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portable drive

A disk, tape or flash memory drive that is plugged into a USB or FireWire port or a PC Card slot on a laptop. See portable hard drive and external drive.
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The 4TB Seagate Backup Plus FAST portable drive is currently available in stores for an MSRP of INR 25,000.
Seagate Backup Plus Fast: Twice The Capacity At Twice The Speed
The new portable drives will be available in four colours: Brown black, Noble beige, Clay orange and Mist gray.
Samsung to release three new USB 3.0 external hard disk drives in the US
The rationale behind doing it this way, rather than just purchasing a complete portable drive unit, is that with hard drive prices falling every few months, it's easy to upgrade the portable backup drive fairly often.
Backup options: pay now to save heartache later. (Office Technology)
The Pockey Portable Drive is a small, light and portable hard drive.
Pockey Portable Drive: Key Communications Technology. (Hardware)
Open it, and you expose the connector that you plug into your computer's USB port for a portable drive that weighs nothing at all and stores files, music, and pictures.
M-System's DiskOnKey [R]. (Tools of the Trade)
SuperDisk 240MB portable drive can reformat a standard 1.
Portable storage
Panasonic also offers a Mac version of the quad-speed portable drive, the KXL-D742.
Panasonic introduces new CD products
Seagate Technology's Backup Plus Slim portable drive is an easy-to-go storage offering, which aims at greeting its consumers with a strongly reliable backup solution for securing their memories on variety of devices they use such Mac, PC and mobile phones.
Memories is all you need
LaCie's Rugged Thunderbolt All-terrain Portable Drive is an extremely rugged portable hard drive for taking your data on the go.
Protecting personal data: the lacie rugged portable drive offers multiple protections against the elements
It also offers options to customise multiple Mac backups, search for backed up data and the ability to synch data on the Portable drive with data on the Mac with Smart Sync.
New backup solution available for Apple Mac
The Scorpio Blue hard drive also is design of portable storage solutions such as My Passport Essential SE portable drive in the 1 TB capacities for $300.
Western Digital Ships 1TB Laptop Hard Drive
The new Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drives are the perfect companions for home users and professionals that want to take their files anywhere with the assurance of a superior rugged portable drive that has style to spare and a compact form with flair," said Jonathan Huberman, president of Iomega and the Consumer and Small Business Products Division of EMC.
IOMEGA UNVEILS ULTRA-STYLISH EGO PORTABLE HARD DRIVES

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