HP SmartSave External Hard Drive 3.5-inch available

While most manufacturers follow the opposite path, Hewlett Packard has entered the storage area through the front door by selling the first servers to networked storage through its range MediaSmart Server with Windows Home Server. The leader of the global computer starts today in the conventional storage by unveiling a range of external hard drives called "SmartSaver.

It is available in two families with two hard drives "SimpleSave Portable" 2.5 "on one hand, with capacities ranging from 320 to 500 GB, and two discs' SmartSaver Desktop" 3.5 inches on the other hand, 1 or 2TB They have the particularity to be satisfied with a supply via USB, while the 3.5-inch models typically use a bulky external processor.



Without fan and guaranteed two years, they come with software to make backups on multiple computers. These disks are expected in the United States in August and could cross the Atlantic. Models of 320 GB, 500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB will be sold 120, 150, 150 and 330 dollars.