PQI H560 Shock Proof Portable Hard Drive

What’s the point of having an external drive for backing up your files if it’s prone to data loss after a tiny fall off your desk or a tumble down a flight of stairs? The PQI H560 is another shock proof hard drive in a long line of rugged data storage solutions designed to protect your files no matter how clumsy you are.

Available in 320, 500 and 640GB capacities, the drive features a special rubber material used for the housing as well as shock-absorption suspension technology on the inside allowing it to pass the U.S. Military’s MIL-STD-810F 516.5 procedure IV transit drop test. It’s also got a built in USB cable, a SATA interface if you prefer to connect that way, and a dedicated one-touch backup button.

Cheap, wireless, external hard drive launched by LaCie

Have you partaken in the goodness that is wireless data storage? There's quite a few ways to get it going these days — setting up a separate computer as a server being the most common — but LaCie just made it super small and surprisingly cheap.

It's called the Wireless Space, and LaCie's Wi-Fi drive will add another terabyte or two to your home network. You can use it as a place to backup your computer using Time Machine or other software, or even just load it up with music on iTunes or what have you. It's your storage, buddy, you can do what you want!

What we're most excited about, however, is its Wi-Fi capabilities. It will even act the part of a router, giving you extra ethernet ports to play with, and can be made into a hotspot or a bridge for other devices.

For 1TB of data, it'll set you back $230, or $350 for 2TB. The $230 drive is pretty fair in our mind. A good wireless router can set you back $60 or $70, and a regular ol' external hard drive that big is upwards of $120. For having it all built in, that's not a large premium you're paying, which is frankly pretty surprising from LaCie.