Gate of my information: Hitachi launches external drive with cloud connection and USB stick

Hitachi launches external drive with cloud connection and USB stick

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) brings the life studio models external hard drives on the market that differ in many respects from the previous offer.

This includes the variants included in the Plus 4 GB USB flash drive that is connected to the external hard drive via a USB port magnetic and is used to synchronize the user via the supplied application Hitachi life studio set data. Since it is the stick a memory card reader with a 4 GB micro-SD card that can easily expand capacity as needed.

Life Studio also serves as a file viewer, which allows you to look at not only the data of the external hard drive, but also on the internal memory. In addition, the application can be viewed online content from social networks such as Facebook and photo sites like Flickr and Picasa Web Albums. Instead of randomly arranged and hard-to-file folders, all files will be displayed on a 3D wall. The technique is from Cool Iris and probably many users in the same browser plug-ins to be known.

With the life studio-plates and the second application in the delivery, Hitachi backup, data can not only locally but also save them online in the cloud. For this is the free, 3 GB large online storage (hitachibackup.com), Which can be disabled via the menu "Cloud Settings" and expand to an annual cost of 49 dollars to 250 GByte.

The life studio family includes portable hard drives in a 2.5-inch (life studio Mobile) and desktop models in the 3.5-inch form factor (life studio desk) with up to a capacity of 500 GB (Mobile) and 2 terabytes ( Desktop). Prices for the solutions that are compatible with Windows and Mac OS are, from 64.95 to 159.95. Hitachi offers more information on the website lifestudio.com.

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The supplied application life studio also serves as a file viewer, which allows you to look at not only the data of the external hard drive, but also on the internal memory. In addition, the application can be viewed online content from social networks such as Facebook and photo sites like Flickr and Picasa Web Albums.