Western Digital WD Passport - Western Digital

Pros: Bus powered. Nice design.
Cons: Connects only via USB. Bundled software is Windows only... read more at MacLife

Western Digital My Book Studio Edition - Western Digital

We’ve looked at Western Digital My Book hard drives before, and we like them. Our only major beef with the older My Book drives is that they’re pretty big—about the size of a dictionary. Western Digital has redesigned the My Book so that it’s smaller but still has that distinct and stylish My Book look, complete with the Morse code ventilation holes... read more at MacLife

Accordance ARAID T2000 - Accordance

The ARAID T2000 backs up your data simultaneously and on the fly. RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) makes it happen—more specifically, a RAID 1 mirroring array... read more at MacUserUK

Buffalo MiniStation TurboUSB 320GB - Buffalo Technology

If you want a portable Time Machine drive, have some extraordinarily large files to carry around, or just like the idea of having 320GB of spare storage in your laptop bag, this MiniStation should grab your attention... read more at MacUserUK

Thecus N299 - Origin Storage

Despite manufacturers' best attempts to transform network attached storage devices into consumer-friendly home computer peripherals, the initials NAS are still enough to strike fear into the hearts of all but the most adventurous enthusiast... read more at MacUserUK

Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus - Maxtor

There may be no end to the number of digital photos you can snap, but eventually your photo collection will overtake the oh-so finite amount of hard drive space you currently have. Fortunately, the options for large external storage upgrades are plentiful. One candidate worthy of consideration is the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus (750GB)... read more at Macworld

Iomega UltraMax 750GB - Iomega

While it may seem like your hard drive will always have room for all your media, at some point it’s going to hit its limits. So the prudent approach is to purchase a new drive before you reach that point. With its 750GB capacity, Iomega’s UltraMax provides enough space to alleviate your storage woes. And, at $304, it’s very reasonably priced... read more at Macworld

WiebeTech RTX100-SJ - WiebeTech

No one plans on losing data; yet one day, the worst can suddenly happen, causing your projects to grind to a halt and your hair to turn white as you fret over the fate of your files. It doesn’t have to be this way... read more at Macworld

OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro - OWC

Whether you’ve outgrown your current hard drive or you want more space for Time Machine to stretch its legs, OWC’s Mercury Elite-AL Pro is worthy of your consideration... read more at Macworld

WiebeTech ToughTech XE Mini 200GB - Wiebetech

WiebeTech bills its ToughTech XE Mini as 'the most portable quad-interface enclosure available', and when you take it out of the box it's easy to see why. Despite measuring only 130mm x 80mm x 20mm, this hard drive enclosure squeezes two FireWire 800 ports, an eSata port and a USB 2 interface onto its rear... read more at MacUserUK

Sonnet Fusion D400Q - Sonnet Technologies

Storage solutions come in many shapes,sizes, connection formats and speeds. Unlike most, however, the Fusion D400Q from Sonnet Technologies actually comes in multiple connection formats and speeds at once... read more at MacUserUK

Western Digital Passport 250GB - Western Digital

Whereas Freecom's ToughDrive and WiebeTech's ToughTech XE are built with protection from bumps and bangs in mind, Western Digital's Passport hard drive is all about easy portability... read more at MacUserUK

SimpleTech 1TB SimpleDrive - SimpleTech

What surprises us the most about the SimpleDrive Pininfarina external USB hard drive is that it’s not available in red - the 1TB SimpleDrive Pininfarina is silver. Pininfarina is the same Italian design firm that created cars such as the Ferrari P4/5 and the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, and when we think Ferrari, we think red... read more at MacLife

Drobo USB storage - Data Robotics

With its all-black chassis, the Drobo looks like a small, sleek, subwoofer bass-reflex speaker. Removing the glossy black plastic faceplate, which is secured by magnets, reveals the bays into which you can slide up to four SATA hard disk mechanisms. A port is provided on the back of the chassis for attaching an anti-theft cable... read more at Macworld

3Ware Sidecar - 3Ware

After reading Howard Oakley's in-depth labs on Raid arrays you'd be forgiven for wondering why another Raid storage product is being put under the microscope. But the 3ware Sidecar Kit is not just another Raid box, it is a combination of the 3ware Sidecar enclosure itself and the obscurely-named 9650SE-4LPME, a 'multi-lane, high-bandwidth' 3Gb SATA II Raid controller PCI-Express expansion card... read more at MacUserUK

eSATA Drive - Seagate

For reasons unknown, Apple refused to jump on the external serial-ATA (eSATA) bandwagon when it updated its Mac Pros to their latest generation. (Bad dog, Apple, bad!) Most - if not all - major external drive manufacturers are now shipping eSATA drives... read more at MacLife

Peak Slider 8GB - Peak Hardware

This 8GB flash drive from Peak Hardware packs acres of storage into a tiny plastic shell that's so small your biggest problem will be making sure you don't lose it... read more at MacUserUK

ABSplus Desktop - CMS Products

When it comes to data backup, you fall into two camps. You're either one of the rare practitioners of regular, precatastrophe backups, or you're like most people - you only start backing up after you've lost data. If you're in the latter group, you should consider a package like the ABSplus Desktop... read more at MacLife

Fire Flash - Kanguru

Here's the main reason you might want to spend the extra money on a FireWire 400 flash drive such as the Fire Flash: It took 90 seconds to copy a 700MB video file to the Fire Flash, compared to the 8 minutes, 40 seconds it took to copy the same file to a USB 2.0 thumb drive... read more at MacLife

Corsair Survivor GT Flash Drive - Corsair Memory

Corsair's Survivor GT 8MB flash drive is made to take all kinds of abuse. Resembling a metallic cannister like the capsules used to carry top-secret "chips" filled with spy secrets on Bond movies, the 3.25-inch-long flash drive is made of aircraft-grade annodized aluminum. You unscrew the cyllindrical cover to access the drive... read more at MacLife