the PCI Special Interests Group (PCI-SIG) announced this week the availability of the PCI-E external cable specification revision 1.0. Cables will be developed... Read more...

PCI Sig approves external cabling spec 1.0

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:50:30 +0000

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ASUS's XGSTATION WAS a foray into the world of external graphics cards, but things are looking far more official after the PCI-SIG rubber-stamped specification which calls for PCI Express External cabling. The standards body... Read more...

ASUS unveils external graphics card

Slimy — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:10:56 +0000

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ASUS has introduced the XG Station: a dedicated external graphics card. Laptop users rejoice; high end graphics performance is available, without losing the portability of a laptop. The XG Station is powered by a power... Read more...

Microsoft to Detail External HD DVD Drive for Xbox 360 at E3

Amin N.Karimi — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:32:34 +0100

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Microsoft Corp, the developer of the popular Xbox 360 game console and the backer of HD DVD standard, said in an interview that it would detail its external HD DVD disc drive for the latest... Read more...

ATI Multi VPU will need an external connector

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 16 May 2005 12:29:53 +0100

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The guys over at The Inq have confirmation that ATI will need an external connector in order to make its Multi VPU work. ATI tried to avoid using an internal connector but it ended up... Read more...

External TV Tuners/PVR devices: 3-way shootout

Julio Franco — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:17:45 +0000

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TV Tuners for the PC have existed for a long time but with the ever increasing popularity of TiVo-like services and the possibility of replicating such features on your Windows PC with little effort and... Read more...

Sony Readies 'PC-Less' External DVD Recorder

lardiop — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:31:43 +0100

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Next month, Sony will ship what it claims is the world's first external DVD recorder that can also operate without a host computer. Sony's DVDirect ships with a suite of Windows XP/2000 DVD... Read more...

Nintendo DS to support external microphone headset

malebolgia — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:04:44 +0100

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The Nintendo DS handheld console is set to support external microphone headsets, it has emerged, after eagle-eyed fans noticed that the device sported a "mystery" port next to the headphone socket. The port... Read more...

Maxtor To Ship External Hard Drive For PVRs

configure — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:50:11 +0100

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Maxtor Corp. said Tuesday that it will ship an external hard drive specifically designed to connect to personal video recorders. Although the Maxtor QuickView Expander hard drive will eventually ship in retail, the... Read more...

Coming soon: External SATA hard drives

malebolgia — Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:52:16 +0000

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External hard drives offer easy and practical storage, but they aren't as speedy as the internal models - yet. Vendors working on a new technical specification say that the first fast, new models of external... Read more...

Norton Anti-Virus 2004 External Beta Begins

Tom Warren — Tue, 27 May 2003 18:20:20 +0100

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The next update to Norton Anti-Virus 2003 has begun external beta testing this week. Beta testers are slowly recieving their copies of NAV2004. And from the various options displayed in our screenshots it looks as... Read more...

FireWire 120GB external hard drive available

vincent_inactive — Thu, 21 Feb 2002 02:34:18 +0000

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The storage device specialists at Western Digital have a new 120GB FireWire external hard drive available. Designed with the company's 7200RPM WD Caviar hard drive and a second-generation 1394 to IDE bridge card, it... Read more...

Maxtor goes large with external HDDs

configure — Tue, 05 Feb 2002 12:05:22 +0000

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Maxtor is inching its way into Iomega territory, by tripling the disk size for its Personal Storage 3000LE USB 2.0 external hard drive line. The latest 120GB model ships in the US... Read more...