hard drive

Iomega StorCenter 1TB

Digital Living On the inside, it's a 1 terabyte hard drive that connects to your network, via Ethernet or wirelessly. On the outside, it has all the sex appeal of a stack of phone books. Does the inner beauty overcome the outer beast?

22 December 2006, 8:26

Sony DCR-SR100

Digital Living Sony's SR100 spurns the reliable but retro-feeling MiniDV tape format in favour of a 30GB hard drive. No more tangled tape and tedious rewinding, you think -- but is the newfangled convenience worth the drop in video quality?

28 July 2006, 12:08

palmOne LifeDrive

Digital Living The LifeDrive is the first handheld to have an integrated hard drive, and this high-performance monster also has built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Does the LifeDrive get your vote?

13 June 2005, 17:14

Archos AV 700 TV

Digital Living Archos goes full circle with the AV 700 TV, adding a Freeview tuner so you can watch live television on the move as well as viewing prerecorded programmes from the hard drive. Will you be tuning in or turning it off?

7 July 2006, 18:20

Your PC needs a firewall

Digital Living For most people (me included), a good software firewall offers plenty of protection against attacks and also against software on your hard drive that might be trying to contact 'the mothership' without your knowledge.

12 July 2005, 14:24

Is my PC ready for Windows Vista?

Digital Living You'll need a card with at least 64MB of memory to support a single monitor displaying at a resolution of 1,280x1,024 pixels• 40GB of hard-drive capacity with 15GB of free space • DVD-Rom drive • Audio output capability • Internet access capability

20 July 2006, 15:21

Do more with your iPod

Digital Living If you recharge your iPod's battery less frequently, there's a good chance the battery will outlast the hard drive. But that can become hard to manage, especially if you're manually updating the iPod or adding new music that you'd like to keep...

9 May 2005, 15:49

Transfer your data from PC to Mac

Digital Living TipBecause conversion duplicates the data you transfer, make sure you have sufficient hard drive space for both the files and the transfer applications. When Outlook2Mac is ready to save your files to a folder called My_Outlook_Files on the root...

9 May 2005, 15:51

CES: Drama in the desert, but what's the story?

Digital Living We'll see more cute hard-drive-based camcorders, and a host of slender ultracompact digital cameras, as vendors continue to pack more and more performance into tiny marvels. I'm sure we'll see many more MP3 players this year, as well as lots more...

4 January 2006, 11:43

Sony PSP: Accessorise This

Digital Living If you want to entertain yourself in the layby of the M1 after a hard drive, you should check out this device, which sticks the console to your window via the magical power of the suction cup. Price: £30From: Logic3 baby phat PSP CaseDo you drive...

6 September 2005, 8:45

Leaving Las Vegas

Digital Living He lectured the show audience for quite a while on the annoying and confusing interfaces for things like power supplies, and it was hard not to sense the implicit threat behind his words. The fortunes of both standards are also now inextricably...

11 January 2006, 15:45

How do I get music off my iPod?

Digital Living Dear CNET,My hard disk is dead. Enable your iPod for use as an external drive by connecting it to your Mac and waiting for iTunes to start up. Is there any way to get these songs off my iPod and onto my new hard disk?

Tags: enable, enter, press, hard disk

15 June 2006, 13:12

How can I upgrade my laptop?

Digital Living Another relatively straightforward upgrade option is to change the hard drive. How can I upgrade my laptop? It's running like a dog and I've tried everything to speed it up. I'm at the end of my tether.

2 June 2006, 16:55

Apple Newton vs Samsung Q1 UMPC

Digital Living Windows Media Player lets you listen to your tunes and watch movies, and you can fill the Q1's 40GB hard drive to the brim with all manner of free and paid-for software courtesy of CNET.co.uk's Downloads channel.

Tags: battery life, microsoft office, pen, tap

27 July 2006, 17:39

What MP3 player for my particular needs?

Digital Living I have an old Creative MuVo2 4GB which is starting to show its age -- I've just had to reformat the hard disk for the second time and the headphone socket is wobbly so the sound is intermittent. If you're set on avoiding iPods, then take a look at...

23 November 2006, 16:11