hard drive

Buffalo MiniStation: Armour-plated storage

Crave As long-distance frequent fliers know, the average laptop hard drive just isn't big enough to hold the music and video required to stave off the boredom of a 12-hour trek to Japan. One solution is to go out and buy a portable hard drive and fill it...

Tags: buffalo technology, portable, hard drive, microsoft windows

17 January 2006, 9:57

Sony RDR-HXD860: Now with Freeview

Crave When we reviewed the Sony RDR-HX725 hard drive/DVD recorder earlier this month, we whinged about the absence of two key features. Like its predecessor, the RDR-HXD860 has a 160GB hard drive for short-term recordings and a DVD burner for archiving...

Tags: sony, output, hard drive, recording

31 July 2006, 11:02

Panasonic TUCTH100: Bad name, nice box

Crave If you haven't got a Freeview hard drive recorder by now, what the heck are you doing? Well, it's got an 80GB hard drive -- not massive by today's standards, but big enough for about 45 hours of programmes.

Tags: panasonic, recorder, hard drive, box

11 August 2005, 11:20

JVC DR-MH50: discs of fury

Crave If you haven't invested in a hard drive recorder yet, you're missing out on the best thing to happen to TV since colour. Then came Toshiba's brilliant RD-XS34, with its monster 160GB hard drive, which would not only hold 70 hours of high quality...

Tags: hard drive, programming, toshiba, recorder

7 June 2005, 10:57

Panasonic's slick PVR

Crave We've all seen hard drive/DVD recorders. It landed at Crave this morning, strutting an 80GB hard drive and an SD card slot like the cock of the walk, crowing about its £300 price tag. Big deal. But if you've yet to take the plunge and actually buy...

Tags: hard drive, sd card, lcd, tag

17 August 2005, 11:41

Toshiba EasyGuard and EasyMedia: Big and clever hard drives

Crave The first product in the range is an external 2.5-inch laptop hard drive with a massive 320GB capacity and a 'freefall' sensor that protects the read/write heads in the event of shocks or drops. The second EasyGuard product is a "ruggedised" (but...

Tags: toshiba, hard drive, range, inch

4 September 2007, 11:40

Sony DCR SR100: hard man of camcorders

Crave Given our experiences with hard-drive-based camcorders, the true success of the SR100 will depend on how easy Sony has made it to edit footage. Expected to retail at around £600, the DCR-SR100 records to a 30GB internal hard drive and has a...

Tags: sony uk, hard drive, motion, sony

23 January 2006, 10:48

Panasonic DMR-EX77: Record and upscale Freeview

Crave This means Freeview hard-drive recorders are absolutely invaluable. One of our faves was the excellent Panasonic DMR-EX75, so we're overjoyed to see an upgrade: the EX77, which allows digital recording to either DVD or its built-in 160GB hard drive.

Tags: panasonic, hard drive, freeview, receiver

1 May 2007, 13:09

Buffalo LinkStation Pro: Where everything goes

Crave You kit yourself out with a PC sporting a huge 250GB hard drive, but within weeks it's so full of movie trailers, MP3s and BitTorrented TV programmes that you need to offload some of your media. It's simply a hard drive that's smart enough to join...

Tags: buffalo technology, storage, usb, played

30 November 2006, 10:26

KiSS DP-558: Pucker up, sucker

Crave We were so impressed with this DVD player/hard drive recorder/network media player when we saw it at Berlin's IFA electronics show that we got straight on the blower to the strangely named Danish company to freight us a fresh model for our...

Tags: dvd player, hard drive, box, dp

16 September 2005, 11:06

Canon M30: Storage with a screen

Crave But storage is still an issue with cameras -- and non-hard drive camcorders -- expecially as image and video resolution climbs into the 12-megapixel and high-definition brackets. Despite the hefty size, it's lighter than it looks, which makes sense...

Tags: canon, camcorders, hard drive, storage

18 January 2008, 8:00

Samsung launches disk-free Q1/Q30 portables

Crave Unlike the original Q1, the new device features absolutely no moving parts -- the hard drive has been removed in favour of a 32GB SSD. Samsung reckons the NT-Q1-SSD can withstand twice the impact that would kill a standard hard disk drive.

Tags: samsung, nt, model, hard drive

21 August 2006, 12:14

Vote to win: Denon D-F103HR DAB hi-fi up for grabs

Crave This hi-fi system includes a hard drive that can hold up to 10,000 songs, and rips your CDs and CD-Rs straight onto it. Not bad for a hard-drive device. Need an upgrade to your ageing stereo system? Simply vote for your favourite products in our...

Tags: denon, hard drive, fi, reader

28 September 2007, 8:00

Photos: JVC Everio MG330, MG335, MG361, MG365, MG435 and MG465

Crave Barely bigger than a can of pop, the MG330 packs an 800,000-pixel CCD sensor and a 30GB hard disk drive. The MG365 has the light plus a larger 60GB hard drive. They also accept microSD cards and can transfer footage from hard drive to card.

28 January 2008, 9:34

Samsung YM-P1: Portable movie machine

Crave Sporting a 30GB hard drive and a 102mm (4-inch) screen, the YM-P1 will cost £399 when it launches, which should be around April or May. For photos, you can either transfer an SD card straight out of your camera into a slot on the side, or you can...

Tags: samsung, transfer, media player, portable

13 March 2006, 13:56