Buffalo has taken a leaf out of rival storage specialist LaCie's book and released an shiny gold-look hard drive.

It's part of the existing MiniStation Lite range [1] of 2.5in portable drives, and it comes with a 500GB capacity.

The drive comes weeks after Samsung released a gold-coloured 2.5in drive [2] tied into the Michael Jackson movie This is it.

But their true auric ancestor is LaCie's Golden Disk desktop drive - reviewed here [3].

Available shortly, expect to pay around £65 for the Buffalo gold drive. ®

Links

1. http://www.buffalo-technology.com/products/external-drives/ministation/hd-peu2-ministation-lite/
2. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/02/08/samsung_jacko_hdd/
3. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/22/review_lacie_golden_disk/

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