Right now we’re in the era where 2.5-inch HDDs rule. But how long this “era” lasts, we don’t know. It could take some time before the smaller 1.8-inch HDDs take on forms with higher storage capacities. Luckily, Samsung just announced its 120GB 1.8-inch HDD that’s about the size of a credit card.

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Want a new portable hard drive? There are already a lot available in the in the market, but there’s always room for more. LG has recently unveiled the new line of LG XD1 portable hard drives in Korea.

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Those attractive brushed metallic cases containing Samsung’s 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch SSDs can be within our grasps soon enough, as the small multi-level cell (MLC) based SSDs begin mass production. The 128GB and 64GB versions are first to hit the market.

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The new Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition is a dual-drive storage system designed to provide you with not one but two copies of your data. As someone who’s lost two hard drives at the same time, I more than appreciate the importance of a system such as this.

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If you need but can’t afford a USB hardware blocker, check out Thumbscrew. In fact, the developer is calling it the “poor man’s USB write blocker.” You might need a blocker when your computer is infected with malware or even just when you’re preventing other people from tampering the files on the USB using your computer.

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Iomega came out with a 1TB external hard drive called Super eGo which takes on the form factor of its successful line of eGo external drives—so yes, just like the leather bound eGo drive we featured earlier, this still looks like a liquor flask (Where’s me rum? Arrr!)

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