hard drive

Sony Handycam DCR-SR100 review

Reviews Sony may not be the first manufacturer to enter the hard drive camcorder market -- that distinction goes to JVC's Everio models. Like DVD camcorders, hard drive camcorders record using MPEG-2, and Sony saves the files as media-player-readable MPG...

Editor's rating   7.4

Tags: sony, hard drive, shoot, camcorders

27 July 2006, 15:52

HP Media Vault Pro MV5020 review

Reviews Why buy an external USB hard drive to use with just one PC when you can get a networked hard drive and share it with all the computers connected to your broadband router at home? That's the thinking behind HP's latest media-friendly network hard...

Editor's rating   8.5

Tags: hp, pcs, hard drive, connected

23 September 2008, 11:38

DVD recorders with bonus features

Reviews Last year it was all about DVD recorders, this year the more advanced hard drive combis are winning favour. The Philips HDRW720 is decent enough, but it's limited by the fact that DVD recording can only be made from hard drive footage, as opposed...

14 May 2005, 16:43

Canon HG10 review

Reviews It's been a long wait, but the hard disk drive-based, AVCHD-compatible Canon HG10 is here. But we find it utterly ridiculous that stills can't be captured to the hard drive, only to a MiniSD card. Its 40GB hard drive stores between 5.5 hours of...

Editor's rating   7.5

Tags: canon, pixel, scenes, body

23 October 2007, 10:52

palmOne LifeDrive: the monster truck of handhelds

Reviews Two months ago we were wishing for a PDA with a hard drive, but cynically dismissing the LifeDrive rumours. Did we mention the 4GB hard drive? Now our dreams have come true… well, okay, the ones about genetic experiments involving handhelds and...

Tags: palmone, hard drive, displays, battery

20 May 2005, 16:04

TomTom GO 920T review

Reviews TomTom has ripped out the internal hard drive for the 920T and replaced this with 4GB of internal storage, with an optional SD card slot. Having lost the internal hard drive, the 920T is now easier to transport.

Editor's rating   8.8

Tags: tomtom, location, hard drive, navigation

29 January 2008, 12:50

Buffalo DriveStation Duo review

Reviews The Buffalo DriveStation Duo is smarter than your average 500GB external hard drive. It contains two separate 250GB disks that can be used as one big drive, two independent disks, or in a RAID array, which lets it perform automatic data backups of...

Editor's rating   7.6

Tags: buffalo, storage, disks, backups

11 June 2007, 12:21

Toshiba RD-85DT review

Reviews Hybrid recorders that feature both hard drive and DVD recording functions look set to dominate the digital recorder market for the foreseeable future and this is certainly one of the better models out there.

Editor's rating   8.1

Tags: toshiba, hard drive, copies, tuner

30 August 2006, 14:16

Find the drives you need to succeed

Reviews Hard drive The proliferation of digital media content has led to a dramatic increase in hard drive sizes. Only four or five years ago, a 2GB hard drive wasn't unusual, whereas the smallest drive you'll find on a PC sold today is 20GB.

16 May 2005, 12:42

Sony SVR-S500 review

Reviews Although hard drive PVRs are growing in popularity, there are still relatively few models that feature dual integrated TV tuners. This is particularly useful if you want to permanently archive your hard drive recordings without suffering a loss in...

Editor's rating   7.8

Tags: sony, hard drive, channels, scenes

25 September 2006, 16:28

Which types of drives do I need?

Reviews A notebook hard drive removed from the system Be warned that capacity alone does not make a good hard drive. Drive choices include external floppy, CD-ROM, combo DVD/CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, hard drive, Zip, LS-120 and others.

12 May 2005, 17:46

Panasonic DMR-EX75 review

Reviews If you can't decide between buying a DVD or a hard drive recorder, why not consider a hybrid model that offers the best of both worlds? Panasonic's DMR-EX75 features a 160GB hard drive and recording compatibility with all disc formats in a single...

Editor's rating   8.3

Tags: panasonic, copies, high definition, tuner

21 June 2006, 16:07

Sony RDR-HX510 review

Reviews Sony's DVD recorders are famed for their ease of use, and even when the company has included features such as hard-drive recording and Freeview integration, it has never complicated things. The main unit itself is thinner than most recorders we've...

Editor's rating   7

Tags: sony, high quality, dvd player, layer

1 November 2005, 16:10

Cowon iAudio 6 (4GB) review

Reviews The £190 iAudio 6, Cowon's first microdrive player, rivals most flash players in compactness, thanks in part to a 4GB, 22mm hard drive. The sheathed nano is thinner, but the hard-drive-based iAudio 6 has many more features

Editor's rating   8

Tags: cowon, hard drive, cable, packed

12 June 2006, 16:19

Apple Time Capsule review

Reviews Apple's new Time Capsule is one of only two devices we know of that incorporates both a wireless router and a hard drive into the same product. Time Capsule is essentially an AirPort Extreme Base Station with a built-in hard drive and an easy-to...

Editor's rating   6.9

Tags: apple, networking, station, hp

5 March 2008, 15:00